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Negative number: 78-6607 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with the sculpture garden in the foreground, 1978.

Negative number: 85-4824 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden during construction, 14 December 1972. The National Gallery of Art and the National Archives are visible in the background.

Negative number: 92-1647 Crowds in the interior court of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on opening night, 4 October 1974.

Negative number: 92-1646 Washington, D.C. Mayor Walter Washington presenting Joseph Hirshhorn with key to city on the opening day of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 4 October 1974.

Negative number: 94-2860 Aerial view of the Sculpture Garden of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as it looked when it first opened in 1974.

Negative number: 92-1645 Visitors explore the art works in one of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden galleries, 1974.

Negative number: 94-8328 Tunnel to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1978. The sculpture is by Marino Marini. Photo by Dj Hassler.

Negative number: 95-1197 Installation of Jim Dine's bronze work "Two Big Black Hearts," on the plaza of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 1985. The hearts, which are encrusted with molds of hands, faces, axes, hammers and other tools were completed for "Jim Dine: Five Themes" on view at the museum. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.

Negative number: 85-9180-10 The sunken Sculpture Garden of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1985. Photo by Jeff Tinsley.

Negative number: 86-4461-16 Visiting Associates from various universities on a tour of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at a conservation demonstration given by conservator Susan Lake, 1986. Photo by Jeff Tinsley.

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