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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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Boogie Shoes; Boogie Shoes

Dream Sequence

Thinking about Self-Portraits

Aimara Io

Art Circus Participants, Patterson Park

Grace Murray Hopper

75 Years of Powered Flight

Maquette for Sky Ribbons: an Oklahoma Tribute

Presentation Panel for E Pluribus Unum

15c Viking 1 Lander Scooping up Soil on Mars single

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony's Dollar: Gasparo's Portfolio

Churchill High School Pep Rally

Janet Maxey and Carolyn Smith, from the series Siblings

Farrah Fawcett Shampoo with Vitamins and Minerals

The Brown Sisters, Harwichport, Massachusetts

Chuck Berry

Puzzle, Rubik's Cube

Faye Dunaway

Environmental Button

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

Horse Racing Silks, worn by Steve Cauthen

Tennis Racket used by Chris Evert

Diana Nyad

A Tourist's China

Gelsey Kirkland

National Skateboard Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, June 1978

Poster

Louise Bourgeois

Compact Fluorescent Lamp Mock-up

A New Era in the Air

Merce Cunningham


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