Smithsonian Institution Building Across the National Mall

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

Arts and Industries Building

Summary

View from the roof of the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, of the National Mall shortly before it is cleared of trees and leveled. Across the Mall are the Smithsonian Institution Building and the Arts and Industries Building Parked along Madison Drive N.W. are automobiles of the 1920s.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 25, Folder: 2

Contact information

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

Date

1928

Standard number

SIA2011-1460 or 31274A

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Landscape

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

Place

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Automobiles

Trees

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_7110