Research Catalog

  • Winold Reiss : an illustrated checklist of his portraits / Jeffrey C. Stewart.

    • Text
    • Washington City : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1990.
    • 1990-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MCX R363 90-13526SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Old Hickory : a life sketch of Andrew Jackson / James G. Barber ; with an introduction by Robert V. Remini.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Nashville [Tenn.] : Tennessee State Museum ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IBM 91-3495Schwarzman Building M2 - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Andrew Jackson : a portrait study / James G. Barber.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Nashville : Tennessee State Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 91-1311Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • The Lazzaroni: science and scientists in mid-nineteenth-century America. [Text by Lillian B. Miller, Frederick Voss and Jeannette M. Hussey. Exhibition staff: Monroe Fabian and others]

    • Text
    • Washington, Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, by the Smithsonian Institution Press; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 90-7176Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Benjamin West and his American students / by Dorinda Evans.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980.
    • 1980
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MCW 81-823Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MCW 91-6652Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Agrippa Hull portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1970?-1973?>
    • 1970-1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Hull, AgrippaSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Absalom Jones portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1973>
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Jones, AbsalomSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Facing the light : historic American portrait daguerreotypes : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, September 22, 1978-January 15, 1979 / by Harold Francis Pfister ; foreword by Marvin Sadik ; curatorial pref. by William F. Stapp.

    • Text
    • Washington : Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433051048506
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFW 92-3178Offsite
  • Peter Williams portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1941?-1986?>
    • 1941-1986
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/b234bb00-3b1b-0134-4aa8-00505686a51c
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Williams, Peter folder 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Williams, Peter folder 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Ralph Earl : the face of the young Republic / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser with Richard L. Bushman, Stephen H. Kornhauser, Aileen Ribeiro.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Yale University Press ; Hartford : Wadsworth Atheneum, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MCX+ E125 92-3382Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Arnold Newman's Americans / essays by Alan Fern and Arnold Newman.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFX (Newman) 92-10127SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • "The spirit of party" : Hamilton & Jefferson at odds / Margaret C.S. Christman.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Charlottesville : Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text II 92-18240Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • In pursuit of fame : Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 / Lillian B. Miller ; with an essay on the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, character and conventions, by Carol Eaton Hevner ; research assistant, Ellen Hickey Grayson.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQZ 12-4063Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Revisiting the white city : American art at the 1893 World's Fair / organized by Carolyn Kinder Carr and George Gurney ; essays by Robert W. Rydell and Carolyn Kinder Carr ; catalogue of works by Brandon Brame Fortune and Michelle Mead.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art : National Portrait Gallery ; Hanover : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MAMT 93-7550SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II : master drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London / Malcolm Rogers.

    • Text
    • Alexandria, Va. : Art Services International, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MCT+ 94-4512Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Reporting the war : the journalistic coverage of World War II / Frederick S. Voss.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, [c1994]
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 94-2732 ---Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Group portrait : the first American avant-garde.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, [1991]
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MAW (Washington, D.C.) 95-4764Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • In pursuit of the butterfly : portraits of James McNeill Whistler / Eric Denker.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MDG (Whistler) 95-8189Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • Isamu Noguchi, portrait sculpture / by Nancy Grove.

    • Text
    • Washington City : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Noguchi) 90-9636Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • To the President : folk portraits by the people / James G. Barber.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution & Madison Books, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MAMT 95-10819SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Cecilia Beaux and the art of portraiture / Tara Leigh Tappert.

    • Text
    • Washington : Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MCX B38 96-1712Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Contemporary self-portraits from the James Goode collection.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MAX (Goode) 96-3236Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Magical mixtures--Marisol portrait sculpture / Nancy Grove.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MGO (Marisol) 96-4680SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - SASB M1 to submit a request in person.

  • On the air : pioneers of American broadcasting / by Amy Henderson.

    • Text
    • Washington City : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 96-5847Offsite
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  • Red, hot & blue : a Smithsonian salute to the American musical / Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers ; [jointly organized by] the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History.

    • Text
    • Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWED 96-17455Offsite
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  • Mathew Brady and the image of history / Mary Panzer ; withh an essay by Jeana K. Foley.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQZ 12-747Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Celebrity caricature in America / Wendy Wick Reaves ; Pie Friendly, research assistant.

    • Text
    • New Haven : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with Yale University Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 98-5106Offsite
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  • Red, hot & blue : classic songs from great American musicals / National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

    • Notated music
    • New York, NY : Universe Pub. ; Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 99-49Offsite
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  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens: the portrait reliefs, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution.

    • Text
    • New York, Grossman Publishers, 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MGO (Saint-Gaudens) (National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Augustus Saint-Gaudens)SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Faces of Time : 75 years of Time magazine cover portraits / introd. by Jay Leno ; essay by Frederick S. Voss.

    • Text
    • Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 99-516Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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  • George and Martha Washington : portraits from the presidential years / Ellen G. Miles ; with a preface by Edmund S. Morgan.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery in association with the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MBT 00-6897Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Hans Namuth : portraits / Carolyn Kinder Carr.

    • Text
    • Washington : Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFX+ (Namuth) 99-8680Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Theodore Roosevelt, icon of the American century / James G. Barber ; with an essay by Amy Verone ; foreword by John Allen Gable.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution : National Park Service, United States Dept. of the Interior, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 99-1936Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Picturing Hemingway : a writer in his time / Frederick Voss ; with an essay by Michael Reynolds.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in association with Yale University Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFW 99-10716SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • George C. Marshall, soldier of peace / with an essay by Larry I. Bland ; catalogue by James G. Barber.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Lexington, Va. : George C. Marshall Foundation ; [Baltimore, MD.] : Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 99-3252Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • American characters : selections from the National Portrait Gallery, accompanied by literary portraits / R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 99-2755Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A durable memento : portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist / Ann M. Shumard.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 00-2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Photo Ref (Shumard, A. Portraits by Augustus Washington)Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Portraits of the Presidents : the National Portrait Gallery / Frederick S. Voss.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; New York : in association with Rizzoli, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MBT+ 01-2517Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Breaking racial barriers : African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection / preface by David C. Driskell ; introduction by Tuliza K. Fleming.

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; San Francisco : Pomegranate Artbooks, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 01-253Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Nobel laureates / photographed by Peter Badge = Nobelpreisträger / fotografiert von Peter Badge.

    • Text
    • Bonn : Deutsches Museum Bonn ; [Washington, D.C.] : Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFH 02-6Offsite
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  • George Washington : a national treasure / foreword by Marc Pachter ; with an introduction by Richard Brookhiser and essays by Margaret C.S. Christman and Ellen G. Miles.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Seattle, Wa. : In association with the University of Washington Press, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQG 02-1499Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Women of our time : an album of twentieth-century photographs / Frederick S. Voss ; preface by Cokie Roberts.

    • Text
    • London : Merrell, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFW 02-7372Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Portrait of the art world : a century of ARTnews photographs / William F. Stapp ; with essays by Pete Hamill and Milton Esterow ; and contributions by Tracey L. Avant ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Yale University Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-ART TR681.A7 S73 2002Schwarzman Building - Art Reference Room 300
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    Text JQG 03-51Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Church buildings [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [1890]-1961.
    • 1890-1961
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/0c7dcaf0-7370-0138-4fd2-0fd244c493ee
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Church buildingsSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Rebels : painters and poets of the 1950s / [Carolyn Kinder Carr, curator of the exhibition ; Steven Watson, guest curator].

    • Text
    • [Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1996?]
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Berg Coll+ Beats ZA2 N28 1996Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 / foreword, Marc Pachter.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery ; Seattle : In Association with the University of Washington Press, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQD 06-742Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Portrait of a nation / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Merrell, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQD 06-704Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Let your motto be resistance : African American portraits / Deborah Willis ; introduction, Lonnie G. Bunch III ; afterword, Marc Pachter ; essays, Cheryl Finley, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis ; poems, Elizabeth Alexander ; biographies, Frank H. Goodyear III, Ann M. Shumard, Frederick S. Voss ; commentaries, Kirsten P. Buick ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • [Washington D.C.] : National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute : Distributed by HarperCollins, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010092.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ G 09-32Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • American colonial portraits, 1700-1776 / Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles.

    • Text
    • Washington City : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQF 17-901Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • The spirit of fact : the daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, 1843-1862 / Robert A. Sobieszek and Odette M. Appel ; with research assistance by Charles R. Moore.

    • Text
    • Boston : D. R. Godine, c1976.
    • 1976

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