A&I Information Desk Volunteer Elaine Rubin & Friends

Summary

Attendance at the Arts and Industries Building soared by 50,000 visits in 1991, thanks in part to the Experimental Gallery. The gallery's information desk gave many a visitor cause for a double-take. Here, information desk's Volunteer Elaine Rubin poses with an assortment of charming companions who stand duty 'round the clock'.

Subject

• Arts and Industries Building
• Experimental Gallery

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in Torch, February 1992. The photographic print can be found in Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: February 1992.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: February 1992; Acessions 11-009

Contact information

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

Date

August 29, 1991

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Mannequins (figures)
• Model and modelmaking
• Information services
• Exhibitions
• Rubin, Elaine
• Volunteers

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid
• Negative

ID Number

91-14122-30 or 91-14122/30

Physical description

• Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 1.5 w x 1h (35mm) Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print; Black and White Negative
• Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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