Rocket Row Outside Arts & Industries Building

ID: 48062-C or MAH-48062C

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1960s

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 7

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Summary

Visitors are seated and standing listening to speeches at the opening of Rocket Row along the west side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. Three missiles are visible: the Vanguard; the Polaris A-1, the first U.S. submarine-launched ICBM; and the Atlas, the famed Mercury launch vehicle.

Subject

  • National Air and Space Museum
  • Arts and Industries Building
  • South Yard

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 7

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1960s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Museum buildings
  • Ballistic missiles
  • Polaris (missile)
  • Rocket Row
  • Vanguard (missile)
  • Grounds
  • Museums
  • Space flight
  • Mercury (missile)
  • Rockets (Aeronautics)
  • Astronautics
  • Museum visitors
  • Space vehicles
  • Missiles

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Event

ID Number

48062-C or MAH-48062C

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

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