BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Giving in America

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Giving in America:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIAHGI_180609_04.JPG: Costume worn by Lin-Manuel Miranda playing Alexander Hamilton, Around 2015 Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: An American Musical highlights the orphan asylum founded by Eliza Hamilton and others in 1806. Their endeavor became the child welfare agency known as Graham Windham, which the cast now supports.
2. SIAHGI_180609_08.JPG: Sting's Fender Stratocaster, 1978 Rock star Sting organizes and performs at benefit concerts for such causes as human rights and rainforest conservation. He joins many American celebrities in contributing their talent and star power for causes.
3. SIAHGI_180609_12.JPG: Kermit the Frog Around 1970 Sesame Street has used puppetry and other arts to educate young children. Individual Americans, foundations, corporations, and federal, state, and local governments have supported the creation of public television, where Sesame Street began in 1969.
4. SIAHGI_180609_15.JPG: Ballet shoes worn by Misty Copeland, around 2015 Misty Copeland, prima ballerina from the American Ballet Theatre, mentors aspiring ballerinas from underrepresented communities. With support from foundations and businesses, the American Ballet Theatre created Project Plié in an effort to diversify ballet companies.
5. SIAHGI_180609_22.JPG: Farm Aid Program, 1985
6. SIAHGI_180609_26.JPG: Sweet Honey in the Rock Program, 1995
7. SIAHGI_181024_001.JPG: Tour Jacket and Headband Worn by Willie Nelson 1980 Inspired by Live Aid, the international benefit concert for Ethiopian famine victims, Willie Nelson and other singers established Farm Aid in 1985 to support family farmers in the United States.
8. SIAHGI_181024_014.JPG: Ballet shoes worn by Misty Copeland, around 2015 Misty Copeland, prima ballerina from the American Ballet Theatre, mentors aspiring ballerinas from underrepresented communities. With support from foundations and businesses, the American Ballet Theatre created Project Plié in an effort to diversify ballet companies.
9. SIAHGI_181024_018.JPG: Sting's Fender Stratocaster, 1978 Gift of Gordon Sumner (a.k.a. Sting) Rock star Sting organizes and performs at benefit concerts for such causes as human rights and rainforest conservation. He joins many American celebrities in contributing their talent and star power for causes.
10. SIAHGI_181024_027.JPG: Elmo Puppet 1984 Sesame Street has used puppetry and other arts to educate young children. Individual Americans, foundations, corporations, and federal, state, and local governments have supported the creation of public television, where Sesame Street began in 1969.
11. SIAHGI_181024_037.JPG: Farm Aid Program, 1985
12. SIAHGI_181024_041.JPG: Sweet Honey in the Rock Program, 1995
13. SIAHGI_181024_045.JPG: Reproduction of pages from James Smithson's will, dated October 23, 1826 Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives The Smithsonian is the largest cultural organization in the United States and includes this museum. James Smithson, a British scientist, bequeathed his fortune to "found at Washington . . . an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Along with funding from taxpayers, Americans sustain the Smithsonian with gifts of time, money, objects, and professional expertise.
14. SIAHGI_181024_050.JPG: Joseph Hirshhorn's adding machine, 1927 Transfer from Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Library, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Starting in the late 19th century, wealthy Americans amassed fortunes large enough to play leading roles in creating and sustaining cultural institutions. Joseph Hirshhorn, a Latvian Jewish immigrant and successful businessman, gave the Smithsonian his art collection and funded construction of the museum that houses it today.
15. SIAHGI_181024_056.JPG: Fire Engine Panel Painting, "Benjamin Franklin with a Loaf of Bread" 1830 Benjamin Franklin came to believe that society's needs could be addressed through the mutual action and generosity of like-minded individuals. He pioneered models of community fundraising and public-private partnerships in Philadelphia, leading to the establishment of libraries, hospitals, and fire companies.
16. SIAHGI_181024_059.JPG: Portrait of Eliza Hamilton by Daniel Huntington mid-1800s In 1806, Eliza Hamilton and other women founded an orphanage in New York City. Women were new to organized benevolence in that era, and initially, some criticized them for taking on public roles. By focusing on the care of other women and children, they gained acceptance for their philanthropic activities.
17. SIAHGI_181024_064.JPG: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Halloween Collection Box Late 1900s
18. SIAHGI_181024_068.JPG: Embroidered Flour Sack 1919 World War I marked the first time Americans gave on a mass scale for foreign humanitarian relief. The newly established Rockefeller Foundation provided assistance, including shipments of flour, to European civilians and helped lead other American aid organizations' response.
19. SIAHGI_181024_074.JPG: LG ENV mobile phone used in "Text to Haiti" campaign 2010 Television, mobile phones, and the Internet are just a few of the technologies that have fostered creative ideas for raising funds and simplified giving. It is now easier than ever to give to a cause, and the increased use and impact of technology presents Americans with more causes from which to choose.
20. SIAHGI_181024_079.JPG: Organ Donor Card and Pin Around 2017, US Department of Health and Human Services Civilian blood drives, first organized during World War II, have become a staple of civic culture. Registration for organ donation became an option in the 1960s. Living organ donations, first successful in the 1980s, are one of the utmost forms of giving of oneself.
21. SIAHGI_181024_083.JPG: Habitat for Humanity Hard Hat 2008-2009
22. SIAHGI_181024_093.JPG: Massasoit As the leader of the Wampanoag in the 1620s, Massasoit made a strategic, alliance-building gift of freshly hunted deer to European settlers. This gift and the meal that followed later underpinned the mythology of the First Thanksgiving.
23. SIAHGI_181024_095.JPG: Paul Cuffee Paul Cuffee, the son of a freed slave and an American Indian, became a successful ship owner, captain, and merchant. In the early 1800s, he built a school in Westport, Massachusetts, open to students of any race -- likely the first integrated school in America.
24. SIAHGI_181024_098.JPG: Isabella Graham Isabella Graham helped found the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children in 1797. It is one of the earliest examples of an American charity organization created by women.
25. SIAHGI_181024_102.JPG: James Smithson British scientist James Smithson never traveled to America. But his 1829 bequest to the United States "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" allowed Congress to establish the Smithsonian Institution.
26. SIAHGI_181024_104.JPG: Judah Touro A prominent Jewish American in the early 1800s, Judah Touro's philanthropic focus was on his adopted home of New Orleans. His work yielded a cemetery, a synagogue, an almshouse, and an infirmary for sailors.
27. SIAHGI_181024_107.JPG: Harriet Tubman Though better known for her work as an abolitionist, Harriet Tubman was also a committed philanthropist, particularly after the Civil War. Despite her own financial difficulties, in 1908 she founded a home for the elderly and poor African Americans in Auburn, New York.
28. SIAHGI_181024_109.JPG: Philip Armour Like many Gilded Age elites, Philip Armour balanced his reputation as an iron-fisted industrialist with generous philanthropy to his home city. He made his fortune in Chicago's meatpacking industry, at the expense of his workers.
29. SIAHGI_181024_112.JPG: Madam C.J. Walker A famed African American entrepreneur and inventor, she created the Madame C.J. Walker Benevolent Association in 1916 and led the effort to preserve the home of Frederick Douglass in Anacostia.
30. SIAHGI_181024_114.JPG: Giving and the Arts Americans support the arts and use them for the common good in many ways. Artists have given their time, talent, and resources to causes for the benefit of others. Their contributions have complemented philanthropy for culture and the arts, and givers have long appreciated the power of the arts to advance their causes.
31. SIAHGI_181024_117.JPG: Giving in America Giving has taken many forms throughout American history and has become firmly woven into the American experience. Every year millions of Americans contribute money, time, talent, and resources to causes across the country and throughout the world. Philanthropy is not unique to the United States, but Americans' ideals of participation, equality, resourcefulness, and shared responsibility have shaped a distinctive form of giving in America.
32. SIAHGI_181024_120.JPG: Who Gives? Americans have always participated in giving, although the notion of who is responsible for philanthropy has changed over time. Colonial Americans believed charity was an obligation owed by the wealthy to those in need. But by the Revolutionary War, all kinds of Americans began to participate in giving and volunteerism. Today most Americans practice some form of giving.
33. SIAHGI_181024_122.JPG: Why Do We Give? Americans have given for a wide variety of reasons that have changed over time. Their motivations have ranged from feeling religious or moral obligation to concerns about societal change, from giving back to achieving social status and influence. Americans' support of philanthropy abroad grew as the U.S. role in the world expanded in the 1900s.
34. SIAHGI_181024_125.JPG: What Do We Give? From helping a neighbor to donating entire fortunes for a cause, what Americans give is as diverse as America itself. While gifts of money often receive the most attention, donations of talent, labor, and creativity are equally significant.
35. SIAHGI_181024_127.JPG: How Do We Give? Americans have adapted or created new ways to give over time. The growth of large foundations and mass giving can put more distance between donors and recipients. But givers can also experience the immediate impact of dropping coins in a boot or texting to contribute to disaster relief.
36. SIAHGI_181024_130.JPG: Drawing by Rip Rapson for the Kresge Foundation Board 2010 Starting in the 1900s, wealthy philanthropists established foundations to address issues over the long term. In recent years, some foundations have adapted their missions to meet today's concerns. Kresge Foundation president Rip Rapson drew this picture to help board members conceptualize a new approach to the nearly 100-year-old organization's work in Detroit.
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Description of Subject Matter: Giving in America
November 29, 2016 – Permanent
Giving in America, a permanent exhibit that looks at the history of philanthropy’s role in shaping the United States, opened November 29 which is also #Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving. The exhibit showcases four major themes of American philanthropy centered on the questions of “Who Gives?” “Why Do We Give?” “What Do We Give?” and “How Do We Give?” and uses artifacts ranging from an alms box of the 1800s to a bucket used during the 2014-15 “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” which went viral on social media. The exhibit features a section devoted to an annual topic and will open with a look at “Sustainability and the Environment."
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