First Ladies Gowns Exhibited in Arts & Industries
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Adams, Abigail 1744-1818
- Randolph, Martha Jefferson 1772-1836
- Washington, Martha 1731-1802
- Madison, Dolley 1768-1849
- Arts and Industries Building
- Exhibits Modernization Program United States National Museum
- First Ladies Hall
- United States National Museum
- National Collections
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- One of the rooms in the First Ladies Exhibit reinstalled in the West North Range of the Arts and Industries Building on May 24, 1955, in period decorated rooms, showing figures with the gowns worn by Dolley Madison, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Martha Washington, and Abigail Adams.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 42, Folder: 17
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1955
- Standard number
- 43539-A or MAH-43539A
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Artifacts
- Clothing and dress
- Costumes
- Exhibitions
- First Ladies Gowns
- Gifts
- Mannequins (figures)
- Museum mannequins
- Presidents' spouses
- Women--History
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10509
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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