Bruce Guthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Portraits

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Description of Pictures: The Henry Louis Gates Jr. portrait taken during the reception.

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Various Signs: When the United States declared its independence in 1776, different peoples had lived on its lands for centuries. Christopher Columbus's arrival in America in 1492 began a new era of exploration, settlement, and exchange in what Europeans saw as a new world.
The country's origins, therefore, do not begin at a specific date, nor do they involve one particular group of people. At first, most immigrants came from Western Europe in search of new riches, new freedoms, and new beginnings. As early as 1619, the importation of slaves from Africa began. In subsequent centuries, as individuals from around the globe have settled here, the country's diversity has grown further.
In many respects, the United States is always beginning anew. Here in this exhibition, you will meet those who shaped their times, from the colonial era through the Revolution and the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century. Each contributed in extraordinary ways to the country's continuing reinvention.

By 1763, when the long struggle for the North American continent had ended with English victory over France, the thirteen American colonies had arrived at maturity, its citizens proud of their rights as Englishmen and accustomed to making their own way in the world.
To recoup the cost of the French and Indian War, in 1765 the British Parliament imposed a direct tax on the Americans (undermining the prerogative of colonial legislatures) in the form of stamps to be used on all printed matter. Out rang the cry of "No taxation without representation!" During the decade ahead, opposition to high-handed British rule grew, leading to the convening of the First Continental Congress in September 1774. The "shot heard round the world," fired on Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, overtook events, and the Second Continental Congress, gathering in May, had a war on its hands and a decision to make about America's tie to the mother country.

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Generally-Related Subject Description: The country's original patent office building burned down in 1836. From 1839 to 1866, another was built. Designed by Robert Mills who also designed the Capitol and Treasury buildings, it was based in part on the design of the Parthenon with marble hallways and Doric columns. During the Civil War, it was used as both a troop barracks and a hospital; both Clara Barton and Walt Whitman nursed wounded soldiers here. Abraham Lincoln held his second inaugural ball in the main gallery in March 1865, one month before his assassination. When the building's construction was finished, it was the largest building in the country. The Patent Office moved to the Dept of Commerce building in 1932. The Civil Service Commission took over until they moved to their new headquarters in 1960. Saved from destruction by the Commission of Fine Arts, the building was turned over to the Smithsonian which established two galleries -- the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art -- in the building.

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The building closed well before I purchased my first digital camera and once it reopened, I found myself taking lots and lots of pictures. For example, during the reopening day on July 1, 2006, I took over 3,500 pictures. To keep the numbers on each page smaller, I separated them out by theme, sometimes somewhat arbitrarily, so you'll see separate listings for:
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