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Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints; 10 x 8 (12 x 9.5);
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1974
October 11, 1974
Notes:
SPS No. 74-10073
Photographic print mounted on board.
Summary:
Iron gate used between 1904 and 1973 as the entrance to crypt of James Smithson in the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle. Fashioned from pieces of the iron fence that had surrounded Smithson's original grave site in Genoa, Italy.
Cite as:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31, Folder 30, Image No. SIA_000095_B31_F30_001
Repository Loc.:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
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