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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 includes photographs and slides from the Office of Public Affairs on assorted subjects. Subjects include S. Dillon Ripley, SI Administrators, Lady Bird Johnson's birthday party, Uncle Beazley, and assorted pictures of Secretaries including Wetmore, Carmichael, and Abbot.

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This accession includes photographs and slides from the Office of Public Affairs on assorted subjects. Subjects include S. Dillon Ripley, Smithsonian 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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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-003, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, Photographs

Container List

Box 1

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

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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)

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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 unidentified man

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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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