November 16-17 



Reception: Contributing Members residing in the Fort Worth, Texas, area were invited 

 to a special reception following the National Associates Lecture and Seminar Program 

 presentation, "The Golden Age of Song: American Jazz Favorites," by John Eaton. This 

 and other similar receptions were initiated to more closely involve Contributing 

 Members around the country with the Smithsonian. 



November 17 



Exhibition: "Recent Acquisitions, 1983-1986," at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden, displayed major works by Jean Dubuffet, Anselm Kiefer, Claes Oldenburg, Frank 

 Stella, and others. 



November 17-20 



Course: E. Benner Larsen, director of the Research Center at Legre, Denmark taught 

 "Making High Quality Electroform Replicas of Museum Objects," a conservation training 

 course organized by the Conservation Analytical Laboratory. 



November 19 



Acquisition: The National Portrait Gallery acquired a daguerreotype of Jefferson 

 Davis by an unidentified photographer. It is the earliest photographic likeness of 

 Davis, taken on his arrival in Washington as a congressman. 



November 20 



Premiere: "State of the Universe" opened in the National Air and Space Museum's 

 Einstein Planetarium. The show takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of space, exploring 

 current ideas about the past, present, and possible future of the universe. An 

 exhibition of the same name went on display in the planetarium lobby. 



November 21 



Exhibition: "Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860" 

 opened at the National Museum of American History. This permanent exhibition 

 introduces some of the people, machines, new sources of power, and new ways of 

 organizing work that were part of the nation's transformation from an agricultural 

 economy into an industrial power. 



November 21 



Exhibition: "Near Eastern Art" opened at the Freer Gallery of Art. Paintings and a 

 wide variety of objects dating from the fifth century B.C. through the eighteenth 

 century reflected the quality and diversity of the Freer's collection of Near Eastern 

 art. 



November 21 



New Chancellor: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was elected as the Smith-sonian's 

 sixteenth chancellor, succeeding retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. 



