Diorama in the Arts and Industries Building
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Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: February 1936
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder: Ruel P. Tolman Collection Scrapbook II, 1
Exhibited in Arts and Industries Building is a diorama of people showing men dressed in loin cloths working; some are seated on benches. A wagon looking like a Conestoga wagon can also be seen. The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, an artist, curator and later Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C., scenes.
Arts and Industries Building
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder: Ruel P. Tolman Collection Scrapbook II, 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February 1936
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SIA2011-0183 and Neg. # 32307-5
Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print