American Portraits

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American Portraits was an NBC program which premiered in 1938 with biographical profiles of such famed figures as Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Graham McNamee narrated, Raymond Scudder scripted and Joseph Hauntie was the music conductor.

"Louis Agassiz" told the story of the Swiss-born naturalist, physician and professor who studied glaciers, birds and animals and founded a museum of natural history.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe" (broadcast April 16, 1938) dramatized the life of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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