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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

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Corporate name headingNational Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
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Variant(s)Smithsonian Institution. National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Beginning date1962
LocatedWashington (D.C.)
Found inIts Nucleus for a national collection, 1966.
Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1987: title page (National Portrait Gallery)
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, via WWW, July 21, 2017 (The National Portrait Gallery was authorized and founded by Congress in 1962 with the mission to acquire and display portraits of "men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States")