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Accession 07-103
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Publications
Contracts and Permissions, 1972-2005
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of contracts and permissions administered by the Office of Publications for various publications, including gallery guides, exhibition catalogs, and brochures. Publications covered include Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914; American Portrait Drawings; American Portrait Prints: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual American Print Conference; Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture; Portraits by George Bellows; Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution; Champions of American Sport; National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Illustrated Checklist; Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and the China Trade, 1784-1844; Baseball Immortals: The Photographs of Charles Martin Conlon, 1905-1935; Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography; Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures; Facing the Light: Historic American Daguerreotypes; Fifty American Faces from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery; The National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Collection of Notable Americans; A Gallery of Presidents: The Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery; U. S. Grant: The Man and the Image; A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits; In the Minds and Hearts of the People: Five American Patriots and the Road to Revolution; Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America, 1784-1788; Portraits from The American: The Democratic Experience; Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940; Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter: The Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872); Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of French Portraiture; Benjamin West and His American Students; William Edward West, 1788-1857: Kentucky Painter; and Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, contracts, permissions, purchase orders, brochures, and clippings.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2021; Transferring office; 03/27/2007 memorandum, Toda to Dowdy; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- A Gallery of Presidents: The Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery (Monograph : 1979)
- A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Monograph : 1985)
- Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914 (Monograph : 1976)
- Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and the China Trade, 1784-1844 (Monograph : 1984)
- American Portrait Drawings (Monograph : 1980)
- American Portrait Prints: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual American Print Conference (Monograph : 1984)
- Baseball Immortals: The Photographs of Charles Martin Conlon, 1905-1935 (Monograph)
- Benjamin West and His American Students (Monograph : 1980)
- Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (Monograph : 1989)
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Monograph : 1995)
- Champions of American Sport (Monograph : 1981)
- Facing the Light: Historic American Daguerreotypes (Monograph : 1978)
- Fifty American Faces from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery (Monograph : 1978)
- In the Minds and Hearts of the People: Five American Patriots and the Road to Revolution (Monograph : 1974)
- Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Monograph : 1985)
- Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of French Portraiture (Monograph : 1983)
- Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures (Monograph : 1985)
- Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter: The Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872) (Monograph : 1983)
- National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Illustrated Checklist (Monograph : 1978)
- National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Illustrated Checklist (Monograph : 1982)
- National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Illustrated Checklist (Monograph : 1987)
- Portraits by George Bellows (Monograph : 1981)
- Portraits from The American: The Democratic Experience (Monograph : 1975)
- Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940 (Monograph : 1979)
- Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography (Monograph : 1983)
- Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America, 1784-1788 (Monograph : 1979)
- The National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Collection of Notable Americans (CD-ROM : circa 1990)
- U. S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Monograph : 1985)
- William Edward West, 1788-1857: Kentucky Painter (Monograph : 1985)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 07-103, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Publications, Contracts and Permissions