Charles Roswell
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Creator: Blume, David
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1977
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1977
Charles Roswell, Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, exhibits specialist, working on the balloon frame house display in the National Museum of History and Technology Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past. Balloon frame construction consists of thin, precut, sawed lumber held together with iron nail rather than wooden pegs. It was a cheap form of construction in the mid 1800's.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, April 1977
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1977
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1977
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96-926
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print