Painters Working in the Natural History Building
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Creator: Rathbun, Richard 1852-1918
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1912
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104, Folder: Natural History Building 1912
Painters sitting boards on top of wooden scaffolding, painting the ceiling of a wing of the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, building soon after it was finished being built. Exhibit cases are beneath the painters.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104, Folder: Natural History Building 1912
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1912
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SIA2009-1790
Color: Sepia; Size: 9.5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print