Accession 82-030

National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions

Exhibition Records, 1977-1982

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; Code Duello in America; We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons; We Were but a Handful; Time: Art and Entertainment; Return to Albion: Americans in England 1776-1940; Spirit of the Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1862; Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America; The Time of Our Lives; Jo Davidson Portrait Sculpture; Jay Gould: Mephistopheles of Wall Street; Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes; The Hall of Presidents; and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Index Terms

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

Name

• Gould, Stephen Jay
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Pine, Robert Edge
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948
• West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
• National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
• Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
• We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
• Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
• Champions of American Sport (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C
• Benjamin West and His American Students (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
• Code Duello in America (Exhibition) (1980: 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.)
• Return to Albion: Americans in England 1776-1940 (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
• Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth Hawke (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
• Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
• Jay Gould: Mephistopheles of Wall Street (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
• American Portrait Drawings (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
• Time: Art and Entertainment (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
• The Time of Our Lives (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
• Jo Davidson Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)

Subject

• Art museums
• Museum exhibits
• Museums -- Public relations

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Posters

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

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

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