Library, Lower Main Hall, Smithsonian Institution Building

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Smithsonian Institution Building Lower Main Hall

Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)

Notes

Used in Field, Stamm & Ewing. THE CASTLE, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SMITHSONIAN BUILDING (p. 64)

Summary

The Library at the east end of Lower Main Hall, now called the Great Hall, of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), also known as the "Castle." There is a woman reshelving (or retrieving) a book in the center of the photograph.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 31, Folder: 38 and Record Unit 95, Box 37A, Folder: 10

Contact information

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

Date

1914

Standard number

60591 or MAH-60591 or 521880

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Interior

Physical description

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

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Smithsonian Institution Building--Great Hall

Libraries

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_8283