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American Origins 1600-1900
Saturday October 17, 2009 from 11:30am - 7:00pm
National Portrait Gallery
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001 Get Directions
A "conversation about America" is on view in a series of 17 galleries and alcoves chronologically arranged to take the visitor from the days of contact between Native Americans and European explorers through the struggles of independence to the Gilded Age. Major figures from Pocahontas to Chief Joseph, Alexander Hamilton to Henry Clay, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harriet Beecher Stowe are be among those included. Three of the galleries are devoted exclusively to the Civil War, examining this conflict in depth. A group of modern photographic prints produced from Mathew Brady's original negatives complement the exhibition. Highlights from the Gallery's remarkable collection of daguerreotypes, the earliest practical form of photography, are on view in 'American Origins', making the National Portrait Gallery the first major museum to create a permanent exhibition space for daguerreotype portraits of historically significant Americans.

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