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Negative number: 92-1710 Evening view of the exterior of the National Portrait Galley side of the American Art and Portrait Galleries building in 1978.

Negative number: 066343-a A 1966 National Portrait Gallery exhibit entitled "Recent Acquisition" in the Arts and Industries Building where the museum was housed before it moved to its permanent location in the Old Patent Office Building in 1967.

Negative number: 94-4429 Wintertime photograph of the interior courtyard of the Old Patent Office Building, location of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), 1967.

Negative number: 94-13189 The National Portrait Gallery double-decker shuttle bus, 1975. The free shuttle took visitors between the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, and the National Portrait Gallery. The attendant on board the bus presented passengers with an introductory talk about the Gallery, its collections and special exhibitions.

Negative number: 92-1786 Standing with the portrait of Thayendanega (Joseph Brant) by Gilbert Stuart is (left to right) National Portrait Gallery Director Marvin Sadik (1969-1981), The Duke of Northumberland, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1964-1984), July 1976. Stuart painted the portrait of Thayendanega, Chief of the Mohawks, in London in 1789. Photo by Robert Maciolek.

Negative number: 78-6046-17a Marvin Sadik (right),Director of the National Portrait Gallery, 1969-1981, greets Lady Bird Johnson at a National Portrait Gallery reception, 1 May 1978. Photo by Richard Hofmeister.

Negative number: 82-4838-22A National Portrait Gallery curator of Photographs, Will Stapp, and his assistant, Ann Shumard, with last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, 1982. Photo by Dane Penland.

Negative number: 95-252 The Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington being moved at the National Portrait Gallery by (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price, 1983. Photo by Rolland White.

Negative number: 88-11660-25 Former President Gerald Ford unveiling his presidential portrait at a ceremony in the National Portrait Gallery, Hall of Presidents, in June 1988. The portrait was painted by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Photo by Richard Hofmeister.

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