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Negative number: 87-5210-10 Looking at the National Museum of African Art from Enid A. Haupt Garden, showing the Museum's pavilion with magnolia trees blooming in the foreground, 1987. Photo by Jeff Tinsley.

Negative number: 86-5103-16 The National Museum of African Art under construction, 1986. Photograph shows workers adding copper covering on the domes and pink granite on the sides of the building. The hexagonal patio in the foreground will be the centerpiece of an Islamic garden with a waterfall, central water jet and seating walls shaded by eight hawthorn trees. Photo by Jeff Tinsley.

Negative number: 78-1634-11 Mrs. Walter [Joan] Mondale looking at drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins, founder of the Museum, and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 7 February 1978. Photo by Richard Hofmeister.

Negative number: 96-1008 Amina Dickerson, program director, National Museum of African Art, with six children visiting the museum in 1978.

Negative number: 80-16887-37 Legani Kaunda, an artist-in-residence at work at National Museum of African Art, 1980. He is sculpting from wood a long pipe with a hinged bottom for the tobacco. Photo by Jeff Ploskonka.

Negative number: 84-17810-41 Carolyn Schirmer (l.) and Maxine Orwenyo, in the Museum of African Art courtyard, wearing traditional African dress, demonstrating how they make music a part of their textile program for the elderly, 1984. Photo by Mark Avino.

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