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Post #214089 by mbonga on Sat, Feb 11, 2006 5:35 PM

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I made a trip to the national Archives building in D.C. about a week ago. The library entrance is on the north side, whereas the tourist entrance is on the south side. The library's information desk told me they have only lists of things like servicemen from World War II, so any photo archives would be in the College Park facility in Maryland. Since that is out of convenient reach for me, I'll abandon that avenue of research.

As for the Smithsonian archives people, after nobody responded to my e-mail after a week, I called one of the archives people and was told to send e-mail again with my request since their e-mail system was down the previous week. (Doesn't anything work anymore?) I did so over a week ago, and I called back Friday (yesterday), and still did not receive any response by either phone or e-mail. Since they aren't responding, it's time to declare war. So here is their contact info. I hope you all call and send e-mail, requesting photos or permission to photograph their removed Pacific Cultures exhibit:

Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/
Department of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NMNH, MRC 112
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Tel 202.633.1920
Fax 202.357.2208
[email protected]

David Rosenthal
Assistant Collections Manager
Collections and Archives Program
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Phone: 301-238-1318
Fax: 301-238-3109
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/cm
[email protected]