Exhibit - Hall of Gems and Minerals, USNM (NMNH)

ID: MNH-072

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1958

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 17

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Summary

Image of a wall case displaying specimens from the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona. The case, part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, is located in the new Hall of Gems and Minerals in the new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences
  • Exhibits Modernization Program United States National Museum
  • United States National Museum
  • Hall of Gems and Minerals (Exhibition) (1958: United States National Museum)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 17

Contact information

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

Date

1958

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Mineralogy
  • Bisbee, Arizona
  • Exhibit cases
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Exhibitions
  • Copper Queen Mine
  • Minerals
  • Copper

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-072

Physical description

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

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