Audio Tour

While at the National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition featured a cell phone tour. You can still listen to each stop below. And feel free to download the tour, and then listen on an mp3 player. You can download each stop by right clicking on "download mp3" and selecting "Save Target As" or "Save Link As." Or download the entire tour (17 mb zip file).

 

 

Photo of General Winfield Scott

Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice and Arizona native, talks about General Winfield Scott.

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Winfield Scott 1786–1866
Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844–94)
Salted-paper print, c. 1861

 

Photo of Frederick Jackson Turner

Paul Chaat Smith, curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, talks about Frederick Jackson Turner.

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Frederick Jackson Turner 1861–1932
Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853–1913)
Gelatin silver print, c. 1892

 

Eleanor Harvey, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, talks about Thomas Moran.

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Thomas Moran 1837–1926
William Edwin Gledhill (1888–1976)
Gelatin silver print, 1921

 

Photo of Timothy O Sullivan

Toby Jurovics, curator of photographs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, talks about Timothy O’Sullivan.

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Timothy O’Sullivan 1840–1882
Philp & Solomons (active 1870s)
Albumen silver print, c. 1870

 

Photo of Franz Boaz

Candace Greene, ethnologist at the National Museum of Natural History, talks about Franz Boas.

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Franz Boas 1858–1942
Wilhelm Fechner (lifedates unknown)
Collodion print, 1901
American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

Photo of Henry Dawes

Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, talks about Henry Dawes.

 

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Henry L. Dawes 1816–1903
\Attributed to Samuel M. Fassett (1825–1910)
Albumen silver print, c. 1876

 

Photo of Red Cloud

Emil Her Many Horses, curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, talks about Red Cloud.

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Red Cloud 1821–1909
Charles M. Bell (1848–1893)
Albumen silver print, 1880

 

Photo of Buffalo Bill Cody

Alan Simpson, former U.S. Senator from Wyoming, talks about William “Buffalo Bill” Cody.

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William F. Cody 1846–1917
Unidentified photographer
Woodburytype, 1887

 

Photo of Theodore Roosevelt

Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, talks about Theodore Roosevelt.

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Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952)
Platinum print, 1904

 

Photo of Alice Fletcher

Joanna Scherer, emeritus anthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History, talks about Alice Fletcher.

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Alice Fletcher 1838–1923
Marcus Ormsbee (active 1863–1868)
Tintype, 1868

 

Photo of Seated Man with Chinese Servant

Franklin Odo, director of the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Program, talks about the Chinese experience in the nineteenth-century West.

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Seated Man with Chinese Servant
Unidentified photographer
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, c. 1855

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