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Past Exhibits 2007

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The PNC-Riggs Collection

Chronicles the history of Riggs National Bank, its ties with the Washington, D.C. community, and its relationship with The George Washington University.

Gelman Library, room 207
March 15, 2007-July 30, 2007

  PNC Riggs
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From Strength to Strength: An exhibit in tribute
to Stephen Joel Trachtenberg


Gelman Library, First Floor Exhibit Gallery
April 15, 2007 - June 30, 2007

  From Strength To Strength



2005
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Artistic Expressions of the Jewish Renaissance

Kiev Judaica Room Exhibit Gallery, Gelman Library
November 17, 2005 - July 30, 2006

 

  Artistic Expression of the Jewish Renaissance


2003
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Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in
Germany, 1898-1938


Kiev Judaica Room Exhibit Gallery, Gelman Library
March 19 - August 28, 2003

 

  Ost und West Magazine cover
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The President's Physician: The life and legacy of
Dr. Janet G. Travell

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
January 21 - June 30, 2003

 

  Portrait of Dr. Janet Travell


2001
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Shall We Dance? Selections from the Dance Archives
of the Greater Washington Region


Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
April 26 - December 21, 2001

 

  Shall We Dance?
 

Culturally Speaking: an examination of the African American culture on the District of Columbia

This exhibit examines aspects of the growth and development of African American cultural life in Washington, D.C.

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
February 5 - March 30, 2001

  Culturally Speaking


2000
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Bright Stars through the Perilous Fight: Men and women
who would be President


Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
October 2, 2000 - January 26, 2001

 

  Bright Stars
 

Home Base: The neighbors and neighborhoods
of Washington, D.C.


Exhibited in cooperation with the 34th Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibition, Washington, D.C.: It's Our Home.
The exhibit focuses on the neighborhoods of Burleith, Chinatown, Foggy Bottom and Shaw.

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
June 23 - September 14, 2000

  Burleith
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Africana Women at the Dawn of the New Millennium

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
February 1 - May 1, 2000

 

  Africana Women


1999
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Goodbye, Comrade: An exhibition of images from the
Revolutions of '89 and the collapse of Communism


Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
March 10, - December 30, 1999

 

  Goodbye, Comrade


1998
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City of Magnificent Illusions: The Washington, D.C.
of fiction


Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
March 14 - July 10, 1998

 

  Magnificent Illusions
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The March on Washington

The Colonnade Gallery, George Washington University
August 28 - October 28, 1998

 

  March on Washington


1997
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Queerly Visible: The work of JEB (Joan E. Biren)

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
September 4 - November 21, 1997

 

  Queerly Visible

1996
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Inaugural Celebrations in the Nation's Capital

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
November 4, 1996 - February 28, 1997

 

  Inaugural Celebrations

1995
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City Invincible: Walt Whitman's Washington, 1863-1873

Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library
April 17 - May 12, 1995

 

  City Invincible