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"...for War Horses and Cannon Carriage to make them Invisible", study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
n.d. Abbott Handerson Thayer and others Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1849 Died: Monadnock, New Hampshire 1921 various media and collage on paperboard closed: approx. 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the heirs of Abbott Handerson Thayer 1950.2.76 Not currently on view
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"Anything for me, if you please?"--Post-office of the Brooklyn Fair, from Harper's Weekly, March 5, 1864
1864 Winslow Homer Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1836 Died: Prout's Neck, Maine 1910 wood engraving on paper image: 13 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (34.8 x 23.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum The Ray Austrian Collection, gift of Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James A. Austrian 1996.63.57 Not currently on view
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"Crute" Drill
ca. 1942-1944 William H. Johnson Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died: Central Islip, New York 1970 oil on paperboard 24 7/8 x 32 7/8 in. (63.3 x 83.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Harmon Foundation 1967.59.600 Not currently on view
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"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."--Henry Peter Brougham, The Present State of Law, 1828. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1956 Honore Sharrer Born: West Point, New York 1920 gouache and pencil on paperboard sheet: 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (33.7 x 26.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.268 Not currently on view
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"Forty-niner" Street Advertiser in Studio, San Francisco
1890 Unidentified albumen print on paper sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (18.7 x 12.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment 1994.91.190 Not currently on view
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"In democracies, of the more extreme type there has arisen a false idea of freedom which is contradictory to the true interests of the state. For two principles are characteristic of democracy, the government of the majority and freedom.
1950 Edgar Miller Born: Idaho Falls, Idaho 1899 Died: 1993 tempera on plaster 34 3/8 x 29 5/8 in. (87.3 x 75.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.214 Not currently on view
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"In Memory of"
ca. 1968-1974 Lamont "Old Ironsides" Pry Born: Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania 1921 Died: Weatherly, Pennsylvania 1987 tempera and enamel on corrugated cardboard 19 x 39 7/8 in. (48.3 x 101.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson 1986.65.135 Not currently on view
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"It is impossible, if no more than one opinion is uttered, to make choice of the best: a man is forced then to follow whatever advice may have been given him; but if opposite speeches are delivered, then choice can be exercised. In like manner pure gold
1950 Paul Rand Born: New York, New York 1914 Died: Norwalk, Connecticut 1996 gelatin silver print and gouache on paper and gouache on paperboard sheet: 18 5/8 x 14 in. (47.2 x 35.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.241 Not currently on view
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"Jersey" Joe Walcott and Rocky Marciano sparring in ring
1952 Herb Scharfman Born: 1912 Died: Scottsdale, Arizona 1998 gelatin silver print on paper sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (21.5 x 26.5 cm) image: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (19 Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Kenneth B. Pearl 1997.118.108 Not currently on view
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"Joseph," Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekht, Chief of the "Nez Percé" Indians
1889 Olin Levi Warner Born: Suffield, Connecticut 1844 Died: New York, New York 1896 bronze 17 5/8 in. (44.8 cm) diam. Smithsonian American Art Museum A Gift of Alison Warner Waterman in memory of her mother, Frances D. Warner 1985.76.1 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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