Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 92-070
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
Administrative Records, 1989
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary |
| Title: | Administrative Records |
| Dates: | 1989 |
| Quantity: | 31 cu. ft. (31 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 92-070 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of Secretary Robert McCormick Adams' administrative files for 1989. Materials include correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other communications received or issued by the Office of the Secretary, reflecting a wide range of official activities. The records contain correspondence related to major Smithsonian Institution exhibitions; copies of the Secretary's speeches; information on his participation in conferences and on committees; files concerning the presentation of Smithsonian awards; and information on the activities and meetings of the Board of Regents. Files on the work of many offices and museums in the Smithsonian are also included, as well as information on the Smithsonian's relations with the National Gallery of Art, congressional offices, federal agencies, and private and international organizations. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of Secretary Robert McCormick Adams' administrative files for 1989. Materials include correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other communications received or issued by the Office of the Secretary, reflecting a wide range of official activities. The records contain correspondence relating to major Smithsonian Institution exhibitions; copies of the Secretary's speeches; information on his participation in conferences and on committees; files concerning the presentation of Smithsonian awards; and information on the activities and meetings of the Board of Regents. Files on the work of many offices and museums in the Smithsonian are also included, as well as information on the Smithsonian's relations with the National Gallery of Art, congressional offices, federal agencies, and private and international organizations.
Listings in bold and capital letters indicate both the topic of folder contents and major subheadings from the Secretary's Office file plan.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-
- Smithsonian Institution -- Administration
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
- Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Subject
- Museums -- Administration
- Museum exhibits
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Museums -- Public relations
- Meetings
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 92-070, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records
Container List
Box 1
AWARDS/general (2 folders)
African
Brooks, Robert A.
Dana Awards
Eldredge, Charles C.
Fleming, Arthur S.
Freer Medal
Getty Prize
Information Resource management
Marconi Prize
McGovern, John P.
National Medal of Science
Sustained superior performance
Trophy (National Air and Space Museum)
Tyler
Waterman, Alan T.
World Food Prize
COMMITTEES - Research Policy Committee
COMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE (2 folders)
Global environment
Symposium/general (2 folders)
Afro-Americans & the Living Constitution
Man & Beast Revisited
USA-USSR Archaeological (Upper Paleolithic-Paleoindian Adaptations)
Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest
Box 2
CONSERVATION - Aldabra
Endangered species
Endangered species/Marine Mammal Commission
Galapagos Islands
Tiger project
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MALL - Parking
EXHIBITS
Beyond the City Limits
Caribbean Festival Arts
Crossroads of Continents: Traditional Cultures of the Peoples of the North Pacific Rim
Evolution
Field to Factory: African-American Migration (1915-1940)
Information Revolution (Information Age)
Insect Zoo
Japanese-American Internment
Manhattan Project
Men & Women: Dressing the Part
Seeds of Change
USA/USSR
LECTURES
MUSEUMS (A)
Afro-American Museum (3 folders)
National Museum of American Indian (4 folders)
Box 3
National Museum of American Indian (NMAI) (4 folders)
NMAI Board of Trustees
NMAI Search committee
Museums (B-W)
Regional Museums
POLICY
PROJECTS - Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
PUBLICATIONS (A-N)
Box 4
Publications (O-W)
Smithsonian Publications Council (SPC)
Directories
Smithsonian Year (SI Annual Report)
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Executive Director (Hobbins, James)
Special Assistant to the Secretary (Coudon, Joseph)
Special Assistant to the Secretary (Mattson)
UNDER SECRETARY
Audits and Investigations, Office of
Inspector General, Office of (2 folders)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION
Admission charges
Airplane
Allocation of space
Allocation of Space - Post Office/Trade Commission
Allocation of Space - Providence Hospital
Announcements
Procurement and Property Management, Office of (OPPM)
Delegation of authority
Environmental Management and Safety, Office of
Facilities Services, Office of (OFS)
OFS - Architectural History and Historic Preservation, Office of
OFS - Design & Construction, Office of (ODC)
OFS - ODC Quadrangle
OFS - ODC Haupt Garden
OFS - Plant Services, Office of
OFS - Protection Services, Office of
Horticulture Services Division
Letterhead - Stationery
Office of Information Resource Management (OIRM)
Parking
Box 5
Personnel Administration, Office of
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Combined Federal Campaign
Employee Benefits, Office of
Equal Employment Opportunity, Office of (EEO) (5 folders)
Asian & Pacific America Heritage Committee
Hispanic Heritage Planning Committee
Latino Working Committee
Smithsonian African American Association (SAAA)
SI Women's Council
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
Grievances and complaints
Health insurance
Honorary appointments
Research associates (4 folders)
Box 6
Senate of Scientists
Leave (sabbatical)
Pay & tenure
Performance appraisals
Recruiting (3 folders)
Announcements (5 folders)
Curriculum vitae (CV)
Retirement (TIAA) plan
Savings bonds
Senior candidates
Inspector general
Summer employment
Supergrade
Personnel 201 (A)
Box 7
Personnel 201 (B-Z)
Printing and Photographic Services, Office of (OPPS)
Programming and Budget, Office of (OPB) (3 folders)
OPB - FY 1991
OPB - FY 1990 (2 folders)
OPB - FY 1989
OPB - FY 1988
Box 8
OPB - Hearings (3 folders)
OPB - Seal
OPB - Staff bulletins
OPB - Travel Services, Office of
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR MUSEUMS (3 folders)
American Art & Portrait Gallery Building
Afro-American programs
Anacostia Museum
Anacostia Search Committee
Archives of American Art (AAA) (2 folders)
AAA Board of Trustees
AAA Search committee
Freer Gallery of Art (FGA)
FGA Visiting Committee
Sackler Gallery of Art (SGA) (3 folders)
Box 9
SGA Visiting Committee
Conservation Analytical Lab (CAL)
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design and Decorative Art (CHM)
CHM Advisory Council
Exhibits Central, Office of (OEC)
Hirshhorn, Joseph/Museum & Sculpture Garden (HMSG)
HMSG Board of Trustees
HMSG Nominating Committee
Institutional Studies, Office of
Museum Programs, Office of
Museum Support Center
National Air and Space Museum (NASM) (3 folders)
NASM Enola Gay
NASM Extension (4 folders)
NASM Research advisory committee
NASM Restaurant
NASM Special events calendar
National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property
National Museum of African Art (NMAFA)
Box 10
Commission on the NMAFA
National Museum of American Art (NMAA) (3 folders)
Barney House
NMAA Commission
NMAA Search Committee
Renwick Gallery
National Museum of American History (NMAH) (4 folders)
NMAH Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of
NMAH Armed Forces History, Division of
NMAH Ceramics & Glass, Division of
NMAH Community Life, Division of
NMAH Costumes, Division of
NMAH Domestic Life, Division of
NMAH Electricity, Division of
NMAH Engineering & Industry, Division
NMAH Exhibiting
NMAH Medical Sciences, Division of
NMAH Musical History, Division of
NMAH Numismatics, Division of
NMAH Philatelic Collection (Postal History), Division of
NMAH Photographic History, Division of
NMAH Political History, Division of
NMAH Textiles, Division of
NMAH Transportation, Division of
Box 11
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
NMNH Anthropology (3 folders)
NMNH Anthropology Film Archives
NMNH Anthropology Indians (3 folders)
NMNH Anthropology Repatriation Review Committee
NMNH Building plans
NMNH Botany, Department of
NMNH Cafeteria (Associates' Court)
NMNH Calendar
NMNH Council
NMNH Director's Circle
NMNH Entomology
NMNH Exhibiting
NMNH Friends of Natural History
NMNH Invertebrate Zoology, Department of
NMNH Mineral Sciences, Department of
NMNH Paleobiology, Department of
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology, Department of
Box 12
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology, Department of
NMNH Birds, Division of
NMNH National Portrait Gallery
NMNH - NPG Commission
NMNH Registrar's Office
NMNH Council of Registrars
NMNH Sesquicentennial History of the SI, 1996
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
SITES Search committee
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH (2 folders)
Biological diversity
Columbus Quincentennial (2 folders)
Quincentenary Development Board
Columbus Quincentennial - Institute of the Americas
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Dazzler
Global environment
Henry, Joseph Papers
Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of
Box 13
Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of (video)
Interdisciplinary Studies - French Revolution Bicentennial symposium (3 folders)
Interdisciplinary Studies - American Committee on the French Revolution
Man and the Biosphere Program
Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory for Environmental Research
National Zoological Park (NZP) (3 folders)
NZP Friends of (FONZ)
NZP Police
Office of Fellowships and Grants (OFG)
OFG Internship
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)
Box 14
SIL Search Committee
Smithsonian International Exchange Service
Smithsonian Marine Station at Link Port (Harbor Branch Foundation)
Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Smithsonian/University Fellowship Program In Material Culture
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE (ASPS)
Wider Audience Development, Office of
Cultural Education Committee, Office of
Educational Programs
Smithsonian Advisory Council on Education
Office of Conference Services
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Folklife Programs
Folklife Festival
Folklife Advisory Council
Folklife Search Committee
Universities - General
Universities (A-C)
University of Chicago - National Opinion Research Center (NORC) (2 folders)
University of Chicago - Oriental Institute
Universities (D-L)
Box 15
Universities (M-Y)
Office of Public Affairs (OPA)
OPA African-American Media Advisory Committee
OPA News clippings
OPA News service
Box 16
OPA News releases
OPA Media activities meeting
OPA Research reports
OPA Smithsonian Runner
OPA Torch
Smithsonian Council (2 folders)
Visitors Information and Reception Center (VIARC)
VIARC Docents (volunteers)
VIARC Internships
VIARC Smithsonian Institution visitors
VIARC Surveys and reports
TREASURER (2 folders)
Accounting and Financial Services, Office of
Business Management Office (BMO)
BMO Museum shops
BMO Restaurant concessions
BMO Sponsored Projects, Office of
Financial Management and Planning, Office of
Funds - General
Funds - Bissell, Arthur H., Jr. Fund
Funds - Burch, George Fellowships
Funds - Collection acquisition program
Funds - Education outreach program
Funds - Glaser, Stanley J. endowment
Funds - Glennan-Webb-Seamans
Funds - Global Environment Endowment Fund
Funds - Improvement of the Insect Collection
Funds - Korean heritage
Funds - Morgan, Betty J.
Funds - Research opportunities
Funds - Ripley, S. Dillon and Mary L. Endowment Fund
Funds - Scholarly studies program
Funds - Special Exhibition Fund
Box 17
Funds - Stern, Harold P.
Funds - Trust Fund, general
Funds - Williston, Samuel Wendell Research Fund
Investment policy committee (6 folders)
General Counsel (OGC) (2 folders)
OGC Agreements
OGC Wills/general
ASSITANT SECRETARY FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (2 folders)
Advancement Council
Congressional Liaison, Office of
Box 18
Hearings
International Relations, Office of
International Activities Council
Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program (SFCP)
Special Events, Office of (OSE) (3 folders)
OSE Inaugural ball
OSE Invitation list (guest list)
OSE Menu
Use of facilities
Smithsonian Institution Press (SI Press) (2 folders)
SI Press - Handbook of North American Birds
SI Press - Handbook of North American Indians
SI Press - Recordings
SI Press - Folkways collection
SI Press - Regents Publication Award Program
Smithsonian Magazine (2 folders)
Smithsonian Magazine - Article
Smithsonian Magazine - Membership (A-K)
Box 19
Smithsonian Magazine - Membership (L-Z)
Smithsonian Magazine - Horizons (2 folders)
Air & Space Magazine
Telecommunications, Office of (OTC)
Latin Americans (Buried Mirror)
National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Educational Technologies
Smithsonian Project Discovery
Smithsonian World (SI World)
University of the Air
Development, Office of
Development Committee (2 folders)
Development - Smithsonian gifts
Development - Gifts (A-Y)
Smithsonian Associates (SA) - SI corporate membership program
Box 20
SA - Contributing Membership (2 folders)
SA - Donors
SA - Patrons
SA - Sponsoring
SA - Sustaining
SA - Lecture & seminar program
SA - Luncheon group
SA - Study tour
SA - Women's Committee
SA - James Smithson Society (3 folders)
SA - Secretary's Circle
SA - Smithsonian National Associates Program
SA - National Associates Board (2 folders)
SA - Smithsonian Resident Associate Program (2 folders)
SA - Associates magazine
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES
Council of Bureau Directors meeting
Council of Information and Education Directors
Box 21
Executive Resources Board
Management Committee meetings
Management - Agenda
Management - Council
Management - Staff meetings
SMITHSONIAN SECRETARIES
Secretary Robert McCormick Adams (RMA)
RMA - Anthropology (9 folders)
RMA - SI Series in Archaeological Inquiry
RMA - Appointments
RMA - Book
RMA - Book review
RMA - Clippings
RMA - Clubs & associations (A-Z)
RMA - Honorary appointments and degrees
RMA - Interviews
Box 22
RMA - Invitations (5 folders)
RMA - Personal
RMA - Christmas card
RMA - Photos
RMA - Speech (2 folders)
RMA - State of the SI address
RMA - Trips
RMA - Written articles
Office of the Secretary Emeritus (S. Dillon Ripley)
Books
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
NGA Board of Trustees (3 folders) (video)
Box 23
NGA - Board of Trustees (2 folders) (video)
NGA - Finance Committee (3 folders)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (JFKC)
JFKC - Board of Trustees
JFKC - Council of Overseers
JFKC - Executive Committee
JFKC - Fine Art Accession Committee
FEDERAL AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, COUNCILS & DEPARTMENTS
Agency for International Development (AID)
Agriculture, Department of
Commerce, Department of
Commission for the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
D.C. Government
Defense, Army & Air Force, Department of
Education, Department of
Energy, Department of
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Asian Pacific American Council
Federal City Council
General Accounting Office - Comptroller (GAO)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Health & Human Services, Department of (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Box 24
Interior, Department of
Interior - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Interior - National Park Service
Institute of Museum Services
Justice, Department of
King, Martin L. Federal Holiday Commission
Labor, Department of
Librarian of Congress
Merit System Protection Board
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (4 folders)
NASA - International Space Year
National Archives
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
OMB - Bulletins
Office of Personnel Management
Office of Science and Technology Policy
State, Department of
Transportation, Department of
United States Information Agency (USIA)
United States Postal Service
White House
White House - President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities
White House - White House Historical Association
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS)
Box 25
WWICS - Board of Trustees (2 folders) (video)
WWICS - Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Private Organizations - A Better Chance Inc.
African American Museums Association
Air & Space Heritage Council Inc.
American Academy of Achievement
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
American Association of Museums (AAM)
American Association for Research in Baghdad
American Council of Learned Societies
American Journal of Archaeology
American Oriental Society
American Philosophical Society
American Schools of Oriental Research
Archaeological Institute of America
Association of American Universities
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
Aviation Historical Society of Massachusetts
Brookings Institution
Business Committee for the Arts Inc.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Challenger Center for Space Science Education
Consortium of Social Science Associations
Council of American Maritime Museums
Council on Competitiveness
Council on Foreign Relations Inc.
Council on Foundations
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Council for Museum Anthropology
Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
Foundations (A-M)
Box 26
Foundations (N-Z)
Greater Washington Board of Trade
History of Science Society (HSS)
International Research & Exchanges Board
Joint Center for Political Studies Inc. (3 folders)
Middle East Institute
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Museum Trustee Association
National Academy of Public Administration
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (3 folders)
Box 27
NAS (5 folders)
National Research Council (7 folders)
Commission on Behavioral & Social Sciences & Education (CBASSE) (2 folders)
Box 28
CBASSE (6 folders)
NAS Global Change (2 folders)
NAS International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
National Sciences Resources Center (NAS/NSRC)
NSRC Advisory Board (2 folders)
NSCR Superconducting super collider
National Center for Nonprofit Boards
National Commission to Save American Culture Collections
National Congress of American Indians
National Geographic Society (NGS)
Box 29
Santa Fe Institute (3 folders)
School of American Research (SAR) (5 folders)
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Society for American Journal of Archaeology
Society for Archeological Research
Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA)
Society for History in the Federal Government
United States Capitol Historical Society
World Resources Institute
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS - Commonwealth Science Council
International Council for Archaeozoology
International Council of Museums
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Union for Conservation of Nature
United Nations
UNESCO
World Monuments Fund
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES (Countries by name)
Afghanistan
Africa
Argentina
Australia
Bahrain
Belgium
Benin (West Africa)
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Egypt
England
Box 30
France
Germany
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Korea
Libya
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
Nigeria
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
USSR
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
Miscellaneous (A-M)
Box 31
Miscellaneous (N-Z)
Regents - General
Regents - Audit & review committee (2 folders)
Regents - Dinner
Regents - Executive Committee
Regents - Meetings: September 18, 1989
Regents - Meetings: January 30, 1989
Regents - Meetings: May 8, 1989
Regents - Membership
Regents - Newsletter
Regents - Nominating Committee (2 folders)
Cancel (outgoing letters)
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