National Museum Building Committee, 1880

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Meigs, Montgomery C (Montgomery Cunningham) 1816-1892

Sherman, William T (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891

Parker, Peter

Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887

Cluss, Adolph 1825-1905

Rhees, William Jones 1830-1907

Arts and Industries Building

United States National Museum

Board of Regents

Notes

Negative # 1475 was used to add Rhees and Leech to this photograph.

Summary

The National Museum Building Committee stand in an unfinished doorway of the new United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building, while it is under construction. From the left: General Montgomery C. Meigs; General William Tecumseh Sherman, Smithsonian Regent and Chairman of Building Committee; Peter Parker, Smithsonian Regent; Spencer F. Baird, Smithsonian Secretary; Adolph Cluss, Architect; W. J. Rhees, Chief Clerk; Daniel Leech, Correspondence Clerk.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder: 43

Contact information

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

Date

1880

Standard number

78-10099

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Group, candid

Physical description

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

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Leech, Daniel

National Museum Building Committee

Construction

Secretaries

Museum buildings

Regents

Architecture

New Museums

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_10294