Balloon in Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Eames, Charles

Arts and Industries Building

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Notes

See Neg. # 66727-15 for a view of the balloon hanging in the Rotanda of the Arts and Industries Building.

Summary

Workers prepare a hot air balloon to hang in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building. The centerpiece of the Charles Eames exhibit 'Photography and the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science', which opened June 6, 1968, the balloon was used to illustrate the method used to take the first aerial photo in the United States.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-008

Contact information

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

Date

May 28, 1968

Standard number

OPA-1353-15

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Type

Exhibit

Negative

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 1.5 w x 1h (35mm); Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Black and White Negative

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Interiors

National Collections

Arts and Industries Building--Rotunda

Photography and the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science

Rotundas

Photography

Exhibitions

Balloons

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_5956