BGuthrie Photos: Newseum -- Closing Day

Newseum -- Closing Day:

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Description of Pictures: The Newseum opened in its Pennsylvania Avenue location on April 11, 2008. Eleven+ years later, it closed, the building having been bought by Johns Hopkins University. The closing wasn't marked by any major public commemoration but staff met after the public were kicked out for a private farewell event.

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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. CLOSE_191231_008.JPG: Long but fairly fast-moving lines waited to get into the Newseum on December 31, 2019, its last day at the 555 Pennsylvania Avenue location.
2. CLOSE_191231_032.JPG: Catherine McCulloch
3. CLOSE_191231_089.JPG: Phyllis S. (left)
4. CLOSE_191231_130.JPG: Phil Baduini who I have never seen without a coat and tie!
5. CLOSE_191231_143.JPG: Jan Neuharth
6. CLOSE_191231_148.JPG: Carrie Christopherson (right)
7. CLOSE_191231_154.JPG: Carrie Christopherson, Jan Neuharth
8. CLOSE_191231_156.JPG: Mary Kay Blake (right)
9. CLOSE_191231_157.JPG: Andrea and Charles Overby
10. CLOSE_191231_165.JPG: Phil and Joan Currie
11. CLOSE_191231_197.JPG: Gregory Clay, Berkley V.
12. CLOSE_191231_203.JPG: Ron Hall
13. CLOSE_191231_211.JPG: Souvenir items were disappearing from the store.
14. CLOSE_191231_232.JPG: Robert Herzog
15. CLOSE_191231_253.JPG: Lynda E.
16. CLOSE_191231_257.JPG: Robert Herzog
17. CLOSE_191231_287.JPG: Sonya Gavankar
18. CLOSE_191231_290.JPG: Mary Beth Moore, Doug Ruby, ???
19. CLOSE_191231_293.JPG: PCV, Sonya Gavankar
20. CLOSE_191231_299.JPG: ???
21. CLOSE_191231_327.JPG: Sonya Gavankar, Dylan ???
22. CLOSE_191231_331.JPG: Ryan Merkel
23. CLOSE_191231_333.JPG: Emily Nicholson, Ryan Merkel
24. CLOSE_191231_342.JPG: Pam Galloway-Tabb
25. CLOSE_191231_357.JPG: Patty Rhule
26. CLOSE_191231_395.JPG: I thought there was going to be some big cheer event that I could photograph but that wasn't the case.
27. CLOSE_191231_442.JPG: Pam Galloway-Tabb (right)
28. CLOSE_191231_443.JPG: Andrea Overby, Pam Galloway-Tabb
29. CLOSE_191231_445.JPG: Gene Policinski (left)
30. CLOSE_191231_450.JPG: Mark Lekowski
31. CLOSE_191231_451.JPG: Pam Galloway-Tabb, Ron Hall
32. CLOSE_191231_466.JPG: Karen Stuck, Ron Hall
33. CLOSE_191231_473.JPG: Maeve Scott (right)
34. CLOSE_191231_479.JPG: Sheri Pegram
35. CLOSE_191231_482.JPG: Sheri Pegram, ???, ???
36. CLOSE_191231_545.JPG: The staff had a goodbye event after the rest of us were kicked out.
37. CLOSE_191231_591.JPG: Charles Overby addressing the staff after the final closing.
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