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Smithsonian Institution Building Also known as the "Castle"
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![View of the Castle in 1855](18603x.gif) | Negative number: 18603 The Smithsonian Institution Building from downtown Washington, D.C., from across The Mall, around 1855. In the foreground is construction materials for the Treasury Building which added a new wing in 1855. |
![Smithsonian Institution Building from a distance across Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall](48646x.gif) | Negative number: 48646 The Smithsonian Institution Building from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street, looking south, on 10 April 1874. The photograph was taken by William Henry Holmes and is signed, "W.H.H. Phot." |
![Smithsonian Institution Building from the north east](29731x.gif) | Negative number: 29731 The Smithsonian Institution Building from the northeast after the fire of 1865 which destroyed the upper story of the main segment and the north and south towers. |
| Negative number: 2889 Few changes had occurred on the south facade of the Smithsonian Institution Building by 1885 except for the wooden shed to the right of the south door and the alteration of the entrance on the south side of the east wing into a freight loading platform, which was removed in 1971. |
![View of the Smithsonian Institution Building from across The Mall](72_1970x.gif) | Negative number: 72-1970 View of the north towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building from across the National Mall in the late 19th century. |
![The Mall viewed from the North Porch of SIB](1255x.gif) | Negative number: 1255 Looking out at the "Smithsonian Park," now know as the National Mall, from the North Carriage Porch of the Smithsonian Institution Building, late 19th century. |
![The Star Spangled Banner outside Smithsonian Institution Building](19703ax.gif) | Negative number: 19703a The Star Spangled Banner hanging from the exterior of the Smithsonian Institution Building in 1914, shortly after it was aquired for the National Museum. |
![Smithsonian Institution Building from across The Mall in 1928](31274ax.gif) | Negative number: 31274A The Smithsonian Institution Building and the National Mall from the roof of the National Museum of Natural History in 1928. The Mall is seen shortly before it is cleared of trees and leveled. |
![Reparing of the Smithsonian Building towers with the Washington Monument in the background](15103bx.gif) | Negative number: 15103-B Workmen on scaffolding repair the northwest tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The Mall and Washington Monument are visible in the background. |
![Fixing the Clock](91_13640_37x.gif) | Negative number: 91-13640-37 American History's David Todd lends his clockmaker's art to the tricky job of refitting the newly gold-leafed hands to the north face of the Castle clock, 1991. Photo by Eric Long. |
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