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Summary

"Waiting for the Hour," an exhibition dealing with events and personalities that surrounded the formal issuance of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, opens at the National Portrait Gallery.

Subject

  • Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • Waiting for the Hour (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
  • United States President

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1980. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981, p. 354.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

March 3, 1980

Topic

  • Art
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Art objects

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