Audio Tour
While at the National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition featured a cell phone tour. You can still listen to each stop below. And feel free to download the tour, and then listen on an mp3 player. You can download each stop by right clicking on "download mp3" and selecting "Save Target As" or "Save Link As." Or download the entire tour (17 mb zip file).
Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice and Arizona native, talks about General Winfield Scott. |
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Winfield Scott 1786–1866 |
Paul Chaat Smith, curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, talks about Frederick Jackson Turner. |
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Frederick Jackson Turner 1861–1932 |
Eleanor Harvey, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, talks about Thomas Moran. |
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Thomas Moran 1837–1926 |
Toby Jurovics, curator of photographs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, talks about Timothy O’Sullivan. |
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Timothy O’Sullivan 1840–1882 |
Candace Greene, ethnologist at the National Museum of Natural History, talks about Franz Boas. |
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Franz Boas 1858–1942 |
Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, talks about Henry Dawes.
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Henry L. Dawes 1816–1903 |
Emil Her Many Horses, curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, talks about Red Cloud. |
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Red Cloud 1821–1909 |
Alan Simpson, former U.S. Senator from Wyoming, talks about William “Buffalo Bill” Cody. |
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William F. Cody 1846–1917 |
Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, talks about Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919 |
Joanna Scherer, emeritus anthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History, talks about Alice Fletcher. |
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Alice Fletcher 1838–1923 |
Franklin Odo, director of the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Program, talks about the Chinese experience in the nineteenth-century West. |
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Seated Man with Chinese Servant |
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