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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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      Smithsonian in Popular Culture | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        IN BLACK&WHITE: Interpreting African American Culture in Contemporary Museums

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        • Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

          Exhibiting the Enola Gay

          • Date: June 25, 2020
          • Creator: Jennifer Wright
          • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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        • SI History Chronology

          First Script of the Enola Gay Exhibit Completed

          • Date: January 14, 1994

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          SIA RU000479, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Department of Space History, Exhibition Records, circa 1976-1990

          • Date: 1976 1976-1990 circa 1976-1990
          • Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
          • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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            SIA Acc. 96-093, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities, Records, 1989-1995

            • Date: 1989 1989-1995
            • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities
            • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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          • Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria prepares to jump from the altitude of 29455 meters during the second manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico on July 25, 2012. Photo courtesy of Red Bull Stratos.

            Link Love: 3/28/2014

            • Date: March 28, 2014
            • Creator: Mitch Toda
            • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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            SIA RU000339, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Office of Special Events, Events Files, circa 1971-1989

            • Date: 1971 1971-1989 circa 1971-1989
            • Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Office of Special Events
            • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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            It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

            • Date: September 15, 2011
            • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
            • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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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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