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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

Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat

John Travolta

Harvey Fierstein

Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith

Cheryl Tiegs

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Computer Society

Record album

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

John Paul II

The Shah of Iran

Sonny Terry, 1978

Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, and Ford Morrison

Grace Murray Hopper

Chuck Berry

Faye Dunaway

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

Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks

Muhammad Ali - Fist

Ralph Ellison

Muhammad Ali - Hand on Chin

Gelsey Kirkland

Louise Bourgeois

Jimmy Carter

Merce Cunningham

Coal Miner

China's Great Leap Outward

Anatoli Borisovich Shcharansky

Richard Nixon

Test Tube Baby

Cynthia Gregory in "The Firebird"

Muhammad Ali - Left Profile

Chien-Shiung Wu


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