Dorothy Briggs at Work

ID: 94-1524

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1969

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder September/October 1969

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Summary

Dorothy Briggs a museum specialist at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, restoring the design on an early American Staffordshire pearlware bowl, c. 1790, excavated from the rear of Arrel's Tavern, in Alexandria, Virginia, where George Washington was a frequent visitor.

Subject

  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, September/October 1969

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder September/October 1969

Contact information

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

Date

1969

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Restoration
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Pottery
  • Employees
  • Briggs, Dorothy
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

94-1524

Physical description

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

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