Muhammad Ali, Ellen Roney Hughes, and Carl Scheele in the National Museum of History and Technology

Object Details

Author: Hofmeister, Richard K
Subject: Scheele, Carl H; Ali, Muhammad 1942-; Hughes, Ellen Roney; National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.); Nation of Nations (Exhibition) (1976: Smithsonian Institution)

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: Ellen Roney Hughes began her career at the Smithsonian in 1964 as research assistant in the Main Library at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMNH). Carl Scheele recruited Hughes in 1974 to join the exhibition team for the Nation of Nations exhibit.; Carl Scheele began working as a curator at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) in 1959. He was instrumental in creating the Nation of Nations exhibit in 1976.
Summary: Muhammad Ali and Curators Ellen Roney Hughes and Carl Scheele during Ali's visit to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, on March 17, 1976, when he donated a pair of boxing gloves and a robe to the museum for the Nations of Nations exhibition.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-009
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

March 17, 1976

Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 4h; Type of Image: Group Candid; Medium: Negative

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Collectors and collecting; Smithsonian Institution--Employees; African Americans; National Collections; Celebrities and Dignitaries; Donors; Special events; Sporting goods; Athletics--Equipment and supplies; Sports--Collectibles; Sports History