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Join the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian Transcription Center throughout the next year as we celebrate the Smithsonian's 175th birthday! Explore the lives and worlds of 175 different US art world figures on their birthdays, one for each year since the Smithsonian's founding in 1846. Who was born on this day? In 1865, Robert Henri.
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Join the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian Transcription Center throughout the next year as we celebrate the Smithsonian's 175th birthday! Explore the lives and worlds of 175 different US art world figures on their birthdays, one for each year since the Smithsonian's founding in 1846. Who was born on this day? In 1908, Helen Lundeberg.
Anonymous marked for review a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 18, 1–604, Jan.–July 1872, Part 2
Schmiste marked for review a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Unregistered Letters, 1865–1871, Part 3
sumafi transcribed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 18, 1–604, Jan.–July 1872, Part 1
sumafi marked for review a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 18, 1–604, Jan.–July 1872, Part 1
Schmiste transcribed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Unregistered Letters, 1865–1871, Part 3
Schmiste marked for review a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Unregistered Letters, 1865–1871, Part 3
sumafi transcribed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 18, 1–604, Jan.–July 1872, Part 1
