Examining Recent AMSG Acquisitions

ID: 86-201-19 or 86-201.19

Creator: Ploskonka, Jeffrey

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1986

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5

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Summary

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's (AMSG) Glenn Lowry and Milo Beach examining a document from the treasury of Persian and Islamic paintings and manuscripts recently acquired by the Smithsonian Institution. They were the first scholars in forty years to be able to see these artifacts.

Subject

  • Lowry, Glenn D
  • Beach, Milo Cleveland
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, February 1986

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5

Contact information

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

Date

1986

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

  • Acquisitions
  • Artifacts
  • Art
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Art, Islamic
  • Art, Asian
  • Museums--Acquisitions
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

86-201-19 or 86-201.19

Physical description

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

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