Secretary Adams Checks Underground Museum Construction
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Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1984
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: September 1994
In 1984, ninth Secretary Robert McCormick Adams, wearing a construction hat, checks the construction of the underground museum complex that now houses the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and S. Dillon Ripley International Center. The complex opened three years later. The Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle", is visible in the background along with cranes and other construction machinery.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in Torch Supplement, September 1994
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: September 1994
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1984
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84-14659-22A or 84-14659.22A
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print