Elevators Installed in NHB and SI Building

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Summary

Passenger elevators are installed in the Rotunda of the Natural History Building, and in the southeast corner and the north stair-hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
  • Natural History Building

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Annual Report of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1941. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1942, p. 17.
  • Annual Report of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1940. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1941, p. 16.

Contact information

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

Date

1941

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Repair and reconstruction
  • Elevators
  • Building
  • Buildings--Repair and reconstruction

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