Opening crates for Bicentennial exhibition
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- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Bicentennial of the American Revolution
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, May 1976
- Summary
- Jonathan King, Assistant Keeper of North American Collections in the British Museum, and National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH) staff open the crate housing a rare African-style drum for Bicentennial exhibition 'A Nation of Nations.'
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1976
- Standard number
- 76-3220-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- King, Jonathan
- British Museum
- African Arts
- Exhibitions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8540
- Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
- Usage conditions apply
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