National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Visit the third and final installation of a 3-part Bicentennial exhibition, featuring visitors who were important in taking their views of America to a wide foreign audience. Included are Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, Sholom Aleichem, Fanny Kemble, Domingo Sarminto, Frederika Bremer, the first Japanese Mission to the United States, Swami Vivekananda, Giacomo Puccini, and H.G. Wells.
The exhibition is documented by diaries, photographs, posters, books, paintings (both portrait and landscape) as well as original manuscripts (Dvorik's "From the New World Symphony" and Frances Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans".
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