Accession 00-001 - National Museum of American History, Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, circa 1979-1990, and undated

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Accession 00-001
National Museum of American History,
Department of the History of Science and Technology,
Exhibition Records,
circa 1979-1990, and undated

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

These records document the planning, development, and installation of "Information Age: People, Information, and Technology," a major exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), which traces the evolution of information-processing and communications technologies from the 1830s to the present. The exhibition opened on May 9, 1990. The bulk of the records include the correspondence, memoranda, and research files of two NMAH staff members involved in the project: Jon B. Eklund, Assistant Curator, 1968-1969, Associate Curator, 1970-1982, and Curator, 1983-1994; and David K. Allison, Curator, 1987-1994; as well as files of Marie Mattson, Special Assistant to the Secretary, 1989-1990. Records also include graphic notebooks of photographic prints or photostatic copies of all the artifacts and graphics that appeared in the exhibition; installation photographs and slides; and exhibition blueprints.

Box 1 of 24

Jon B. Eklund's Records

9/25/87 Paul Edwards, UC Santa Cruz , "Closed Worlds ... 11 MS 10/87 Pfaffenberger, U of Virginia, "The Social Construction of the PC: Why the PC Revolution was no Revolution" (SCOT, Levy, Turkle)
Misc. stills & artifacts: early calculators, Government Data processing,
Jeff Sturchio [of Bell Labs] to David Allison: Bell Labs' role in innovation
6/84 Stevens Inst. Tech: every student has a computer
1979 Don Ihde, TECHNE & PRAXIS: Ch 5. The Existential import of computer technology
Cathart and Gumpert: The person-computer interaction" from INFORMATION & BEHAVIOR, Ruben ed. "return to B. Finn"
Kobayashi, "Computers and Communication"
Magda Cordell McHale, FACTS & TRENDS: THE CHANGING INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT; AN INFORMATION CHART BOOK
1982 Fortune & Business Week, etc. on power of future computer
11/85 High Technology Mag. "Microls at work"
10/85, IEEE Spectrum Mag. "Inside the PARC: the information architects"
1988 Computer and Information Security Conference 1982 Fortune Mag: series on "Thinking Machines"
7/18/88 Newsweek: Iranian Jetliner shot down. {see Finn's idea in "Memos to 1985"}
1988 Information Industry Association: prospectus
4/16/84 Time Mag: "Software: the Wizard Inside the Machine"
6/11/84 Information World Mag. : Alan Kay
1987 Krirsch and Kirsch: "Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recogitions" (AI 'understanding' art)
Office Automation technology
5/83 Paul Trachtman, "Mircroprocessors of the 3rd world" (AAAS meetings)
1987 William Greider SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE: HOW THE FEDERAL RESERVE RUNS THE COUNTRY
Office of Technology Assessment "Intellectual Property Rights in an age of electronics and information
12/28/87 Rogow and Bernstien to Allison: "Transmitted: set of approx. 250 unbound photocopies, pictorial research, 3-hole punched and divided into general are sections. {it appears that the material that follows this may come from that batch, but what was lost or added is not at all clear)
1/17/87 LA Times, Part VI: Cyberpunk Phenomenon
11/27/88 Rogow & Bernstein to Allison "re epidemiology and dangers of information" "Making Data crunching personal: Huntington's patients who learn of genetic disease become suicidal CBS new broadcast transcripts on microfilm catalog.
1978 Fortune Mag.:"The Computer Stores have arrived"
2/84 Robert a Vitro, "Managing International Development" journal: "The Information Engine" "The information sector can propel development"
Misc. technical imagery in advertising: IBM products
Misc. NYT clips: computers in politics, computer "love letters"
Computer animation
Superconductors
Computers and financial markets
4/87, Technology Review Mag, "Computers in the classroom', about Seymour Paper
1/86, technology review Mag, the Dreyfus brothers,, "Why Computers may never think like people"
Eklund to Allison: 1980 US census on CD ROM
10/23/87 IBM Canada to Allison: IBM system to "age" missing children
Japan-bashing
1987 Machine Mediated Learning (journal vol. 2 #1-2) "This issue explores how computers can improve the ways in which undergraduates in various disciplines "design.""--writing, science, genetics, algorithms, art
5/88 Smithsonian Mag. TV phone ad
Life Magazine: "In Tiny Devices a Revolution" (3/10/1961)
12/6-23/88 Doonesbury strips showing computer shopping hazards Misc. electronics advertisements
Csikszemtmihalyi & Rochberg-Halton THE MEANING OF THINGS: DOMESTIC
SYMBOLS AND THE SELF: "TV" written: "David: a little 'social perspective' for you on TV-Jackie [McGage]"
Speed of Time
6/82 Boston Review, Daniel Dennett "Notes on Prosthetic Imagination"
1980 Gassman, ed., Information, Computer and communication policies for the 80's. North-Holland Publishing Co.
5/87 US Information Agency World mag. "Information USA to Open in Moscow"
9/3/80 Chartrane, et al, "Computer graphics: applications and technology"
Congressional Research Office
Overviews
MS's by Howard M. Bloom, National Bureau of Standards, Factory automation systems division chief [about factory automation in US]
Allison to EDS re auto assembly segment
Kennedy Nixon Debates
3/22/88 Keith Meldner: comments on Info. Exhibition presentation of 3/7/88 what was? WHO gave?) "There needs to be explicit attention to the interpretation of the AMBIGUITY of the information age. It both empowers and frustrates human ambitions."
Richard Nixon essays on the debates (c. 1968-1970)
Role of UNIVAC and the census (c. 1968)
Unsigned script [Helvetica laser print] 1st page: "Information Age Beginnings [Morse:]"The first telegraph line-"; was this a revolution"
Newsletter
6/13/89 invite to "preliminary exhibition review" (other records of feedback, etc. Who was there? was this the advisory board?)
Misc. undated newsletter copy, design drawings of mannequins, etc.
4/3/89 unsigned Information Age "Levels of exhibition experience" (WHO??} [types of interaction expected for the visitor. Both social and technical levels intended to be addressed]
12/29/88 [Allison?] Information Age Status of Exhibit Sections [division of labor, progress report]
11/9/89 Draft Script Sections
11/17/89 Script, incl. graphics, objects, and labels
Legal-length plan views and elevations of logotypes undated object list
4/11/90 Final Script Sections [comments and credits for donations, etc.]
Forty Film Ideas
4/21/89 "Visions and Realities: a preliminary treatment for film" Jonathan Company, CA (when was film project dropped?)
Script fragment, incl. feminization of office work typography for text rails
10/27/89 Radio script fragment [edited in pencil] 1/21/88 Press packet from Doron D. Swade, head of Modern Technology, The Science Museum, South Kensington, to Finn: regarding The Science Museum's "Information Age Project."
1974 James L. Adams CONCEPTUAL BLOCK BUSTING, the Portable Stanford
4/29/88 "A Software Script by Martin Campbell?Kelly" [with Eklund cover memo]
Object list, undated
6/3/87 "Agenda: info rev. group meeting" [includes Rogow and Berstien item] (notes/minutes from this meeting??)
5/23/87 Paul Ceruzzi [NASM Curator of Computers] to Information Revolution Group re guidelines for interactives in the gallery

Box 2 of 24

Jon B. Eklund's Records

"FYI: The emerging info age 4.7 Information systems 1946? 60" [messages: social and technical factors]
3/88 Script outline
9/21/88 Storyline
Mike Williams' Script for section 2.5 information processing technology before digital computer?calculators/ sorters, etc.
7/20/88 3.5 the ENIAC walkway 1890 census questions
Script for artifact portion of section 4 [Williams], undated
10/22/87 Eklund "Postwar Technology Core Draft" [messages are "crucial"]
9/6/88 Storyline
[Hilke?] "What should the visitor say after leaving the exhibition?" undated/unsigned
7/27/88 Hilke: "Thoughts on convergence of communication and processing streams"
"Social themes for Information age: Visions and realities," undated
7/14/89 Interactive Inventory
12/88 Storyline: "Information Age: People, Information, and Technology"
6/88 Script outline [includes "We are the world section] 3/88 Script outline
4/21/?? Handwritten on typescript Bijou Theater Outline, unsigned
Draft section 4. Needs revision by Jon.
Information Age Newsletter, final copy
3/3/87 Allison to team on Part II of exhibits
1/21/87 Time node 1--Information before the computer [approx. 1858]
1/11/88 Script outline
11/22/89 draft script sections, edited in pencil
"Master" [Finn?] Instantaneous communication telephone, undated
"Visitor's experience in 'online: the Information Age in America' summary outline," undated
12/2/87 Finn: "Online" Part 1 period settings
12/4/87 Eklund: Postwar Technology core update
8/88 Draft script
4/6/88 Draft Intro. film text
11/12/88 Script Fragments
Comments on Information Age script sections 103, 1990
SAGE system images and documents from Air Force
Letters to Pentagon from Louis Hutchins, Div. Computers, Information, and Society, MAH re use of video clip from vintage film for use with SAGE command center model [from IBM]
Color prints 8xlO of SAGE command center model
Naval research: "Programming Whirlwind I" (6/11/1965)
7/85 Annals of the History of Computing, vol 17 #3 on SAGE
8/28/88 Jackie McGlade to Allison re Kennedy-Nixon Debate [Washburn reprint, "The Great Autumnal Madness" Quarterly Journal of Speech
Newsreel Construction (12/1963)
NMAH's archival holdings on 1940 NYC World's Fair undated unsigned "The Middletons explore the Information Age: an idealized family experience (February 1991) [fictive date]
World's Fair 1940 background
NY Street Scene
Archival background. photos showing actual street scene, including actual AutoLux movie theater.
Eckert Interview
CENIAC materials, SI video History Program-- setting up the interview, transcript[?]
Original ENIAC brochure from U Penn
Theodore White: THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: "The TV debates" (1960)
Datamation Mag. "Analyzing election computing 1960" (1/1961)
"Election data processing for the political executive" Republican National Committee, undated
"Notes on Electronic Politics," undated
Misc. [approx. 611] reprints on computers and political outcome [contemporaneous analysis], (c. 1965-1975)
10/24/88 Time Mag. comparing 60's & 80's pres. races
9/23/88 Michael O'Malley: "Polls, computers, and TV in 1960"
Life Mag. "The Machines are Taking Over" (3/3/1961)
Ken Olson Interview
163 pp transcript, undated
2 Polaroids showing TX-0 computer and Whirlwind core
Misc. correspondence surrounding Digital Equipment Corporation's donation of PDP?class computers.
9/12/88 Information Week Mag: "Olson on DEC"
DEC Historical Collection event: Eichhorn and Olson speeches, undated

Box 3 of 24

Jon B. Eklund's Records

Network TV
Various reprints
VDT brochures: health hazards, etc.
Prodigy on-line service press kit
Interactive Prototypes [bar coder hardware info.]
Showscan Replies [queries to sites with Showscan; exhibition projection system installed]
Showscan press kit
Allison portrait proof sheet
Computer World xerox copies
Computer World originals [Black and White 8xlO prints of IBM, Boston Computer Museum]
IBM materials, including films
12/l/88 Marie M. to Claudine Close:[budget is tight]
Script Sections
4.2 Elec.
AV Plan
Software History
PC Messages
Statistical Data
Misc IA Memos
IR Ideas
Part IV -- Online
Claudine
Memo, JE to DD, 1/6/90, re script
Memo, A. Molella to dist., 12/28/89, re revised script
Script
IC's (including graphics)
Software
4.6.2 PC Phil.
Computers in Business
Business of Computers
IA 4/88
MNW -- Memory
Information Age Outlines: DKA
Tel & Computers
IA Movie
Script -- BF
"Storylines"
Latest Script
Misc. Script
Loose -- working drafts, etc.
Script -- BF
Script
Post-War Socio-Tech Core
Misc. loose memos; Personal Computing, Oct. 1989; misc. memos; "A Software Script" by Martin Campbell-Kelly, 4/29/88
Postwar Tech Core Background
Postwar Tech Core update, etc., 12/4/87
Misc. loose memos
Information Revolution (IR) Drafts I

Box 4 of 24

Jon B. Eklund's Records

IR Drafts II
IR Versions
Information Age (IA) Facts
IA Invitations
IA Files
IA Script
4.6.2 -- Messages
II : Sect. 1
II : Sect. 2
II : Sect. 3
Software Sect.
Plan of IA exhibit
IA Script
IA Problems
IA Install
IBM 650
Data Ads Computers
IEEE PDP-8
Alto Hist.
Artifact Forms
OCLC
The Information Revolution: An Exhibition Proposal, NMAH, 1985
Polaroids, prints, and slides. Some have been removed from other files (as marked).
POLAROIDS: most undated, some dated.
Models of design, Part II layout from plan drawings (March 1989), street scene, movie theater "Autolux".
Objects IN SITU/ site ambience: auto assembly robot, vintage radio shop with signs, early PC's, IBM calculators, tabulating machines
Other exhibit spaces (WHERE?L Period setups elsewhere SAGE command center model Front Carousel in progress
Sample layout of "panel 311 (computer memorabilia) "Bill Anderson Studio Examples" incl. Ewoks tree scene posters.
SLIDES: blueprints, models of show, computers.
Computers, mushroom cloud, "Privacy in America" book cover, Mad Mag. UPC cover, Telstar, Radio mannequins prelim. sketch
Blueprints, mannequin sketches, computers, graphic output from computers
David's slides from Japan: gardens, etc.
CASSETTE TAPE: "Gordon Move of Intel re microprocessor 3/7/9111 one 30-min. side.
Folder 1: Proposal Copies
IBM Proposal: Additional Copies
Proposal (General) & Appendices (Masters)
Proposal & Appendices (prospective Donors): Copies
Scope Memo & Outline: Masters.
Folder 2: Proposal
Proposal Copies: June 20, 1985 version
Proposal: Original: June 20, 1985
Chart: Original & Copies
IBM Proposal: Masters
Proposal: Original & Copies, November 9, 1984
IBM Proposal, I
IBM Proposal, II
IBM: Alternate Proposals
IBM Proposal, III
IBM Proposal, IV
IBM Proposal Versions: Ideas
IBM Axioms

Box 5 of 24

Jon B. Eklund's Records

Folder 3: Prospectus/Working Script
Info. Revolution: Structure Chart
Prospectus, Version 4: Master
Prospectus, June 30 Version
Prospectus, Version 4
Prospectus, Version 1: Master & Copies
Information Revolution Exhibit Outline
Folder 4: The Information Revolution
IBM: Travel
Computer Project Historian
Contracts
Administrative: General
IBM: Correspondence
IBM: Organization
IBM: to do
IBM: misc.
I.B. Cohen
Marie Makurath
DP Industry Leaders
Outside Suggestions
Resources
IBM: Meeting Notes
IBM: Tentative Script
Loans & Registration
Media & Public Affairs
IBM Exhibit: Schedule
Designs
Folder 5: Brochure
Photos Returned from NCC--Subject: Computers
Memos, etc., re: Brochure
IBM: Work Plan Schedule
Brochure, Version 4, August 23, 1985
Brochure, Version 4: Copies
Brochure, Version 3
Brochure, Version 3: Originals
Brochure, Version 2: Copies
Brochure, Version 2: Original & Original Cover sheet
Brochure Review
IBM Brochure, July 3, 1985 Version
IBM Brochure
Folder 1: Pamphlets & Brochures
Pamphlets
Folder 2: "Seminars," May 16, 1986 & June 27, 1986
May 16 Conference: Ex Post Facto Papers
Seminar: June 27
Dennett, Daniel
Linden, Eugene
Lucky, Robert
Weizenbaum, Joseph
York, Carl
Folder 3: Script: FYI: EIA

Box 6 of 24

Marie Mattson's Records

Mattson, Marie: Education and Computer Background Information
Japan: The trip and after NEC PR mat's
ICOT packet
6/8/88 Marie Mattson for the record: Japan Trip report: toured Nissan, Tokyo Nat'l Musuem, Nat'l Science Museum, ICOT, Tokyo Electric, EDS Japan, Preservation Hall of research instruments.
5/19/88 Robert McC Adams for the record: Japan Trip
NISSAN PR mat's
List of Participants at Tokyo Museum presentation
4/28/88 Robert McC Adams :"Science, Technology, and 'Progress: Reflections on the historical relationship."
5/18/88 Marie Mattson: "Techniques for exhibiting the Information Age at the Smithsonian
Typescript Arthur P. Molella: "Nationalism, Technology and Technology Musuems," undated
5/6/88 Marie Mattson to Henry Leonard, GM: arrainging tour of SI delegation in GM's plant in Japan
Preservation Hall Of research instruments brochure mechanical Engineering
Laboratory brochure A Guide to the National Science Museum misc. correspondence
Japan: First File
Misc. correspondence arranging trips 3/83 Datamation Mag. "Computing at Tokyo U."
Correspondence rationalizing cross cultural perspectives/contributions to information technology in justifying conference in Japan
Japan Trip 5/13-23/88 [Allison, Molella, Mattson] expenditures, etc
Computer Museum Info. and other related exhibits
2/2/87 unsigned Discussion on cooperation with computer museum [draft memo of understanding]
4/87 Travel& Leisure Mag. "Signing on at the computer musuem"
3/18/87 Boston Globe Business page "Computer musuem Hurting"
Spring 1986 The Computer Museum Report, vol. 15
2/4/87 Allison to Gwen Bell of computer museum: draft memo of understanding for areas of cooperation
1987 Exhibit prospectus: The Age of Intelligent Machines Computer Museum brochure Eklund notebook, small brown cover, undated
Eklund notes on brown paper "Notes from visit to computer museum (things we should avoid!) Files, please, JE" [to Mattson], undated
10/85 Computerworld Mag "A walk through the computer musuem with Gordon Bell
5/28/84 Ray Hutt to Molella Comments on trip to Franklin Institute [with Finn and Eklund 5/25/84]
6/4/84 Finn to D Evelyn thru Molella: computers at Franklin Institute [they are both impressed, but not quick to imitate]
Eklund notes on Chicago Musuem of Science & Industry computer exhibit
Eklund: souveneir semiconductor samples from Scince Museum, London. Undated.
Winter 1987/88 The computer museum report
FYI exhibit sections packet
Exhibit sections: FYI:the emerging information age (1 page summary) Capprox 30 copies. 1 copy removed by SWA, undated].
Originals
Communications artifacts in the collections of the NMAH fact sheet
10/86 Smithsonian Mag. McC Adams:"The Information Revolution will probe such complex, unresolved questions as the boundaries of "life and consciousness"
"Connected:the emerging information age" [profiles of project team]
5/12/88 Information age Update Session (who for? what results??)
Miscellaneous Memoranda
3/10/88 Allison to project group: exhibition level [progress report, deadlines, reminder of Hilke's importance etc.].
1/9/88 Mattson to dist. Invite for "FYI review"
1/29/87 Mattson to Paul Johnson [video about show ready]
M from Jon [Eklund] to me, me to Jon [Mattson, now Makurath]
Memos, mostly on mundane internal affairs
2/l/87 Allison to Eklund [asks E. to take over accession and deaccession of digital computers for duration of show]
10/23/87 Makurath to Eklund [concerning change in Eklund's status from project manager to special exhibit projects manager]
1987 Eklund to Molella: Staffing needs for the Division of Computers, Information, and Society
1987 Makurath to Eklund: [fundraising success] remainder are about fundraising as well]
Collections correspondence and contacts
Unlabeled Folder: Eklund?
10/26/87 Discussion with Claudine Close and Jeff Howard Folder: Professional Associations
11/l/85 Nanni, of Information Industry Association to Robert McC Adams [endorsing info rev. show]
3/3/86 Armed Forces communications and electronics assoc. prospectus
1986 Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Assoc to Cerozzi [Air and Space]
Design Considerations
1/29/88 Carrigan: Bid Letter to open bids for design of Info age
9/23/86 Michael Sand Inc to Makurath: The Information Revolution, new hands-on exhibits [credential package for Sand's firm interior architectural design, some exhibits]
4/11/85 Rogow & Bernstein to Roger Kennedy: [R&B's exhibit background]
National Computer Conference (NCC), 1987
6/17/87 Mattson talk outline/overheads (no MS): "Incorporating the Technology" [using computer interactives in an exhibit about computers]
NCC 187 preview program
Mattson talk abstract
National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA)
March 1987 conference reg. mat's
1989 registration brochure
ADAPSO
The computer software industries association
1986 annual report: "Fulfilling the promises of the information age
1988 newsletters [to Mattson]
1986 Economic report
Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) Conference
1988 Information Industry Association Annual Convention and Exhibition participation
August 1988 Information Times magazine [AIIM pub.] "Smithsonian Exhibit to focus on Information Age"
Press kit
4/87 Inform Mag [AIIM pub]
4/87 AIIM show
2/87 Information Management
File Net press kit
5/87 Information Management
6/87 Information management
Press Kit
7/14/87 AIIM to Allison
Mailing list of AIIM board of directors
ASTC
4/8/87 from Makurath
List of ASTC attendees and their institutions at Information Revolution session (any further involvement?)
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
8/89 IFIP congress 1989; 11th World Computer Congress
9/86 IFIP congress 1986; "Informatics-A New Awareness"
1986 IFIP prospectus and pubs misc. promo mat'l
1986 program [attended by Molella, Eklund, Makurath]
London, etc.
1986 R.M., Aiken "Micropower: The use of computers in pre?college education" in INFORMATION PROCESSING 86 (Elsevier) IPIF
1986 program [preliminary and final]
"Information Revolution" video
Contracts and correspondence for the production of promo video by Peter Vogt
2/18/87 Eklund to Kennedy [recommending Vogt in creating interactives (what are interactives at this point? cross-check)]
1985 SI "Information Revolution" Exhibit prospectus [glossy]
1/7/87 Makurath to Robert McC Adams and Kennedy: video script/interview protocol [written to create impression that McC Adams and Kennedy are guiding forces presenting their vision of the show]
"The Information Revolution"--script for the video
Vogt : "The Information Revolution" Structural OutlineVogt brochure, 1987
2/18/87 Shot sheet transcript from Kennedy-McC Adams shoot for video
Artifacts
"Rough contents of the great metallic photographic storage scainet in NMAH 5206
10/14/86 Eklund, Finn, Mertzbach, Williams to Collections Committee: Acquisition of a collection of hand held electronic calculators [justification of why museum should have them, etc.]
References (e.g., Book titles)
Paper scrap: Dennet (Mind's Eye), Papert (Mindstorms), Turkle (Second self)
Mimeo "Computer literacy bookshop"
Library of Congress headings (computer and info systems)
American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS)
1988 ASIS conference prospectus
1986 memos about receptions, posters, etc. at conference for Information Revolution
AFIPS brochures
1/86 AFIPS "Washington Report" includes writeup on Information Revolution
11/85 AFIPS Federal and State legislative update
ASIS
10/88 ASIS meeting prospectus
8/22/88 Mattson, Allison: promo for info age for ASIS
6/88 ASIS Bulletin. Includes Info rev, article by Mattson
5/10/87 McC Adams: ASIS keynote address: "Information Technology and the transformation of out time" [TRANSCRIPT] {WHO WROTE?)
10/87 ASIS conference program: "Information: The Transformation of Society" [50th annual conference]
1986 ASIS handbook and directory
8/10/87 Mattson to Robert McC. Adams [coaching on plugs for show in speech to ASIS]
11/13/86 Kennedy McC Adams [MAH will provide speech if he goes to give it]
Memoranda indicating early SI involvement in helping to plan ASIS conference, especially Advisory Committee participation
Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA)
Correspondence related to fundraising, etc.
Contacts/Contract re: Temp Work Assignments
Letters of inquiry, etc., of folk interested in working on Information Age project, mostly intern?level
12/28/85 David Shayt, Division of Eng & Ind to Earl Via [concerning operation of an old NIC drill. Eklund wants it possibly for Information Age.
10/29/85 The Burdick Group to Eklund: Interactive exhibit prospectus
12/12/85 Gary 0. Larson to Carrigan: computer music (what other follow?ups were done with this other than the keyboard display seen on the floor?)
Contacts/Full employment re: Information Age
Applicants
2/21/86 Eklund to Sherry Turkle, MIT: [setting up time to meet, enthusiasm for T's work (was there a meeting??)]
Education Topics
Prospectus for Education and Computing: The International Journal
Possible Spin-offs
Traveling show
Computer Art Show
Thoughts
1941 John Anderson Miller: Fares Please! From horse-cars to streamliners
"Draft Proposal to support the Smithsonian in developing an Information and Society Exposition," undated
Written page unsigned undated: "Computers &.... Media, Design, Medicine, etc.
Hyatt Stationery "Bit By Bit" chronology of calculating equipment, undated
5/12/86 Invite to conference on supercomputing
Comments on Content (from other than team members)
1/7/85 Chris Evans (research scholar in 'precision manufacturing,' nat'l bureau of standards) to David Shayt {who is?): The information revolution [based on prospectus]
11/29 I Bernard Cohen to Molella: plans for Advisory Board and choosing members thereof. {mentions critique of draft proposal. Where IS??)]
11/8/85 Withuhn to Makurath: [online access to interactives via modem from remote sites]
Computer Information re: Information Revolution
Information Revolution: Thank you and Acceptance Letters
Relevant Articles: but not about Information Revolution
Clips on computers, AI, US competitive decline, ENIAC MS
History of memory devices, factory automation
10/14/85 USA Today MONEY page: Mertzbach profile
Technology Center of silicon valley prospectus, undated
Volunteers
Applicants with background in computers, including military
Mailings/Contacts
Misc correspondence to outside NAH people
3/17/86 Eklund to Joseph Wiezenbaum of MIT [admires his work, wants further perspective on exhibit as it develops] (did this happen??)
"Thought" contribution to show
12/12/86 From Shayt to Eklund: Collection related thoughts on your recent presen- tation [recommending various Numerical Control machine tools for Information Revolution]
University Relation Information
Center for instructional development and evaluation: The University of Maryland, brochure; innovative solutions to your educational challenge

Box 7 of 24

Marie Mattson's Records

Educational Thoughts (Hilke, et al)
1986 DD Hilke "Museums as resources for family learning: turning the question around" presented to the 1986 MAAM conference
10/86 DD Hilke "Do I want a computer in my exhibit hall? Assessing the impact of interactive computer software on visitor's museum experience/preliminary findings "The laser at 25" evaluation study
MS DD Hilke and John D. Balling: "The family as a learning system: an observational study of Families in Museums" undated
7/25/85 DD Hilke Families in Museums: an overview" address to the families in museums workshop, SI Office of Museum Programs
2/20/87 Hilke to Information Revolution: Let the medium match the message [thoughts on the development process]
6/87 Hilke, Elizabeth Hennings, Myriam Springuel: "The impact of interactive
Computer software on visitor's exhibition experiences: a case study" [pre-pub MS for laser stuff]
"When educators complain about exhibit design," undated
"Eduction at NMAH: some basic assumptions and rules of thumb," undated
"Visitor Overview," undated
SI/MIT Athena
WETA-"SI World"
11/12/87 Michele Bertrand, WETA [D.C.] to Jackie McGlade [proposal to do segment on Information Revolution for program episode "From Cuneiform to Computer." Attached is the "Proposal for Underwriting" for the "SI World" series.
Television Projects
7/17/87 Mattson to Kennedy [doing a full?length show on Info Rev with Peter Vogt (nothing else in file, so unlikely much came of it)]
Audio Cassette tapes
3/16/88 Peter Vogt on Bijou film [90 min tape. conversation with Jeff Bernstein about goals for "audience experience" in creating the newsreel footage]
6 tapes 11911 Emergency calls?originals"
2 tapes 11911 Audio master 1 of 2, 2 of 2
1 tape "rough edit 91111
4 snapshots of telephone switcher transferred to photos box
Folders 31 through 33, & additional files:
11/25/87 Lubar to Pam [Rogow?]:[pictures of offices and references for "clerical ed.11.
Also excerpt from Samuel Cohn, "The process of occupational sex?typing"]
undated computer-generated graphs of phone co.'s, etc.
Misc. reprints of contemporary technical literature on office machines, etc., c. 1900-1920
6/8/59 US post office "Mail by missile" press release
4/23/87 Merzbach to Seeger: airline "Reservisor" reservation automation system references
3/15/88 unsigned "Exhibit Item Forms" listing computer equipment currently on display at MAH--UNIVAC, whirlwind, etc.
Reprint: Robert William Fogel: RAILROADS AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH: ESSAYS IN ECONOMETRIC HISTORY (typescript note: railroad not the sole instigator of US economic devel.]
Spring 1986 Cathcart and Gumpert "I am a Camera: The Mediated Self" Communication Quarterly vol 34, no. 2 "This paper argues that an individuals self image is in large part media dependent."
Misc. reprints on early history of devel. of TV hardware
1900 "The history and growth of the US census prepared for the Senate Committee on the census," Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor.
4/44/88 Lubar to Allison: "Preliminary labels for "Information Processing and the Rise of Modern Business," nee "Pre-War Processing"" [change in approach from before undated corporate archive list [more comprehensive than above; dotmatrix printout. Begins w/ "A.G. Edwards and Sons"]
12/85 Priscilla Murolo, Am. Studies, Yale, "Gender, Skill, & the Rationalization of clerical work: The Aetna Life Insurance Company in the 1920's" [Am Hist. Assoc. meeting)
11/24/87 Lubar and Carlene Stephens to Allison and Rogow: 1914 Office period room" [dramatizing a MOMENT]
Office equipment (c. 1890-1920)
Commissioner of labor
1890 sample census form
Misc. radio history reprints
List of corporate archival contacts, undated. "Search for Order""
Folder 2.6-2.7
Misc. handwritten notes
11/14/88 unsigned [Lubar??] "Draft outline of sections 2.7 and 2.7,
Information Revolution exhibit" undated unsigned "Noted from 11/7 meeting: subsections 2.6 and 2.7: What is information processing?"
Misc. images of Babbage equip., sorting desks
8xlO print of Hollerith tabulator in use 1890
Info. on Solomon G. Brown [Brown was assistant to Joseph Henry and SFB Morse]
Misc. Biographical info., photos, historical letters, pamphlets, essays on Black American scientists
Social Environment
"FYI Social environments: Propose exhibit format, undated
yellow legal page: ideas for people to represent periods, undated
written page "BLACK MALE ADOLESCENT"--possible sources of info on blacks and communications, undated
Typescript: "Social vignettes"
Miscellaneous written notes
Reprints from AMERICAN HEADLINES YEAR BY YEAR, Calvin Linton, ed, years 1874-1876
1983 Arthur Schlesenger ed, Almanac of AM. history: Forging a Nation 1866-1900
5/88 Life Mag. recap of all Life covers
General Background
WWI propaganda poster reprints
Bibilography for Personal vignettes female
Miscellaneous images of women in offices
Excerpt, AWAY FROM THE FACTORIES" [women in clerical work]
Excerpt, "Six Decades of Change" [women in sales, telephone operators]
Folder 34:
Time line of periods in info. rev., undated
4/l/87 Finn & Merzbach: Comments on period settings [what to emphasize in each period]
5/29/87 Finn to team "Themes for the Matrix, or What the Visitor Should Get from the exhibit version 211 [using historical examples to illustrate the themes]
6/8/87 Finn "Process for justifying what goes into the exhibit" [evidence, concepts, and design]
Written notes 111858 Node 311 [comments by Finn, Williams, Merzbach], undated
8/l/86 Merzbach to Eklund, Finn, Makurath, Williams: [outline for exhibit on information]
10-11/86 misc. Finn outlines of nodes, etc.
11/10/86 unsigned [Finn/Eklund?] Concpet Script draft 11/7/89 Morse script fragments
Data tabulation for Visitor behavior study in; undated
"Engines of Change" and "Life in America" (Who did? other writeups??}
Miscellaneous node writeups, earlier draft of Merzbach 8/l/86 outline
[Merzbach?] Major Additions to the Collections, undated
2/4/87 Finn "Note 3 (1917?)"
1/21/87 Allison to team "Conceptualization and Structuring of the Exhibit"
Folders 35 through 38:
Outline of chronology, some reprints of chronologies. Suggests altering Eklund's original scheme, esp. adding more events to the list
2/11/87 Finn "Comments about nodes" [defending idea of node as DISCRETE time point]
2/22/87 Finn "Node 1 (1858)"
Allison: "Immediate reactions to node 1, version of 2/22/8711 [point by point responses to
Finns scheme.] undated
1/23/87 Eklund to team [applauding the debate, contesting Allison's 1/21/87 positions in some spots]
1/14/87 Finn "Node 3 (1917)"
7/12/86 Eklund MS for "Annals [of the history of computing??]: "The Information Rovolution:
a New Smithsonian Exhibition" (where, when finally published? Eklund has reprints?)
3/23/87 Finn to David [Allison] and Marie, Uta: Themes and revolutions (talk given in Jersey]
Miscellaneous typography
Script fragment: wireless, undated
"Computer World Contacts" [innovative use of communication tech. in education, business, etc.] undated
Script fragment: Instantaneous communication: telephone [mannequin script, label], undated
12/88 Storyline "The Information Age: People Information, and technology"
9/13/88 Storyline "Connected: information, technology, and society 1835?1990"
1/11/88 "NMAH Emergence of the Information age Draft script outline: Manifestoll
11/7/89 draft script [Part I] edited 12/27/89
Miscellaneous script fragments
10/31/89 Script, including designs of layout of gallery at end misc. script [fragments] from 8 to 12 89. includes listing of interactive videos, etc.
9/2/88 Thomas Nemcik of Community Memory Project, Berkely CA to Mattson [bundle of info on Community Memory: user guides, newsletters, a sociology study on computers as a social network tool] (did any of this get used anywhere??)
8/19/88 press kit on Iris corps. interactive health "link"
3/21/88 Heritage Projects [UK] "Report for a computer museum/archive, March 1985
Research Notebooks, 1979-1982
University of Chicago Medical Center, 1983-1985
Burroughs Hospital Information System, 1979

Box 8 of 24

Marie Mattson's Records

Center for Naval Analyses, 1984
Research Notebook, 1980-1981
Work Diary (Computer Printouts), c. 1980s
Information Revolution Project/Brochure, 1985
Information Revolution Project: List Development, 1985
Information Revolution Project: Luncheons, 1985 [two folders]
RMA Brief, 1988
Memoranda: Allison, David, 1987
CIS: Admin. Notes, 1986
Correspondence, 1986
Lorch, Stephen, 1986
Computer Events, 1986
Insurance, 1986
Introduction to VAX/VMS and EDT Editor
IDA Work, 1985
Computing Services Newsletters, 1980-1981
Information Revolution Project: Press Conferences, 1985
Information Revolution Project: Follow-ups, 1985
Sloan Foundation: Videohistory Proposal, 1985-1986
Stevens Institute, 1986-1987
Tech World
Babbage Institute, 1986
Press Conference, 1985
LUAU, 1987
Pentagon Contacts, 1986
Vogt, Peter, 1987
FBI, 1988
Illustration
Exhibition Support: U.S. Western Attendee List, 1985
Exhibition Support: U.S. Eastern Attendee List, 1985
Information Revolution Project: NMAH Reinstallation Plan
Japanese Interment Exhibition Information
Seminar 1: Information History Problems, 1986
Seminar 2: Computers and Brain, 1986
Seminar 3: Information Revolution, 1986
Seminar 4: Economic Issues, 1986-1987
Press Releases, 1985
Seminar: Information, 1987
Internal Advisory Group, 1987
Planning for Information History Seminar, 1987
Bibliographic Information
Early Exhibition Planning
Ideas for Interactives

Box 9 of 24

Marie Mattson's Records

Ideas for Interactives
West End Issues, 1983-1987
Visitor Overview
20th Century Collecting, 1987
Music Exhibition, 1988
Life in America Project, 1988
Elaine Gurain's Game, 1988
Weatherium Proposal, 1988
ACS Project, 1988
CIS Division, 1988
System Integration
AIS-II
NASM Progress Reports/Minutes, 1986-1988
News Releases, 1986
NASM Aerospace Computing Gallery, 1985 [two folders]
NASM DEC Hardware, 1986
TIES Authoring System, 1986
Computer Products
OIRM Issues, 1985
CMASS Description
Finn's Laser Program
PC System Work/Hints, 1985-1987
NMAH Fund Management System, 1987
Software Development
PC/AT Information
General Networking Information, 1987
Video Disc/NDL
Apple/MAC II Information, 1988
LCIS, and Museum Functional Analysis, 1988
Apple Computer Users Group, 1988
AutoCAD, 1987
Laser Jet II/Xerox Publishing Software
Networking Articles and Write Ups
Local Area Networking
OIRM Information Architecture Project
Inventory Program/Configuration Management, 1985
Computer Science