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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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Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Warren Beatty

John Travolta

Harvey Fierstein

Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith

Cheryl Tiegs

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

John Paul II

Prince Charles

Sonny Terry, 1978

Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, and Ford Morrison

Art Circus Participants, Patterson Park

Grace Murray Hopper

Churchill High School Pep Rally

Janet Maxey and Carolyn Smith, from the series Siblings

The Brown Sisters, Harwichport, Massachusetts

Terrence Johnson’s younger brother demonstrating outside P. G. County Md. Court House for his brother Terrence Johnson’s release from jail

Ralph Ellison

A Tourist's China

Gelsey Kirkland

Louise Bourgeois

Merce Cunningham

Richard Nixon

Cynthia Gregory in "The Firebird"

Chien-Shiung Wu

Mary Grace Potter, VIARC Director

Donation by "All in the Family" Cast

Grayson Harding prepares meal, NZP

Coleman's Cafe, Greensboro, Alabama

Toni Morrison

Steve Cauthen

Kiss and Sell

Hispanic Americans


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