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Record Unit 285
National Museum of History and Technology, Office of the Director,
Photographs, 1920s-1970s


Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. BUILDINGS

  Series 2. EVENTS

  Series 3. SPECIAL EXHIBITS

  Series 4. PERMANENT EXHIBITS, ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING

  Series 5. PERMANENT EXHIBITS, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING, c. 1963-1973

  Series 6. PERMANENT EXHIBITS, SMITHSONIAN AND NATURAL HISTORY BUILDINGS

  Series 7. EXHIBITS, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING, PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS

  Series 8. EXHIBITS IN STORAGE



DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

The Offices of the Director and Deputy Director, National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) maintained these photographs as a reference file. The majority of the photographs document the history of NMHT and its predecessors; included are views of exhibits, buildings, events, and some specimens.


SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
BUILDINGS

Box 1 of 36
Folder1   Arts and Industries Building, Unidentified storage areas
Folder2   Arts and Industries Building, Flag storage area
Folder3   Arts and Industries Building, Military storage area
Folder4   Arts and Industries Building, Political history storage area
Folder5   Arts and Industries Building, Military History storage area
Folder6   Arts and Industries Building, Small arms laboratory
Folder7   Natural History Building, Cultural history storage area

Box 2 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folder1   Exterior, models
Folder2   Exterior, Drawings by Hugh Ferris
Folder3   Exterior, Drawings by Elliot Glushak
Folder4   Exterior, Drawings, unidentified
Folder5   Floor plans
Folder6   Interior, models
Folder7   Proposed construction for Bicentennial
Folder8   Proposed sixth floor addition--models and drawings
Folder9   Proposed sixth floor addition--photographs of library conditions necessitating sixth floor. Includes views of fifth floor library, basement vault, Dibner Library, Rare Book Room (Arts and Industries Building), and Joseph Henry Papers (SI Building).
Folder10   Proposed sixth floor addition--photographs for budget hearings, 1977
Folder11   Construction of HTB, undated
Folder12   Construction of HTB, Test-boring, April 20, 1956

Box 3 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folder1   Construction, demolition of temporary buildings on site, June 23, 1958
Folder2   Construction, Excavation, 1958-1959
Folders3-4   Construction progress, SI photographs 1959-1960 - Negatives from folder 4 removed to box 35

Box 4 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folders1-4   Construction progress, SI photographs, 1961-1962. Negatives from folders 2-3 removed to box 35

Box 5 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folders1-2   Construction progress, SI photographs, 1962-1963
Folders3-7   Construction progress, Norair photographs, 1959-1961 - Negatives from folder 5 removed to box 35

Box 6 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folders1-4   Construction progress, Norair photographs, 1962-1964
Folder5   Construction progress, Kenyon photographs, 1963
Folder6   Construction of Railroad Hall and installation of locomotive and tender

Box 7 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folders1-2   Exterior, c. 1963-1972
Folder3   Exterior, Fountains
Folder4   Exterior, Calder stabile
Folder5   Exterior, Infinity sculpture. Includes photographs of installation
Folder6   Exterior, "Three Red Lines" sculpture

Box 8 of 36

History and Technology Building

Folder1   Interior, general
Folder2   Interior, Basement, analytical laboratory
Folder3   Interior, Bookstore
Folders4-10   Interior, Dibner Library. Includes drawings for proposed display room, 1974; drawings by Paul Takacs, 1974; drawings by Dick Virgo, 1974; photographs of completed space; and photographs of loan items.
Folder11   Interior, Fire damage, 1971(?)
Folder12   Interior, Fire in computer exhibit, October 1971 - Negatives removed to box 35
Folder13   Interior, Mall entrance
Folders14-16   Interior, Reception suite. Includes photographs of damage to painting, October 24, 1972; completed space, 1973; and drawings by Paul Takacs of proposed changes, 1974 - Negatives from folder 15 removed to box 35
Folder17   Interior, Storage areas, work areas, and Library, undated
Folders18-19   Interior, Cultural history storage
Folder20   Interior, Mechanical and civil engineering storage
Folder21   Interior, Musical instruments storage
Folder22   Interior, Television studio

SERIES 2.
EVENTS

Box 9 of 36
Folder1   Optical Society reception, undated
Folder2   Ground-breaking for History and Technology Building, August 22, 1958
Folder3   Cornerstone-laying for History and Technology Building, May 19, 1961
Folder4   Presentation of Southern Railway Locomotive, June 27, 1962
Folder5   Move to History and Technology Building, 1963
Folder6   Weighing of Hart-Parr tractor and John Bull in Arts and Industries Building prior to move to History and Technology Building
Folder7   Dedication of History and Technology Building, January 22, 1964
Folders8-9   Smithson Bicentennial, September 1965
Folder10   White House tour, 1967
Folder11   White House tour, April 1968
Folder12   Charles G. Abbot's 96th birthday, June 4, 1968
Folder13   Presentation of artificial kidney machine, June 24, 1968
Folder14   Stahlman presentation of Breeches Bible, October 9, 1968

Box 10 of 36
Folder1   Inaugural reception for Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, January 19, 1969
Folder2   Inaugural Ball for President Richard M. Nixon, January 20, 1969
Folder3   Luncheon meeting of the Inter-Association Council of the American Advertising Federation, March 26, 1970
Folder4   Opening of bookstore, 1972
Folder5   Presentation of Draeger Rescue Apparatus, 1972
Folder6   Opening of Hall of Printing and Graphics Arts, 1972
Folder7   Retirement party for Philip Bishop, March 17, 1972
Folder8   Retirement party for John Ford, postal employee, Headsville Post Office, June 1972
Folder9   Doubleday Lecture by Akio Morita, 1973
Folder10   Opening of Music Machines exhibit, 1973
Folder11   Inaugural Ball for Richard M. Nixon, January 20,1973
Folder12   Inaugural Ball, Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with chicken, January 20, 1973
Folder13   Opening of Copernicus exhibit, April 1973
Folder14   Bill Smith Bicentennial stamp presentation, September 27, 1973
Folder15   Retirement party for Daniel Boorstin, October 1973
Folder16   Luncheon for Daniel Boorstin, October 1, 1973
Folder17   Presentation of Downey centennial plate to Silvio Bedini by Congressman Clawson, California, October 9, 1973
Folder18   Reception for Brooke Hindle, October 25, 1973(?)
Folder19   Reception for Chicago Board of Trade, 1974
Folder20   Dedication of Carmichael auditorium, 1974
Folder21   Smithsonian Employees, miscellaneous groups

Box 11 of 36
Folder1   Doubleday Lecture by Nelson, March 7, 1974
Folder2   Movement of John Bull locomotive from Growth of the United States exhibit, June 1974
Folder3   Visit of Israeli delegation, September 2-3, 1974
Folder4   Visit of Apollo-Soyuz astronauts and cosmonauts, September 8, 1974
Folder5   Opening of Leonardo Madrid Manuscript exhibit, September 30, 1974
Folder6   Opening of International Postal Union exhibit, October 1974
Folders7-8   Restoration of mace for House of Representatives, November 1974
Folder9   Presentation of Dibner Library, November 25, 1974
Folder10   Presentation of NMHT marble and silver dollar to Bern Dibner, November 25, 1974
Folder11   John Nicholas Brown and National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board dinner, May 14, 1975
Folder12   Visit of Hank Aaron, October 1975(?)
Folder13   Going-away party for Monica Longen, November 1975
Folder14   Making of film on centennial, November-December 1975
Folder15   Retirement of Daniel Boorstin, 1976
Folder16   Presentation of boxing gloves by Mohammed Ali, March 1976
Folder17   Tour for National Scholarship winners, March 29, 1976
Folder18   Visit of Prime Minister of Bavaria, April 8, 1976
Folders19-20   Opening of 1876 exhibit, Arts and Industries Building, May 9, 1976 and May 10, 1976
Folder21   Presentation of gown by First Lady Betty Ford, May 1976
Folder22   Opening of Nation of Nations exhibit, June 1976
Folder23   Visit of King and Queen of Spain to "Columbus and His Time" exhibit, June 3, 1976
Folder24   Opening of Leonardo-Windsor exhibit, July 1, 1976
Folder25   Retirement of Grace Cooper, August 1976
Folder26   Alex Haley lecture, "The Black Heritage," April 1977
Folder27   Opening of Silver Jubilee exhibit, June 14, 1977
Folder28   Visit of David Shinnick to Silver Jubilee exhibit, June 15, 1977
Folder29   Unidentified events

SERIES 3.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS

Box 12 of 36
Folder1   Abandoned Mine Scenes, 1974
Folder2   America Set to Music, 1974-1975
Folder3   American Folk Craft Survivals, 1968
Folder4   America's Forests, 1976
Folders5-6   Anatomical Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, 1976
Folder7   Antique Scientific Instruments
Folder8   Art and Spirit of a People, 1965
Folder9   Bathrooms in America, 1974
Folder10   Chaim Goldberg, 1973
Folder11   A Children's World (Sears Toy Exhibit), 1971
Folder12   The Coke Push, 1968
Folder13   Columbus and His Time, 1976
Folder14   The Commonwealth in Africa and the Caribbean, 1969

Box 13 of 36
Folder1   The Copernican Century, 1973
Folder2   The Copp Family Textiles, 1968
Folders3-6   1876, 1976. Includes photographs of installation and Lautman photos.
Folder7   Federal Science and Engineering, model for exhibit, 1964
Folder8   General Services Administration exhibit on MHT during construction of new building
Folder9   George Washington Carver (exhibit at White House), 1971
Folder10   Historic Stamps and Postal Documents of the British Commonwealth
Folder11   Holiday Exhibits, George Washington's Birthday
Folders12-13   Holiday Exhibits, Washington and Lincoln, 1972-1973
Folder14   Holiday Exhibits, Leif Ericsson and Christopher Columbus, 1972

Box 14 of 36
Folders1-4   Holiday Exhibits, Christmas, 1971, 1976-1977
Folder5   Holiday Exhibits, Labor Day, 1972
Folder6   Human Rights, 1968
Folder7   Ideas of Richard and Dion Neutra, 1969
Folder8   Kiln Club, 1965
Folder9   Kin and Communities, 1977
Folder10   Labor Department, 1963
Folder11   Life Science Radiation, 1966
Folders12-13   The Madrid Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, 1974. Includes photographs of mounting of manuscripts for the exhibit.
Folder14   The Madrid Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci at Museum of Natural History
Folder15   The Malaspina Expedition, 1978
Folder16   Mall entrance exhibit, 1972
Folder17   Music Machines-American Style
Folder18   Music Making-American Style, 1966-1967
Folders19-22   A Nation of Nations, 1972-1976. Includes photographs of early concepts, models, installation progress, staging areas.
Folder23   Person to Person, 1977
Folder24   Productivity exhibit, 1973
Folder25   The Quest for the Presidency, 1968
Folder26   Ride On, 1977
Folder27   The Right to Vote, 1972
Folder28   The Roots of California Culture
Folder29   Rube Goldberg, 1970
Folder30   Say it Again Sam, 1973
Folder31   7000 Years of Iranian Art
Folder32   Shaving Through the Ages, 1973

Box 15 of 36
Folders1-12   Silver Jubilee, 1977. Includes lists of objects; photographs of specimens from NMHT, Bretzfelder, British Embassy, Eisenhower Library, Ford Library, NCFA, Shinnick, Steuben, Windsor Castle, and White House; and press clippings. Negatives removed from folder 1 to box 35
Folder13   Slovenes in America, 1971
Folder14   Steuben Glass
Folder15   Suiting Everyone, 1975
Folder16   Systems of Stencil Ornament of Louis Sullivan, 1968
Folder17   Ten Italian Architects, 1969
Folder18   Tools to Test Psychic Phenomena, 1978
Folder19   Townsend Act, 1968-1969
Folder20   Viceregal Silver from Peru, 1967-1968
Folder21   Victorian Needlework, 1966-1967
Folder22   We the People, 1975
Folder23   Wedgwood Portrait Medallions and First Period Porcelain, 1967
Folder24   Whatsit Case
Folder25   White House China, 1975-1976
Folder26   Women and Politics, 1970
Folder27   World War I Art, 1967

SERIES 4.
PERMANENT EXHIBITS, ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING

Box 16 of 36
Folders1-2   Aeronautics. Includes National Air Museum exhibits in South Yard buildings as well as A & I.
Folder3   Anthropology
Folder4   Bees
Folder5   Ceramics and Glass. Includes exhibits of Pell Collection and White House China.
Folder6   Coins, stamps, and musical instruments
Folder7   Costumes Includes exhibit of Capp Collection.
Folder8   Engineering and science

Box 17 of 36
Folder1   First Ladies Hall
Folder2   Fisheries
Folder3   Graphic Arts
Folder4   Mammals
Folder5   Medical history
Folder6   Military history
Folder7   Numismatics
Folder8   Paleontology
Folder9   Postal history
Folder10   Rotunda exhibits. Includes exhibits of U.S. and military history.
Folder11   Silver
Folder12   Small arms
Folder13   Textiles

Box 18 of 36
Folders1-2   Transportation
Folders3-5   United States history
Folder6   Brand Whitlock Collection of medals and decorations
Folder7   Unidentified

SERIES 5.
PERMANENT EXHIBITS, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING, c. 1963-1973

Box 19 of 36

First Floor

Folder1   Agricultural history. Includes photographs of John Dierbeck, Joseph Saunders, Richard Wilder, John Montgomery, and Leonard Ludes with exhibits; of Huber tractor on loading platform; and of installation of exhibit.
Folder2   Autos and coaches
Folder3   Computers
Folder4   Hall of Electricity
Folder5   Foucault pendulum
Folder6   Heavy machinery Includes photographs of Benjamin W. Lawless and Harry Harris.
Folder7   Light machinery Includes photographs of Joseph Saunders, Harry Harris, Myrna Franklin, John Vernon, and Richard Wilder; and of installation of exhibit.
Folder8   Hall of Medical Sciences
Folder9   Hall of Nuclear Energy
Folder10   Hall of Petroleum
Folder11   Hall of Physical Sciences
Folders12-14   Post Office Includes photographs of post office as it stood in Headsville, West Virginia, and its dismantlement.
Folder15   Power Hall
Folder16   Railroad Hall Includes photographs of John H. White, Mary S. Chroniger, Andrew B. Waynick, John Harden, and Richard S. Minnick.
Folder17   Textiles
Folder18   Hall of Tools Includes photographs of William K. Henson, John Wink, Stanley M. Santoroski, Edward H. White, Harry Hart, Joseph Saunders, John Fling, and Andre Swancy working on exhibits.
Folder19   Hall of Tunnels and Bridges Includes photographs of exhibit construction.

Box 20 of 36

Second Floor

Folder1   American Costume
Folder2   Everyday Life in the American Past Includes photographs of J. B. Bynum, John Houser, Charles Rowell, Richard Wilder, Andre Swancy, Rodris Roth, John Anglim working on or inspecting exhibits.
Folder3   First Ladies Hall. Includes photographs of Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and Sara Taft.
Folder4   Flag Hall
Folder5   Folk Art. Includes photographs of individual specimens of Dentzel carousel animals before restoration.
Folders6-7   Growth of the United States. Includes photographs of Ipswich House before dismantling and ghetto house proposed for exhibit.
Folder8   Historic Americans Includes photographs of fire damage.
Folder9   Political History
Folder10   Statue of George Washington by Greenough
Folder11   White House China

Third Floor

Folder12   Armed Forces History
Folder13   Ceramics Hall
Folder14   Glass
Folder15   Hall of Money and Medals
Folder16   Hall of Musical Instruments
Folder17   Hall of News Reporting. Includes photographs of proposed designs.
Folder18   Ordnance
Folder19   Philadelphia (gunboat). Includes photographs of installation.
Folder20   Hall of Philately and Postal History
Folder21   Hall of Photography
Folder22   Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts
Folder23   Underwater Exploration

SERIES 6.
PERMANENT EXHIBITS, SMITHSONIAN AND NATURAL HISTORY BUILDINGS

Box 20 of 36
Folder24   SI Building, Graphic Arts
Folder25   SI Building, Smithsonian secretaries
Folder26   Natural History Building, Military history

SERIES 7.
EXHIBITS, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING, PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS

Box 21 of 36
Folder1   Agriculture
Folder2   Armed Forces History
Folder3   Autos and Coaches. Consists of series of photographs depicting installation of U. S. Mail wagon.
Folder4   Ceramics
Folder5   Costume
Folder6   Electricity
Folder7   Engineering--Bridges
Folder8   Engineering--Tunnels
Folder9   Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past
Folder10   Flag Hall
Folder11   Glass
Folder12   Graphic Arts--photomechanical processes
Folder13   Growth of the United States. Includes photographs of construction of water wheel.
Folder14   Heavy Machinery
Folder15   Light Machinery
Folder16   Medicine and Dentistry
Folder17   Musical Instruments
Folder18   Numismatics
Folder19   Ordnance

Box 22 of 36
Folder1   Pharmacy
Folder2   Philately
Folder3   Physics and astronomy
Folder4   Political history
Folder5   Railroads
Folder6   Tools
Folder7   Underwater Exploration
Folder8   Watercraft

SERIES 8.
EXHIBITS IN STORAGE

Box 22 of 36
Folder9   Hall of Everyday Life
Folder10   Light Machinery Hall
Folder11   Civil Engineering, bridge section
Folder12   Tool Hall
Folder13   American Politics
Folder14   Ceramics Hall
Folder15   Glass Hall

Box 23 of 36
Folder1   American Advertising Federation Meeting, March 26, 1970. Negatives removed to box 35
Folder2   Bookstore Fronts. Negatives removed to box 35
Folder3   Watercolor on cobweb by Johann Burgmann, c.1810
Folder4   Oil painting on cobweb by Mrs. James Blunt Clopton, 1938
Folder5   Deutsches Museum, Munchen
Folder6   Hugh Ferris drawing of HTB. Negative number SA285-183
Folder7   Events--Weather Crop exhibit, September 1972
Folder8   The American Costume Committee, First Ladies Hall, U.S. National Museum, Arts and Industries Building, 1915
Folder9   Medical Exhibit
Folder10   Political Library exhibit, Arts and Industries Building
Folder11   Miscellaneous exhibits, Arts and Industries Building
Folder12   Historic Monument, Arts and Industries Building
Folder13   Exhibit, unidentified
Folder14   Machinery exhibit. Negatives removed to box 35
Folder15   Leonardo exhibit. Negative removed to box 35
Folder16   Exhibits, unidentified
Folder17   Exhibits--HTB, general (empty)
Folder18   Permanent exhibits, Mathematics, HTB (empty)
Folder19   Exhibits. Negatives removed to box 35
Folder20   Exhibits. Negative number 77,831
Folder21   Exhibits, Graphic Arts. Negative number 5,353
Folder22   Music Machines exhibit, concert, May 5, 1973
Folder23   Heavy Machinery University of Pennsylvania, May 1960
Folder24   Restoration, unidentified
Folder25   "1876," Lautman slides
Folder26   "The Bell's First Note," 1753. Negative number 31581-G
Folder27   "Bryant Vase," by Tiffany and Company, 1875 Given to William Cullen Bryant
Folder28   "If We're So Good, Why Aren't We Better," NMHT exhibit
Folder29   "Life in Colonial Times"
Folder30   "People of Peoples," proposed exhibit
Folder31   British--"Silver Jubilee," June 1977
Folder32   George C. Maynard
Folder33   Mall, negative
Folder34   Historical Military Collection, Arts and Industries Building
Folder35   Cultural History Collection, Storage unit, NH & MHT
Folder36   Museum of History and Technology, Exterior models, 1964
Folder37   Negatives found in DDO in November 1975. Source unknown (seem to be of excavation)
Folder38   MHT, Sixth, floor library plans (from old blueprints)

Box 24 of 36
Folder1   HTB Floor plan Negative numbers SA 285-187 to 189
Folder2   Proposed sixth floor addition. Negative numbers SA 285-200-201.
Folder3   NMHT Basement, fourth and fifth floors. Show staff office placement entered by James H. Jones, c. 1973.
Folder4   Presentation for budget hearing on sixth floor addition. Negative numbers SA 285-245 to 250.
Folder5   Miscellaneous negatives related to first press releases of NMHT, 1964
Folder6   New England, miscellaneous
Folder7   Objects-of-the-Month, 1978(?)
Folder8   Printing Demonstration, Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts, May 1973. Photographs of Stanley Nelson demonstration.
Folder9   Relics of Washington and other VIP5
Folder10   Relic, Pocket Slate of Andrew Ellicott, 1791
Folder11   SI Centennial, slides and negatives
Folder12   Scientific Instruments, slides
Folder13   Scientific Instruments, Franklin's Odometer Gear
Folder14   Scientific Instruments, Wooden Surveying Compasses
Folder15   Scientific Instruments, Astronomical survey equipment
Folder16   Scientific Instruments, Levels, Brass Surveying Compasses
Folder17   Mr. Ripley, photographs and negatives
Folder18   Specimens, unidentified
Folder19   Specimens, Costume
Folder20   Specimen, Textiles
Folder21   Stamp and Coin Collections
Folder22   Tenant House, Second floor storage area, June 20, 1969
Folder23   Tenant House, Storage area
Folder24   Memos and Correspondence
Folder25   House of Representatives Mace
Folder26   Duplicates
Folder27   Aeronautics
Folder28   Joseph Henry

Box 25 of 36
Folder1   Smithsonian Building, exterior. Includes photographs of Arts and Industries Building construction.
Folder2   Smithsonian Building interior
Folder3   National Academy of Science at Smithsonian Institution
Folder4   Secretary Exhibit

Box 26 of 36
Folder1   Natural History Museum
Folder2   Armory Building
Folder3   Old U. S. Patent Office Building
Folder4   Early Views of Washington
Folder5   Centennial Exhibit
Folder6   World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, 1893
Folder7   Cotton States and International Exhibition, Atlanta, 1895
Folder8   Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, 1901 Folder Louisiana Purchase Fair, Saint Louis, 1904

Box 27 of 36
Folder1   U. S., Jamestown Tercentennial, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907
Folder2   Sesquicentennial Exposition, 1926
Folder3   Unidentified Fair
Folder4   Views of Capitol
Folder5   Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
Folder6   Graphic Arts photograph album, in black binder. Topics include Machine Process, Costume and Physics.

Box 28 of 36
Folder1   Negatives for 1959-1963, progress photographs of NMHT construction

Box 29 of 36

Box 30 of 36
Folder1   Exhibits--transportation, slides
Folder2   Exhibits--textiles, slides
Folder3   Exhibits--postal, slides
Folder4   Exhibits--engineering, slides
Folder5   Exhibits--special, slides

Box 31 of 36
Folder1   Exhibits in storage, Graphic Arts, machine processes
Folder2   Exhibits in storage, Costume Hall
Folder3   Exhibits in storage, Physics Hall
Folder4   Exhibits in storage, Air Museum
Folder5   Exhibits in storage, Heavy Machinery Hall
Folder6   Exhibits in storage, Civil Engineering, tunnels
Folder7   Exhibits in storage, Hall of Railroads

Box 32 of 36
Folders1-57   Exhibits, HTB, Object-of-the-Month, June -1971 to January-February 1978

Box 33 of 36

Specimens

Folder1   Division of Ceramics and Glass, Glass model of Capitol
Folder2   Cultural History (?), desk
Folder3   Cultural History (?), sedan chair
Folder4   Cultural History, silver
Folder5   Cultural History, snuff box
Folder6   Electricity, Bell telephone transmitter, 1876
Folder7   Electricity, Laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866
Folder8   Electricity, Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph and type slugs
Folder9   Electricity, telegraph fire alarm
Folder10   Graphic Arts, Franklin printing press
Folder11   Graphic Arts, Horn book
Folder12   Graphic Arts (?), paintings on cobwebs
Folder13   Graphic Arts, printing press
Folder14   Graphic Arts, universal linotype
Folder15   Graphic Arts, woodblocks
Folder16   Mathematics, ENIAC
Folder17   Mathematics, H. H. Goldstine and J. B. Eckert
Folder18   Mathematics, Leibnitz print
Folder19   Mathematics, Mathematical instruments
Folder20   Mathematics, UNIVAC I tape drive
Folder21   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Corliss engine
Folder22   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Daniels planer
Folder23   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Gunstock lathe Replica by Thomas Blanchard c1822.
Folder24   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Leon Scott phonautograph
Folder25   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Typewriters
Folder26   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Thomas Jefferson desk
Folder27   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Abraham Lincoln busts
Folder28   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Lincoln Dredge
Folder29   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Pen used to sign Woman Suffrage Federal Amendment
Folder30   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Bust of Dr. Physick
Folder31   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Prints of Washington and Jefferson related items
Folder32   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Resolute desk
Folder33   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, George Washington spoon
Folder34   Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Washington memorabilia in MHT Film Studio, January-February 1976
Folder35   Postal History
Folder36   Preindustrial Cultural History, Ripley chair
Folder37   Textiles, Old sewing machines
Folder38   Textiles, Spinning wheel
Folder39   Textiles, Eli Whitney cotton gin model
Folder40   Division of Transportation

Box 34 of 36
Folder1   Slides
Folder2   Slides, Exhibits
Division 1 Everyday Life in American Past--Silver
Division 2 Folk Art
Division 3-5 Glass and Ceramics
Division 6 Graphic Arts
Division 7 Growth of the U. S.
Division 8 Heavy Machinery
Division 9 Light Machinery
Division 10 Medicine to Military History
Division 11 Music
Division 12 Nuclear Energy to Numismatics
Divisions 13-14 Ordnance
Division 15 Pendulum
Divisions 16-17 Physics
Division 18 Physics to Political History
Divisions 19-20 Postal History
Folders3-4   Slides
Division 1 Buildings, HTB, construction
Division 2 Buildings, HTB, construction, marble
Division 3 Buildings, HTB, drawings, models
Division 4-5 Buildings, HTB, exterior
Division 6 Buildings, HTB, Flag Hall
Divisions 7-10 Buildings, HTB, Infinity
Division 11 Buildings, Smithson Bicentennial
Division 12 Buildings, Folk Art, shop figures
Division 13 Exhibits, Agriculture to Autos and Coaches
Division 14 Exhibits, Chemistry to Civil Engineering
Divisions 15-16 Costumes
Division 17 Electricity
Divisions 18-20 Everyday Life
Folders4-7   Slides
Divisions 1-4 MHT, Scientific Instruments, miscellaneous
Divisions 5-20 Sea Coast trip

Box 35 of 36

Box 36 of 36
Folder1   Notation of appointment of Frank Taylor to Museum staff from Museum Doings book
Folder2   Special projects, Alexandria archeology
Folder3   Corridor project
Folder4   Corridor Project,Waterfront model
Folder5   Installation of exhibits for opening of MHT
Folder6   Infinity, construction and installation
Folder7   Move to HTB, Exhibits installation schedule
Folder8   MHT, Mall entrance drawings by Steinmann, Cain and White, architects, January 23, 1964
Folder9   Special projects, unidentified maritime museum
Folder10   Special project, maritime prints and photographs
Folder11   Restoration of Dentzel Carousel figures
Folder12   Publication, Musical Instruments in the Collections of the Smithsonian
Folders13-14   Restoration of machinery for 1876 exhibit. Includes photographs with Boy Scouts and Bill Henson, September(?) 1975.
Folder15   Restoration for Graphic Arts Hall, 1972
Folder16   Restoration of machinery for 1876 exhibit, Silver Hill, July-August 1974
Folder17   Restoration of First Ladies Gown
Folder18   Scope of a Technical Museum, chart by Carl Mitman, 1926
Folder19   Nineteenth century Victorian Bandstand at Soldiers Home, October 1977
Folder20   Plot location plan for Victorian Bandstand, October 28, 1977
Folder21   Windows into the American Past--The Kitchen, proposed exhibit


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