Marian Javits with photographer Richard Avedon

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Marian Javits with photographer Richard Avedon

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Photograph of Marian Javits with photographer Richard Avedon (left), Edward W. Brooke, and Charles E. Goodell. April 8, 1970. B&W. In 1963, Sneator Jacob K. Javits sponsored legislation to establish a U.S. National Arts Foundation, a precursor of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. Congress in the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965.

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Senator Jacob K. Javits Digital Collection

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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York): Senator Jacob K. Javits Collection, Series 15 - Photographs and Slides Subseries 1 - Photographs, Box 642, Item 642

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jjp-0000184

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