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Accession 91-093

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions

Exhibition Records, 1972-1977

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:1972-1977
Quantity:4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 91-093
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of correspondence; exhibition scripts and captions; excerpts from books, journals, articles and other published sources; news releases; loan agreements; newspaper clippings; brochures; pamphlets; photographs and prints; and negatives for the exhibition "The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800."

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This accession consists of correspondence; exhibition scripts and captions; excerpts from books, journals, articles and other published sources; news releases; loan agreements; newspaper clippings; brochures; pamphlets; photographs and prints; and negatives for the exhibition The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 91-093, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records

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Container List

Box 1

General Files

The Afro-American in the Age of the Revolution, 1770-1800

Box 1 of 4

Miscellaneous Black Presence

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence - Requests, June-December 1973

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence - Catalogs and Posters

Box 1 of 4

Press release

Box 1 of 4

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) Traveling Exhibit - Black Presence

Box 1 of 4

The Black Presence - Invitations

Box 1 of 4

Lenders to the Exhibition, March 5, 1973

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence - Thank You Letters

Box 1 of 4

Letters to Lenders Postponing Black Presence

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence Loan Extension Letters (Pending)

Box 1 of 4

Photograph Citations

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence Film (Sidney Kaplan and Pat Patterson)

Box 1 of 4

USIA Videotape Program Based on The Black Presence

Box 1 of 4

Black Presence Loan Agreements

Box 1 of 4

North Carolina Material and SITES Material

Box 1 of 4

Lender Files

Albany Institute of History and Art

Box 1 of 4

Allegheny College

Box 1 of 4

American Antiquarian Society

Box 1 of 4

American Philosophical Society

Box 1 of 4

Amherst College

Box 1 of 4

Boston Athenaeum

Box 1 of 4

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Box 1 of 4

Boston Public Library

Box 1 of 4

The Bostonian Society

Box 1 of 4

Bowdoin College

Box 1 of 4

British Public Records Office

Box 1 of 4

John Carter Brown Library

Box 1 of 4

Buten Museum of Wedgwood

Box 1 of 4

Charleston Library Society

Box 1 of 4

Clements Library

Box 1 of 4

College of Charleston Library

Box 1 of 4

Colonial Williamsburg

Box 1 of 4

Connecticut Historical Society

Box 1 of 4

Connecticut State Library

Box 1 of 4

Cornell University Library

Box 1 of 4

Box 2

Duke University

Box 2 of 4

Enoch Pratt Library

Box 2 of 4

Fairfax County

Box 2 of 4

First American Baptist Church

Box 2 of 4

Fort Griswold State Park

Box 2 of 4

Free Library of Philadelphia

Box 2 of 4

Georgetown University Library

Box 2 of 4

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Box 2 of 4

Historical Society of Montgomery County

Box 2 of 4

Howard University Library

Box 2 of 4

Sir Bruce Ingram

Box 2 of 4

Jaffrey Public Library

Box 2 of 4

Lafayette College

Box 2 of 4

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Box 2 of 4

Library of Congress (17 folders)

Box 2 of 4

Box 3

Library of Congress (2 folders)

Box 3 of 4

Massachusetts Archives

Box 3 of 4

Massachusetts Historical Society

Box 3 of 4

Maryland Historical Society

Box 3 of 4

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box 3 of 4

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Box 3 of 4

Mount Holyoke College

Box 3 of 4

Musee National de Versailles

Box 3 of 4

Museum of the City of New York

Box 3 of 4

National Archives

Box 3 of 4

National Gallery of Art

Box 3 of 4

National Museum of History and Technology

Box 3 of 4

National Portrait Gallery

Box 3 of 4

New Bedford Free Public Library

Box 3 of 4

New Bedford Whaling Museum

Box 3 of 4

New Hampshire Archives

Box 3 of 4

The New York Historical Society

Box 3 of 4

New York Public Library

Box 3 of 4

Oberlin College Library

Box 3 of 4

Pierce Family

Box 3 of 4

The Pierpont Morgan Library

Box 3 of 4

Porter, Mrs. Dorothy

Box 3 of 4

Princeton University Archives

Box 3 of 4

Rhode Island Historical Society

Box 3 of 4

Rhode Island School of Design/Museum of Art

Box 3 of 4

Rutgers University

Box 3 of 4

Smith College

Box 3 of 4

South Carolina American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

Box 3 of 4

United States Naval Academy Museum

Box 3 of 4

South Carolina Historical Society

Box 3 of 4

Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Box 3 of 4

The Stockbridge Library Association

Box 3 of 4

Box 4

Uiversity of Virginia

Box 4 of 4

Valentine Museum

Box 4 of 4

Virginia State Library, Archives Branch

Box 4 of 4

Virginia Historical Society

Box 4 of 4

Yale University Art Gallery

Box 4 of 4

Yale University Library (Beinecke)

Box 4 of 4

Omitted Materials (10 folders)

Box 4 of 4

Exhibition labels

Box 4 of 4

Jackson State College - Wheatley Exhibit

Box 4 of 4

Unlocated Items for Black Presence

Box 4 of 4

Registrar's Files of Lenders

South Carolina - Charleston

Box 4 of 4

Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Box 4 of 4

Washington, D.C.

Box 4 of 4

Rhode Island - Providence

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - New Bedford

Box 4 of 4

New York - Albany

Box 4 of 4

New Hampshire - Jaffrey

Box 4 of 4

Illinois - Chicago

Box 4 of 4

North Carolina - Raleigh

Box 4 of 4

England - London

Box 4 of 4

Holland - The Hague

Box 4 of 4

Maryland - Chevy Chase

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - Cambridge

Box 4 of 4

Missouri - St. Louis

Box 4 of 4

Maryland - Baltimore

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - Amherst

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - Boston

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - Northampton

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - South Hadley

Box 4 of 4

Massachusetts - Worcester

Box 4 of 4

Michigan - Ann Arbor

Box 4 of 4

New Jersey - New Brunswick

Box 4 of 4

New Jersey - Princeton

Box 4 of 4

New York - New York City

Box 4 of 4

West Indies - Kingston, Jamaica

Box 4 of 4

New York - Ithaca

Box 4 of 4

Pennsylvania - Norristown

Box 4 of 4

Pennsylvania - Meadville

Box 4 of 4

Pennsylvania - Easton

Box 4 of 4

North Carolina - Durham

Box 4 of 4

Connecticut - Hartford

Box 4 of 4

Connecticut - New Haven

Box 4 of 4

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