Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 287
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Department of Exhibitions
Exhibition Records, 1974-1979
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Department of Exhibitions |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1974-1979 |
Quantity: | 10.86 cu. ft. (20 document boxes) (2 12x17 boxes) (1 oversize folder) |
Collection: | Record Unit 287 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records document Cooper-Hewitt Museum exhibitions from 1974 to 1979, especially the Museum's Museum Without Walls project; Immovable Objects/Lower Manhattan, from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge, 1975; and the Museum's first exhibition at the Carnegie Mansion, MAN transFORMS/Aspects of Design, 1976. These records were assembled by Dorothy Twining Globus, Exhibits Specialist, and Lucy Fellowes, Exhibits Researcher, and consist of correspondence with museum administrators, architects and designers, and interested persons concerning the exhibits, catalogs, and loans of objects. In addition, there are research notes, photographs, printed materials, budgets, newspaper and journal articles, notes taken at meetings, and blueprints and drawings. Oversize materials consist of blueprints and drawings of floor plans and layouts of the exhibits, and graphic print posters for a Metamorphic theme (MAN transFORMS). |
Descriptive Entry
These records document the Cooper-Hewitt Museum exhibitions from 1974 to 1979, especially the Museum's "Museum Without Walls" project, Immovable Objects / Lower Manhattan, 1975, and the Museum's first exhibition show at the Carnegie Mansion, MAN transFORMS / Aspects of Design, 1976.
These materials were assembled by Dorothy Twining Globus, Exhibits Specialist, and Lucy Fellowes, Exhibits Researcher.
The records consist of correspondence with museum administrators, architects and designers, and interested persons concerning the exhibits, catalogues, and loans of objects. In addition, there are research notes, photographs, printed materials, budgets, newspaper and journal articles, notes taken at meetings, and blueprints and drawings. Oversize materials consist of blueprints and drawings of floor plans and layouts of the exhibits, and graphic print posters for a "metamorphic" theme (MAN transFORMS).
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Globus, Dorothy Twining
- Fellowes, Lucy
- Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Museum Without Walls Project
- Carnegie Mansion (New York, N.Y.)
- Immovable Objects: Lower Manhattan from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge (Exhibition) (1975: New York, N.Y.)
- MANtransFORMS, Aspects of Design (Exhibition) (1976-1977: New York, N.Y.)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 287, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Department of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records
Container List
Series 1
EXHIBITIONS, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, 1977-1979.Box 1
Folders 1-10 "The Royal Pavilion at Brighton," 1977
Folders 11-12 "American Federation of Art," 1977
Folder 13 "200 Years of American Architectural Drawing," 1977
Folders 14-16 "Andrea Palladio Exhibition," 1977
Box 2
Folders 1-2 "Andrea Palladio Exhibition," 1977
Folders 3-16 "More than Meets the Eyes," 1977-1978. See also oversize materials for blueprints.
Folders 17-18 "Look Again," 1978
Folder 19 "Artists' Postcards II," 1978
Box 3
Folders 1-8 "Embroidery Through the Ages," 1978
Folder 9 "Environmental Communications Looks at Los Angeles," 1978
Folder 10 "Museum of Drawers," 1978
Folders 11-13 "Ornament in the 20th Century," 1978-1979
Box 4
Folders 1-4 "Ornament in the 20th Century," 1978-1979 (cont'd)
Folder 5 "Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain, 1850-1930," 1979
Folders 6-9 "The Dream King, Ludwig II of Bavaria," 1979
Folder 10 "Roma Interrota," 1979
Series 2
EXHIBITION RESEARCH MATERIALS, 1974-1977.Box 5
Immovable Objects / Lower Manhattan (IO/LM)
Folder 1 Action pending - 1975
Folder 2 Battery Park City - 1975
Folder 3 Bibliography - 1975
Folder 4 Bicentennial Committee Planning Board - 1975
Folder 5 Building permits - 1975
Folders 6-7 Catalogue - 1975
Folder 8 Contact control - 1975
Folder 9 Contracts - 1975
Folders 10-11 Correspondence - 1975
Folder 12 Downtown Lower Manhattan Association - 1975
Box 6
Folder 1 Events, Inc. - 1975
Folders 2-3 Fraunces Tavern - 1975
Folder 4 Fundraising - 1975
Folder 5 Axel Horn: Research approach - 1975
Folder 6 Invitations to opening of exhibitions - 1975
Folder 7 Esther Kalsmith (intern) - 1975
Folder 8 Kaufman Buildings - 1975
Folder 9 Lower Manhattan: Important historical dates - 1975
Folder 10 Lower Manhattan: Origin of names and development - 1975
Box 7
Folders 1-2 Lower Manhattan Development, Office of - 1975
Folder 3 Mayor of the City of New York, Office of the - 1975
Folders 4-5 Meetings, 1974-1975
Folder 6 Merrill Lynch Building (1 Liberty Plaza, formerly 165 Broadway) - 1975
Folder 7 National Park Service - Federal Hall - 1975
Folders 8-9 Nets - 1975
Folder 10 Newspaper articles - Extracts - 1975
Folder 11 New York City Bicentennial Corporation - 1975
Folder 12 New York Historical Society - 1975
Folder 13 New York Times - 1975
Folder 14 Open Space - Seminar course by Kathryn Mathewson - 1975
Folder 15 Pamphlet: Notes and drafts - 1975
Folders 16-18 Postcard project - 1975
Folder 19 Printed materials - 1975
Box 8
Folder 1 Salica, Carol (intern) - 1975
Folder 2 Singer Building block (1 Liberty Plaza) - 1975
Folder 3 South Street Seaport Museum - 1975
Folder 4 Thank-you letters - 1975
Folder 5-6 Ticker Tape project - 1975
Folder 7 Time Spent on Job report - 1975
Folder 8 United States Customs House - 1975
Folder 9 Weinstein, Richard: Notes - 1975
Folder 10 Woolworth Building - 1975
Folder 11 Work proposal - 1975
Folder 12 WORKS, Inc.: contract - 1975
Folder 13 World Trade Center - 1975
Box 9
MAN transFORMS / Aspects of Design
Folder 1 Audio-visual inventory - 1976
Folder 2 Bread: Notes - 1976
Folder 3 Bread: The Blessings of Bread, by Adrian Bailey - 1976
Folder 4 Bread...Bread...Bread - 1976
Folder 5 Bread: Labels, drafts - 1976
Folder 6 Bread: Lists - 1976
Folder 7 Bread: Text information - 1976
Folder 8 Brochures for exhibition - 1976
Folder 9 Caplan, Ralph: "What to Do When a Designer Comes," undated
Folder 10 Catalogue: Background information of exhibit contributors, Paris meeting, July, 1975
Folder 11 Catalogue: Collection section: Text - 1976
Folder 12 Catalogue: Copy - 1976
Folder 13 Catalogue: Credits - 1976
Folders 14-22 Catalogue: Essays by contributors for the opening exhibition: Nader Ardalan; Peter Bode; Ralph Caplan; Hans Hollein; Arata Isozaki; Richard Meier; George Nelson; Ettore Sottsass; and Oswald M. Ungers. See also Boxes 21-22 and oversize materials. - 1976
Box 10
Folder 1 Catalogue: Contributors' essays - 1976
Folders 2-4 Catalogue: Galley proofs - 1976
Folder 5 Catalogue: Notes - 1976
Folder 6 Catalogue: Numbers - 1976
Folder 7 Cloth: Abachrome, Inc. - 1976
Folder 8 Cloth: Cloth as a Tool - 1976
Folder 9 Cloth: Embellished cloths - 1976
Folder 10 Cloth: Flags, maps, planes, ship, mummies - 1976
Box 11
Folder 1 Cloth: Kerchief layout (includes color transparency slides in plastic jackets) - 1976
Folder 2 Cloth: Knitting Times - 1976
Folder 3 Cloth: Labels for textile exhibit - 1976
Folder 4 Cloth: Master lists (Smithsonian Institution collections) - 1976
Folder 5 Cloth: Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1976
Folder 6 Cloth: Selected textiles - 1976
Folders 7-10 Cloth: Small textiles (Smithsonian and non-Smithsonian; Alice Beer notes; rejects) - 1976
Folder 11 Clothing: Information sources - 1976
Folder 12 Clothing: Master list - 1976
Folder 13 Clothing: Small textiles (Dorothy Globus' notes) - 1976
Box 12
Folder 1 Collection photographs (xeroxed copies) - 1976
Folder 2 Contributors' meetings, Paris, July 6-8, 1975: Minutes of meeting
Folder 3 Daily routine - 1976
Folder 4 Designed Being - 1976
Folders 5-6 Exhibition checklists - MAN transFORMS/Aspects 1976
Folder 7 Exhibitions: General correspondence and notes, 1976-1977
Folder 8 Fellowes, Lucy: Miscellaneous notes - 1976
Folder 9 Films: "Faces" - 1976
Folder 10 Films: Credits/copy - 1976
Folder 11 Films: Films reviewed - 1976
Folder 12 Films: Frank Film - 1976
Folder 13 Films: Hillary Harris - 1976
Folder 14 Films: "Igloo" - 1976
Folder 15 Films: Listing researched - 1976
Folder 16 Films: Peter Kubella - 1976
Box 13
Folder 1 Films: Mickey Mouse - 1976
Folder 2 Films: Opening exhibition show - 1976
Folder 3 Films: Plans - 1976
Folder 4 Films: Osterreichisches Film Museum - 1976
Folder 5 Films: Outlines - 1976
Folder 6 Films: Requests for films - 1976
Folder 7 Films: Scripts - 1976
Folder 8 Films: Viz, Inc. (Murray Grigor correspondence) - 1976
Folder 9 Films: Miscellaneous correspondence - 1976
Folder 10 Flags - 1976
Folder 11 Follow-ups - 1976
Folder 12 Furniture - 1976
Folder 13 Globus, Dorothy: Daily notes, 1976
Folder 14 Globus, Dorothy: Notebook, 1975
Box 14
Folder 1 Hammer Exhibition: Articles (xeroxed copies) - 1976
Folder 2 Hammer Exhibition: Bibliography (journal articles and miscellaneous correspondence) - 1976
Folder 3 Hammer Exhibition: Captions - 1976
Folder 4 Hammer Exhibition: Exhibition layout - 1976
Folder 5 Hammer Exhibition: Final selections - 1976
Folder 6 Hammer Exhibition: Lenders and donors (non-Smithsonian Institution) 1976
Folder 7 Hammer Exhibition: Master lists - 1976
Folder 8 Hammer Exhibition: Notes, drawings (includes some correspondence) 1976
Folder 9 Hammer Exhibition: Photographs; see also Box 15 - 1976
Folder 10 Hammer Exhibition: Smithsonian Institution - 1976
Box 15
Hammer exhibition. Types of hammers arranged alphabetically and includes photographs, and cutouts from newspapers and journal articles pasted on index cards - 1976
Box 16
Folder 1 Hollein, Hans - 1976
Folder 2 In-house purchase orders - 1976
Folder 3 Installation notes - 1976
Folder 4 Inventory: master lists (includes photographs) - 1976
Folder 5 Invitations and announcements - 1976
Folder 6 Korean Village script - 1976
Folder 7 Labels: "Birdcages" - 1976
Folder 8 Labels: "City Metaphors"; Meier Matamorphosis - 1976
Folder 9 Labels: "Cloth" - 1976
Folder 10 Labels: Films; photographs - 1976
Folder 11 Labels: General labels - 1976
Folder 12 Labels: Guidelines - 1976
Folder 13 Labels: "Oasis"; "Hammer"; "Gravity" - 1976
Folder 14 Labels: "Sacred Space"; "Stars" - 1976
Folder 15 Labels: "Seamless Surface"; "Users of Cloths" - 1976
Folder 16 Letter forms - 1976
Folder 17 Letters of introduction to opening exhibitions -1976
Folder 18 Loans: Agreements - 1976
Folder 19 Loans: Agreements (draft forms) - 1976
Folder 20 Loans: Agreements (not sent?) - 1976
Folder 21 Loans: Agreements: items returned to lenders - 1976
Box 17
Folder 1 Loans: Correspondence, general - 1976
Folder 2 Loans: Correspondence: Smithsonian Institution - 1976
Folder 3 Loans: Extensions - 1976
Folder 4 Loans: Museum loan numbers - 1976
Folder 5 Loans: Objects wanted - 1976
Folder 6 Loans: Loan returned - 1976
Folder 7 Loans: American Museum of Natural History - 1976
Folder 8 Loans: Brooklyn Museum - 1976
Folder 9 Loans: Jewish Museum - 1976
Folder 10 Loans: Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1976
Folder 11 Loans: Newark Museum - 1976
Folder 12 National Geographic Society: reference notes - 1976
Box 18
Folder 1 Opening Exhibition: Catalogue and information requests - 1976
Folder 2 Opening Exhibition: Description of the exhibitions and history of the museums - 1976
Folder 3 Opening Exhibition: Floor plans; see also oversize materials for blueprints of floor plans of museum - 1976
Folder 4 Opening Exhibition: Follow-up procedures - 1976
Folder 5 Opening Exhibition: Layout of exhibitions - 1976
Folder 6 Opening Exhibition: Maintenance - 1976
Folder 7 Opening Exhibition: Photography (include photographs) - 1976
Folder 8 Opening Exhibition: Public relation and follow-up - 1976
Folder 9 Opening Exhibition: Thanks and acknowledgements - 1976
Folder 10 Photographs: taken by Lucy Fellowes for research and installation of exhibitions, 1976.
Folder 11 Photographs: xeroxed copies - 1976
Folder 12 Portability - 1976
Folder 13 Press information kit - 1976
Folder 14 Public inquiry - 1976
Folder 15 Recording procedure: register notes - 1976
Folder 16 Sails: plane - 1976
Folder 17 Sails: tipi and windmill - 1976
Folder 18 Satellite shows - 1976
Folder 19 Schedule: dismantling - 1976
Folder 20 Seamless Surface - 1976
Folder 21 Shipping, insurance, etc. - 1976
Folder 22 Slide shows - 1976
Folder 23 Spaces: sacred and otherwise - 1976
Box 19
Folder 1 Stars Exhibits: Correspondence (non-SI, non-museums) - 1976
Folder 2 Stars Exhibits: Exhibition layouts - 1976
Folder 3 Stars Exhibits: Lists - 1976
Folder 4 Stars Exhibits: Loans - 1976
Folders 5-7 Stars Exhibits: Research materials - 1976
Box 20
Folder 1 Sun City, Arizona - 1976
Folders 2-3 Ungers, Oswald Matthias - 1976
Folder 4 Urban Design - 1976
Folder 5 Transparency - 1976
Folder 6 Travel - 1976
Folder 7 Washington, D.C. trip, January, 1976 - 1976
Series 3
MAN transFORMS, OVERSIZE MATERIALS.Box 21
Materials considered for catalogues and exhibits
Nader Ardalan
Murray Grigor
Hans Hollein
Arata Isozaki
Oswald Mathias Ungers
Box 22
Carnegie Mansion: floor plans of exhibit layout; and exhibit drawings
Series 4
BLUEPRINTS, DRAWINGS, AND GRAPHIC PRINTS."MAN transFORMS/Aspects of Design," exhibition, 1976 blueprints of layout of displays, and Carnegie Mansion ground; drawings of displays. Han Hollein; Architect/Designer. (approximately 70 blueprints and drawings)
Graphic prints of "Axonometric Drawings of Metamorphosis" (5 prints)
"More Than Meets the Eyes," exhibition, 1977: layouts of cases, pedestals, platforms and walls. (19 blueprints)
Subway exhibition, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue BMT subway station, mezzanine level, Manhattan, New York, 1977 (3 blueprints)
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