Muhammad Ali, Ellen Roney Hughes, and Carl Scheele in the National Museum of History and Technology

Summary

Muhammad Ali and Curators Ellen Roney Hughes and Carl Scheele during Ali's visit to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, on March 17, 1976, when he donated a pair of boxing gloves and a robe to the museum for the Nations of Nations exhibition.

Subject

• Scheele, Carl H
• Ali, Muhammad 1942-
• Hughes, Ellen Roney
• National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
• Nation of Nations (Exhibition) (1976: Smithsonian Institution)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Ellen Roney Hughes began her career at the Smithsonian in 1964 as research assistant in the Main Library at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMNH). Carl Scheele recruited Hughes in 1974 to join the exhibition team for the Nation of Nations exhibit.
• Carl Scheele began working as a curator at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) in 1959. He was instrumental in creating the Nation of Nations exhibit in 1976.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-009

Contact information

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

Date

March 17, 1976

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Employees
• Sports History
• Athletics
• Donors
• Sporting goods
• Equipment
• Celebrities and Dignitaries
• Collectors and collecting
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• National Collections
• Special events
• Collectibles
• Sports
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• African Americans
• Athletics--Equipment and supplies
• Sports--Collectibles

Place

• District of Columbia
• United States
• Washington

Form/Genre

• Group, candid
• Negative

ID Number

76-4120-20A

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 4h; Type of Image: Group Candid; Medium: Negative

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