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1980s: A Decade in the Collections

The Smithsonian's collections represent our nation's shared history, art from across the globe, and the immense diversity of the natural and cultural world.

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  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Sony "Watchman" portable television
  • Carl Sagan
  • Art Buchwald
  • Program from the 1987 national tour of Cabaret
  • Afrika Bambaataa
  • David Byrne Self-Portrait
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Ring with gold and diamond "MTV" design owned by Fab 5 Freddy
  • Natassja Kinski
  • Berlin Wall fragment, Berlin, Germany, 1961
  • R2-D2, from Return of the Jedi
  • 212210
  • Dwight Gooden
  • Poster, Silence = Death
  • Kevin Costner
  • Simply the Best
  • Carl Lewis
  • Longtime Companion black-and-white advertisement
  • Untitled, from the portfolio Andy Mouse
  • Cool Cops, Hot Show
  • Ed Koch
  • Harvard Lampoon: People (parody)
  • Arsenio Hall
  • Space Shuttle Columbia: Aiming High In '81
  • television watch, "watchman"
  • Brooke Shields
  • Julian Schnabel
  • Jerry Falwell
  • Ronald Reagan on the cover of Time magazine, November 9, 1981
  • MTV Video Music Awards, 2nd Annual
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Bustin' Loose Part 1
  • Lech Walesa
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Iranian Hostages: the Ordeal Ends
  • Lady Diana Spencer
  • Pete Rose
  • Script for the M*A*S*H episode "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"

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