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2008-2013
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-286
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of three websites and one blog maintained by the National Portrait Gallery. The main National Portrait Gallery website, crawled July 21, 2013, includes information on exhibitions, visiting, educational activities, publications, research projects, and donating. The website also includes the online exhibition Picturing B...
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2008-2016
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-241
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites, three subsites, and a blog maintained by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). The primary NPG website was crawled on October 20, 2015, and January 22, 2016 and again on February 21, 2016, shortly after the website was redesigned. The website includes information on exhibitions, visiting, educational ac...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Publications
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1972-2005
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-103
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of contracts and permissions administered by the Office of Publications for various publications, including gallery guides, exhibition catalogs, and brochures. Publications covered include Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914; American Portrait Drawings; American Portrait Prints: Proceedings of ...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Education
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1970-2003
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-086
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the program records of the Office of Education at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and documents their work on educational programming for the museum and its exhibitions. Programming documented includes "Face to Face: Adventure with History!;" "Discover Portraits: Learning to See;" "Those Inventive Americans;" ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
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1983
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0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-002
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This show featured 36 portraits--27 oil paintings and 9 color photo reproductions--selected from the Harmon Foundation collection, from the National Portrait Gallery, as well as biographical information and memorabilia. Likenesses of blacks who made significant contributions in the fields of civil rights, law, education, medicine, the military, and the arts are on display. Included are Marian Anderson, Joe Lewis, W.E.B. duBois, Thurgood Marshall, George Washington Carver, Charles Drew, William Ayres Campbell, and Richard Barthe. It was exhibited at the Anacostia Neigborhood Museum from April 17, 1983 to August 21, 1983.
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Christenberry, William, 1936-2016
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circa 1917-2018
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7.3 Linear feet
14.76 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.chriswill
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Archives of American Art
The papers of photographer, painter, sculptor, and educator William Christenberry (1936-2016) measure 7.3 linear feet and 14.76 GB and date from circa 1917-2018, with the bulk of the records dating from 1960-2018. The collection sheds light on Christenberry's career through personal papers, gallery and museum files, professional files, personal business records, printed and digital material, photographs, artwork, and sound and video recordings about his work.
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
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1980-1996
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29 cu. ft. (29 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 97-083
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the work of the Office of Exhibitions on exhibitions that were mounted by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) from 1980 to 1995. Major exhibitions undertaken by the NPG in this period, and documented in these records, include Benjamin West and His American Students (1980-1981); Charles Wil...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Department of Exhibitions and Collections Management
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1986-2004
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15 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-055
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the work of the Department of Exhibitions and Collections Management in the preparation and development of exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, particularly the movement of art objects on loan both to and from the museum. Exhibitions documented include Andy Warhol's Flash - November ...
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Bird, William L.
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1877 - 2010
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6.5 Cubic feet (19 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1288
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of archival materials assembled by National Museum of American History Curator William Lawrence Bird. The materials were used as background research for the publication of his book Holidays on Display (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), and as exhibit objects for the exhibit by the same name that opened shortly after the museum's architectural renovation (November 2009-September 2010). The materials include advertising and trade literature, especially for department stores and with emphasis on the display of toys; catalogs; photographs and slides; postcards; parade programs; design drawings; correspondence; stock certificates, and miscellaneous items relating to department stores and their displays, parades and the amusement industry.
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Feshin, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1881-1955
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1923-1984
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22 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.feshniko
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Archives of American Art
Printed material and photographs.