National Portrait Gallery
Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914
April 9, 1976 – January 30, 1977
Visit the third and final installation of a 3-part Bicentennial exhibition, featuring visitors who were important in taking their views of America to a wide foreign audience. Included are Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, Sholom Aleichem, Fanny Kemble, Domingo Sarminto, Frederika Bremer, the first Japanese Mission to the United States, Swami Vivekananda, Giacomo Puccini, and H.G. Wells.
The exhibition is documented by diaries, photographs, posters, books, paintings (both portrait and landscape) as well as original manuscripts (Dvorik's "From the New World Symphony" and Frances Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans".
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