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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Aerial; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Aerial
Photographic print
Place:
United States of America, District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Date:
1986
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in TORCH, June 1986
Summary:
The National Museum of African Art is under construction. The photograph, taken from the top of the Smithsonian Institution Building, shows workers adding copper covering on the domes and the pink granite on the sides of the building. The hexagonal patio in the foreground, still under construction, will be the centerpiece of an Islamic garden with a waterfall, central water jet and seating walls shaded by eight hawthorn trees. A portion of the Arts and Industries Building is also visible in photograph.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: June 1986
