Science Display
ID: SIA2011-0174 or 32280-3
Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1930
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433 Ruel P. Tolman Collection, Box 3, Folder 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N."
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Sec. Charles G. Abbot and an unidentified woman view a science display of an experiment in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building where the Division of Radiation and Organisms was located.
Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- Division of Radiation and Organisms
- Division of Radiation and Organisms Smithsonian Insitution Building
- Radiation and Biology Laboratory Division of Radiation and Organisms
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Division of Radiation and Organisms
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- This image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, 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.
- Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot established the Division of Radiation and Organisms. Its function was to investigate the effects of radiation upon living organisms, mainly plants, and the division worked with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433 Ruel P. Tolman Collection, Box 3, Folder 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N."
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
c. 1930
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Women
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Radiation
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Basements
- Employees
- Experiments
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Interior
ID Number
SIA2011-0174 or 32280-3
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Interior; Medium: Photographic print