Donation by "All in the Family" Cast

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Author: Hofmeister, Richard K
Subject: Lear, Norman; Reiner, Rob; Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001; Stapleton, Jean 1923-; Struthers, Sally; National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH); National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.); Nation of Nations (Exhibition) (1976: Smithsonian Institution)

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: Featured in TORCH, October 1978
Summary: The cast of the television sitcom "All in the Family" came to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, to donate Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs to the "A Nation of Nations" exhibit in September of 1978. (L-R): Jean Stapleton, Secretary (1964-1984) S. Dillon Ripley, Norman Lear, Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner as they peer into the case where the chairs are displayed.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: October 1978
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

1978

Physical description: Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Secretaries; Artifacts; Celebrities and Dignitaries; Exhibitions; Gifts; Secretariats; Television