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This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History shows a close-up of John Coltrane’s Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone, one of three principal saxophones Coltrane played. One of Coltrane's tenor saxophones is joining the jazz collection at the Smithsonian. Coltrane's son, Ravi Coltrane, will donate one of his father's three principal tenor saxophones to the National Museum of American History on Wednesday. The donation marks the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane's masterpiece composition "A Love Supreme." (AP Photo/Hugh Talman, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History shows John Coltrane’s Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone, one of three principal saxophones Coltrane played. One of Coltrane's tenor saxophones is joining the jazz collection at the Smithsonian. Coltrane's son, Ravi Coltrane, will donate one of his father's three principal tenor saxophones to the National Museum of American History on Wednesday. The donation marks the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane's masterpiece composition "A Love Supreme." (AP Photo/Hugh Talman, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)
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This handout photo provided by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe titled "Susie Standing Next to Holy Picture" is part of photographs donated by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe to the African-American history museum at the Smithsonian. Bank of America officials tell The Associated Press they will give the museum 61 photographs by Moutoussamy-Ashe, the wife of the late tennis player Arthur Ashe. She documented Daufuskie Island between 1977 and 1981 and the Gullah/Geechee people who lived there. (AP Photo/Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Smithsonian)
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This handout photo provided by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe titled "The Old Prayer House Before Hurricane David" is part of photographs donated by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe to the African-American history museum at the Smithsonian. Bank of America officials tell The Associated Press they will give the museum 61 photographs by Moutoussamy-Ashe, the wife of the late tennis player Arthur Ashe. She documented Daufuskie Island between 1977 and 1981 and the Gullah/Geechee people who lived there. (AP Photo/Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Smithsonian)
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This handout photo provided by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe titled "Jake and his Boat Arriving on Daufuskie's Shore" is part of photographs donated by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe to the African-American history museum at the Smithsonian. Bank of America officials tell The Associated Press they will give the museum 61 photographs by Moutoussamy-Ashe, the wife of the late tennis player Arthur Ashe. She documented Daufuskie Island between 1977 and 1981 and the Gullah/Geechee people who lived there. (AP Photo/Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Smithsonian)
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This handout photo provided by the Smithsonian's National Zoo, taken Jan. 8, 2014, shows a sloth bear Khali's newborn cub being cared for at the veterinary hospital at the zoo in Washington. Animal keepers at the National Zoo have saved a sloth bear cub after two others were eaten by the mother. The three cubs were born in December to a mother named Khali. One was eaten within 20 minutes, and a second cub was eaten after seven days. The zoo says it's not uncommon for carnivores to eat their young if they're compromised somehow. (AP Photo/Smithsonian's National Zoo)
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This handout photo provided by the Smithsonian's National Zoo, taken Jan. 6, 2014, shows keepers bottle-feeding the saved sloth bear cub at the zoo in Washington. Animal keepers at the National Zoo have saved a sloth bear cub after two others were eaten by the mother. The three cubs were born in December to a mother named Khali. One was eaten within 20 minutes, and a second cub was eaten after seven days. The zoo says it's not uncommon for carnivores to eat their young if they're compromised somehow. (AP Photo/Mindy Babitz, Smithsonian's National Zoo)
