Bureau of War Risk Insurance in NHB
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1918
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 26
Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq. ft.). The museum reopens to the public in April 1919.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Yochelson: 66-67. AR USNM 1918: 14-15. AR 1918 26-27.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 26
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1918
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23904 or MAH-23904
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print