Burger Hands Adams Castle Key at Installation

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Summary

Chief Justice Warren Burger hands key to the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle," to ninth Smithsonian Secretary Robert McCormick Adams at installation ceremony on The Mall on September 17, 1984. He remains secretary until 1994.

Subject

  • Adams, Robert McCormick 1926-2018
  • Burger, Warren E. 1907-
  • Chancellor of the Smithsonian Board of Regents
  • Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, October 1984

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder October 1984

Contact information

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

Date

1984

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Secretaries
  • Key
  • Installation
  • Event

Place

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)

Form/Genre

Photographic print

ID Number

95-261

Physical description

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

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