A National Portrait Gallery was legislated by the United States Congress in 1962 and its first exhibit was held in 1965 in the A&I Building with 65 portraits by 52 artists. Once again, when its new home, the former Patent Office Building, opened in 1967, another collection left the A&I building for a new museum. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. Number 066343-a	Entrance to the National Portrait Gallery while housed in A&I
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