Painters Working in the Natural History Building

ID: SIA2009-1790

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

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Summary

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.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • United States National Museum
  • Natural History Building

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See also SIA2009-1791 and SIA2009-1792

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104, Folder: Natural History Building 1912

Contact information

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

Date

1912

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Ceilings
  • Painters
  • Scaffolding
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Exhibit cases
  • Employees
  • Painting, Industrial
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior

ID Number

SIA2009-1790

Physical description

Color: Sepia; Size: 9.5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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