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Entertaining Women: American Women on Stage and Screen

A celebration of American women entertainers, including musicians, dancers, comedians, actors, and other performers, represented in the Smithsonian's collections.

Museum / Unit

National Portrait Gallery 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum 5 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture 2 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 2 Filter by term Exclude term

Resource Type

Photographs 18 Filter by term Exclude term
Portraits 2 Filter by term Exclude term
gelatin silver print 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Exterior views 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Folk art 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Mirrors 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Paintings 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Postcards 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Prints 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Culture

African Americans 5 Filter by term Exclude term

Date

1930s 1 Filter by term Exclude term
1940s 2 Filter by term Exclude term
1950s 1 Filter by term Exclude term
1990s 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Place

Kings 1 Filter by term Exclude term
New York 1 Filter by term Exclude term
North America 1 Filter by term Exclude term
United States 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Set Name

Currently not on view 13 Filter by term Exclude term
National Portrait Gallery Collection 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Graphic Arts 5 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 5 Filter by term Exclude term
Ken Regan Collection 2 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Photographs and Still Images 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Photography 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Popular Entertainment 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Work and Industry: Photographic History 2 Filter by term Exclude term

Topic

Entertainers 19 Filter by term Exclude term
Portraits 18 Filter by term Exclude term
Women 18 Filter by term Exclude term
Arts and Culture 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Music 12 Filter by term Exclude term
Motion pictures 10 Filter by term Exclude term
Costume 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Design 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Interior decoration 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Movie actor 9 Filter by term Exclude term

Rights & Restrictions

Usage conditions apply 20 Filter by term Exclude term
Not determined 7 Filter by term Exclude term

Filter Settings

Included:

Remove Date: 1980s

Carrie Fisher

Tina Turner

Chita Rivera

Shirley MacLaine

Rita Moreno

Madonna

Meryl Streep

Bessie Smith, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

Ella Fitzgerald, from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes

Leontyne Price, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

Deborah Harry

Sarah Chang

Martha Graham--Letter to the World--(Swirl)

Madonna

Carrie Fisher

Lena Horne

Sigourney Weaver

Brooke Shields

Molly Ringwald

Signed photographic postcard of Vanity with envelope

Judy Garland

Portrait of Whitney Houston

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