#TBT: Dia:Beacon Museum Skylights Once Showered Natural Light on Package Printing Process for Nabisco

Our first Throwback Thursday for the blog! Beacon's history is very rich and deep, and we want to remember it and feel its roots.

Taken from the very first chapter of the book Beacon Revisited, by Robert J. Murphy and Denise Doring VanBuren, this throwback goes to the authors' pointing out of how the overhead skylights in the 300,000 square foot space for what is now the contemporary art museum Dia:Beacon, once provided natural light "necessary to ensure uniformity in the package-printing process" when the building was a former Nabisco cardboard box-printing plant. These pictures show the skylights, and the uniform light in which this pressman inspects labels for saltine crackers.

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