Central Gateway
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Chinese Centennial Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHINESE MEMORIAL GATEWAY, TOGETHER WITH EASTERN AND WESTERN GATEWAY CAT. NOS. 56,167-8, ORIGINALLY EXHIBITED AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHINESE SECTION, INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, PHILA., 1876. LATER DISPLAYED IN THE MAIN HALL, S.I. BLDG., LATER REMOVED TO THE WEST COURT (DATE--?); FINALLY DISMANTLED, JUNE 22, 1953. CARVED WOODWORK PANELS, REMOVED AND STORED WITH ETHNOLOGY RESERVE. SEE: HAND-BOOK TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE S.I., WASHINGTON, BRENTANO BROS., NEW YORK, 1886. SEE NEGATIVES: 42,544;42,544-A,B,C."
label: Notes
content: "Local Notes", an internal Smithsonian staff publication, date August 16, 1923, records this information, which may possibly refer to the gateways # E56166 - 68?: "The three Chinese pagodas dating from the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876, a landmark of the Old Building [Castle or Arts and Industries Building?], have been moved to the New Building [National Museum of Natural History] and placed in the Oriental Hall east of the National Gallery."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005892
label: USNM Number
content: E56166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gateway