Center Market Outside National Museum of Natural History, 1909

ID: 21935 or MAH-21935

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1909

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder: 6

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Summary

The Center Market outside the north entrance of the National Museum of Natural History on October 14, 1909. There are vendors, horses and carriages, and wooden barrels on a cobblestone street.

Author

Unknown

Subject

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

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

There are several other similar photographs of this scene in this location. Center Market was razed in 1931.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder: 6

Contact information

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

Date

1909

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Landscapes
  • Animals
  • Vendors
  • Marketplaces
  • Horses
  • Carriages and carts
  • Center Market
  • Cobblestones

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Landscape

ID Number

21935 or MAH-21935

Physical description

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

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