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Date	1846 - present
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Related People	John Quincy Adams • Kevin Young • Lonnie G. Bunch III • Calvert Vaux • Bernice Johnson Reagon • I. Michael Heyman • James Renwick • James Smithson • Aleš Hrdlička • William Henry Holmes • G. Brown Goode • Leonard Carmichael

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