Exhibit in the Hall of Gems and Minerals, USNM (NMNH)

ID: MNH-074

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1958

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 16

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Summary

An exhibit case displays from the W. A. Roebling Collection specimens containing the mineral chrysoberyl in the new Hall of Gems and Minerals after the Exhibits Modernization Program in the new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

  • Roebling, Washington Augustus 1837-1926
  • 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
  • Roebling Collection
  • 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 16

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
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Exhibit cases
  • Exhibitions
  • Chrysoberyl
  • Minerals

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-074

Physical description

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

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