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Furth, Karen National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center

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Historic Images of the SmithsonianFeatured in Torch, October 1990.Museum of the American Indian staff (and some colleagues from the Huntington Library) gathered in July for this group photo in New York City. The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, located at that time at 155th Street and Broadway, became part of the Smithsonian Institution in the summer of 1990.The collection, which became part of the Smithsonian in June 1990, was assembled by George Gustav Heye (1874-1957) during a 54-year period, beginning in 1903. He traveled throughout North and South America collecting Native objects. Heye used his collection to found New York's Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and directed it until his death in 1957. The Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in New York City in 1922. The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, was relocated in 1994 to the Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House.Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: October 1990Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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Number Of Images: 1 Color: Black And White; Size: 10w X 8h; Type Of Image: Group, Candid; Medium: Photographic Print
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