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Accession 97-003

Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs

Photographs, 1965-1984
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
Title: Photographs
Dates: 1965-1984
Quantity: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection: Accession 97-003
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

This accession consists of photographs and slides from the Office of Public Affairs on assorted subjects. Subjects include S. Dillon Ripley, Smithsonian Institution Administrators, Lady Bird Johnson's birthday party, Uncle Beazley, and assorted pictures of Secretaries including Alexander Wetmore, Leonard Carmichael, and Charles Greeley Abbot.

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This accession consists of photographs and slides from the Office of Public Affairs on assorted subjects. Subjects include S. Dillon Ripley, Smithsonian Institution Administrators, Lady Bird Johnson's birthday party, Uncle Beazley, and assorted pictures of Secretaries including Alexander Wetmore, Leonard Carmichael, and Charles Greeley Abbot.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-003, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Public Affairs, Photographs

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Container List

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Photos of S. Dillon Ripley: Ripley examining birds, Ripley holding ducklings, Ripley with baby elephant, Ripley inspecting cotton plants at 1974 Festival of American Folklife, Ripley at the 10th Birthday Party for the carousel (with cake), Ripley riding carousel, Ripley with Uncle Beazley, Assorted close ups of Ripley

S. Dillon Ripley Cutting Carousel Anniversary Cake, April 12, 1977 [Image no. 77-4393-9]
S. Dillon Ripley, eighth Smithsonian Secretary (1964-1984), standing in the Secretary's Parlor in the Smithsonian Institution Building, photograph by Charles Phillips, 1978 [Image no. 78-18450-36A or SIA78-18450-36A]
S. Dillon Ripley on Carousel, 1977 [Image no. 77-4394-24A or SIA77-4394-24A]
S. Dillon Ripley & "Uncle Beazley", September 15, 1967 [Image no. 91-521 or 68-2589]
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Mary Livingston Ripley

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Contact sheets of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the Smithsonian in 1976

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The Ripley's trip to Northern Bhutan in 1968 (with negatives)

Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and the King of Bhutan, photograsph by Mary Moncrieffe Livingston Ripley, September 1968 [Image no. 92-1660 or 84-8125]
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The Ripleys with Lady Bird Johnson for her birthday

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Secretary Wetmore and George Watson looking at birds

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Department Heads and Ripley with museum objects behind the Castle (c. 1978-1979) [L to R Marvin Sadik, NPG (National Portrait Gallery); Melvin Zisfein, NASM (National Air and Space Museum); Abram Lerner, HMSG (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden); Thomas Lawton, Freer; Theadore H. Reed, NZP (National Zoological Park); Porter M. Kier, NMNH (National Museum of Natural History); Otto Mayr, NMAH (National Museum of American History); John R. Kinard, Anacostia; Lisa Taylor, CH (Cooper-Hewitt); S. Dillon Ripley

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Slides of signage on the Mall (1979) and kids on Uncle Beazley

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Assorted pictures of Secretaries including Wetmore, Carmichael, Abbot's 100th Birthday Party, touring the Smithsonian metro under construction

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Baby Uncle Beazley and Louis Paul Jonas

At the National Zoological Park, Louis Paul Jonas, designer of the fiberglass sculpture of a dinosaur triceratops named Uncle Beazley used in the NBC production of "The Enormous Egg," with the enormous egg made for the production, 1967 [Image no. SIA2007-0065 and 61788-20A]
At the National Zoological Park, Louis Paul Jonas, designer of the fiberglass sculpture of a dinosaur triceratops named Uncle Beazley used in the NBC production of "The Enormous Egg," is with a model of Uncle Beazley as a baby, 1967 [Image no. SIA2007-0066 and 61788-13A]
Louis Paul Jonas, designer of the Uncle Beazley fiberglass triceratops sculpture used in the NBC production of "The Enormous Egg," holds up a model of a baby Uncle Beazley sitting on vegetation to a giraffe in the Elephant House at the National Zoological Park, 1967 [Image no. SIA2007-0067 and 61788-5A]
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Slides of Smithsonian Administration: Richard Ault, Charles Blitzer, David Challinor, Michael Collins, Paul N. Perrot, Peter G. Powers, S. Dillon Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg, Lawrence Taylor

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Slides of the Bicentennial of Smithson's birth, 1965 (with negatives)

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