Fisheries Exhibit in Arts & Industries Building

Summary

Fisheries Exhibit in the northeast Range of the U.S. National Museum Building, with female attendant seated in the center. Fishing nets are hanging from the ceiling along with a Giant Squid and a Giant Octopus, model done by J. H. Emerton. Photographs of fishing activities line the walls. The wood floors in the building were replaced between 1895 and 1905.

Subject

• Arts and Industries Building
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photo was reproduced as an engraving (neg # 95-20341) in the 1886 Handbook to the United States National Museum.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 50, Folder: 7

Contact information

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

Date

1886

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Ceilings
• Squids, Giant
• Natural History
• Models (representations)
• Fisheries
• Ichthyology
• History
• Squids
• Marine invertebrates
• Exhibitions
• National Collections
• Octopuses
• Women--History
• Natural history
• Octopus
• Models and modelmaking

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

2525 or NHB-2525

Physical description

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

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