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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Disco Lunch Box

Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Simon Electronic Game, 1978

Warren Beatty

Newport Jazz Festival

Honeycomb pool skateboard designed by George Powell and used by Stacy Peralta

Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat

Skateboarders Lunch Box

John Travolta

Harvey Fierstein

Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

The Bionic Woman Thermos Bottle

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith

Texas Instruments Little Professor Teaching Calculator

Cheryl Tiegs

Pin back button from Commodores 1978 Platinum Tour

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Computer Society

Record album

Casablanca gold record for the Village People's "Y.M.C.A."

Sanyo Microcomputer Monitor used with AppIe I

Bee Gees Lunch Box

Broncomania vs. Cowboy Cool

Poster

Bustin' Loose Part 1

Men’s Rolling Stones T-Shirt

Brooklyn and Soto, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio

Madama Butterfly, from the portfolio Metropolitan Opera Fine Art Series

John Paul II

Reader's Digest Brochure, Living With Metrics

The Shah of Iran

Prince Charles

National Football League Lunch Box

Bedroom Painting #38

Barbells for Arnold

Sonny Terry, 1978


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