Workers Moving Plate Glass into the Natural History Building
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Creator: Leet Brothers, Washington DC
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: circa 1910
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104, Folder: Natural History Building, 1912
A cart filled with plate glass from the E. J. Murphy Co. sits in front of the nearly completed Natural History Building. The new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, opened on March 17, 1910, housing the Smithsonian Institution's natural history, art, culture, and history collections.Workers erected a wood pulley ramp up the stairs of the Natural History Building to move the plate glass. Men are standing on the ground near the plate glass and on the stairs along the wood ramp.
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For more images of the plate glass installation at the Natural History Building, see SIA2009-1783 through SIA2009-1789.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104, Folder: Natural History Building, 1912
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
circa 1910
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SIA2009-1785
Number of Images: 1 Color: Sepia ; Size: 7.5w x 9.5h ; Type of Image: Exterior ; Medium: Photographic print