Mineral Collections in the U.S. National Museum
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1919
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, Folder: July 1979
The Mineralogy Hall in the East Wing, second floor, of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1919. Exhibit cases, displaying rocks and minerals, line both sides of the hall. The Ontanagon boulder, a 1.5-ton boulder of solid native copper that came to the Smithsonian in 1860, is in the foreground of the picture.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, July 1979
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, Folder: July 1979
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1919
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24880 or NHB-24880
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print