Dining Room, Renovated Carnegie Mansion

ID: 95-20308

Creator: Cunningham, Bill

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1974

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 267, Box 105, Folder 25

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Summary

View of the ornately carved ceiling in the Dining Room of the renovated Carnegie Mansion, New York City, looking through to the Breakfast Room. On the left over the fireplace is a painting by Howard Russell Butler. The mansion is the new home of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the room is set up for the Benefit Auction in March of 1974.

Subject

  • Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

stamp on back of photograph: Bill Cunningham, 881 7th Ave., N.Y.C., JU 2-0457

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 267, Box 105, Folder 25

Contact information

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

Date

1974

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

  • Museum buildings
  • Decoration and ornament
  • Ceilings
  • Architecture
  • New Museums
  • Museums
  • New Galleries
  • Decorative arts
  • Museums--New York City

Place

New York City

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior

ID Number

95-20308

Physical description

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

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