Visitors to the Transportation Hall, A&I

ID: SIA2010-3259

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1955

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44

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Summary

Visitors, including Safety Patrol Students, entering the Transportation Hall, Arts and Industries Building. Many students are wearing their safety patrol belts and hats. Note the John Bull engine in the lower left corner behind the visitor's bench. Exhibit cases holding transportation objects are against the wall. A carriage sits on top of the case to the left of the doorway and a bicycle on top of the case to the right.

Subject

Arts and Industries Building

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Neg. #s SIA2010-3260 and SIA2010-3252 for other pictures of patrols at A&I.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44

Contact information

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

Date

1955

Topic

  • Trains
  • Carriages
  • Women
  • Transportation
  • John Bull (Steam locomotive)
  • Clothing and dress
  • Museums
  • Museum buildings
  • Uniforms
  • Students
  • Bicycles
  • Exhibitions
  • Children
  • Museum visitors

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

SIA2010-3259

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10x8; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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