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Only Five Old Men

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An Exhibit Denied

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Over the years, a handful of men persistently wrote to anyone they thought would listen and might act. In one of his letters, a member of this group referred to himself and his comrades as “only five old men.” But those five were to prove remarkably influential on the fate of the exhibition.

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Harwit, M. (1996). Only Five Old Men. In: An Exhibit Denied. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7905-8_13

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