Deliveries to International Exchange Service

Summary

Parked outside the south facade (South Yard) of the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building is a delivery wagon making deliveries to the International Exchange Service. "Exchange" employees unload wooden boxes into the basement, using a freight lift constructed in 1884 after the postern door was removed. Established in 1848, the International Exchange Service, administered by the Smithsonian Institution, disseminated scientific publications to scholarly institutions both in the United States and abroad.

Subject

• International Exchange Service (IES)
• Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
• Smithsonian Institution Building East Wing
• South Yard

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

source: Field, Stamm & Ewing. THE CASTLE, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SMITHSONIAN BUILDING (p. 40)

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30A, Folder: 21

Contact information

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

Date

1910

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Animals
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Horses
• Crates
• Employees
• Carriages and carts
• Exchanges, Literary and scientific
• African Americans
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

• District of Columbia
• Southwest
• United States of America
• Smithsonian Institution Building
• Washington

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exterior

ID Number

13318 or MAH-13318

Physical description

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

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