Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 338
National Air and Space Museum. Office of the Director
NASM Files, circa 1972-1989
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | National Air and Space Museum. Office of the Director |
| Title: | NASM Files |
| Dates: | circa 1972-1989 |
| Quantity: | 27.5 cu. ft. (27 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 338 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | These records provide documentation on the development of NASM after the huge success of its 1976 opening. The emphasis of the Museum's administration turned to revitalization of research efforts, professionalization of the staff, initiation of new projects and new exhibitions, an expanded program of publications, and plans to build both a new restaurant and an extension of the Museum at Dulles International Airport. The records primarily document the tenure of Walter J. Boyne as Acting Director and Director of NASM, 1982-1986, with small amounts of material pertaining to Michael Collins, Noel W. Hinners, James C. Tyler, Donald S. Lopez, and Martin Harwit. Also included are some records created by Boyne as Executive Officer, 1978-1979, Assistant Director for Resource Management and Operations, 1980, and Assistant Director, 1981. |
Historical Note
Michael Collins was the Director, National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1971-1978. Melvin B. Zisfein held the position of Acting Director until 1979 when Noel W. Hinners assumed the directorship, serving until 1982. Walter J. Boyne was named Acting Director in 1982 and Director in 1983. Upon Boyne's resignation in 1986, James C. Tyler became Acting Director. Martin Harwit served as Director, 1987-1995.
Descriptive Entry
These records provide documentation of the development of NASM as it built on the huge success of its 1976 opening. The emphasis of the museum's administration turned to revitalization of research efforts, professionalization of the staff, initiation of new projects and new exhibitions, an expanded program of publications, and plans to build both a new restaurant and an extension of the museum at Dulles International Airport.
The records primarily document the tenure of Walter J. Boyne as Acting Director and Director of NASM, 1982-1986, with small amounts of material of Michael Collins, Noel W. Hinners, James C. Tyler, Donald S. Lopez, and Martin Harwit. Also included are some records created by Boyne as Executive Officer, 1978-1979, Assistant Director for Resource Management and Operations, 1980, and Assistant Director, 1981.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Boyne, Walter J., 1929-
- Collins, Michael, 1930-
- Hinners, Noel W.
- Harwit, Martin, 1931-
- Tyler, James C., 1935-
- Lopez, Donald S., 1923-2008
- Dulles International Airport
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Dulles Extension
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 338, National Air and Space Museum. Office of the Director, NASM Files
Container List
Box 1
Museum Exhibits Operations
Museum Maintenance Costs
Museum Shop
NASM Air & Space Report, 1980
NASM Advisory Board Meetings, 1972-1977
NASM Navy Plans
Oak Tree
Public Address System
Public Relations/Media/etc.
Publications Review Committee NASM
Regional Resource Program
Rohrback, Peter
Roof Study
Safety Matters
Cost Estimate/Restoration Guidelines
Inventory/Racking
Silver Hill Study Group
Silver Hill Projects
Silver Hill, FY 1978 (5 folders)
Smithsonian Year
Silver Hill Museum
SI Evaluation Panel
Summer Evening Hours
Theatre Reorganization
American Aviation Historical Society
Abrams
Audio Tours/Acoustiguide
Aero Department
Affirmative Action
Art Collection
Artifacts
Box 2
Atherton-Seidell Fund
Attendance Figures/Problems
Awards Committee
BMD (Buildings Management Department) Memos
Bradbury Script/Storyboard
Bus Shelters
Cafeteria
Child Care Center
Collaborative Education
Interns
Curatorial Responsibility for Artifacts
Design Approval Process
Double Eagle II
Editorial Board
Curriculum Survey
Exhibit/Maintenance Schedule
NASM Direction & Priorities
Keith Ferris Mural
Floor Loading Plan
Filmstrip Program
Fifth Anniversary Celebration
Gallery Guidelines
GAT Expenses
Gifts
Grievance Procedure
Inaugural Ball, January 20, 1981
Man Hours
Milestones of Flight
Writing, etc.
Boyne correspondence files A-F
Box 3
Boyne correspondence files G-R
Correspondence Files, Alphabetical S-Z
WJB's (Walter J. Boyne) Trip Plans
Reno, 1981
Training Programs
Travel Requirements
Trip Reports
Universal Microfilms International
Box 4
Upcoming Scheduled Activities
Vacancy Reports
Wiley Post #3 Pressure Suit #34
Wright 1903 Flyer
Chron Correspondence Files for Noel Hinners, 1981 (8 folders)
NASM Internal Committees
Program Reports
Abrams Book
Acquisition Plans, NASM
Artifacts Policy
Associates
Bureau Directors
Education Division
Congressional Committees
CONOCO
Contributions/Educational Progress
Editorial Review Board
Council of Directors
History-Space Sciences
Exhibits & Presentations
Experimental Aircraft Association
Keith Ferris
History of Aviation Book Series
IMAX
Box 5
Miscellaneous OM's (Office Memoranda) Procedures & Instructions
Visiting Committee Report
Outside Activities
PAEC (Professional Accomplishments and Evaluation Committee)
Public Relations/NASM Press Releases
S. C. Johnson & Sons, Inc.
Personnel
Ramsey Fund
Atherton-Seidell Fund
Spacearium
25th Anniversary Space Flight
Smithson Society Awards to NASM
James A. Von Allen
Women's Committee
Policy Papers
Sculpture
Richard Lippold
Otero Sculpture
Sculpture-Noguchi
Charles Perry
Fred Durrant
Lindbergh Memorial Fund
Spitz Laboratories
Howard Hughes
SI Air & Space Shooting Script
Box 6
Michael Collins
NASM Model #1
Theater
Film #2/Budget Contract
Film #2/Frances Thompson
Fong v. Frosch
Spacearium Projectors/Carl Zeiss
IMAX
Spacearium
Hellmuth, Obata, Kassabaum, Inc.
Memorandums of Understanding
Silver Hill Museum
Washingtonian Article on Silver Hill, August 1973
Silver Hill Support Facility
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Smithsonian Council
SI Council, May 14, 1977
SI Press
P
Q
R
Ramsey Fund
Box 7
Ramsey Fund-Minutes of Meetings
S
SI Museum Shops
Silver Hill
Silver Hill Health and Safety Survey
Smithsonian Studies in Air & Space
Smithsonian Year, 1976
Solar Energy Collection
Sole Source Contracts
Organizational Regrets/NASM
Spirit of St. Louis Film
T
Tonka Toys
Juan T. Trippe
U
USIA
USSR Space Exhibits
Soviet Cosmonauts Visit, September 8, 1974
V
Visiting Committee
W
WETA Film on NASM
White House
Wolper Organization, Inc.
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Women's Committee
Wright Brothers 75th Anniversary, December 14, 1978
Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
Y
Z
Chronological Files, June 1979-February 1980
Box 8
Chronological Files, March 1980-March 1982
Correspondence with the Castle
Aero correspondence for WJB signature, 1984-1985 #1
Aero correspondence for WJB signature, 1984-1985 #2
Exhibits Department correspondence for WJB signature, 1984-1985
Box 9
Miscellaneous Hinners correspondence, 1980-1984
Freudenheim correspondence, 1986
Anderson correspondence, 1986
Anderson correspondence, 1985
Challinor correspondence, 1986
Challinor correspondence, 1985
Challinor correspondence, 1984
Challinor correspondence, 1983
Challinor correspondence, 1982-1983
Hughes correspondence, 1984-1985
Adams correspondence, 1986
Adams correspondence, 1985
Adams correspondence, 1984
SDR (S. Dillon Ripley) correspondence
Jameson correspondence, 1984-1986
Leven correspondence, 1984-1986
General Alphabetic Correspondence File
A-E
Box 10
F-R
Box 11
S-Z
Administrative Subject Files
Acoustiguide
Spanish-language Acoustiguide, undated (audiocassette) (Accession 13-124)
Advisory Board/NASM
Aeronautics
Affirmative Action
Alabama Space and Rocket Center
Amway
Atlas Hydroplane
Ariane Space
Arnold-Groenhoff Exp.
Art competition
Attendance (enhancement)
Aviation History Project
Bendix-Allied/Signal
Bicentennial of Flight Commemoration, 1983
Black Wings (1)
Black Wings (2)
Boeing
Box 12
British Museums
Buehler Aviation Research
Cafeteria Status
Cairo 200 donation
California Museum of Science & Technology
Caproni Exhibition
CEPS (Center for Earth and Planetary Studies), 1982-1986
Cessna A/C Co.
CBS Inc.
Challinor Report, 1983
Challinor Monthly report, 1984-1986 (3 folders)
Challinor Program Reports, 1982
Chamber of Commerce, U. S.
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
China, contacts & visitors
Coca-Cola
Collections Management
Conoco Inc.
Committee for a Wider Audience
Concerts: Military bands, ethnic
Council of Bureau Directors (Chairmanship, 1985), #1
Council of Bureau Directors, #2
Delta Airlines
Deutsches Museum Muenchen
Docents
Eastman Kodak
Editorial Advisory Board, 1981-1986
Education, 1985-1986
Education, 1983-1984
Box 13
Endeavor (proposed around the world balloon flight)
Enterprise Space Shuttle
Exhibits Division
Exhibits Division, 1983-1984
Experimental A/C Association (EAA, Oshkosh)
Explorers (IMAX film)
Exploring Space lecture series
Fairchild Industries
Federal Express
Fire & Ice (a history of comets)
Five Year Planning
Ford newsreel
Flyers, #2 (IMAX film)
Flyers, #1
General Counsel
General Electric
Glennan-Webb Seaman's Fund for Research in space history
Golden Age of Flight Gallery
Grumann
Guam rail
Halley's comet
Hail Columbia (IMAX)
Heineman Johnson Exhibit
IBM
IMAX general
Inaugural ball, 1985
Information management
Japanese contacts
Living planet
Lindbergh fund
Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace history
Looking at Earth
Box 14
NASM, March, November 1, 1984
Martin Marietta
McDonald Douglas
Movietone project
Musee de L'Air et de l'espace le Bourget
Museum delegations
Museum film network
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
National aerospace association
National committee on Space (Paine)
National Space Club
Northrup
Oral histories at NASM (original proposals)
PAEC
Paper airplane contest
M&M/Mars
Parc de l'Billetie
Parking
Perkin-Elmer
Planetarium (Spacearium)
Press coverage of NASM
"Probe" planetarium show
Public affairs
Research Advisory Committee
Research planning, 1983-1993
Research Report, 1984
Rockwell International
Safety
San Diego Aerospace Museum (Balboa Park)
Box 15
Silver Hill, 1983-1986
Silver Hill, 1975-1982
Silver Hill, security
Silver Hill, preservation plan
SITES (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)
Smithsonian Associates, National & Resident
SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
Smithson Society
SI Council
Smithsonian magazine
Smithsonian museum shops
SIP (Smithsonian Institution Press)
Smithsonian World
Space History Chair
Space Science & Exploration
SSE, 1979-1982
Space Telescope History Project
Special Events
Spirit of Texas Exhibit
"Stars" Gallery
Space Lab at NASM
Swiss Transport Museum
Texas Instruments
10th Anniversary of NASM
Box 16
Thank yous
Theater, 1984-1986
Theater, 1979-1982
Theater Booklet
To Fly (IMAX)
Training with industry
Translux
(NASM) Trophy
Truman Centennial
TRW
Twenty-five years of space exploration
United Airlines
United Technologies Corp.
USIA
US Air
USSR
UN programs
Vatican visit
Vendors, sidewalk
Videodisc project, origins to mid-1986
VIPs, 1982
VIPs, 1983-1984
Visual Inventory Control (VIC), Origins
Von Braun Lecture, 1984-1986
Voyager, around the world unrefueled flight
Women's Committee
Western Airlines
Windecker Eagle Avter
Wings Club award
Women on wings, airshow
Woottoni Aviation Art Exhibit
Wright Flyer restoration
Young Astronauts program
Box 17
Reading Files
1982-January 1983
Box 18
Reading Files
February 1983-February 1984
Box 19
Reading Files
March 1984-June 1985
Box 20
Reading Files
June 1985-December 1985
Lectures, speeches, symposia, seminars
Me 262
April 16, 1982 Air Force Historical Foundation problems associated with historical preservation
Silver Hill, general restoration speech with tape
Speech to Associates, June 23, 1983, new directions
Gee Bee Speech
Gann Film Introduction/appreciation
General Aviation Speech
Golden Age Talk
Speech, Joint Atlantic Seminar, April 1983
Speeches: light plane/ultra lights
Waterflying speech
Wright propeller presentation
Wright Symposium, introduction
Expendable Launch Vehicle
WJB speech to Guard Force, December 28, 1983
NASM current status, October 23, 1983
American Helicopter Symposium
Annual Charles A. Lindbergh Historical Lecture, May 1983
Associates Speech/NASM general
Bluford Reception Speech
B-17 arrival at Dulles
Marian Carl introduction
Dh-4 speech
Docent lecture
International Symposium, 1985
Stars & Planets Symposium, August 1983
Concept paper: teleconferences
WWI Seminar
Wright flyer: an engineering prospective, December 1983
Vertical Flight: The age of the helicopter, May 15, 1984
AIAA (American Institution of Aeronautics and Astronautics)/NASA Symposium on space stations, July 19, 1983
Aircraft restoration seminar, October 1983
Ethnoastronomy, September 1983
Exploring Space speech, 1984
15th anniversary of Apollo 11, July 20, 1984
Golden Age of Flight, April 1983
The Road after 1984: High tech human freedom, 8th International SI Symposium, December 1983
History of contemporary technology and science, 1984
Seminar on history and technology, NYU (New York University)/NASM, April 1984
1983 Aviation conference, International Assn Transport Museum, September 1983
International Space Symposium, NASM, November 1984
Libraries seminar lecture series, January 25, 1984
Regional resource program, NASM, July 1982, 1983
SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) annual meeting, October 1983
Air and Space Heritage Council
Post Challenger
Box 21
Draft Technical Report, August 1984
Original Scope of Work, 1983-1984
NASM's New Wing Other Site
Fact Sheets
Press Coverage
Education and Research Planning
Dewberry and Davis Site Study
Specialty Restaurants Corporation
Restaurant Interest
Funding and Operating Expenses
Temporary Shelter
Interim Building
Castle Memoranda: Adams, Gaynor, Anderson
HOK Feasibility Study
Early Congressional Interest
Early Curatorial Planning
Vietnam Exhibition
Black Caucus
Center for Innovative Technology
Correspondence
Robert McCall (artist)
General (?) Correspondence (2 folders)
S. 1311, Goldwater, June 1985
Federal Aviation Administration
H.R. 4183, Fugua, February 1986
Box 22
Adams Statement for Hearings, June 1985
H.R. 3403, September 1985
W-D Task Force
Incorporation, Air and Space Heritage
Enterprise and Wright Memorial Dinner
SS&E Search for Department Chairman
Marty Moore (NASM fundraiser)
Development Officer Search
Walter J. Boyne
Digitizer
The Dream is Alive
Box 23
Premiere
Press Release, June 19
Cronkite
The Dream is Alive
Chronological Files, 1986
Administrative Policies and Procedures
Public Affairs
Monograph Series
Box 24
Audits and Inventory
Internships
1987 Constitutional Celebration
Curatorial Review, committee report, 1987
Briefings
Exhibits
Exhibits - Enola Gay, 1983 (Accession 06-218)
Aeronautics Department correspondence
Challenger material
Archives
Budget
Budget comparisons
Cambridge University Board of Extra-mural Studies
Child Care Center
Congressional liaison
Congressional Staff Advisory Board
Contemporary History Seminar
Cornell Fellowship Proposal
Governance in Space
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Independent Activities
MIT Museum Lecture Series
Box 25
NASM Advisory Board
NASM Archives
NASM general information
NASM Loan Policy
NASM-NYU Course, 1984-1985
NASM-Oxford Cambridge Coop. Program
NASM Organization
NASM Restaurant
Organization Charts
Pan-institutional List
Parking
Paul Garber Oral History
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
Rand Corp.
Reorganization
Retreat (Belmont)
Russian Space Exhibit
Sloan Foundation
Smithsonian Council
SS&E (Space Science and Exploration) Chair Search
Special Exhibition Fund
Springfield, Massachusetts 350th Birthday Celebration, 1986 (Accession 10-010)
Terrorism Study
University of Massachusetts
University Programs Master Plan
University Programs
Visiting Committee
Visiting Committee Research
Voyager
Washington Performing Arts Society
Box 26
Wellesley College
Whitehead (Gustav) Controversy
Women's Committee Grant, Wellesley
Women's Committee, SI
James C. Tyler, Acting Director, correspondence, 1987
Donald S. Lopez, Acting Director, correspondence, 1987 (see also Accession 91-099)
Martin Harwit, Director, correspondence, 1987-May 1988
Box 27
Martin Harwit, Director, correspondence, June 1988
Transcript of a conference "The Center for Democracy," undated
Martin Harwit, Director, correspondence - A-Q, 1989 ("N" appears to be missing)
Box 28
Martin Harwit, Director, correspondence - R-Z, 1989
Space Science and Exploration Reorganization and Professionalism Memoranda, 1985-1987 (Accession 16-354)
Mission, Goal, and Policy Memoranda, 1987-1988 (Accession 16-354)
Curatorial Association Memoranda, 1988 (Accession 16-354)
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