Bureau of War Risk Insurance in NHB
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Natural History Building
- United States Bureau of War Risk Insurance
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Yochelson: 66-67. AR USNM 1918: 14-15. AR 1918 26-27.
- Summary
- Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq. ft.). The museum reopens to the public in April 1919.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 26
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1918
- Standard number
- 23904 or MAH-23904
- 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
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Wartime Activities
- World War, 1914-1918
- Women--History
- Museum buildings
- Women
- Federal Government
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9919
- Metadata Usage (text)
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