Rigging whale skull in Evolution Hall
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Creator: Clark, Chip
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1978
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 3 Folder May 1979
A workman is suspended from the ceiling with rigging as he is installing the huge blue whale skull, called the "Big Blue," from the ceiling in the "Dynamics of Evolution" hall in the National Museum of Natural History.
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Featured in TORCH, May 1979
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 3 Folder May 1979
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1978
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2002-32264
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print