Accession 82-030,  National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions,  Exhibition Records, 1977-1982

Collection Overview

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of posters documenting the following National Portrait Gallery exhibitions: American Portrait Drawings; Champions of American Sport; Benjamin West and His American Students; The Code Duello in America; We Never Sleep; "... We Were But a Handful;" Time-Arts and Entertainment; Return to Albion; The Spirit of Fact; Robert Edge Pine; The Time of Our Lives; Jo Davidson Portrait Sculpture; Jay Gould, Mephistopheles of Wall Street; Facing the Light; The Hall of Presidents; and FDR.

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

Name

• Benjamin West and His American Students (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
• Champions of American Sport (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
• Code Duello in America (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
• Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
• Gould, Stephen Jay.
• Jay Gould: Mephistopheles of Wall Street (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
• Pine, Robert Edge.
• Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
• Return to Albion: Americans in England 1776-1940 (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
• Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948
• Spirit of the Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1862 (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
• We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
• We Were but a Handful (Exhibition) (1977: Washington, D.C.)
• West, Benjamin, 1738-1820

Subject

• Art museums.
• Exhibitions

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Posters

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 82-030, National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records

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