Record Unit 46

Abbe, E. C.

Abbot, Charles G. Smithsonian Secretary, 1927-1944. This material consists of personal and administrative correspondence, especially concerning the Langley-Wright controversy, which Abbot struggled to end. Biographical data

Abbot, Charles G. Congratulatory letters on assumption of secretaryship in 1928

Abbot, Charles G. Correspondence, including letters concerning Dr. Abbot's resignation and subsequent career

Abbot, Charles G. Correspondence (internal)

Abbot, Charles G. Eastern Hemisphere

Abbot, Charles G. Langley-Wright controversy

Abbot, Charles G. Newspaper clippings

Abbot, Charles G. Policy for and past of the Smithsonian Institution

Abbot, Charles G. Receptions

Abbott, A. S. - Adams, R. E.

Adams, W. S. - American Association for Adult Education

Adler, Cyrus, 1925-1938. Discussing matters of mutual interest, including the Langley-Wright controversy. Adler had left the Smithsonian to become president of Dropsie College during Langley's tenure but kept friendly relations with Smithsonian colleagues until his death.

Adler, Racie F. (Mrs. Cyrus)

Aerial Explorations, Inc. - Aerial League

Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce - Aeronautics

Affiliated Press Service - Air Age Education

Air Raid Test - Albert, Isabel

Alberti, A. - Album of American History

Alden, J. L.

Aldrich, J. M.

Aldrich, Loyal B., 1927-1947. Aldrich was an aide to Abbot at the Astrophysical Observatory (APO) and rose to become its director. This material deals with work of the APO.

Aldridge, Mrs. G. - Algeria

All Russian Mineralogical Society - Allen, Frank

Allen, L. E. - Alton, T. J.

Altsheler, B.

Amadon, G. E. - American Airlines

American Art Annual - American-Asiatic

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1926-1949. The AAAS was given space for its Permanent Secretary from 1926 to 1946, continuing a tradition of close ties between the Association and the Smithsonian. This correspondence deals with administrative details. 1926-1931

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1932-1939

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1941-1949

American Association of Museums (AAM), 1925-1948. The AAM maintained headquarters at the Smithsonian from 1927 to 1948. This material documents the AAM's concerns during that time. 1925-1931

American Association of Museums, 1932-1948

American Association of Junior Colleges - American Chemical Society

American Civic Association - American Colleges, Association of

American College of Surgeons - American Council of Learned Societies

American Diplomatic Service - American Express

American Federation of Arts - American Federation of Labor

American Federation Movement - American Genetic Association

American Geographical Society

American Geophysical Union - American Hebrew

American Historical Association

American Historical Society - American Home Economics Association

American Indian Defense Association

American Institute - American Institute of Physics

American Interplanetary Society - American Legion

American Liberty League - American Municipal Association

American Museum of Natural History

American National Insurance Company - American Railroads

American Research Service - American Schools of Oriental Studies

American Security and Trust Company

American Society of Biophysics - American Society for Testing Materials

American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1925-1926 re: bust A. G. Bell; 1937 re: almanac

American Tree Association - Amlie, P. (on men on Mars)

Ammunition Fund

Ampex, Inc. - Anderson, Herman

Anderson, Joanne - Andrews, C. O.

Andrews, E. A.

Angell, J. S. - Anglo-American Yearbook

Angrand Prize

Angullo, J. J. - Annadown, E. C. (Mrs.)

Anthon, A. - Appleton, D. & Co.

Appraise Value of Equipment and Supplies

Arctic Institute of North America, 1947-1949. Organized in 1944, the Institute was conceived to promote research in the polar region of North America. The Smithsonian contributed to its activities, mostly through the work of individual staff members. (3 folders)

Arellano, A. - Arizona Yearbook

Arkansas State Planning Board - Armistead, L. M. (Mrs.)

Armistice Day

Armitage, H. - Army and Navy Union, U.S.A.

Arndt, J. - Arts and Sciences, Society of

Aschemeier, C. R. - Asphyxial Death, Society for Prevention of

Aspinwall, F. E. - Astrophysical Observatory

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. - Atlantic Monthly Press

Atlantic Seaboard Flour Mills - Australian News and Information Bureau

Australian Truth Centre and Metaphysical College - Auswanderungsabteilung

Automobile - Aynesworth, K. H. (including letter from C. Walcott Younger, grandson of Secretary Walcott, filed under Avon Science Department, dated March 4, 1942, from Avon Old Farms School, Avon, Connecticut, to Dr. Abbot concerning injecting water in internal combustion engines)

Aztec-Mayan Studies. These records deal with Smithsonian support for Aztec-Mayan studies, 1928-1940. Charles U. Clark and Emily Walcott Emmart were the main researchers involved, and much of the correspondence deals with the Smithsonian's efforts to aid in translating and publishing the Badianus Manuscript [see RU 7269]. A-G

Aztec-Mayan Studies. H-M

Aztec-Mayan Studies. N-P

Aztec-Mayan Studies. R-Z

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Badianus Manuscript

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1929

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1930

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1931

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1932-1934

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1935-1938

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1939

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1940

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., 1941-1946

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., Reports, September 1929-July 1930

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Clark, C. U., Reports, August 1930-September 1931

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Dawes, C. G.

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Correspondence, 1934

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Correspondence, 1935

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Correspondence, 1936-1937

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Correspondence, 1938-1940

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: A

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: B-C

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: D-F

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Garden Club of America, 1936

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Garden Club of America, 1937-1938

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: Gates - Herb Society of America

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: History of Medicine - Hopkins Press

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: I-M

Aztec-Mayan Studies. Emmart: N-Z (including letters from Eugene, Cardinal Tisserant)

Azzoli - Baily

Bain - Baltimore

Balzer, Stephen M., 1932-1933. In 1932 the Smithsonian gave the Langley Medal posthumously to Charles M. Manley for his work, especially engine design, on the Langley aerodrome. Balzer, who had worked on the engine before Manley, believed that his contributions were slighted by the award to Manley and asked the Smithsonian to rectify its mistake. This correspondence chronicles the Institution's efforts to satisfy both camps. A-B

Balzer. C-M

Balzer. N-Z

Bamboo Survey

Bancroft - Barnes

Barnett - Barton

Bartsch

Basdekian - Bayroff

Beach - Belden

Belgian - Belgium

Bell - Belt

Bender - Bentley

Bequests - Berman

Bermingham - Beyer

Bibliophile (Club of Chicago) - Binks

Binney (and Smith Co.) - Blair

Blake - Bomberger

Bombproofing, 1941

Bombproofing, 1942

Bombproofing, 1943-1945

Bond - Boone

Booth - Boyarsky

Boyd - Brazil

Breasted - Brill

Brinkman - British Materials of War Exhibit

British Museum (Gates Clarke) - Brockett

Brockhaus - Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, 1925-1934. Robert S. Brookings, a Smithsonian Regent, established what is now called the Brookings Institution in 1923. Charles D. Walcott served on its Board and was succeeded by Secretary Charles G. Abbot. This material deals with the early operation of the Brookings. (includes 1929 salaries of top Smithsonian officials in 1929 letter to Senator Brookhart)

Brooklyn - Brown

Browne - Bullock (see letter from Brushwood on restoring hair color)

Burbank - Burger

Burgess - Burt

Burton - Butler

Butts - Byron

Cable - Caldwell

Calendar - Cameron

Camp - Capriles (including Cancer Control Fund with American Cancer Society material)

Caracas - Carmine

Carnegie

Carnejero

Carn-Gregg - Carpenter

Carr - Carwithen (for correspondence about John Sargent Carver, see Smithsonian Institution, Miscellaneous)

Casanowicz - Caughley (including papers on Thomas Lincoln Casey Fund)

Ceara - Central Hanover

Central Heating Plant - Century of Progress

Ceramist - Chappell

Chardon - Chewning

Chicago - Christmas boxes

Christmas Campaign - Church, J. E.

Church, R. E. - (U.S.) Civil Service Commission

Claraz - Clarendon

Clark - Clarke

Claudius - Clayton, E.

Clayton, Henry Helm, 1925-1933. Henry Helm Clayton was a long-time collaborator with Charles G. Abbot in efforts to make reliable long-range weather predictions. He worked for the Smithsonian at times and later operated a private weather-forecasting service. (Weather records)

Clegg - Clyde

Cobb - Colin

Coll - Colorite

Colquitt - Condon

Conference - Conger (Anthropologists Conference, Biometrics Conference, Fisheries Conference)

Congress of African Languages and Cultures

Congress: Seventh American Scientific

Congress: Eighth American Scientific, Washington, 1940. This Congress, held at Washington, was chaired by Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian, which also acted as a co-host for events. Lists

Congress: Eighth American Scientific. General

Americanists, 22nd International Congress of

Americanists, 23rd International Congress of

Americanists, 24th International Congress of

Americanists, 25th International Congress of (no Smithsonian Institution (SI) delegate)

Americanists, 26th International Congress of (no SI delegate)

Americanists, 27th International Congress of

Americanists, 28th International Congress of

Americanists, 29th International Congress of

Congress of Anthropology and Archaeology (1931, 1936, 1939)

Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology

Congress: Anthropology Round Table - Central Europe (Anthropology Round Table, Applied Meteorology, Archaeology, Archivists, Astronomical, Belgian 18th Century, Brazilian Geography, Bibliography, Bridges, Byzantine Studies, Central Europe Economic)

Congress: Chemistry - Esperanto (Chemistry, Chilean General Scientific, Cosmobiology, Czechoslovak Scientific, Electro-Radio-Biology, Entomology, Esperanto)

Congress: Eugenics - Geography (International) (Eugenics; Eugenics & Homiculture; Genetics; Geography, International)

Congress: Geology, International XV and XVII (there is no XVI)

Congress: Geology, International XVIII

Congress: Historical Sciences

Congress: History of Art, International - Inter-American Indian Life

Congress: Levante Archaeological - Mexico's Orchids (Levante Archaeological, Librarians and Bibliophiles, Liege, Light, Limnology, Linguistics, Marine Biology, Mental Health, Mexico's Orchids)

Congress: Military Medicine - Oceanography (Military Medicine and Pharmacy; Mines, Metallurgy and Applied Geology; Municipal History (Interamerican); Oceanography, Hydrography and Hydrology)

Congress: Ophthalmology - Phonetic Sciences (Ophthalmology; Orientalists, 1928, 1931, 1948 (XVII, XVIII, XXI); Palestine and Syrian Archaeology; Phonetic Sciences)

Congress: Pacific Science - Third (1926)

Congress: Pacific Science - Fourth (1929)

Congress: Pacific Science - Fifth (1933)

Congress: Pacific Science - Sixth (1939)

Congress: Pacific Science - Seventh (1949)

Congress: Pan American Institute of Geography and History

Congress: Pan American Science - Protection of Learned Men (Pan American Science, Plasmogony and General Culture, Pomology de France, Population Problems, Prehistory and Protohistory, Protection of Learned Men)

Congress: Pure and Applied Science - South American Botanical (Pure and Applied Science; Scientific (International); Scientific Management; Sexual Questions; Short Wave; Slavic Philologists; Sociology; Soil Science; South American Botanical, First and Second)

Congress: Spanish American History - World Engineering (Spanish American History and Geography, Toponymy and Anthroponymy, Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Universal Documentation, World Engineering)

Congress: Zoological

Congressional - Conservation Foundation

Conservation of Supplies

Consolidated - Coop (includes two letters signed by President Calvin Coolidge)

Cooper - Copernicus

Copp Clark - Cordley & Hayes

Cornelis - Cottrell

Couch - Crawford

Credit - Croy

Crump - Culin

Curl - Czubay

Dabney - Dall

Dallas - Dauber (& Pine Bookshops, Inc.)

DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)

Dautremont - Deignan

Delano, Frederic A. Delano was for many years a Regent and member of the Board's executive committee. A cousin of the presidents Roosevelt, he typified the Establishment ties of that body in this period. Correspondence, 1925-1930

Delano, F. A. Correspondence, 1931-1934

Delano, F. A. Correspondence, 1935-1946

Delano, F. A. Museum bulletins: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Art Institute of Chicago

DeLaubenfels - Denton

Dentzel - DeRemer

Derieux - Dewing

Diedel - Discovery

District of Columbia: Adult Education

District of Columbia: Audubon Society - Public Library

District of Columbia: Public Schools - World's Fair

Doane - Dodd

Dodge - Dorn

Dorsey, H. W.

Dorsey, N. W.

Dortenzio - Draper

Dressler - Dubos

Ducker - Dumont

Duncan - Duverger

Eagle - Eastman, A.

Eastman Calendar Reform (includes letters with signatures of Wm. H. Taft and Charles E. Hughes)

Eastman Kodak - Ebeling

Eckstein - Ecuatoriano

Eddis - Edmunds

Edson - Einstein (includes two letters signed by Albert Einstein)

Eisbrenner - Ellis

Ellman - Emblem

Emit - Employees Compensation

Employees Transportation (includes letter with signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Encyclopedia: American Educator - American Year Book

Encyclopedia: Americana

Encyclopedia: Britannica

Encyclopedia: Collier's - Municipal Year Book

Encyclopedia: New International Year Book - Perpetual

Encyclopedia: World Almanac - World Scope Yearbook

Enders - Epstein

Erasmus - Esty

Ethnogeographic Board, 1941-1947. The Ethnogeographic Board was created by the National Research Council to serve as a clearinghouse for anthropological information of use in World War II. The Smithsonian was one of its sponsors and provided office space for its operations. 1941-1942

Ethnogeographic Board, 1943

Ethnogeographic Board, 1944

Ethnogeographic Board, 1945

Ethnogeographic Board, 1946-1947

Ethnogeographic Board - Reports I-VI

Etter - Evermann

Evolution

Ewen - Exploration

Explorations and Grants, 1928-1941 (2 folders)

Explorations Pamphlet, 1928-1941

Explorers - Eyman

Faber - Fanarjian

Faral - Fay

Federal American National Bank - Federal Workers of America (including papers on Federal Credit Union)

Federated Council - Felton

Fennell - Feussner

Fick - Field, Henry

Field, George - Field Trip

Field, Wm. - Firey

Fischer - FitzPatrick

Flagg - Flexner

Flint - Flynn

Foerste - Fordyce

Foreign Appeals

Foreign Publications - Forsythe

Fortune - Forum (mostly on Fortune Telling)

Fosberg - Fountain

Fowle - Frank, Louis

Frank, Use of (1894-1944)

Franke - Frees

Frelich - Fresno

Frewen - Froman

Froom - Furtos

Gable - Galvin

Gamble - Geist

Gellatly Collection, 1929-1949. In 1929 and 1930 John Gellatly gave his collection of art to the then National Gallery of Art. During the same period he courted and married his wife, Charlayne Whiteley Gellatly. Mrs. Gellatly, who by her own statement in legal pleadings, married him for his supposed fortune, opposed the transfers and undertook to recover Gellatly's property. Her efforts were assiduous and insistent. In 1944 she secured a resolution directing the United States Court of Claims to investigate her claim. In 1947, after a careful study, the Court found her claims baseless. In 1948 Mrs. Gellatly resumed her suit, this time in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which dismissed her claim. She lost an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1949, which finally ended the controversy. These records chronicle the legal battles and include correspondence with the donor, inventories, photographs, correspondence among Smithsonian staff and the like.

Gellatly Collection, Congressional Record

Gellatly Collection, History (incomplete)

Gellatly Collection, Removal - New York to Washington

Gellatly Collection, Congressional Bills

Gellatly Collection, Newspaper Clippings

Gellatly Collection, Deed of Gift (copy)

Gellatly Collection, Inventory Items 1-239

Gellatly Collection, Inventory Items 240-620

Gellatly Collection, Inventory (Additional, or duplicate, information on items)

Gellatly Collection, Inventory - with annotations and/or prices

Gellatly Collection, Inventory - Eisen Catalogue. The Antique Glass in the Gellatly Collection of the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, by Gustavus A. Eisen, December 14, 1931

Gellatly Collection, John Gellatly - Correspondence

Gellatly Collection, Photographs, paintings, and installations

Gellatly Collection, Vouchers, 1929-1930

Gellatly Collection, Vouchers, 1931

Gellatly Collection, Vouchers, 1932

Gellatly Collection, Vouchers, 1933, 1944

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, March-May 1929

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, June-December 1929 (A. W. Mellon - June 24, 1929) (Wm. H. Taft - September 14, 1929)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1930 (Charles E. Hughes - December 19, 1930)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, January-September 1931

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, October-December 1931

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, January-April 1932

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, May-December 1932

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, January-May 1933 (Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin D.] Roosevelt - February 13, 1933)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, June-December 1933

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, January-March 1934

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, April-December 1934 (Charles E. Hughes - April 5, 1934; May 25, 1934; May 31, 1934)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1935

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1936

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1937

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1938 (Note: no correspondence from 1939 through 1940)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1941, 1942, 1943

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1944 (Note: no correspondence from 1945)

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1946

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1947

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1948

Gellatly Collection, Correspondence, 1949

Gelys - General Electric

General Engineering - Gense

Geographical - George Washington University

Gerdes - Gike

Gilbert, Arthur - Gilbert, William

Gilcrest - Gilyana

Ginn - Glass

Glenn - Godfrey

Goddard, Robert H., 1926-1946. Goddard, the pioneer student of rocketry, had kept a close relationship with the Smithsonian since the Institution's first grant to him in 1916. The Smithsonian supported Goddard with grants through the 1920s and its Secretary served on an advisory committee organized by the Carnegie Institution to continue support for the Goddard research. This material consists of correspondence and of photographs of research models and parts. Correspondence, 1925-1926

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1927-1928

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1929

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1930 (see letter of May 28, 1930 for expression of appreciation to the Smithsonian)

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1931

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1932-1933

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1934-1936

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1937-1942

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1943-1946

Goddard, R. H., Correspondence, 1947-1948

Goddard, R. H., Photographs (3 folders)

Goddard, R. H., Photographs and map

Goddard, R. H., Photographs (Parts)

Goebelsman - Goody

Goodyear - Goschl

Gosselin - Gradenwitz (including Government Medals)

Graf

Graham

Grange - Grant

Grants: A

Grants: B

Grants: Hoffman - Jensen

Grants: Keesom

Grants: Kol - O'Brien

Grants: Philip - Wu

Graphic - Greenwood

Greer - Grolier

Gross - Guest

Guggenheim - Gulick

Gung - Guttin

Haar - Hall (see Hagglund, L. F., March 30, 1935, re: salvaging gundelo Philadelphia)

Hall of Fame - Hammill

Hand - Hanson

Hansson - Harriman

Harris - Harrison (see Harris, Harry, August 24, 1946 letter transmits a holograph letter of James Smithson)

Harshberger - Hartwell

Harvard

Harvey - Hayden

Hayes - Hazelett

Heald - Heflin

Heilbron - Henriques

Henry, Joseph: Albany - Holmes

Henry, Joseph: Johnson - Payne

Henry, Joseph: Princeton - Wilson

Henry, Lyell - Heyroth

Hicklin - Hildt

Hilger - Hirons

Hirsh - Hitchcock

Hitching - Hodgkin

Hodgkins Fund support for astrophysical observatories at Columa, Chile and Table Mountain, California, 1925-1926. These records document the work of the observatories, mostly at Table Mountain. Apparently by this time the income of the Hodgkins Fund was regularly applied to supporting astrophysical research. Hodgkins (Chile) - Hodgkins (Harqua Hala)

Hodnefield - Holme

Holmes, Burton - Holmes, Joseph A. (1925-1939)

Holmes, Joseph A. (1940-1949)

Holmes, Joseph D. - Hoover

Hope - Hough

House

Houseworth - Howard

Howe - Hoxsie

Hrdlicka, 1925-1934

Hrdlicka, 1935-1945

Hryneveckey - Hull

Humberd - Huttinger

Hutton - Inaugural

Independent - Ingraham

Insecticide, 1926-1928

Insecticide, 1929-1933

Institut - Instrument

Intellectual Cooperation - International Council of Museums

International Council of Religious Education - International Faculty of Sciences

International Feature Service - International Statistical

International Telephone - Intourist

Invitations: Academia Nacional de Ciencias - American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Invitations: American Society of Physical Research - Athens University

Invitations: B

Invitations: C

Invitations: D

Invitations: E

Invitations: Faraday

Invitations: Federal - Franklin

Invitations: G [NB: Medal issued to Austin H. Clark at the 75th anniversary of Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C., has been removed (February 16, 1972)]

Invitations: H

Invitations: I

Invitations: J

Invitations: K

Invitations: L

Invitations: M

Invitations: N

Invitations: O

Invitations: P

Invitations: R

Invitations: S

Invitations: T

Invitations: U

Invitations: V

Invitations: Wadsworth - West Virginia

Invitations: Western Kentucky - Wurtemburg

Invitations: Y

Invitations: Government

I (including a signature of Mussolini following letter of March 12, 1932 from Royal Italian Embassy)

Jaap - Jaffe

Jager - Jayne

Jefferson - Jeter

Jewett - Johns Hopkins

Johnson, Albert - Johnson, S. M

Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition, 1932-1941. These records document an expedition to conduct oceanographic studies in the Puerto Rico Trench, jointly supported by the Smithsonian and Eldridge R. Johnson, during 1933. Discussions of the work of the expedition continued through 1941 with E. R. Fenimore Johnson, E. R. Johnson's son. 1933, A-F (includes two letters from Richard E. Byrd, dated September 1, 1933 and September 16, 1933)

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, G-M

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, N-Z

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, E. R. Johnson

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, 1932

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, 1933-1941

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, Government: Agriculture - Navy

Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition, 1933, Government: State - Weather Bureau

Johnson, William - J. W. V.

Kable - Kahn

Kainen - Kayne

Kearney - Kellum

Kelly - Kemp

Kemper - Key

KFBB - Killip

Kimball - King

Kingham - Klinger

Kloac - Koonin

Koontz - Kramer

Krampetz - Kullmer

Kunkel - Kyancutta

Labor - Lamsa

Lance - Langley, Richard

Langley Aeronautical Library

Langley Medal, 1926-1948. The Medal, intended to recognize especially meritorious work in aerodromics [aeronautics], was awarded irregularly during this period. Recipients included Charles E. Lindbergh, 1927; Adm. Richard E. Byrd, 1929; Charles M. Manly, 1929; and Joseph S. Ames, 1935. Correspondence, 1926-1931

Langley Medal: Correspondence, 1932-1948 (Letter of May 15, 1936 from Charles Lindbergh)

Langley Medal: Lindbergh, 1927

Langley Medal: Byrd, 1929

Langley Medal: Manly, 1929 (Letter of December 10, 1929 from Orville Wright)

Langley Medal: Ames, 1935

Langley Medal: Ames Presentation Acceptances, A-H

Langley Medal: Ames Presentation Acceptances, I-Z

Langley Medal: Ames Presentation Regrets

Langley Memorial

Langley Plane

Langley, S. P., Letters about, 1930-1939

Langley, S. P., Letters about, 1940-1949

Langmore - Lanman, 1925-1929

Lanman, 1930-1936

Lantan - Lauterbach

Lawes - LeCorbeiller, including memoranda and regulations on leave

Lecture, Arthur, 1932; Russell, Henry N.

Lecture, Arthur, 1933; Brown, Ernest W.

Lecture, Arthur, 1934 (January); Abbot, Charles G.

Lecture, Arthur, 1934 (December); Adams, Walter S.

Lecture, Arthur, 1936; Johnston, Earl S.

Lecture, Arthur, 1937; Mitchell, S. A.

Lecture, Arthur, 1938; Stetson, Harlan T.

Lecture, Arthur, 1939; Spinden, Herbert J.

Lecture, Arthur, 1940; McMath, Robert R.

Lecture, Arthur, 1941; O'Brien, Brian

Lecture, Arthur, 1942; Fleming, John A.

Lecture, Arthur, 1944; Abbot, Charles G.

Lecture, Arthur, 1945; Sterling, Matthew W.

Lecture, Arthur, 1946; Schmitt, Waldo L.

Lecture, Arthur, 1948; Spinden, Herbert J.

Lecture, Arthur, 1949; Jones, Sir Harold S.

Lecture, Arthur, 1932; Seward, Albert C.

Lecture, Arthur, Miscellaneous (includes letters from Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans)

Lectures, Hrdlicka, 1932, 1934-1939

Lecture, Miscellaneous

Lederman - Leigh (including Legislative Authority for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and APO)

Leighton - Lerner

Lesh - Lextron

Lieske - Lima

Lincoln

Lindbergh, Charles A., 1927-1934. Correspondence concerning the Smithsonian's efforts to obtain the "Spirit of St. Louis;" contains a Lindbergh ALS

Lindboe - Lips

Lipscombe - Lira

Liston - Lomax

London (includes letters signed by Julian Huxley dated January 16, 1936 and March 25, 1938)

Lonergan - Loretz

Loring - Luce

Lucheta - Lytle

Mabee - Maggio

Magill - Mandeville

Manly

Manley, Publications on

Mann - Marriott

Marsh - Marvin

Mason - Matern

Mathematical (Formulae, Tables)

Mathews - Maus

Mavor - McAtee

McBride - McCrum

McDannald - McFall

McFillen

McGarr - McKinley

McKnight - McNaughton

McNeill - Meier

Meigs - Menkus (includes letter of Andrew W. Mellon dated March 11, 1930)

Mensing - Metcalf

Meteorological

Meteorology - Michael

Michel - Mile O'Dimes

Milioukov - Minnequa

Minnesota - Missouri

Mitchell

Mitman - Moholy-Nagy

Mohr - Monningh

Monroe - Moore

Moran - Morton

Mosberger - Moyer

Mudge - Muscle

Museum - Mythology

Nagaoka - National Aero Magazine

National Air Museum, 1946-1949. This correspondence deals with efforts to create a separate National Air Museum under the Smithsonian, beginning with Congress' directive to the Smithsonian in 1946 to make a survey and report on that subject.

National Almanac - National Capital Astronomers

National Cash Register - National Gallery of Art

National Geographic

National Glass - National Memorial Stadium

National Military Museum

National Museum expansion plans, 1930-1974. This correspondence traces the Smithsonian's unsuccessful efforts to add wings to the National Museum (NMNH), chiefly part of the public works building program during the Depression.

National Parks Association

National Photo - National Storm

National Symphony - National University

Nation's Business - Nazarene Mutual Benefit Association

NEA Service - Neumann

New Age - Newton

New York - Ney

Niagara Falls controversy, 1925. In 1925 Samuel S. Wyer, a consulting engineer and proponent of privately owned hydropower, induced the Smithsonian to publish a series of articles by him on hydroelectric power possibilities at Niagara Falls. Ostensibly a scientific study, the reports were taken as an attack on the principle of public ownership of hydroelectric facilities, and especially on the government owned power system in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Institution came to feel it had been used for partisan purposes and extricated itself, with some difficulty, from the ensuing controversy, which took on some import because of the discussions in the Congress about public vs. private development of Muscle Shoals in Tennessee (TVA in the Roosevelt Administration). Power Possibilities, A-L (includes letter of Presidential candidate John W. Davis dated January 8, 1925)

Niagara Falls: Power Possibilities, M-P

Niagara Falls: Power Possibilities, R-Z (includes letters of Wm. H. Taft dated January 19, 1925; February 2, 1925; and February 14, 1925)

Niagara Falls: Power Possibilities, Government

Niagara Falls: Power Possibilities, Clippings

Niagara Falls: Wyer, A-Z

Niagara Falls: Miscellaneous

Niagara Falls: Publications

Niagara Falls: Smoot

Nichols - Nicol

Nicotra - Niven

Nobel

Noe - North American Service

North American Wild Flowers project, 1925-1944. Mary Vaux Walcott, wife of Secretary Walcott, had long been accustomed to paint wildflowers that she observed when accompanying her husband on his yearly fossil-hunting expeditions. It was decided to produce a series of volumes entitled "North American Wild Flowers" for the purpose of better educating people in botany. From private subscriptions, the Smithsonian raised money for production and produced and sold many copies of the work, in several difference grades of fineness. Professional botanists seem not to have been very impressed by the project, but it was certainly popular and earned considerable money for the Institution's research fund. North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): A

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): Bacon - Bird

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): Blair - Byrum

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): C

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): D

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): E-G

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): H

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): I-J

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): K

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): L

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): M

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): N

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): O

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): P

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): R (January 14, 1930 handwritten letter of Jan Smuts - with Roebling papers)

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): S

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): T-V

North American Wild Flowers (deluxe edition): W-Y

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): A

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Ba-Be

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Bi-Bo

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Br-By

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Ca-Cl

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Cockayne - Cole

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Coleman - Cuyler

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Da-De

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Di-Du

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): E

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): F

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): G

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Ha

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): He

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Hi-Hy

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): I

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): J

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): K

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): La-Le

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Li-Ly

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Ma-Mc

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Me-Mi

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Mo-Mu

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): N

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): O

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): P

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Q

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Ra-Ro (undated handwritten letter of Mary Roberts Rinehart)

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1925

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1926

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1927

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1928

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1929

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1930-1931

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1932-1934

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1935

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge, 1936-1940

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudge Commissions

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Rudolph - Ruzicka

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Sa-Sc

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Se-Sh

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Si-Sq

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Sr-Sw

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): T

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): U-V

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Wa

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): We

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Wh - Wild

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Willey - Wy

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Y-Z

North American Wild Flowers (library edition): Government Departments

North American Wild Flowers: Carey, 1926, 1938, 1939, 1940

North American Wild Flowers: Carey, 1941

North American Wild Flowers: Carey, 1942, 1943, 1944

North American Wild Flowers: Deluxe Edition Subscribers

North American Wild Flowers: Financing

North American Wild Flowers: Hendall

North American Wild Flowers: Nada Kramar et al

North American Wild Flowers: Miscellaneous

North American Wild Flowers: Republication

North American Wild Flowers: Reviews

North American Wild Flowers: Shipments and Plates

North American Wild Flowers: Subscribers by States

North Dakota - Nys (includes letter of September 5, 1929 to Northrup on flight to moon)

O'Brien - O'Sullivan and Oahu - Offenbacher

Office Memoranda 1-41; December 16, 1946-October 6, 1949

Ogden - Old World

Olewin - Osborne

Osgood - Oxford

Pacific War Memorial (includes letter dated September 23, 1948 from Rachel Carson)

Pacific Whaling - Palo Alto

Pan American Airways - Pan American Research

Pan American Union

Pan-Pacific Union - Parilla

Paris - Parke, Austin

Parke, Davis

Parker - Parmelee

Parson - Passes (includes letter of August 24, 1941 from Diana Parsons re: Joseph Henry)

Patchel - Pavia

Peabody - Pegram

Pelton - Pepper

Percival - Perpetual Encyclopedia

Perpetual Motion, 1925-1935, includes Trisecting Angles

Perpetual Motion, 1936-1946, includes Trisecting Angles

Perpetual Motion, 1947-1949, includes Trisecting Angles

Perret - Person

Personnel (Requirements: Estimates) (includes signature of Sam Rayburn on letters dated July 5, 1943 and September 14, 1944)

Peru

Petee - Pezet

Pfeffer - Prusis

Physical Tables: Adams - Gilbert

Physical Tables: Ginn - Worthing

Pick - Pinchot (includes letters dated January 20, 1937 and February 3, 1937 signed by Gifford Pinchot)

Pineau - Plaisted

Planetarium

Plarre - Plumridge

Pohl - Polar

Polaroid - Port

Porter

Portland - Post

Post-War (includes letter dated February 5, 1945 signed by I. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1944)

Postal - Powers

Prague - Printezij

Printing & Binding, 1929-1936

Printing & Binding, 1937-1946

Printing & Publication - Pruitt

Psychological - Pyles

Q

Racing - Radio-vision

Radio Talks: Correspondence, A-E

Radio Talks: Correspondence, F-J

Radio Talks: Correspondence, K-M

Radio Talks: Correspondence, N-P (includes letter dated August 10, 1936 signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Radio Talks: Correspondence, R-Y

Radio Talks: Scripts, 1925

Radvanyi - Ramsay

Rand - Rasmussen

Rathbun - Ravenal

Read - Redwood

Reed - Rehard

Reichard - Reiter

Remey - Resser

Retondo - Ribas

Rice - Richmond

Richter - Riggles

Riggs - Rivista (includes two undated autograph letters from Mary Roberts Rinehart dated October 7, 1930 and October 13, 1930, and an air letter from S. Dillon Ripley dated February 28, 1949)

Robberson

Roberts

Robertshaw - Robinson

Robson - Rockefeller

Rockford - Roebling (signatures in Roebling papers of Charles G. Dawes, February 18, 1927 and Wm. H. Taft, February 17, 1927)

Roeder - Roerich

Roeser - Rogers

Rojas - Root

Rosanova - Roswell

Roumania - Royal

Royer - Rusk

Russell

Russia - Ryan

Saavedra - Salisbury

Salt Lake - Salto

Saltzman - Salvation (Army)

Salzer - Samuels

San Diego - San Jose

Sanborn - Sanford

Santa Ana - Saville (for correspondence about John Winthrop Sargent, see Smithsonian Institution: Miscellaneous)

Savings Bonds

Sawyer - Scheu (see letter by Schenerle, February 12, 1932 for information about Crazy Horse)

Schilling - Schons

School - Schove

Schrader - Schweiker

Science - Science Press

Science Service - Scientia

Scientific American

Scientific and Economic - Scientific Society, ZEA

Scientific Union, 1946

Scientific Union, 1947

Scientific Union, 1948-1949

Scism - Scudder, H.

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Rating, 1926-1927

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1928

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1929

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1930

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1931-1932

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1933

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1934-1935

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1936-1939

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1940-1944

Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1945-1949

Searles - Selisman

Servel - Seymour

Shakespeare - Shay

Shea - Sherwood

Shidehara - Shinn

Ship Models - Shuman (includes letters signed by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone dated October 29, 1943; December 21, 1943; and December 24, 1943 in the Ship Model section)

Sibley - Silverman

Sim - Simson

Sinclair - Sittenham

Shalky - Smekal

Smiley - Smith, Homer

Smith, Hugh - Smith, Wilbur

Smither - Smithson

Smithsonian Institution: Architectural Drawings

Smithsonian Institution: Firestone Expedition

Smithsonian Institution: Freer Gallery - Reports, 1925-1927

Smithsonian Institution: Freer Gallery - Bishop Letters

Smithsonian Institution: Miscellaneous (Financial Needs, 1928; Income, 1925; Librarian salaries - comparison with Agriculture, 1928; List of employees, 1926; Luncheon, 1928; Room listing, 1941; Fraudulent use of name and information on John Winthrop Sargent (John Sargent Carver))

Smithsonian Institution: Relations to National Government

Smithsonian Institution: Secretary's Report, 1925-1927 (letters to subordinates only)

Smithsonian Scientific Series, Patrons Edition

Smithsonian Scientific Series, Claims Compromise

Smithsonian Scientific Series, 1925-1949. The Smithsonian Scientific Series was a publishing enterprise set up in 1925 to produce a series of popular books on scientific subjects from material written by staff members of the Smithsonian, who wrote as private persons under contracts with the publisher. The publisher agreed to handle all details of publication and distribution, and to give the Smithsonian a royalty on sales. While these royalties were substantial, there were constant problems as well. Finally, in 1944 the Federal Trade Commission found the firm to be guilty of numerous unfair and misleading trade practices. The Institution withdrew from the arrangement shortly thereafter. Correspondence, A

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, B

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, C - DeVan (through 1925)

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, DeVan, 1926-

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, E-G

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, H-L

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, M

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, N-R (excluding regents)

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence, Regents - Curtis, 1929 (signature March 9, 1929); Delano, 1926-1938; Hughes, 1929; Johnson, 1929; Luce, 1929; Merriam, 1929-1938; Moore, 1926-1938; Morrow, 1929; Robinson, 1929; Taft, 1929 (signature January 17, March 11, July 7, 1929)

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Correspondence: S-Y and Government

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Legal Problems, including modification of contract in 1946

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Royalty Fund, 1929-1944

Smithsonian Scientific Series: Royalty Fund, 1945-1949

Smithton - Soil Mechanics (including correspondence with Reed Smoot)

Solar - Somers

Sommer - South American

South Carolina - Sparhawk

Sparkes - Spenceley

Spencer - Springer

Sramek - Starrett

Starzl - Stebbins

Steckel - Stetson

Steuart - Stewart

Stibbens - Stowell

Strabucchi - Stribling

Stringham - Sullivan

Suman - Swanson

Swanton - Szalay

Taber - Talmey

Tamblyn and Brown endowment project, 1925-1928. In 1925 Secretary Walcott set in motion a plan to raise $10,000,000.00 for the Smithsonian's private endowment. The New York firm of Tamblyn and Brown was engaged to run the campaign, and Regent Dwight W. Morrow agreed to head the effort. The plan was aimed at the industrialists and monied class among which the Smithsonian had many ties, and might well have succeeded. Unfortunately Walcott died in 1927 just days before the kick-off of the drive; after Morrow became ambassador to Mexico the campaign faltered and died. Advertisements and Publicity

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence, Interoffice

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with Morrow, D. W.

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, A-B (autographs by Cyrus Adler, Milton Ailes, Edwin Alderman, W. K. Bixby, Robert S. Brookings)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, C-E (autographs by William W. Campbell, Charles F. Choate, Jr., Emory W. Clark, Charles R. Crisp, Dwight F. Davis, James J. Davis, Frederic A. Delano)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, F-H (autographs by Woodbridge N. Ferris, Harvey Firestone, Simon Flexner, Louis Frothingham, E. H. Gary, Robert H. Goddard, George E. Hale, Charles Hayden, F. W. Hodge, Herbert Hoover, Charles P. Howland, Cordell Hull)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, J-R (autographs by W. M. Jardine, David Starr Jordan, Frank B. Kellogg, Irwin B. Laughlin, Herbert M. Lord, A. W. Mellon, John Merriam, E. D. Merrill, R. Walter Moore, Harry S. New, Walter H. Newton, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Edwin B. Parker, John J. Raskob, Samuel Rea, Theodore Richards, Henry M. Robinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, S-T (autographs by John G. Sargent, Mortimer L. Schiff, Frederic W. Scott, Charles Schuchert, Reed Smoot, Frank Springer, Melville E. Stone, W. B. Storey, Samuel W. Stratton, Silas H. Strawn, Wm. H. Taft)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with others, U-Z (autographs by George E. Vincent, William H. Welch, David White, Henry White, Curtis Wilbur, Hubert Work, Owen D. Young)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with Smithsonian Institution, 1925 (includes contracts)

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with Smithsonian Institution, 1926

Tamblyn and Brown: Correspondence with Smithsonian Institution, 1927-1928

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Conference Exhibits (including photographs of curators and assistant curators formally posed with department exhibits)

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Conference Report Distribution (autographs by Charles F. Brush, John Stewart Bryan, Emory Clark, Frederic A. Delano, Simon Flexner, E. H. Gary, J. G. Habord, A. M. Huntington, Edwin B. Parker, Henry M. Parker, Mortimer L. Schiff, W. B. Storey, S. W. Stratton, Myron C. Taylor, George E. Vincent, Owen D. Young)

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Edited Speeches by W. W. Campbell, Simon Flexner, Chauncey J. Hamlin, H. M. Lord, John C. Merriam, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Reed Smoot, S. W. Stratton, Wm. H. Taft (two signatures), George E. Vincent, William Henry Welch

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Periodicals and Newspapers

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Project Proposals, A-L: Aldrich, J. M.; Aldrich, L. B.; Bartsch, Paul; Bassler, R. S.; Beach, Jessie G.; Belote, Theodore T.; Benedict, James E.; Casanowicz, I. M.; Clark, --; Clark, Austin H.; Clarke, F. W.; Cochran, Doris M.; Coville, F. V.; Dall, Wm. H.; Doyle, Aida M.; Foshag, W. F.; Fowle, F. E.; Gidley, J. W.; Gilmore, C. W.; Gunnell, Leonard C.; Holmes, W. H.; Howard, L. O.; Killip, Ellsworth P.; Lewton, F. L.; Lodge, J. E.

Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Project Proposals, M-W: Mann, Wm. M.; Marshall, Wm. B.; Maxon, William R.; Merrill, Geo. P.; Miller, Gerritt S., Jr.; Mitman, Carl W.; Resser, Chas. E.; Richmond, Chas. W.; Ridgway, Robert; Riley, J. H.; Roberts, O. E., Jr.; Rohwer, S. A.; Rose, J. N.; Rosson, E. W.; Schaus, William; Springer, Frank; Stejneger, Leonhard; Tolman, R. P.; Watkins, W. M. N.; Whitebread, Charles

Tamblyn and Brown: Project Proposals

Tansill - Telluride (telegrams originally filed in 1949-1964 box moved here)

Temperature - Terwilliger

Test - Thistle

Thomas - Thomason

Thompson - Thorne

Thornhill - Titcomb

Tjetas - Tomlinson

Toms - Travers

Traylor - Tromp

Tropic - Troxell

True - Tyler

Uber - Ulrich

Ultima - U.S.S.R. (including extensive correspondence on Underwater Photography with E. R. Fenimore Johnson)

United Christian - United Spanish

United States Academy - United States Flag

United States Gauge - Utterback

Valentine - VanVliet

Vance - Veterans

Victoria - Vital

Voelker - Vogelmann

Voice - Walburn

Walcott, Benjamin

Walcott, C. D.: Condolences, A-K

Walcott, C. D.: Condolences, L-Z

Walcott, C. D.: Correspondence, 1925-1926

Walcott, C. D.: Correspondence, 1927-

Walcott, C. D.: Funeral and Obituaries

Walcott, C. D.: Life

Walcott, C. D.: Lists (including bibliography)

Walcott, C. D.: Memorial meeting, A-L

Walcott, C. D.: Memorial meeting, M-Z

Walcott, C. D.: Speeches and biographies

Walcott, F. C., and Fund

Walcott, Mrs. M. V. (including letter of Mrs. Herbert Hoover dated August 31, 1940, and autograph letter of Harlan F. Stone dated September 2, 1940)

Walcott, Medal and Sidney

Walker - Washburn

Washington Academy - Washington Gas

Washington, George: Bicentenary

Washington, George: Memorial Association, 1925-1930

Washington, George: Memorial Association, 1931-1935

Washington, George: Statue

Washington, Henry - Wason

Waterman - Weaver

Webb - Weller

Welles - Weston

Wetmore, A., 1925-1934

Wetmore, A., 1935-1949

Weymouth - White

Whitebread - Wile

Wiley - Wisconsin

Wise - Witmeur

Wohlenberg - Woods

Woodward - World War

World Weather Records, 1925-1927

World Weather Records, 1928-1930

World Weather Records, 1931-1933

World Weather Records, 1934-1948

World Wide - Wright, M.H.

Wright aeroplane controversy, 1925-1948. This material, including correspondence, news clippings, and photographs, deals with the Smithsonian's efforts to obtain the airplane built and flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright for its collection. This effort followed a tortuous course and was greatly complicated by the fact that Samuel P. Langley, Walcott's predecessor, had been engaged in the same work as the Wright brothers. While Langley himself, however disappointed, does not seem to have contested the Wrights' priority, a number of Langley's friends and assistants downplayed the significance of the Wrights' achievements. Chief among them seems to have been Alexander Graham Bell, Charles M. Manly (pilot of the Langley aerodrome), and Glenn M. Curtiss, who actually flew the overhauled Langley airship at Hammondsport, New York, in 1914. The set result of their improvident and uncharitable opinions was to make the Wrights highly suspicious of the Smithsonian's motives. Their plane was sent abroad to the British Museum. Secretaries Walcott, Abbot (in particular), and Wetmore all labored to soothe the Wrights' feelings, finally succeeding in 1948, when the estate deposited the "Kitty Hawk" at the Institution. Acceptance Ceremony Correspondence (including letter from H. H. Arnold, January 11, 1940)

Wright Aeroplane: Acceptance Ceremony Speeches

Wright Aeroplane: Agreement between Wright Estate and Smithsonian

Wright Aeroplane: Clippings

Wright Aeroplane: Congressional Resolutions and Documents

Wright Aeroplane: Correspondence on Agreement between Wright Estate and Smithsonian

Wright Aeroplane: Correspondence, Miscellaneous (including letter by Charles A. Lindbergh, May 17, 1948)

Wright Aeroplane: Extracts from Congressional Record

Wright Aeroplane: Negatives, and a few positives

Wright Aeroplane: Periodicals, Aeroplane - Liberty

Wright Aeroplane: Periodicals, Nation - World's Work

Wright Aeroplane: Petitions for its Return - I

Wright Aeroplane: Petitions for its Return - II

Wright Aeroplane: Petitions for its Return - III (signatures of Charles E. Hughes, September 8, 1938 and H. H. Arnold, February 2, 1948)

Wright Aeroplane: Smithsonian Institution Publications

Wright Aeroplane: 1899 letter of Wilbur Wright and associated material (letter of Wilbur Wright dated December 1, 1911)

Wright Controversy: A (letters of Cyrus Adler dated May 7, 1925 and February 21, 1939)

Wright Controversy: B (letters of Alexander Graham Bell dated January 19, 1914; April 1, 1914; April 4, 1914; January 15, 1915; and November 22, 1915)

Wright Controversy: C (letters of Chanute, Octave dated April 10 and 13, 1896; Curtiss, Glenn H. dated March 8, 1928; Cushing, Harvey dated about October 10, 1928)

Wright Controversy: D

Wright Controversy: E, F

Wright Controversy: G

Wright Controversy: H-K

Wright Controversy: L

Wright Controversy: M

Wright Controversy: N-R

Wright Controversy: S

Wright Controversy: T-V

Wright Controversy: W

Wright Controversy: Y, Z

Langley - Wright: Clippings

Langley - Wright: Fred C. Kelly

Langley - Wright: Langley's Aerodrome, by Charles G. Abbot

Langley - Wright: Langley's Aerodrome, 1925, 1928, and undated

Langley - Wright: Langley's Aerodrome, August 19, 1940-May 1942

Langley - Wright: Langley's Aerodrome, June 1942

Langley - Wright: Miscellaneous

Langley - Wright: John J. Montgomery

Langley - Wright: Regents (including letters signed by Wm. H. Taft dated March 12 and December 23, 1928; Charles E. Hughes dated December 28, 1928; and Harlan F. Stone dated October 28, 1942)

Langley - Wright: Taylor-Ames Report

Langley - Wright: Dr. Wetmore's Files (2 folders)

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, 1925, A-G

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, 1925, H-M

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, 1925, N-V

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, 1925, from Charles Walcott's Desk

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, 1925, W

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, January 1-May 31, 1928

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, June 1-December 31, 1928

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, January 1, 1933-December 31, 1938

Langley - Wright: O. Wright, January 1, 1939-

Langley - Wright: Wilbur Wright

Wright, W. C. - Wyer (to Smithsonian)

Wyer: A-C

Wyer: D-M

Wyer: N-W

Wykes - Wysner

Xanthakis - Xenakis

Yaeger - Yeshiva (letters under Yale Review by Wilbur Cross dated August 16 and August 21, 1935)

Yoakley - Yugoslav

Zaar - Zahm

Zaitzeff - Zinszer

Zoological Hospital - Zoological Nomenclature

Zucker - Zwick

Regents, 1925

Regents, 1926

Regents, 1927

Regents, 1928

Regents, 1929

Regents, 1930

Regents, 1931

Regents, 1932

Regents, 1933

Regents, 1934

Regents, 1935

Regents, 1936

Regents, 1937

Regents, 1938

Regents, 1939

Regents, 1940

Regents, 1941

Regents, 1942

Regents, 1943

Regents, 1944

Regents, 1945

Regents, 1946

Regents, 1947

Regents, 1948

Regents, 1949

Regents Meetings, 1944

Regents Meetings, 1945

Regents Meetings, 1946

Regents Meetings, 1947

Regents, Vice-President

Regents, Chief Justice

Regents, Secretary's report, 1937 (Accession 07-192)

Regents, Secretary's report, 1944

Regents, Executive Committee

Regents, Permanent Committee

Budget, Wetmore file, 1927 - after 1925

Budget, Wetmore file, 1927 - through 1925

Budget, Wetmore file, 1928 - after 1926

Budget, Wetmore file, 1928 - through 1926

Budget, Wetmore file, 1929 - after August 1927

Budget, Wetmore file, 1929 - through August 1927

Budget, Wetmore file, 1930 - after 1928

Budget, Wetmore file, 1930 - through 1928

Budget, Wetmore file, 1930 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1931 - through August 30, 1929

Budget, Wetmore file, 1931 - after August 30, 1929

Budget, Wetmore file, 1931 - supplemental

Budget, Wetmore file, 1932 - through 1930

Budget, Wetmore file, 1932 - after 1930

Budget, Wetmore file, 1933 - through 1931

Budget, Wetmore file, 1933 - after 1931

Budget, Wetmore file, 1934 - through 1932

Budget, Wetmore file, 1934 - after 1932

Budget, Wetmore file, 1935

Budget, Wetmore file, 1936 - through 1933

Budget, Wetmore file, 1936 - after 1933

Budget, Wetmore file, 1936 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1937

Budget, Wetmore file, 1938 - through 1936

Budget, Wetmore file, 1938 - after 1936

Budget, Wetmore file, 1938 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1939 - through 1936

Budget, Wetmore file, 1939 - after 1936

Budget, Wetmore file, 1940

Budget, Wetmore file, 1941 - through 1938

Budget, Wetmore file, 1941 - after 1938

Budget, Wetmore file, 1941 - supplemental

Budget, Wetmore file, 1942

Budget, Wetmore file, 1942 - undated

Budget, Wetmore file, 1942 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943 - combined appropriations

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943 - manpower reduction

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943 - through 1941

Budget, Wetmore file, 1943 - after May 1941

Budget, Wetmore file, 1944

Budget, Wetmore file, 1944 - letters and memoranda

Budget, Wetmore file, 1944 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1945

Budget, Wetmore file, 1945 - letters and memoranda

Budget, Wetmore file, 1945 - supplemental

Budget, Wetmore file, 1946

Budget, Wetmore file, 1946 - deficiency

Budget, Wetmore file, 1946 - correspondence

Budget, Wetmore file, 1947

Budget, Wetmore file, 1947 - correspondence

Budget, Wetmore file, 1948

Budget, Wetmore file, 1948 - correspondence

Budget, Wetmore file, 1948 - justification

Budget, Wetmore file, 1949

Budget, Wetmore file, 1949 - correspondence

Budget, Wetmore file, 1949 - justification

Budget, apportionment, 1928

Budget, apportionment, 1929

Budget, apportionment, 1930

Budget, apportionment, 1931

Budget, apportionment, 1932

Budget, apportionment, 1933

Budget, apportionment, 1934

Budget, apportionment, 1935

Budget, apportionment, 1936

Budget, apportionment, 1937

Budget, apportionment, 1938

Budget, apportionment, 1939

Budget, apportionment, 1940

Budget, apportionment, 1941

Budget, apportionment, 1942

Budget, apportionment, 1943

Budget, apportionment, 1944

Budget, apportionment, 1945

Budget, apportionment, 1946

Economy

Expenditures, 1928, 1929

Expenditures, 1930, 1931

Expenditures, 1932, 1933

Expenditures, 1934, 1935

Expenditures, 1938-1945

Travel regulations

Audit, 1925, 1926, 1927

Audit, 1928, 1929, 1930

Audit, 1931, 1932, 1933

Audit, 1934, 1935, 1936

Audit, 1937, 1938, 1939

Estimates, 1928

Estimates, 1929

Estimates, 1930

Estimates, 1931

Estimates, 1932

Estimates, 1933

Estimates, 1934

Estimates, 1935

Estimates, 1936

Estimates, 1937

Estimates, 1938

Estimates, 1939

Estimates, 1940, general

Estimates, 1940, National Gallery of Art

Estimates, 1941

Estimates, 1942

Estimates, 1943

Estimates, 1944

Estimates, 1945

Plan of operations, 1925

Plan of operations, 1926

Plan of operations, 1927

Plan of operations, 1928

Plan of operations, 1929

Plan of operations, 1930

Plan of operations, 1931

Plan of operations, 1932

Plan of operations, 1933

Plan of operations, 1934

Plan of operations, 1935

Plan of operations, 1936

Plan of operations, 1937

Plan of operations, 1938

Plan of operations, 1939

Plan of operations, 1940

Plan of operations, 1941

Plan of operations, 1942

Plan of operations, 1943

Plan of operations, 1944

Plan of operations, 1945

Plan of operations, 1946

Plan of operations, 1947

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1931

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1932

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1933

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1934

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1935

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1936

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1937

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1938

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1939

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1940

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1941

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1942

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1943

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1944

Plan of operations, Wetmore, 1945

Scheduled salary rolls, 1925

Scheduled salary rolls, 1926

Scheduled salary rolls, 1927

Scheduled salary rolls, 1928

Scheduled salary rolls, 1929

Scheduled salary rolls, 1930

Scheduled salary rolls, 1931

Scheduled salary rolls, 1932

Scheduled salary rolls, 1933

Scheduled salary rolls, 1934

Scheduled salary rolls, 1935

Scheduled salary rolls, 1938

Scheduled salary rolls, 1939

Scheduled salary rolls, 1940

Scheduled salary rolls, 1941

Scheduled salary rolls, 1942

Smithsonian permanent appropriations, repeal, 1925-1934

Statement of appropriations, printing and binding, 1925-1930

Statement of appropriations, 1926-1930

Statement of appropriations, 1931-1938

Smithsonian bank account withdrawal signatures

Smithsonian endowment: A-G

Smithsonian endowment: H-M

Smithsonian endowment: N-Z

Smithsonian private funds, 1925-1933

Smithsonian private funds, 1934-1947

Investments by Permanent Committee, 1949-1951

Investments by Permanent Committee, 1952-1954

Smithsonian permanent loan, 1948

Smithsonian retirement - trust fund employees

Smithsonian retirement system (2 folders)

Trust fund employees - Civil Service Commission (CSC) retirement amounts paid

Minutes of the Smithsonian retirement board, 1939-1947

Smithsonian retirement system - bills, acts

Smithsonian retirement system - correspondence, 1932-1942

South chapel wall repairs

Smithsonian's ninetieth anniversary

Bishop, Carl W., 1925-1930

Bishop, Carl W., 1931-1942

Guest, Grace D., 1927-1942

Lodge, John E., 1925-1926

Lodge, John E., resignation and re-employment, 1926-1928

Lodge, John E., 1927-1928

Lodge, John E., 1929-1943

Rhoades, Katherine N., 1928-1942

Wenley, Archibald G., 1928-1947

Regents' correspondence, A-Z

General correspondence, 1925-1937

General correspondence, 1938-1948

Purchase recommendations, 1929-1949

Sinking funding, 1925-1926

Michigan inheritance tax, 1926-1927

Federal estate tax, 1925-1931

Detroit Trust Co., 1925-1928

Proposed gift of Crozier Collection, 1933

Director, recruitment, 1929-1932

Director, 1937-1949

Holmes, William H., 1928-1935

Johnson, Mrs. Ralph Cross, 1927-1937

Ranger, Henry Ward, 1929-1945

Rosenberg, James N., 1946-1957

Sargent, John Singer Collection, 1928-1930

Tolman, Ruel P., 1933-1937

National Portrait Catalogue, 1930-1931

General correspondence, 1925-1927

General correspondence, 1928-1930

General correspondence, 1931-1934

General correspondence, 1935-1948

Publications

Trustees' minutes, 1937-1942

Trustees' minutes, 1943-1944

Trustees' minutes, 1945-1946

Trustees' minutes, 1947-1948

Trustees' minutes, 1949

By-laws, 1938

Trustees' correspondence, 1937-1942

Administrative correspondence, 1937-1949

Mellon indenture, 1937-1942

Financial reports, 1938-1941

Financial reports, 1943

Financial reports, 1944

Financial reports, 1945

Financial reports, 1946

Financial reports, 1947

Financial reports, 1948

Financial report, 1949

Opening, 1941

Gifts

Seal, 1938

Congressional documents

Mellon, Andrew W., 1935-1937

Construction, 1937-1938

Kress Collection, 1939-1941

Kress Collection, 1939-1946

Widener Collection, 1940-1944

Correspondence, SI Regents, 1937

General correspondence, A-J

General correspondence, M-Z

Correspondence, government departments

Director, 1928-1948

Walker, Ernest P., 1925-1947

Wetmore-Mann correspondence, 1925-1948

Expansion of grounds, 1925-1937

General correspondence, 1931-1935

Correspondence, government departments, 1928-1949

Acts and resolutions of Congress, 1935

History, 1927-1949

Estimates, 1928

Estimates, 1929

Estimates, 1930

Estimates, 1931

Estimates, 1932

Estimates, 1933

Estimates, 1934

Estimates, 1935

Estimates, 1936

Estimates, 1937

Estimates, 1938

Estimates, 1939

Estimates, 1940

Estimates, 1941

Estimates, 1942

Estimates, 1943

Estimates, 1944

Estimates, 1945

Estimates, 1946

Estimates, 1947

Estimates, 1948

Estimates, 1949

Griffenhagen Report, 1938

District of Columbia (D.C.) reorganization, 1925-1940

Disbursements, 1946-1948

Animal Fund, 1928-1949

Concessions, 1947

Accidents, 1928

Police, 1928-1949

Reptile House Opening, 1931

Restaurant, 1928-1934

Restaurant, 1937-1949

Roads, 1925-1949

Miscellaneous, 1928-1949

Astrophysical Observatory, 1936-1947

International Exchange Service, 1928-1945

International Exchange Service, 1946-1949

SI-Chrysler, 1926-1940

National Geographic, 1934-1939

National Geographic, 1940

National Geographic, 1941-1942

National Geographic, 1943-1945

National Geographic, 1946-1949

Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947

Second Antarctica Development Project, 1947-1948

"Nanook I" Arctic Expedition, 1948 (5 folders)

"Nanook II" Arctic Expedition, 1949 (3 folders)

General Correspondence, 1935-1937

General Correspondence, 1938

General Correspondence, January-March 1939

General Correspondence, April-June 1939

General Correspondence, July-December 1939

General Correspondence, 1940-1947

Publications

Enabling art, site plan, competition announcement, 1939

Design competition opening, 1939

Contracts and appointments, design competition, 1939-1940

Commission minutes and reports, 1939

Correspondence concerning costs and awards, 1939-1941

General Correspondence, 1939-1944

General Correspondence, 1945-June 1946

General Correspondence, July 1946-1947

Acceptances, A-F

Acceptances, G-Q

Acceptances, R-Z

Regrets, A-D

Regrets, E-H

Regrets, I-M

Regrets, N-R

Regrets, S-Z, and special

Centennial Committee reports, 1939

Staff reports, 1939

SI Great Hall Exhibit, Correspondence, 1939

SI Great Hall Exhibit, Correspondence, 1940-1942

Great Hall and Children's Room Exhibits, Report, 1940

Great Hall Exhibit, 1940

Great Hall Exhibit, Photographs

Commemorative stamp, 1938-1949 (See also Oversize)

"The World Is Yours," 1940

Exhibits for the National Museum, including photographs, 1946

Exhibit labels

American Red Cross, 1925-1927

American Red Cross, 1928-1935

American Red Cross, 1936-1937

American Red Cross, 1938-1940

American Red Cross, 1941-1943

American Red Cross, 1944-1945

American Red Cross, 1946

American Red Cross, 1947

American Red Cross, 1948

Community Chest, 1929-1931

Community Chest, 1932-1935

Community Chest, 1936-1940

Community Chest, 1941-1943

Community Chest, 1944-1948

Inter-American Affairs, Coordinator for, 1941-1945

Office of Emergency Management, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1943-1944

Correspondence, 1941-1945

SI "War Background Studies," 1942-1945

SI War Committee, 1941-1944

Deferments, 1941-1948

Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1941-1947

Interdepartmental committees, 1942-1946

Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Research and Development, 1946-1948

Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Research and Development, 1949

Subcommittee on the Exchange of Persons, 1946-1949

Fulbright Exchange Act, 1947-1948

Price Administration, Office of, 1942-1945

Office of Strategic Services, 1941-1944

Central Statistical Board, 1938-1939

Civil Service Commission, 1932-1941

Civil Service Commission, 1942-1949

Civil Service Commission, Official Register, 1949

Personnel Classification Board, 1925-1930

Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1935

Federal Communications Commission, 1935-1947

Federal Coordinator of Transportation, 1935

Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933-1937

Federal Fire Council, 1932-1944

Federal Housing Administration, 1934-1941

Federal Power Commission, 1935

Federal Trade Commission, 1940

Federal Works Agency, 1940-1949

Interstate Commerce Commission, 1925-1947

National Academy of Sciences, 1932-1948

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1925-1946

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1947-1949

Condition of appropriations, 1925-1939

National Archives, 1927-1935

National Archives, 1936-1939

National Archives, 1940-1941

National Archives, 1942-1946

National Archives, 1946-1949

National Archives Council, 1942-1949

National Archives, Disposition of records, 1936-1938

National Archives, Federal Register, 1935-1948

National Archives, U.S. Government Manual, 1934-1939

National Capitol Parks and Planning Commission, 1931-1942

National Emergency Council, 1933-1937

National Emergency Council, 1938

National Research Council, 1928-1946

National Research Council, 1947-1949

National Resource Planning Board, 1935-1938

National Resource Planning Board, 1938

National Resource Planning Board, 1939-1942

Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), Correspondence A-J

BAE, Correspondence L-N

BAE, Correspondence P-W

BAE, Applications A-W

National Zoological Park, 1933-1938

Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1948

Veterans Bureau Administration, 1926-1945

War Food Administration, 1943-1944

U.S. Shipping Board, 1929-1932

Correspondence, 1935

Correspondence, 1935-1937

Correspondence, 1938-1941

Calvin Coolidge, 1925-1929

Herbert Hoover, 1929-1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Invitation lists, 1933-1941

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidential Library, 1940-1941

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1944 (including a 1915 letter as Secretary of the Navy)

Harry S. Truman, 1945-1949

Vice-President, 1932-1936

Director, 1926

Director, 1927-1928

Director, 1929-1930

Director, 1931-1932

Bureau of the Budget, 1933-1936

Bureau of the Budget, 1937-1938

Bureau of the Budget, 1939

Bureau of the Budget, 1940

Bureau of the Budget, 1941

Bureau of the Budget, 1942

Bureau of the Budget, 1943

Bureau of the Budget, 1944

Apportionments and obligations, 1924-1925

Apportionments and obligations, 1925-1926

Apportionments and obligations, 1926-1927

Casualty Club, 1929

Chief Coordinator, 1924-1927

Chief Coordinator, 1928-1929

Chief Coordinator, April 1929-December 1930

Chief Coordinator, 1930-1931

Chief Coordinator, Dispatch Traffic, 1931-1932

Chief Coordinator, Two Percent Personnel Club, 1926-1928

Budget Circulars, 1926-1940

Budget Circulars, 1941-1942

Circular 408, 1942

Contracts and Adjustments, 1926

Coordinator, Second Area, 1925

Coordinator for Purchases, 1929

Director of the Treasury, 1925