Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 89-092
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Plant Services
Assistant Director's Records, 1965-1986
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of fiscal year budgetary/estimate reports, museum maintenance operation attendants, blueprints and drawings, museum exhibit records, correspondence, memoranda, fiscal year employment plans, and construction records pertaining to museum repairs.
Museums, buildings and events documented in this collection include: the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History), the National Collection Fine Arts (later the National Museum of American Art) and National Portrait Gallery building, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Renwick Gallery, the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (now the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), the Mount Hopkins Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the National Mall, the Folklife Festival, the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Anacostia Museum, the National Museum of African Art, the Silver Hill Facility, the Museum Support Center, the Old Post Office building, the Quadrangle Complex, the Barney Studio House, the Smithsonian Institution Service Center, the Arts and Industries Building, Presidential inaugurations, the Smithsonian Institution Building, and miscellaneous locations.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Renwick Gallery
- Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Mt. Hopkins Observatory
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Cooper-Hewitt Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Anacostia Museum
- National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Silver Hill Facility
- Smithsonian Institution. Museum Support Center
- Post Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution. Quadrangle Complex
- Barney Studio House (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Service Center (Washington, D.C.)
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Festival of American Folklife
Subject
- Museum buildings
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
- Smithsonian buildings
- Buildings -- Maintenance
- Architectural design
- American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
- Presidents -- United States -- Inauguration
- Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 89-092, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Plant Services, Assistant Director's Records