Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
1951
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
The opening of the Adams-Clement Collection in the West Hall of the Arts and Industries Building takes place on April 18, 1951. The photograph shows Dr. Remington Kellogg, Director of the United States National Museum, at the podium with Mr. Thomas Beggs, Secretary Wetmore, and others in the background. Collection includes paintings, jewelry, china, letters and other family material donated to the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, and the United States National Museum, Department of History by Mary Louisa Adams Clement of Edge Hill, Warrenton, Virginia, descendent of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 24 and Record Unit 312, Box 1, Folder: 6
