Building Personnel Assigned Uniform Caps

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Summary

Mechanics, watchmen, engineers, firemen, laborers, messengers, and cleaners are reorganized under the immediate direction of the superintendent of the building. They are required to wear a uniform cap of blue cloth with the words "U.S. National Museum." In the case of the superintendent and master mechanics, their caps also have the names of their offices in gold letters upon the front.

Subject

  • Arts and Industries Building)
  • United States National Museum

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1881. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883, p. 97.
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 198, Box 9, Folder 3, Memo to Rhees, 6/12/1886.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1881

Topic

  • Uniforms
  • Policies
  • Labor unions
  • Reorganizations
  • Labor
  • Facilities

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