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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Aerial; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Aerial
Place:
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
United States of America, District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest, National Mall
Date:
1965
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See negative # 58833 for north side of The Mall.
Summary:
From the top of the Washington Monument, the south side of the National Mall looking towards the United States Capitol Building, October 5, 1965. Buildings visible in the picture include the Freer Gallery of Art (FGA), the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) or "Castle", the South Shed, the Air and Space Building (in a temporary metal building), the Arts and Industries Building (A&I) with two rockets along the west side, the Army Medical Museum, the temporary government buildings built during World War II, the United States Botanic Garden, the Sam Rayburn House Office Building, the United States Capitol Building, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. On the south side of Independence Avenue and across from the Army Medical Museum is the Federal Aviation Administration Building.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 99, Box 98, Folder: SDR - Photographs