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1948: A Year in the Colletions

Babe Ruth made a final visit to Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948, in observance of the ballpark’s twenty-fifth anniversary. To the astonishment of pollsters and pundits alike, Harry Truman defeated Republican challenger John E. Dewey to win the presidency.

Museum / Unit

National Portrait Gallery 25 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum 9 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 6 Filter by term Exclude term
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 4 Filter by term Exclude term
Archives of American Art 2 Filter by term Exclude term
National Air and Space Museum 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 1 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Resource Type

Photographs 21 Filter by term Exclude term
Paintings 14 Filter by term Exclude term
Exterior views 3 Filter by term Exclude term
Archival materials 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Graphic arts 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Prints 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Sculpture 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Automobile 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Badges 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Cameras (photographic equipment) 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Culture

African Americans 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Date

1940s 48 Filter by term Exclude term
1950s 4 Filter by term Exclude term

Place

Connecticut 2 Filter by term Exclude term
New York 2 Filter by term Exclude term
United States of America 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Europe 1 Filter by term Exclude term
France 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Hartford 1 Filter by term Exclude term
USA 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Ville de Paris, Départment de 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Île-de-France 1 Filter by term Exclude term

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Currently not on view 25 Filter by term Exclude term
National Portrait Gallery Collection 25 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 9 Filter by term Exclude term
Graphic Arts 6 Filter by term Exclude term
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection 4 Filter by term Exclude term
Painting and Sculpture 3 Filter by term Exclude term
National Air and Space Museum Collection 2 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Photography 2 Filter by term Exclude term
Road Transportation 2 Filter by term Exclude term

Topic

Portraits 25 Filter by term Exclude term
Arts and Culture 22 Filter by term Exclude term
Men 19 Filter by term Exclude term
Costume 15 Filter by term Exclude term
Entertainers 12 Filter by term Exclude term
Art 11 Filter by term Exclude term
Literature 11 Filter by term Exclude term
Writers 11 Filter by term Exclude term
Design 10 Filter by term Exclude term
Interior decoration 10 Filter by term Exclude term

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Howard Hughes

Elizabeth Taylor

Babe Ruth

Reinhold Niebuhr

Olivia de Havilland

Tucker Luggage, 1948

Badge, Thomas Dewey, 1948

Tennessee Williams

Pete Seeger

Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors and Ann Rutherford

Woody Guthrie

Albert Einstein

Family

Untitled (Family on Street)

Untitled (scarf design "B")

Field Workers

Untitled (scarf design "F")

New York (Boy with Flag)

(Seven Convolutions, portfolio)

Untitled

Toy, Gun, Air Ray, Flash Gordon

ANSCO Shur Shot Camera

1948 Tucker Sedan

Joe Palooka Lunch Box

Pitney Bowes Desk Model (DM) postage meter

Ariston Club, Mar-Del-Plata, Argentina. Marcel Breuer, Eduardo Catalano, and Francisco Coire, architects

Andy Warhol eating a popsicle

Helmet, Protective, Type H-1, United States Navy

Untitled (Aviary with Yellow Birds)

1948-C

Dining Room

Delusions of Grandeur II

Jeanne d 'Arc

Mel Patton

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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