The View From the Castle: Vandalism in museums and at archaeological sites is not only a crime in the legal sense--it is a crime against civilization

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Summary

Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley expresses his outrage of the theft and damage done to works of art or of historical interest. Ripley lists several scenarios of stolen objects and the amount of time and money lost in each case.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

Smithsonian Vol. 3, no. 4 (Journal)

Contact information

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

Date

July 1972

Topic

  • Archaeology
  • Antiquities
  • Castle View
  • Museums
  • Museum crimes
  • Theft

Physical description

p. 2

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