Portrait in a Minute: Samuel Morse
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- Portrait in a Minute: Samuel Morse
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- Amy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses Samuel F. B. Morse and the painting "Men of Progress" by artist Christian Schussele. Recorded at NPG, November 15, 2012. Men of Progress / Christian Schussele / Oil on canvas, 1862 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 Samuel Morse's Telegraph Patent Model, Patent #28159 / Inventor: Samuel Finley Breese Morse / Artist: Unidentified Maker / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center; Division of the History of Technology (Electricity)
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- 2 min 59 sec
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- 2012-11-21T16:23:25.000Z
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