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2023.055.3.0349Description
A black and white sterograph. Image is of a building of the Smithsonian. Above the image "18" is printed, and below the image "32237 The New National Museum, Washington, D.C.", to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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The New National Museum From The Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.
Pleasant driveways and paths winding beneath the trees bring us back to the center of the Mail and we find ourselves looking N. to the New National Museum, with a section of the city, chiefly along Pennsylvania Ave., beyond it. The large granite buildings toward the left, with a square tower 315 ft. in height which is conspicuous from almost every quarter of the city, is the Post Office Department Building. Formerly this building housed not only the offices of the department but the city Post Office as well. But since the completion in 1912 of the new city Post Office just W. of the Union Station by the Post Office Department.
The New National Museum, or Natural History Building, is the latest and largest of the three building so far put up to house the great and growing National collections, all of which are in the care of the Smithsonian Institution. When the two older buildings became overcrowded, the new one, much larger, was constructed, covering a rectangular area of about 4 acres and with more than 468,00 sq. ft. of floor space in its four stories. In it are at present sheltered, mainly on the ground floor, two extensive which do not properly and there which will eventually be provided for in the buildings of their own, namely, the National gallery of Art and the World War Historical Collection. The first story is chiefly given over to the exhibits of ethnology, mammals and birds, paleontology and phisical and chemical geology. The second story is occupied by collections of fishes, invertebrates and reptiles and anthropological exhibits illustrative of American and Old World archaeology.
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