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Black-and-white Mathew Brady studio portrait of a woman in a dress holding flowers

National Portrait Gallery · Penn Quarter / Chinatown

Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady's Portrait Negatives

Now showing23 May 2025 – 14 May 2028·Free

Nine modern prints struck from Mathew Brady's original Civil War-era negatives — Lincoln, Hawthorne, Grant and Emma, Queen of Hawai'i — shown with a glass plate and Brady's wooden storage box.

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Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Nick Cave: Mammoth

Smithsonian American Art Museum

US Coast Guard photograph of a worker at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks

Remembering 9/11

National Archives Museum

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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Courtesy of the museum)