Object Details
- Author
- Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
- Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
- South Yard
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. #s SIA2011-0166 through SIA2011-0173 and 4694C for other views of the Solar Boiler preparation.
- This image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, former Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes. (Section A)
- Summary
- Smithsonian Institution employees are working in the South Yard, behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle", on the installation of the solar powered boiler developed by fifth Smithsonian Secretary and astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (1928-19244). The group is preparing for a news broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder: Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, A-N
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. September 30, 1936
- Standard number
- SIA2011-0168 and 32603-10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Event
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 2w x 2h; Type of Image: Event; Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Astrophysics
- Astrophysicists
- Event
- Inventions
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Secretaries
- Secretariats
- Special events
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Solar Boiler
- Solar energy
- Record ID
- siris_sic_6837
