Postcards Distributed to Servicemen

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Summary

A set of six colored post cards is given to servicemen visiting the Arts and Industries Building, where facilities for writing and mailing the cards are made available. More than 300,000 cards were given out during the past year.

Subject

Arts and Industries Building)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1943. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1944, p. 5.

Contact information

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

Date

1943

Topic

  • Postcard
  • Wartime Activities
  • Museums
  • Museum visitors

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