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Samuel Morse, Portrait in a Minute
Amy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses Samuel F. B. Morse and the painting "Men of Progress" by artist Christian Schussele. Recorded at NPG, November 15, 2012. Men of Progress / Christian Schussele / Oil on canvas, 1862 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 . Samuel Morse's Telegraph Patent Model, Patent #28159 / Inventor: Samuel Finley Breese Morse / Artist: Unidentified Maker / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center; Division of the History of Technology (Electricity)
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By National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian InstitutionAmy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses Samuel F. B. Morse and the painting "Men of Progress" by artist Christian Schussele. Recorded at NPG, November 15, 2012. Men of Progress / Christian Schussele / Oil on canvas, 1862 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 . Samuel Morse's Telegraph Patent Model, Patent #28159 / Inventor: Samuel Finley Breese Morse / Artist: Unidentified Maker / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center; Division of the History of Technology (Electricity)