Comparative Anatomy Hall Installation, U.S. National Museum

ID: 2002-12146

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1881

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 14

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Summary

Installation of the Comparative Anatomy Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building. Workers can be seen using a pulley system to raise the skeleton of a whale to the ceiling. Quadruped skeletons are visible in cases on the floor.

Subject

  • Arts and Industries Building
  • United States National Museum
  • Comparative Anatomy (Exhibition)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Original negative number is 11254, but that negative has been lost.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 14

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1881

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Ceilings
  • Construction
  • Workmen
  • Employees
  • New Museums
  • Museums
  • Mammals
  • Galleries
  • Paleontology
  • Marine Biology
  • Museum buildings
  • Moving of artifacts
  • Animals
  • Whales
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Fossil Vertebrates
  • Specimens
  • Bones
  • Exhibitions
  • Skeleton
  • Marine mammals
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Museum exhibits

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid
  • Interior

ID Number

2002-12146

Physical description

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

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