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{"value"=>"1708214", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1974-1994", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/1994"}
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{"value"=>"Exhibitions"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Exhibitions organized by Johnson:</p> <p>April 1975: The Hecht Company exhibition for the Reopening of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C. (Group Show)</p> <p>January 1976: \"America on Stage: 200 Years of the Performing Arts\", John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.</p> <p>October 1976: \"Dixie to Broadway: An Exhibition of Black Americans on Stage, 1800 to 1939\", Jamaica Arts Center (N.Y.)</p> <p>February 1977: \"Dixie to Broadway\", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Community Gallery</p> <p>February 1977: \"Traveling through History with Black Performers\", Port Authority, World Trade Center II (theater segment of Black History Month exhibition)</p> <p>April 1977: \"Circa 1910\", The Whitney Museum Downtown (Group Show)</p> <p>October 1978: \"Black America on Stage\", The Graduate Center Mall of the City University of New York</p> <p>May 1979: \"Black America on Stage\", redesigned and greatly enlarged, New York State Museum, Cultural Education Center, Albany, N.Y.</p> <p>June 1982: \"Black America on Stage\", The Austrian Theater Museum, Vienna</p> <p>January 1993: \"Black America on Stage\", Newark Public Library (N.J.)</p> <p>November 1993: \"Black America on Stage\", Queens Borough Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series documents the numerous exhibitions which the Foundation sponsored along the eastern seaboard and in Vienna beginning with a 1975 group show in Washington, D. C. and continuing to November 1993, with an exhibition held at the Queens Borough Public Library. Among the types of documents to be found in this series are correspondence and memoranda planning the exhibitions, budgets, grant proposals and fund raising letters, letters requesting loans and agreements, layouts for exhibitions, design production information, lists of materials exhibited, and in isolated instances, insurance papers, research information, and notes. Other items include label text, invitations, press releases, press previews, guest books, news clippings, manuscripts for catalogs, and the published catalogs. Additionally, there is correspondence regarding requests and negotiations for the exhibition to travel to European cities other than Vienna as well as to American institutions, posters advertising the exhibitions, and lists of materials displayed in the Foundation museum at the Hotel Chelsea.</p>"}
- date_start
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1974
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1974
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1994
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1974
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1994