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Boxes 47 and 48

A Selection of photographs

Recently submitted to

The center for American

History

By Dennis Brack

Maximillian Schell stars in “A Pa-triot for Me” at the National The-ater in Washington DC in Decem-ber 1970. Assignment for NEWYORK TIMES

Pennsylvania Avenue Our Nation’s Main Street

Pennsylvania Avenue Our Nation’s Main Street

In the late fall of 1984, I suggested a major story for TIME Magazine titled Pennsylvania Avenue: Our Na-tion’s Main Street. Tourist carriages were still operat-ing and I envisioned a photograph much like the one I made to the left as a cover or lede. How to get it? The elevation had to be up a bit and you had to have some control. It was like the many presidential parades we did back then. The photographers the back of a military or farm truck, (with nice banners around it) making pictures of the Presidential limousine and a waving president behind. I decided to have my own little pa-rade. I found a farmer and hired him to drive his truck. I worked with a carriage driver,(promised him pictures), checked with his passengers, (I did this several times), to make sure that it was alright. I had radio commu-nication between the truck driver to tell him to speed up or change lanes. No one bothered us. I’ll bet you

A company on the North West side of the US Capitol with a circuit camera that makes pictures of groups coming to Washington.

Above. Concepcion Picciotto in Wash-ington, DC in May 1985She has been there since August 1, 1981 and is still there in 2015.Right: Catching the sun on Freedom

Plaza

Pennsylvania Avenue was open to traffic at that time and this man was there everyday.

The Presidential Suite of the newly opened J. W. Marriott Hotel

Construction workers restore the dome of the Willard Hotel in 1985.

The statue in the North side of the Federal Trade Commis-sion headquarters.

Reading the morning paper in the library of the National Press Club

An F.B.I. agent ex-amines a shotgun in the J.Edgar Hoover Building

Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania in

Madison Square Garden, May 1985

Mr. T and Muhammad Ali

I face a room full of boxes returned from Black Star. I open them in no partic-ular order. I have made a rule. I will not open any box until I am ready to caption the negatives and transparencies in the box.

Hillary and Bill; Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart; Supreme Court Justices; VP Bush and Speaker of the House O’Neill, Edward Shevardnadze and Prime Minister Marga-ret Thatcher

Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirsken working together

Associated Press photographer Bob Daugherty covering George Lincoln Rockwell’s funeral .

Col John Glenn gets a citation from President Lyndon Johnson on October 27, 1964

A major project for the years 1989 and 1990 was a book for the National Gallery of Art. Many days were spent photographing the galleries. I also spent hours photo-graphing the work of the National Gallery studying and preserving these valuable works of art.

For the book’s end pages, the gallery staff removed a four-foot circle of frosted glass from the top of the Ro-tunda of the West Wing. I mounted a camera directly in the center of the hole. I had four strobes on the floor of the gallery and six more on the walls and balcony. Worked out well and I didn’t even fall through that hole.