General View, Service Area, Luray, Virginia

Summary

General view of service area in Luray, Virginia, near Shenandoah National Park, where the United States National Museum collections were transferred for safekeeping during World War II. The photograph has handwritten notes, including a drawing of the proposed "Heating-Fuel Plant & Guard Office," as well as indicators of which parts of the buildings were to be designated the "storage building, the "warehouse," as well as where fencing would be installed.

Subject

United States. National Park Service

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Date comes from another photo (different perspective) stapled to the same piece of paper.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 192, Box 544, Folder 13

Contact information

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

Date

May 11, 1942

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• WW II
• Landscapes
• Storage
• Wartime Activities
• Luray (Va.)
• National Collections
• World War, 1939-1945

Place

Shenandoah National Park (Va.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Landscape
• Exterior

ID Number

96-1347

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 5 1/2w x 2 1/2h; Type of Image: Exterior; Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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