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November 2, 1979

Freer Gallery of Art acquires a collection of Chinese calligraphy through the Board of Regents’ program for acquisitions of outstanding quality. It includes 12 hanging and hand scrolls and is the Freer’s first acquisition under the five-year program established in 1978 by the Board of Regents, which authorized the Institution to use a combination of nonappropriated trust funds and private matching funds to make major acquisitions of “outstanding quality.”

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Posted: 2 November 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.