Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 04-064
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
Exhibition Records, 1975-2003
Collection Overview
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1975-2003 |
Quantity: | 23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 04-064 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records that document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes and related records. Records are arranged by exhibition title (exhibition ID number), and date(s). |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes and related records. Records are arranged by exhibition title (exhibition ID number), and date(s).
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 04-064, Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Adam and Eve: Their Portrayal
Africa's Legacy in Mexico: Photographs by Tony Gleaton (756), 1/1993 - 6/1996
After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800 (311), 1/1986 - 3/1997
(An) Age of Gold: Three Centuries of Paintings from Old Ecuador (285), 8/1984 - 1/1987
Albert Einstein: Photographed by Lotte Jacobi, 1/1980 - 12/1982
All Systems Go: America's Transportation System for the 1990s (425), 2/1990 - 3/1994
America's Space Truck: The Space Shuttle (179), 10/1981 - 11/1983
American Eagle: Symbol for Survival, 9/1976 - 1983
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (297), 9/1986 - 7/1988
American Porcelain: New Expression in an Ancient Art (204), 7/1983 - 7/1984
Anasazi World (330), 3/1986 - 3/1988
Aquaculture: A World View of Seafarming
Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe (663), 1/1992 - 10/1994
(The) Art of Botany (387), 6/1988 - 8/1990
(The) Art of Cameroon (344), 1/1984 - 10/1985
Box 2
(The) Art of Cameroon Grassfields (334), 12/1986 - 3/1987
Arte/Objecto: Sculpture from the Tane Silversmith Collection (277), ca. 1984
(The) Artist and the Space Shuttle (269), 10/1983 - 11/1986
Artists and Models: Portraits from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) (292), 1985 - 1987
Artrain: Art in Celebration! (010), 3/1996 - 5/1999
Aspects of Color: Works on Paper from the HMSG
Athletes and Heroes: Portraits from the TIME Collection at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) (310)
Audubon: Science into Art (from National Museum of Natural History - NMNH) (333), 9/1985 - 4/1988
Aymara Weaving: Ceremonial Textiles of Colonial and 19th C. Bolivia, 9/1983 - 11/1985
Ban Chiang: Discovery of a Lost Bronze Age (111), 11/1982 - 5/1985
Baseball Immortals (337)
Beauties of the Coral Reef (133), 1/1986 - 1/1989
Benny Motzfeldt: A Norwegian Pathfinder in Glass, 3/1979 - 9/1980
Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington (710), 4/1993 - 12/1996
Black American Landmarks: Interpreters of History (13), ca. 1981
Blacks in the Westward Movement, 2/1975 - 10/1981
Building Brooklyn Bridge: The Engineering and Construction, 1867 - 1883 (267), ca. 1983
Carnegie Libraries: Sesquicentennial Celebration (351), 2/1986 - 1/1990
Ceramics of the Weimar Republic (393), 6/1988 - 3/1991
Child to Child: American-Soviet Children's Art Exchange (381), 6/1987 - 6/1990
China Between Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble 1917-1927 (466), 6/1983 - 8/1989
(A) Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church, ca. 1979
Coast to Coast Coasters!, 1970s
Community Industries of the Shakers (301), 6/1986 - 11/1988
Contemporary Art from the Netherlands, ca. 1982
Contemporary German Textile Art, ca. 1982
Box 3
Contemporary Print Images: Works by Afro-American Artists from the Brandywine Workshop (352), 2/1986 - 2/1989
Coverlets: New threads in Old Patterns (419), 8/1988 - 2/1991
Crosscurrents: Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper-Hewitt, ca. 1980
Dance Masks of Mexico, 4/1980 - 4/1981
Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980 (382), 8/1987 - 7/1990
Daum: One Hundred Years of Glass and Crystal, 9/1978 - 9/1980
(A) Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell (596), 8/1990 - 5/1995
Designs of the N'Debele, 10/1979 - 11/1981
(The) Dog Observed: 1844-1983 (321), ca. 1985
(The) Dye Is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence, 1774-1776, 1970s
Early Flight: 1900-1911 (295), 9/1984 - 6/1987
Eva Zeisel: Designer for Industry (257), 6/1984 - 12/1985
Family Folklore (copy 1, 2, 3) (255, 464, 593), 2/1990 - 12/1995
(From) Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915 - 1940 (I) and 1915 - 1990 (II) (362 and 450), 1/1988 - 7/1992 and 7/1988 - 1/1994
From All Walks of Life: Paintings of the Figure from the National Academy of Design, 8/1980 - 8/1982
Full Deck Art Quilts (875), 3/1995 - 11/1999
Genre Scenes: Works on Paper from the HMSG (291), 1984 - 1986
Box 4
George Grosz: Works in Oil, 10/1978 - 8/1979
George Washington, an American Icon: The 18th Century Graphic Portraits (173), 5/1982 - 1/1983
Glamour and Allure: The Hollywood Photographs of George Hurrell (418), 4/1988 - 7/1990
(The) Golden Age of Dutch Painting from the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland
(The) Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly: Attitudes Toward Animals (620), 5/1992 - 9/1995
(The) Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy (332), 11/1987 - 4/1991
Haiti: The First Black Republic and It's Monuments to Freedom, copies I and II (229 and 392), 8/1987 - 12/1992 and 1986 - 1988
Harlem Photographs by Aaron Siskind (739), 11/1993 - 7/1995
Hollywood: Legend and Reality (258), ca. 1986
(To) Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions, 3/1999 - 4/2001
Hungarian Art Nouveau, 9/1977 - 5/1979
(The) Image of Urban Optimism, ca. 1977
Images of Old Age in America 1790 - 1977 (050), 6/1984 - 1/1987
Impressions of a New Civilization: The Lincoln Kirstein Collection of Japanese Prints, 1860 - 1912 (380), 6/1987 - 10/1989
India Along the Ganges: Photographs by Raghubir Singh. From the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (448), 9/1990 - 5/1992
Innovative Furniture in America, ca. 1981
In Touch: Printing and Writing for the Blind in the 19th Century (153), ca. 1981
Box 5
(The) Inaugural Story: From George Washington to Gerald Ford, ca. 1970s
Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips (434), 3/1988 - 3/1991
Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, ca. 1983
Inuit Sculpture, 5/1979 - 6/1981
Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography (390), 9/1987 - 1/1993
Jacob Jordaens: Drawings and Prints, 1979 - 1981
Jacquard Textile Experiments, ca. 1982 - 1983
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983 - 1985
John Sloane in Santa Fe, 10/1981 - 11/1983
(The) Kids Bridge (758), 9/1992 - 7/1997
(The) Long Road Up the Hill: Blacks in Congress 1870 - 1983, copies I and II (275 and 659), 12/1985 - 4/1989 and 10/1991 - 11/1996
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (849), 9/1994 - 12/1996
Box 6
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (849), 9/1994 - 12/1996
Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks, 1981 - 1983
(The) Road to Heaven is Paved with Good Works: The Art of the Reverend Howard Finster (604), 9/1990 - 3/1992
Saynday was Coming Along: Drawings by Silverhorn (original and panel 698 and 697), 4/1992 - 6/1996
Seeds of Change (693, 565, 633, 634, 635, 709, 865), 1/1992 - 11/1995
Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997 - 10/1999
Box 7
Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997 - 10/1999
Soundtracks (341), 2/1988 - 3/1990
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: A National Experience I (375 and 535), 8/2001 - 9/2003
Visions of Flight: A Retrospective from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Art Collection (411), 9/1988 - 5/1991
Box 8
Who's In Charge: Workers and Managers in the United States (721), 8/1992 - 3/1996
America's Jazz Heritage Files
Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington (710), 4/1993 - 12/1996
Lost Jazz Shrines, 1990s
Box 9
America's Jazz Heritage Files
Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington (710), 4/1993 - 12/1996
Distance Learning Project, 1990s
Jazz Age in Paris: 1914 - 1940 (002), 4/1997 - 7/2002
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy BANNER exhibition (849), 9/1994 - 12/1996
Jazz Singers CD and Radio Projects, 1990's
Box 10
America's Jazz Heritage Files
Jazz Singers CD and Radio Projects, 1990s
America's Jazz Heritage (AJH) Programs and Projects: National Museum of American History (NMAH), The Smithsonian Associates (TSA), HIRSHHORN, National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
SI Jazz Alliance
Box 11
America's Jazz Heritage Files
Jazz Museum in Harlem Correspondence
AJH Travel Documents
Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997 - 10/1999
Box 12
America's Jazz Heritage Files
Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997 - 10/1999
Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta (85), 10/2002 - 8/2004
Financial Documents for exhibition, book, CD, opening gala, public programs, performance payments, travel, website, contracts
Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta (85), 10/2002 - 8/2004
CD project, book, and website (includes BET jazz sponsorship info). LJ recordings, adv communication correspondence, Folkways correspondence, CD tunes lists, financials, folkways contracts, BET jazz correspondence.
Box 13
America's Jazz Heritage Files
CD project, book, and website (includes BET jazz sponsorship info). LJ recordings, adv communication correspondence, Folkways correspondence, CD tunes lists, financials, folkways contracts, BET jazz correspondence.
AJH general information files
Box 14
AJH general information files
Director's Exhibition Files (Anna R. Cohn)
Africa American Artists: Evan Tibbs Collection
African Ceremonies
Ainu (Kamuy: Spirit of the Ainu: Art, History, and Culture of Japan's Northern People)
Altered States (3 of 3)
America's Music (America's Music at the Smithsonian)
America's Star (America's Star: U.S. Marshals, 1789-1989)
American Identity (NMAH American Identity Project)
American Voices (American Voices: Latino Photographers in the U.S.) (4 of 4)
Box 15
Director's Exhibition Files (Anna R. Cohn)
American Voices (American Voices: Latino Photographers in the U.S.) (4 of 4)
Amistad
Ancient Glass (Ancient Glass from the Holy Land)
Appalachia (Serving Home and Community, Women of Southern Appalachia)
Art as Activist (Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe)
Art. Rage. (Art. Rage. Us.)
Art Task Force (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - SITES Art Exhibition Committee)
Artists in an Archive
A Basketmaker in Rural Japan
Birds (Like a Bird)
Borderlands (Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands)
Bristol (Stories from Life: The Photography of Horace Bristol)
British Airways (The 21st Century Ark)
Capturing the Spirit (Capturing the Spirit: Fun with Carole Patterson)
China between Revolutions
Chinese Posters
Cig Art (Cig Art: Where There's Smoke)
Comic Strip (Great American Comics)
Coming of Age in America
Contempo. Enamels (Contemporary American Enamels)
Costa Rica (Costa Rica: Magia de la Naturaleza)
Crossroads (Crossroads of Continents) (1 of 3)
Crossroads (Crossroads of Continents) (2 & 3 of 3)
Crow (Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows)
Degenerate Art
Dennis the Menace
Designing the World
Dinosaur (Hunting Dinosaur)
Diseases
Dish Show (A Century of Dining in Style: China and Glass from Tabletop to TV Tray)
Disney (sponsorship file)
Dreams & Traditions (Dreams & Traditions: 300 Years of British & Irish Painting from the Ulster Museum)
Dreyfuss (Dreyfuss and Fountains)
Earth from Above
Elisofen (donation of Elisofen photographic collection to University of Texas at Austen)
Ethnic Imagery (Ways of Seeing: Mapping Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of Commerce)
Exotic Illusions (Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Marketplace)
Finster (The Road to Heaven is Paved by Good Works: Art of Reverend Howard Finster)
FL Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Frankenstein (article for exhibit proposal)
Fragile Ecologies
Full Deck Art Quilt
Garbage (The Rotten Truth about Garbage)
Golf (Treasures of Golf: A Swing Through Time)
Good, Bad, Cuddly (The Good, The Bad, and The Cuddly)
Gotha
Harlem (Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind from the National Museum of American Art)
Harlem Empowerment Zone (Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation Feasibility Study)
Harmon (Portraits in Black: Out Standing American of Negro Origin from the Harmon Collection of the National Portrait Gallery)
Hechinger (Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection)
Heroes and Heritage (Heroes and Heritage: Saluting a Legacy of Hispanic Patriotism and Valor)
High Tech (Norstar Communications Company Profile)
Box 16
Director's Exhibition Files (Anna R. Cohn)
Homeless (Shooting Back)
Horse
How Things Fly
Inside Active Volcanoes
Into the Sunlit Splendor
Jamaica (Jamaican Art 1922-1982)
Japan (From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaii)
Jesse Owens (Jesse Owens: Echoes of Time)
Kendrick (A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick)
Kafka (Kafka Project)
Kid's Bridge (The Kid's Bridge)
Land Grant (Go Forth and Serve)
Leventhal (Artist David Leventhal proposal)
Lincoln (Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Matthew Brady from the National Portrait Gallery)
Long Road Up The Hill (Long Road Up The Hill: Blacks in the US Congress)
Lost Jazz Shrines
Lyon (Lyonnais Paintings)
Mack Trucks
McCoy (The Real McCoy)
Mechanical Brides
Mint File (Mayor's Committee Report about San Francisco MINT)
Muppetts (Leaps and No Bounds)
Music Museum (List of Federal City Council Members)
NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.)
National Park Service (American Greek Architecture)
No Laughing Matter
No Place Like Home
Ocean Apart (An Ocean Apart) (4 of 4)
Okiek (Okiek Portraits: A Kenyan People Look at Themselves)
Olympics (Winter Sports)
Omar Ramsden (Omar Ramsden: 20th Century Silversmith)
Orient Observed (The Orient Observed)
Palm Springs Air Museum
Panos (Panos: Hispanic Images of Identity)
Pepita Seth
Perpetual Campaign (Perpetual Campaign: The Making of the People's President)
Plains Indian Arts (Plains Indian Arts: Continuity and Change)
Project Hope (Voyages of Hope: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad)
Quipus (Quipus - Bolivia Cultural Council, Inc.)
Realm of the Coin (The Realm of the Coin)
Rock n' Soul
Salzburger Festspiele
Saynday was Coming Along (Saynday was Coming Along. . . Silverhorn's Drawing's of the Kiowa Trickster)
Seeing Japan
Seeing Without Sight (More Than Meets the Eye)
Six Flags
Soviet Porcelain (Soviet Porcelains: Revolution, Life and Labor)
Spiders (Spiders!)
Spirited Objects (Spirited Objects: Traditional Craft for the 21st Century)
Box 17
Director's Exhibition Files (Anna R. Cohn)
Star Quality (Star Quality: The Golden Age of the Silver Screen)
Sung/Unsung (Sung & Unsung: Jazz Women)
Sweatshops (Between Rock and A Hard Place)
Taxco Silver
To Color America (To Color America: Portraits By Winold Reiss)
Tokpela
Tongass (The Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain Forest) (2 of 2)
Tropical Rainforests (Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure)
Try This On (Try This On: A History of Clothing, Gender, and Power)
Vikings (Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga)
Warsaw Ghetto (A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto)
White House Craft Collection (White House Crafts)
Wilbert Luck (Journey to Honey Hill presentation)
With These Hands (With These Hands: African American Foodways)
Workers & Managers (Workers & Managers: The Crises of Control in American Manufacturing)
Wynn, Steve (Article - Vanity Fair 10/1998)
Yellowstone
Public Relations files
American Voices: Latino Photographers in the United States: Clips
Going Strong: Older Americans on the Job: Clips, audio transcripts, background, negatives, close-out report, release, admat, prints, press kits
Jazz Age in Paris (AL/other): Slides, prints, negatives, script, panel text, release, admat, venue materials, clips
Box 18
Public Relations files
Jazz Age in Paris (AL/other): Slides, prints, negatives, script, panel text, release, admat, venue materials, clips
Looping the Loop: Posters of Early Flight: Press kit, invites, admat, slides, background
Mysterious Manatees: Admat, negatives, prints, slides, clips, release, installation shots, close-out
On Miniature Wings: Model Aircraft from the National Air and Space Museum: Admat, background info, venue material, clips , press kit, activities and resource book
Out of Time: Designs for the 20th-Century Future: Admat, release, script, book release, venue materials
Small Wonder
Southern Africa 1936-1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee: Venue materials, clips, contact info
Box 19
Public Relations files
Jazz Age/ALA
The Kids Bridge: Clips
Try This On: A History of Clothing, Gender, and Power: Clips, admat, venue material, installation shots
Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands: Clips, installation slides, press materials
Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later: Clips
Seeing Jazz: Clips, admat
Saynday Was Coming Along: Sliverhorn's Drawings of the Kiowa Trickster: Clips
Millenium Messages: Clips, slides
Long Road Up the Hill: Blacks in the United States Congress 1870-1983 II: Clips, venue materials
Six Bridges: The Making of a Modern Metropolis: Slides, clips, venue materials
Spiders, Sex, Silk and Poison: Exhibition report, clips, venue materials
The Prarie Schoolhouse: Press kit, slides, admat, releases, script, condition report
Box 20
Public Relations files
The Prarie Schoolhouse: Press kit, slides, admat, releases, script, condition report
Songs of My People: Exhibition guidebook, clip report, press kits
Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions: Admat, release, venue material, resource book, clips, prints, slides, installation shots, contracts
Box 21
Public Relations files
Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions: Admat, release, venue material, resource book, clips, prints, slides, installation shots, contracts
Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington: Clips, Epcot file
Albert Einstein Photographed by Lotte Jacobi
America's Architectural Heritage
American Drawings IV
American Icon
American Impressionism
American Master Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
America's First Ladies
Box 22
Public Relations files
And now a message. . .
Aquaculture: A World View of Seafarming
Arboretum
Art as Language
Art of Sri Lanka: Contemporary Works on Paper
Artist and Space Shuttle
Artists and Space Flight
Assignment: Aviation
Ban Chiang: A view of the Bronze Age from the Asiatic Tropics
Beaumont Newhall: A Retrospective
Beauties of the Coral Reef
Berlin Porcelain
Biblical Painters of J. James Tissot
Black American Landmarks
Building a New World: Black Labor
Buildings Reborn: New Uses, Old Places 1 and 2
Bulgarian Icons
A Cartoon History of the United States Foreign Policy
A Celebration of Birds
Children's Art from the People's Republic of China
Colorful Kite Tails
Contemporary Czechoslovakian Printmakers
Contemporary German Textile Art
Corpus Christi Dancers of Ecuador
Diversity Endangered
Dog Observed
Edison and the Electrical Age: 100
Embroideries by Children of Chijnaya Peru
Ethiopia
Exploring Microspace
Family Folklore
A Feast of Color
Flying Fantasies: Butterflies and Moths
Folk Arts and Crafts
The Frederic Douglas Years
From All Walks of Life: Paintings of the Figure from the National Academy of Design
In Pursuit of Beauty
Innovative Furniture in America
International Year of the Child
Inua: Spirit World of the Bearing Sea Eskimo
Invisible Light
Joan Meyers: Santa Fe Trail
Sevres Porcelin
The Shopping Bag: Portable Graphics
Southeastern Potteries
Story of a Goblet
Box 23
Public Relations files
Studied Beauty: Portraits by Cecil Beaton
Symbols of Faith
Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia
Transformed Houses
Treasure of the Quicksilver Galleons
Treasures from the Guadalupe and Tolosa
Twentieth Century Sculptors and their Drawings
Unfamiliar Fauna of the Open Sea
Venini Glass
We'll Never Turn Back
Western Views and Eastern Visions
What if You Couldn't?
World Print Competition
World Print IV
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