Results for "Black Women: Achievement Against the Odds (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)"
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SIA RU000632, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Office of Public Affairs, Records, 1974-1991
- Date: 1974 1974-1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Office of Public Affairs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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The Bigger Picture | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
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SIA RU000426, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Office of the Director, Records, 1964-1990, with related material from 1937
- Date: 1937 1937-1990 1964-1990, with related material from 1937
- Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 17-101, National Zoological Park (U.S.) Department of Reproductive Sciences, Animal Research Records, 1980-2010
- Date: 1980 1980-2010
- Creator: National Zoological Park. Department of Reproductive Sciences
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU000310, Smithsonian Institution Women's Council, Records, 1972-1983
- Date: 1972 1972-1983
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Women's Council
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
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SIA RU000469, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Department of Painting and Sculpture, Curatorial Records, 1963-1991
- Date: 1963 1963-1991
- Creator: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Painting and Sculpture
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 15-052, Smithsonian Institution Office of Printing and Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1976-1995
- Date: 1976 1976-1995
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Malcolm Watkins
- Date: August 19, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8629,size=350,left]C. Malcolm Watkins was an unlikely revolutionary; nevertheless, he would lead a vanguard of curators who brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. C. Malcolm Watkins, Smithsonian curator and cultural historian, brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. Attentive
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SIA RU000360, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Office of Public Affairs, Records, circa 1970-1985
- Date: 1970 1970-1985 circa 1970-1985
- Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Office of Public Affairs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU000365, National Zoological Park (U.S.) Office of Public Affairs, Records, 1899-1988 and undated, with related material from 1805
- Date: 1805 1805-1988 1899-1988 and undated, with related material from 1805
- Creator: National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives