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8 January 1973

Summary of the Minutes of the
National Portrait Gallery Commission
[[underlined]]Meeting on May 10, 1972[[underlined]]

The Director reported on the following:

1. The Gallery has made an arrangement with Educational Ventures, Inc., of Middletown, Connecticut, to produce 60,000 copies of a 48-page student booklet on the "If Elected..." exhibition. EVI is also producing a 16-page teaching guide and a package of 42 color slides on the exhibition. This material will be distributed nationally with royalties to be paid to the NPG. The Gallery is acquiring 5,000 copies of the 48-page booklet plus 200 teaching guides and slide sets for free distribution to school children from the greater Washington area who come to see the exhibition in classes with their teachers.

2. The Director has recorded a 45-minute Acoustiguide tour of the "If Elected..." exhibition; and a similar tape on the permanent collection is being planned for the spring of 1973.

3. Negotiations with the New York Graphic Society have resulted in the signing of a contract for a book to accompany the first of the NPG's Bicentennial exhibitions entitled "In the Minds and Hearts of the People", dealing with the period 1760-1774. Materials for the book and exhibition are being researched and written by the Gallery's staff. The advantage of such a publication is that it will contain a large number of color plates of portraits and other related material and will be distributed nationally by a major publisher with royalties for the NPG.

4. The Gallery has employed Mr. Richard Kenin, a young American student who is a doctoral candidate in history at Oxford to search for portraits and other relics in the British Isles for possible use in connection with the NPG's Bicentennial undertakings. Ambassador Annenberg has provided space in the American Embassy in London for Mr. Kenin.

5. In response to a request from the Secretary, the NPG is planning a small exhibition on the Lazzaroni, a group of mid-19th century American scientists, to celebrate the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington in late December. [The exhibition is scheduled for December 26, 1972 - May 6, 1973.]