Roosevelt Encourages National Gallery, SI

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Summary

President Theodore Roosevelt recommends to the United States Congress that the Smithsonian Institution art collection be established as a gallery of art and that the Institution be authorized to accept additions to the collection. This would allow the Institution to receive the Harriet Lane Johnston bequest of art works.

Subject

  • Johnston, Harriet Lane 1830-1903
  • Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
  • National Collection of Fine Arts)
  • National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian)
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • United States President
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 115.

Contact information

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

Date

1904

Topic

  • Art
  • Gifts
  • Art objects

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