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31/150: Lester Gillette, Self-Portrait, c 1910, oil on panel, 78.21

Sesquicentennial Voices, a video project hosted on January 29, 2011—Kansas' 150th birthday. Following the lead of the 2011 Kansas Reads pick of Tom Averill's book, What Does Kansas Mean to Me, we asked people to answer that same question in two minutes or less.

Link to videos forthcoming.

at the de Young Museum

Whitney Museum

San Francisco

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136/150: Spice of Life, Topeka’s soft pornography magazine, 1972

The chopper is displayed flying high in one of MoMA's vertiginous multi-story open spaces that just oozes what Manhattan is about. Can't leave without a photo, but I've been there done that. Now I shoot the shooters.

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142/150: Philip Hershberger, The Red Room, graphite, oil wash and color pencil, Gift of Jeanne Hirschberg. 2003.21

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62/150: Marshall Band horn

Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum is the Slovak-Dutch museum of post-war visual art situated on the Danube river outside Bratislava, established in 2000

Live personal soundtrack at the permanent collection at the Hammer Museum, 11.11.2010.

Machine Project / Hammer A.I.R.

Photo by Marianne Williams.

Newport Art Museum, Griswold House, RI

www.newportartmuseum.org/

BLOGGED: ranchococoa.com/arts-and-crafts/life-on-mars-part-one/

in the permanent collection of the High Museum

Trish Nixon, Associate Curator

at the de Young Museum

Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum is the Slovak-Dutch museum of post-war visual art situated on the Danube river outside Bratislava, established in 2000

at the High Museum of Art

Whitney Museum

Live personal soundtrack at the permanent collection at the Hammer Museum, 11.11.2010.

Machine Project / Hammer A.I.R.

Photo by Marianne Williams.

in the permanent collection of the High Museum

at the de Young Museum

OCMA permanent collection

in the permanent collection at the Getty Center

at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

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Ron Michael

Lindsborg KS

Soil Mysteries (The Feedbag Piece)

(ca. 2005)

Stoneware, tar

Friends of the Library Purchase Award

Topeka Competition 27

2005.16

at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

Herzog & de Meuron

OCMA permanent collection

OCMA permanent collection

in the permanent collection at the Broad

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

in the permanent collection at the Getty Center

in the permanent collection at the Broad

45/150: Buttons: Santa Fe Railroad, on Railroad Days hat.

Hat with Railroad Days buttons from the Topeka Room collection.

70/150: Ruth Faison Shaw, Untitled, c 1930s, Gift of the Menninger Foundation

view of gallery signage from rotunda

Installation view

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124/150: Walter Hatke, Teachers, 1982-2002. Gift of the Library Foundation. 2009.40.49

Topeka Room ephemera.

38/150: The City of Homes, 1922