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Summary

The United States Congress approves a law to provide for a National Portrait Gallery as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution (P.L. 87-443).

Subject

  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • This date is from the Annual Report. Oehser says that President Kennedy signed the act on April 26.
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963, p. 95.
  • Oehser, Paul H. The Smithsonian Institution. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, p. 147.
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1964. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 257.

Contact information

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

Date

April 27, 1962

Topic

  • Law
  • Art museums
  • New Bureaus
  • Major Events in Smithsonian History
  • Legislation
  • Art Museums

Place

United States

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