Exhibition Records, 1974-1976 Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 1 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 1 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 2 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Collection Overview Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected] Title: Exhibition Records Identifier: Accession 99-106 Date: 1974-1976 Extent: 3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box) Creator:: National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions Language: English Administrative Information Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 99-106, National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records Descriptive Entry This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) from April 19-November 16, 1975. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports. Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Art museums Museum exhibits Portraits, American Types of Materials: Black-and-white photographs Clippings Manuscripts Names: Dye Is Now Cast, 1774-1776 (Exhibition) (1974: Washington, D.C.) Page 1 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Container Listing Box 1 General Files Box 1 of 4 General Box 1 of 4 Registrar's Files Box 1 of 4 Loan Status Reports Box 1 of 4 Labels and Script Box 1 of 4 Picture Labels Box 1 of 4 Catalog Box 1 of 4 Education Department Package Box 1 of 4 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) Box 1 of 4 Photographs Box 1 of 4 Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission (Yorktown) Box 1 of 4 NPG - Continental Congress - New York Graphic Box 1 of 4 Press Individual Object Files in Script Number Order Box 1 of 4 1. Letter from George III to Lord North, September 11, 1774 Box 1 of 4 2. Letter from Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, February 3, 1775 - Massachusetts Historical Society Box 1 of 4 3. Boston Port Bill - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 1 of 4 4. Peter Oliver, William Williams, 1781 - Miss Susan L. Oliver Box 1 of 4 5. Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, J. S. Copley - Boston Atheneum Page 2 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Box 1 of 4 6. The Bostonians in Distress, attrib. To P. Dawe Box 1 of 4 7. The Able Doctor, or American Swallowing the Bitter Drought, 1774 Box 1 of 4 8. I Plan of the City and Environ of Philadelphia . 1777 - Map Division, Library of Congress Box 1 of 4 9 and 10. I North Elevation of Carpenters' Hall . ., 1786 - Carpenters' Company Library Box 1 of 4 11. I Instructions for the Deputies...General Congress on the Part of the Colony, 1774 - Library of Congress Box 1 of 4 12. Call for a meeting to nominate delegates to the convention...Chester, Pennsylvania 8/15/1774 - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 1 of 4 13. Peyton Randolph, John Wollaston - Collection of Virginia Historical Society Box 1 of 4 14. Charles Thomson by William Rush - American Philosophical Society Box 1 of 4 15. Jacob Duche, Sir Thomas Duche - Historical Society of Pennsylvania Box 1 of 4 16. Jacob Duche, The Duty of Standing Fast in our Spiritual and Temporal Liberties . 1775, Phil - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 1 of 4 17. Joseph Warren, Att. Samuel Okey, c. 1765 - Mrs. Henry Bosch Box 1 of 4 18. Joseph Warren, broadside . Suffolk, Tuesday the 6th of September . - Massachusetts Historical Society Box 1 of 4 19. Samuel Adams, Samuel Okey, 1775 - Massachusetts Historical Society Box 1 of 4 20. Joseph Galloway. A Candid Examination of Mutual Claims of . 1775 - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 1 of 4 21. James Duane, Robert E. Pine, 1785 - James D. Ireland Box 1 of 4 22. Edward Rutledge, Att. James Earl Box 1 of 4 23. Letter from CC to Gage, October 10, 1774 - Clements Box 1 of 4 24. Edmund Pendleton, William Mercer - Virginia Historical Society Page 3 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Box 1 of 4 25. Roger Sherman by Ralph Earl - Yale (not in exhibition) Box 2 Box 2 of 4 26. John Adams Box 2 of 4 27. Sullivan, John Box 2 of 4 28. Declaration of Rights and Grievances - National Archives Box 2 of 4 29. Broadside. The association entered into by the American Continental Congress Box 2 of 4 30. Thomas Johnson, C. W. Peale, 1772. - Massachusetts Historical Society, on deposit from the C. Burr Artz Library Box 2 of 4 31. Association of Freemen of Maryland, August 14, 1775 Box 2 of 4 32. Thomas Mifflin, Gilbert Stuart - Mr. Lammot du Pont Copeland Box 2 of 4 33. I Handbill, 9/22/1774, requesting merchants not to order from Great Britain - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 34. The Patriotic Barber of New York - New York Public Library (NYPL)/N- YHS Box 2 of 4 35. The alternative Williamsburg, February 1775 - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 36. A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton - Metropolitan Box 2 of 4 37. An Address to New England: by a Daughter of Liberty, 1774 - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 2 of 4 38. Richard Henry Lee, C. W. Peale, c. 1795-1805 - NPG, Smithsonian Box 2 of 4 39. Petition of the Congress to the people of England - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 40. John Jay, Gilbert Stuart, 1783/1784 Box 2 of 4 41. A letter to the inhabitants of . Quebec - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 42. Patrick Henry, Lawrence Sully - Carnegie Institute Museum of Art Box 2 of 4 43. Petition of the Congress to the King - Library of Congress Page 4 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Box 2 of 4 44. Samuel Seabury, Thomas S. Duche, Jr. - Trinity College, Hartford Box 2 of 4 45. The Congress Canvassed. New York, Rivington November 28, 1774 - American Antiquarian Society Box 2 of 4 46. Samuel Seabury. Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the C. C. - American Antiquarian Society Box 2 of 4 47. A View of the controversy between Gt. Britain and her colonies. December 24,1774 - American Antiquarian Society Box 2 of 4 48. An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province of New York . January 17, 1775 - American Antiquarian Society Box 2 of 4 49. The Origin of the American Contest with Great-Britain - Library Company of Phildelphia Box 2 of 4 50. Myles Cooper, J. S. Copley, 1776 - Columbia University Box 2 of 4 51. Myles Copper. The American Querist - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 52. A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 53. Alexander Hamilton, Giuseppe Cerracchi, c. 1794 marble - NPG, Smithsonian Box 2 of 4 54. A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress from the Calumnies of . 1774 Box 2 of 4 55. The Farmer Refuted...New York, 1775 Box 2 of 4 56. Journal of the Proceedings of the Continental Congress - Library Company of Philadelphia Box 2 of 4 57. Thomas Gage, J. S. Copley, 1768/1769 - Mr. And Mrs. Paul Mellon Box 2 of 4 58. (REPRO) Massachusetts Spy, 1774 - American Antiquarian Society Box 2 of 4 58. A Political Lesson by John Dixon, Mezzotint, September 7, 1774 - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 59. III Memo from Gage to his secretary 4/18/1775 advising Smith to march on Concord - Clements Lib. Page 5 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Box 2 of 4 60. Pitcairn to Sandwich, March 4, 1775 Box 2 of 4 61. George III to Sandwich, July 1, 1775 Box 2 of 4 62. Engraving, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Uniforms of Infantry, 1768 - Prince Consort's Lib. Aldershot Eng. Box 2 of 4 63. William Dawes, Jr., Att. John Johnston - Evanston Historical Museum Box 2 of 4 64. Jonas Clarke, silhouette, reproduced in C. Hudson History of the Town of Lexington, reproduction Box 2 of 4 65. Jonas Clark. The fate of blood-thirsty oppressors and God's tender care of his distressed people Box 2 of 4 66-69. Lexington and Concord by Amos Doolittle (4) - Chicago Historical Society Box 2 of 4 70. Hugh E. Percy, Duke of Northumberland, by Pompeo Battoni, b. 1776 - Duke of Northumberland Box 2 of 4 71. William Heath, John R. Smith, engraving - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 72. Timothy Pickering, Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. Margaret R. Lyman Box 2 of 4 73. Lexington Alarm Letter - William H. Guthman Box 2 of 4 74. Alexander McDougall manuscript describing arrival of news of the Battle of Lexington Box 2 of 4 75. Broadside, Baltimore, April 26, 1775 giving news of Lexington and Concord - Library of Congress Box 2 of 4 NO SCRIPT# A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Boston, engraving, 1775 Box 2 of 4 76. Bloody Butchery - The Scheide Library, Princeton Box 2 of 4 77. Coat, British 49th Regiment of Foot, circa 1775 - National Army Museum, England Box 2 of 4 78. An enlistment broadside dated May 4, 1775 - William H. Guthman Box 2 of 4 79. You are hereby empowered immediately to enlist a Company, to consist of . Broadside - Library of Congress Page 6 of 23 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Box 2 of 4 80. Broadside. Mass Prov Congress call for enlistment - Massachusetts Historical Society Box 2 of 4 81.