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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 01-193

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Assistant Director, Research and Collections Division

Subject Files, 1987-1992

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Assistant Director, Research and Collections Division
Title:Subject Files
Dates:1987-1992
Quantity:2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 01-193
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records consist of materials created and maintained by Forrest McGill, Assistant Director, Research and Collections Division, documenting the administration of the Research and Collections Division, development, finances, staff and committee meetings, policies, research opportunities and fellowships, security, staff members, special events, Sackler/Freer affiliations, curatorial issues, public outreach, education, public affairs, publications, collections management, conservation, the Freer reopening, and acquisitions. Materials include budgets, organizational charts, memoranda, correspondence, grant applications, planning documents, meeting minutes and supporting materials, mission statements, Scholarly Studies Program proposals, fellowship applications, schedules and mailing lists for special events, brochures, and reports.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records created and maintained by Forrest McGill, Assistant Director, Research and Collections Division, documenting the administration of the Research and Collections Division, development, finances, staff and committee meetings, policies, research opportunities and fellowships, security, staff members, special events, Sackler/Freer affiliations, curatorial issues, public outreach, education, public affairs, publications, collections management, conservation, the Freer reopening, and acquisitions. Materials include budgets, organizational charts, memoranda, correspondence, grant applications, planning documents, meeting minutes and supporting materials, mission statements, Scholarly Studies Program proposals, fellowship applications, schedules and mailing lists for special events, brochures, and reports.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-193, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Assistant Director, Research and Collections Division, Subject Files

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Container List

Box 1

Filing System (Assistant Director, Sackler) [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Administration - Furniture [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Administration - Freer Budget [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Administration - Organizational Chart [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Miscellaneous [1988-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Donors [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Fidelity Foundation [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Katherine Graham [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Membership Group [1989]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Ogden Foundation [1988-1989]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Potential Donors [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Development - Special Exhibition Fund (SEF) [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Budget - General (FY 1992) [1990-1992]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Budget - General (FY 1991) [1989-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Budget - General (FY 1990) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Budget - Departmental (FY 1991) [1991]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Budget - Departmental (FY 1990) [1989]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Petty Cash

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Recovery Costs/Loan Fees Survey [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Resources Allocation Reappraisal [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Finance - Risk Funds Policy [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Visiting Committee - Freer [1988-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Visiting Committee - Sackler [1988-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Board of Regents Meeting [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Council of Bureau Directors [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Curators Meetings [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Exhibitions Meetings [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Fine Arts Commission [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Operations Meetings [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Accessibility Reports [1989]

Box 1 of 2

Meetings/Reports - Visitor Comment Summaries [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Policy - Call for Plans [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Policy - Disaster Plan [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Policy - Hiring Practices [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Policy - Mission Statements [1988-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - General [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - At the Smithsonian... [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - IIE China Clearing House Survey [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - International Exchanges Program [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - Scholarly Studies [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Research Opportunities - Wilson Center

Box 1 of 2

Security - General [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Security - Gallery Closings Procedures [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Security - Incident Reports [1989-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Security - Keys [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Contractual - Fumiyo Jenkins [1991]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Grade Definitions (General) [1991]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Miscellaneous Job Applicants (General) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Performance Appraisals (General) [1987; 1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Potential Volunteers (General) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Bolon, Carol [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Chase, Tom [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Cort, Louise [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Duley, Elizabeth [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Fu Shen [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Gunter, Ann [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Koob, Stephen [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - McGill, Forrest [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Nemazee, Suzie [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Radcliffe, Eleanor [1989]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Sagtetter, Karen [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - So, Jenny [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Stuart, Jan [1990]

Box 1 of 2

In-house Staff - Yonemura, Ann [1990]

Box 1 of 2

SI Personnel - African Art [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - American Committee for South Asian Art (ACSAA) Symposium [1988-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - AIA Co-sponsored Lecture [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Ancient Near East Workshop [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Creative Artists Agency (CAA) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Chu Symposium [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Lectures Series [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Persian Programs [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Resident Associates Program (RAP) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - Sackler Symposium on Ceramics in SE Asia (Proposed) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - University of Maryland Exchange [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Special Events - University of Michigan Exchange [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - General [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Visiting Committee: Freer [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Visiting Committee: Sackler [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Visitors [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Affiliations - American Institute of Iranian Studies [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Affiliations - Minchiu Society [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Affiliations - National Musical Arts [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Affiliations - SPAFA (Seameo Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts) [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - Vietnamese Museums [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Sackler/Freer - (The) Walters Art Gallery [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Smithsonian - AIDS Awareness Campaign [1989]

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Appraisals [1989]

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Areas of Art [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Border Disputes [1987-1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Feminist Methods in Art History

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Kuwait [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curatorial - Quality, Debate Over [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curators - General [1990-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Curators - American Association of Museums (AAM) Accreditation [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curators - Appraiser/Appraisal Policy [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curators - Curatorial Department Chair [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Curators - Japanese Art Specialists

Box 1 of 2

Research/Fellows - General [1989-1991]

Box 1 of 2

Research/Fellows - Azarnoush, Massoud

Box 1 of 2

Research/Fellows - Michele, George [1990]

Box 1 of 2

Box 2

Public Outreach - Americans With Disabilities [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Public Outreach - Gallery Talks - Curators [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Education [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Education - Docents [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Education - Fund for Persian Art and Culture [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Education - Guest Lecturer Programs: Intros, Dinner Procedures Follow-thru Documentation [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Public Affairs - Film Project with TV/Radio [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Public Affairs - High Definition TV [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - General [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Ancient Iranian Metalwork [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Asian Art [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publication - Bronze Age Pottery [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Bustan [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Calendar [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Clunas Notes [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Prints Book [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Copyright [1988-1989]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Freer Brochure [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Freer Medal [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Freer Reopening Book [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - G.K. Hall Publishers [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Gallery Guides Procedures [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Proposed Publications [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Publications Committee [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Publications - Tryon Book [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Sales Shop - General [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collections - 1990 Collections Statistics [1990-1991]

Box 2 of 2

Collections - 1989 Collections Statistics [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collections - Freer Study Collection List [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collections - Sackler Study Collection List [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - General [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Access to Storage Policy [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Accessions Numbers [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Collections Development Plan [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Collections Information Management [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Collections Management Policy [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Committee to Review Collections - Record Keeping [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Computerization [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Damage Reports [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Movement of Collection [1990-1991]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Sackler Main & Study Collection(s) [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Storage Visit Requests/Approvals [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Conservation - General [1988-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - CARS [1987-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Collecting/Storage - Chinese Painting Mounter [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - EAPC [1988-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Freer Building

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Freer Humidity [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Japanese Project [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Library in Freer [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Object Preservation [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Painting Correspondence [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Peacock Room [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Publications/Abstracts [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Sackler Building [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Conservation - Safety [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Collection Photographing [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Collection Reinstallation [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Collection Relocation [1989-1991]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Freer Auditorium [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Freer Gallery Shop [1989]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Object(s) Lists [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Renovation [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Renovation Budget [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Staff Movement [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Freer Reopening - Visitation [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Photography - Committee to Review: Photo Requests, Permission to Publish, Record Keeping [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Photography - Photo Department (General) [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Photography - Photo Label(s) Policy [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Photography - Policies [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Proposed Acquisitions, 1991 [1990]

Box 2 of 2

1990 Acquisitions [1990]

Box 2 of 2

Proposed Acquisitions, 1990

Box 2 of 2

1989 Acquisitions [1989-1990]

Box 2 of 2

Proposed Acquisitions, 1989

Box 2 of 2