BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Treasures of American History (in Gallery 211)

DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Treasures of American History (in Gallery 211):

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Description of Pictures: Treasures of American History
November 17, 2006 – April 13, 2008
While the American History Museum is closed for renovation (Sept. 5, 2006-fall 2008), more than 150 highlights from the museum are on view here. The exhibition is divided into four sections: Creativity and Innovation, American Biography, National Challenges, and American Identity.
Highlights include:
* Dorothy's ruby slippers and the rarely seen Scarecrow costume worn by Ray Bolger in The Wizard of Oz
* First lady Jacqueline Kennedy's inaugural gown
* the compass used by Lewis and Clark during their journey across the Louisiana Territory
* the Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro, N.C., where four African American students began a "sit-in" in 1960 that lasted for six months
* Thomas Jefferson's bible and lap desk
* Abraham Lincoln's top hat
* Thomas Edison's lightbulb
* General Custer's buckskin jacket
* R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars
* Kermit the Frog
* Duke Ellington's sheet music for "Mood Indigo"

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1. SIAIRT_070215_19.JPG: Julia Child's Recipe, 2001: This handwritten recipe for pain de mie, or French sandwich bread, is from the kitchen of celebrity chef Julia Child. Trained at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, Child brought the taste and techniques of traditional French cuisine into American homes. Her first series, The French Chef, premiered on Boston public television in 1962. Over her forty-year career, she produced numerous cookbooks and television shows, including three filmed in her own kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2001, Child donated her famous kitchen to the Smithsonian.
2. SIAIRT_070215_27.JPG: Photographs by Richard Avedon: One of the 20th century's most influential photographers, Richard Avedon created striking portraits of authors, civic leaders, performers, and cultural icons from the 1950s until his death in 2004. Avedon learned the mechanics of photography in the U.S. Merchant Marine while taking thousands of identification pictures. In 1945 Harper's Bazaar hired him as a staff photographer. His distinctive fashion and advertising images captivated audiences, but his portraits with stark white backgrounds are among his most memorable works. Marian Anderson, 1955: One of the greatest opera singers of her time, Marian Anderson (1897–1993) spent her entire career battling and breaking racial barriers. In 1939, she gave a legendary performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution banned her from performing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Avedon photographed the famed contralto at the time of her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where she was the first African American to perform as a regular company member. Malcolm X, 1963: Malcolm X (1925–1965) rose to fame as a leading figure of the separatist Nation of Islam. A militant proponent of black self-reliance, he urged African Americans to unite against white oppression and secure their rights "by any means necessary." In 1964, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca, where he experienced religious brotherhood that transcended race. In 1965, shortly after he had broken away from the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was assassinated. Avedon used camera movement to evoke the emotional energy of his subject. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1964: Having demonstrated his leadership as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during World War II, Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) was elected U.S. president in 1952. With his amiable nature -- immortalized by the campaign slogan "I like Ike" -- he projected a sense of optimism in a time of great challenges, from escalating cold war tensions, the Korean War, and McCarthyism to labor unrest and school desegregation. Avedon's portrait, from a collection titled Nothing Personal, depicted the aged ex-president without his famous smile. Billy Graham, 1964: The charismatic evangelist Billy Graham (b. 1918) began preaching in 1938. His national standing grew through tent revivals, radio, and later television broadcasts. He has served as spiritual advisor to many U.S. presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush. Through his far-reaching crusades, Graham has inspired millions with the evangelical message of salvation through faith rather than good works alone. Avedon included this unsparing portrait of the world-famous minister in Nothing Personal, a critical look at American society in the mid-1960s.
3. SIAIRT_070215_35.JPG: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1964: Having demonstrated his leadership as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during World War II, Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) was elected U.S. president in 1952. With his amiable nature -- immortalized by the campaign slogan "I like Ike" -- he projected a sense of optimism in a time of great challenges, from escalating cold war tensions, the Korean War, and McCarthyism to labor unrest and school desegregation. Avedon's portrait, from a collection titled Nothing Personal, depicted the aged ex-president without his famous smile.
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