Old Negatives, New Prints

The Portrait Gallery featured two walls of photographs developed recently from old slides taken by Matthew Brady.

Here are a few of the characters from the time of Abraham Lincoln.

Can You Name These US Presidents? Part 1

The Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC has a temporary exhibit on the US Presidents.  These portraits are not the official ones that hang in the White House.

Can you name these presidents?
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Answers:

1. George Washington

2. John Adams

3. Thomas Jefferson

4.  James Madison

5.  James Monroe

6. John Quincy Adams

How did you do?

Here are some more and these will be easier.

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Answers:

39.  Jimmy Carter

40.  Ronald Reagan

41.  George H W Bush

42.  Bill Clinton

43. George W. Bush

44. Barack Obama

My husband read a book about the presidents recently and rated their performance in office.  Check out what he said here.  You'll be surprised by the number of inept ones we have had in office.  

Time Travel

Visiting the Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC allows for some time travel.  The portraits put faces to the famous names in US history before there was photography.

Here's a selection.

Thomas Edison

Samuel Morse

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