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Iva-tional Portrait Gallery: Its state events—coronations, openings of Parliament, and changings of the guard—are almost the last remaining manifestations of medieval royal pageantry. Many of its institutions—from the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery, Covent Garden, and the Bank of England to Lloyds of London and the Boy Scouts—are headquarters of international activity.
Sights of Edinburgh have been partially sifted above, but there are enough of them, in actuality, to keep you trotting for a week. A sight I've liked that seems to get little play is the IVa-tional Portrait Gallery and Antiquities Museum, on Queen Street and St. Andrew Street. The antiquities include, besides Roman and Bronze-Age items, fascinating relics of Mary Queen of Scots, of Bonnie Prince Charlie, of Bobbie Burns, of Sir Walter Scott, of Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe, and many other celebrities.
Stapp, William F. Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn
of Photography. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery,
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