Plan of Smithsonian Grounds
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintPlan of Smithsonian Grounds between 7th and 12th Streets, identifies where the new U.S. National Museum Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, is to be built. Also shows the Smithsonian Institution Building (and behind it the Astrophysical Observatory, the Annex, the Laboratory of Natural History shed), the Henry statue, the Arts and Industries Building (then known as the National Museum), the Army Medical Museum building, and the markets on B Street (now known as Constitution Avenue). Mall landscaping shows winding paths, as conceived by Andrew Jackson Downing in his 1851 plan.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder: 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1911
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Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
27994 or MAH-27994
Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 6h; Type of Image: Plan; Medium: Photographic print