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Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence 1763-1848

During the eighty-five year period after the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Great Britain, Spain, France, Native Americans, and the young American republic engaged in a number of conflicts, alliances, and battles on the North American continent. Drawing on primary source materials from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and numerous other organizations, this delightful exhibit looks at the crucial...

https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/legacy-spain-and-united-states...
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

This website from the Metropolitan Museum accompanies their retrospective exhibition of the work of couturier Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide at age 40 in 2010. McQueen was known for his lavishly staged runway shows, for example his spring 2003 collection, "Irere", featured a recreation of a shipwreck complete with pirates and amazons, and models falling overboard. "It's only a game" in...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Alexander_McQu...
Ocean Planet

_Ocean Planet_ is a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition that now has a companion on-line exhibition. It covers varied topics associated with the ocean, such as the science of the ocean, the animals, people, and communities who use the ocean, and pollution problems currently endangering ocean resources. The exhibit features all of the text and a good portion of the images from the...

https://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
Introduction to the UCMP Virtual Exhibits

This site, maintained by the University of California Museum of Paleontology contains one of the very best collections of on-line paleontology exhibits and scientific resources on the web. A hypertext link to Information for First-time Visitors streamlines access to the site. Extensive navigation pages for the three main areas of interest: Phylogeny, Geology, and Evolution (under construction),...

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/exhibits.html
William P. Gottlieb Collection: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

The latest release from the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory Project (last reviewed in the April 30, 1999 Scout Report) showcases the work of writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb. Working for the Washington Post, Down Beat magazine, and Record Changer, Gottlieb photographed and interviewed numerous prominent jazz musicians in Washington, D.C. and New York City between 1938 and 1948,...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/jazz-photography-of-william-...
July 1942: United We Stand

Offered by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, this Web site is an attractive presentation of the early 1940's via magazine covers and commentary about them. In the wake of September 11, having seen the phrase "God Bless America" posted on signs ranging from church fronts and bumper stickers to restaurants windows and gas stations, readers should relate to the use of the 1942...

https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/july-1942-united-...
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

In the century after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, books and other printed materials began to flourish, and in doing so, many artisans began to decorate such items with marvelous woodcuts. Three centuries after their publication, Lessing J. Rosenwald (the retired chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company) acquired many of these masterworks at a sale sponsored by their then owner, C.W....

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/
The Mysterious Bogpeople

Despite the seemingly spooky title of this site, visitors should not be afraid of entering and exploring around the contents of this very interactive site. Created through a collaborative partnership between organizations such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Drents Museum, this site concerns itself with the artifacts and material world created by the so-called "bogpeople" of...

http://www.bogpeople.org/
The Becker Collection and First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

The Becker Collection contains hundreds of drawings created in the 1860s and '70s by Joseph Becker and other artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. Since 2007, a project team at Boston College - including Sheila Gallagher, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Becker's great-great granddaughter - has been working to archive and digitize collection materials. Currently, visitors...

https://cte.bc.edu/cteportal/public/auth/signin/home
Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

The Morgan Library and Museum was originally the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, the father of J.P. Morgan, who gifted the library to the public eleven years after Pierpont died. The elder Morgan concentrated on collecting "illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints." One of the most famous manuscripts held by the...

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Hours-of-Catherine-of-C...
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