Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 171
Smithsonian Institution. Assistant to the Secretary
Records, 1957-1966
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Assistant to the Secretary |
| Title: | Records |
| Dates: | 1957-1966 |
| Quantity: | 22 cu. ft. (44 document boxes) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 171 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | Projects represented in these records include the National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, and the acquisition of the Patent Office Building; Smithsonian Associates; National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board; National Council on the Arts; extensive liaison with the Astrophysical Observatory and its stations around the world; and the Science Information Exchange. The records consist of memoranda, correspondence, reports, contracts and agreements, drawings and blueprints, budgets, and other fiscal records. |
Historical Note
The position of Assistant to the Secretary was created in 1959. James Bradley held the post for one year and was succeeded by Theodore W. Taylor, who served from 1960 to 1966. The Assistant was responsible for various projects as directed by the Secretary.
Descriptive Entry
Projects represented in these records include the National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, and the acquisition of the Patent Office Building; Smithsonian Associates; National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board; National Council on the Arts; extensive liaison with the Astrophysical Observatory and its stations around the world; and the Science Information Exchange.
The records consist of memoranda, correspondence, reports, contracts and agreements, drawings and blueprints, budgets, and other fiscal records.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Bradley, James C., 1910-1984
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
- National Council on the Arts
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Associates
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Institution -- Administration
- Smithsonian Institution. National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
- Smithsonian Science Information Exchange
- Taylor, Theodore W.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 171, Smithsonian Institution, Assistant to the Secretary, Records
Container List
Series 1
General AlphabeticalBox 1
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1966
Arlie Foundation, April 1966, Ed. for Int. Understanding
Assistant Secretary - Science, 1963-1965
ADP - Central Unit, 1965-1966
Barney Matters - Background, Memo, 1964, 22 pp.
Biological Abstracts, Meeting, 1965
Center for Advanced Study, 1965
Conferences
Conservation, 1965
Development Office, 1965-1966
Box 2
Education - Inter. - Univ. Council
Ed. & Publs. Div. Report, 1965
Ed. & Publs. - General, 1965-1966
Esthetics, 1966
Executive Seminar Center, 1965
Film and Development Projects, 1965-1966
FA & PG, 1964-1968
General Management Literature, 1959-1963
Charles Guggenheim and Films, 1965
Lloyd Hand Correspondence
Independence Avenue Commuter Services, 1966
International Cooperation Yr. - 1965
Java Farm, 1965
JFK Center - Mimeo Minutes, 1964
Joint Publications, 1964-1966
Mailing Lists
Box 3
Library Research Project, 1965-1966
Memos for the Record, 1965-1966
NAM - Budget Files, 1964
NAM, Bk I, 1959-1963
NAM, Bk II, 1964
NAM, Bk III, 1965
Box 4
National Armed Forces Museum (NAFM) - Park, Preliminary Development Plan, 1966
NAFM Adv. Bd., Bk I, 1959-1962
NAFM Adv. Bd., Bk II, 1962
NAFM Adv. Bd., Bk III, 1957-1963
NAFM Adv. Bd., Bk III, 1964-1966
NAFM Adv. Bd., Budget Info Copies
NAFM Adv. Bd., Meeting, 1963
National Center for Cartoon and Graphic Art, 1966
Box 5
National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), CSC - Budget File, 1962-1965
NCFA - Brochure for CSC Bldg.
NCFA, CSC Bldg. - Correspondence with Nagel
NCFA, CSC Correspondence - Construction, 1962, 1963, 1964
NCFA, CSC Bldg. - Photos
Box 6
NCFA, CSC - Patent Office Bldg., Extra Copies of Program, 1960
NCFA, CSC Bldg. - Draft Program for Renovation - Patent Office Bldg. [Photos to photo file.]
NCFA - Mr. Kingman's Travel, 1960-1962
National Council on the Arts & Humanities, 1965-1966 (Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities)
National Council on the Arts & Humanities, 1965
Box 7
Arts Council of America, Inc. (National Council on the Arts), 1966
National Council on the Arts, 1966
National Council on the Arts and National Arts Foundation, 1964-1965
National Council on the Arts, 1964-1965
National (Federal) Council on the Arts, 1966
National Gallery of Art, 1966
Box 8
National Humanities Foundation Bill, 1964
National Humanities Foundation Bill, January-February 1965
National Humanities Foundation Bill, March-December 1965
National Humanities Foundation Bill, 1965
National Humanities Foundation Bill, 1965
Box 9
National Humanities Foundation Bill, 1965
National Museum Act, 1965
National Photographic Gallery (Proposed), 1966
Nature of Smithsonian, 1958-1964
Non-Museum Program, 1966
Office of Education (HEW), 1965
Open Education (Zacharias), 1965
Box 10
Overall Public Affairs Matters, 1965-1966
Marion Palfi, 1966
Peace Corps Planning, Seminar, 1965
Pre-Employment Forms, 1961
Signing of Congressional Correspondence, 1964
SI General Correspondence, 1962-1964
SI American Association of Museums - Museum Training Program, 1965
SI Art Commission File, Bk I, 1960-1963
Box 11
SI Art Commission, Minutes of Meetings, 1960-1964
SI Art Commission, 1961-1964
SI Assistance of White House, 1965
SI Associates, 1966
SI Associates - Comments on Purpose, 1965
Box 12
SI Associates, General, October-November 1965
SI Office of Anthropology
SI Orientation Film, 1965-1966
SI - Outside Publications
Study of SI Information Activities, 1966
SI Training Advisory Committee, 1964
Space - Museum of Natural History (MNH)
Special Events Budgets
Tarbell Centennial Exhibition, 30 July 1962, NHB
TIAA Group Health, 1964-1965
TIAA Group Life
TIAA Retirement, 1964-1965
Tuition Refund Plan, 1964
U.S. Advisory Comm. on Int. Education and Cultural Affairs, 1964
UNESCO, 1965
Zoo - Population Statistics, 1958
Series 2
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)Box 13
SAO - General--Bk I, 1958-1962
SAO - General--Bk II, 1963
SAO - General--Bk III, 1964
SAO - General--Bk IV, 1965
Box 14
SAO Administrative Conf., 1962
SAO Annual Leave Policy, 1964-1965
SAO - Budget File - Satellite Tracking, 1960-1964
SAO - Budget File
SAO - Celescope, Bk I, 1960-1963
SIE - Information Assembled on SIE
SIE - NSF, Request for Additional Funds, 1966, Copy
SIE/NSF Relationship Policy Materials, T. W. Taylor copy
SIE - Policy on Science for SI, 1965
SIE - Progress Report, Several CYs
Box 15
SAO - Celescope, Bk II, 1964-1965
SAO - Celescope - Budget File, Obligations/Allotments, FY 1963
SAO - Celescope, Form 533s
SAO - Celescope, Monthly Reports, 1962-1965
SAO - Teletypes - Celescope, 1964
SAO - Celescope - Teletypes, 1965
Box 16
SAO - Classification, Survey Report, 1962
SAO - Extension of Appts., Salary Increases on Grants and Contracts, 1960-1962
SAO - Computer Services, 1959-1963
SAO - Harvard Computer Contract, 1961-1964
SAO - Computer, 1964
Box 17
SAO - Handouts for Conference, 1963
SAO - Delegation of Authority
SAO - Field Allowances Study, 1963
SAO - Geodetic Camera Stations, 1962-1965
SAO - HOSO Bk I, 1957-1959
SAO - HOSO Bk II, 1959-1960
SAO - HOSO Bk III, 1960
Box 18
SAO - HOSO Bk IV, 1961-1962
SAO - HOSO Bk V, 1962
SAO - HOSO Bk V, 1963
SAO - Revisions to HOSO Handbook, May 1962
SAO - New HOSO Books, Distr. May 1962
SAO - Old HOSO Book, Distr. in 1960
SAO - Instructions for Station Administration and Record Keeping, 1958
SAO - Interim Optical Tracking Program, AMS, 1957-1959
SAO - Log Sheets, Mail Received from SAO, 1963-1964
Box 19
SAO - Mailing Addresses for SAO Distributions
SAO - Photo and Record of Meteors
SAO - Misc. Correspondence re: Research Grants, Contracts, and Proposals, 1960-1962
SAO - Misc. Correspondence re: Research Grants, Contracts, and Proposals, 1963
SAO - Misc. Correspondence re: Research Grants, Contracts, and Proposals, 1964
Box 20
SAO - Misc. Correspondence re: Research Grants, Contracts, and Proposals, 1965
SAO - Moonwatch, 1956-1964
SAO - Moonwatch Conventions, 1959-1960
SAO - Moonwatch, Leo Deming File, 1963-1964
SAO - Moonwatch Teams and Leaders, 1957-1965
SAO - Moonwatch Telescope, 1957-1961
Box 21
NASA Grant, FY 1961
SAO - NSF-IGY, Bk I, 1956
SAO News
SAO News
SAO - Observers' Handbook, No. 25, 1 May 1962
SAO - Personnel Bk I, 1961-1963
SAO - Personnel Bk II, 1964-1966
Box 22
SAO - Optical Tracking Reports, 1960-1963
SAO Yearly Adm. Reports, 1962
SAO - Satellite Situation Report, 1964
SAO - Semi-Annual Progress Reports, Optical and Radar Investigations, 1964-1965
STP Monthly Report, 1961-1965
Box 23
SAO - Misc. Reports
SAO - Reprints and Page Changes, 1964
SAO - STP Correspondence, Bk I, 1960-1961
SAO - STP Correspondence, Bk II, 1962-1963
SAO - STP Correspondence, Bk III, 1964-1965
SAO - Observers' Handbook, STP, #39 and #40
SAO - Optical Tracking Network - draft analysis
SAO - STP Property Received, 1956-1957
Box 24
SAO - STP Program, Mimeo Proposals, 1963
SAO - Proposed Continuation SW, 1963, Mimeo
SAO - STP - SAO Specs, 1957, Correspondence, 1959-1965
SAO - STP Motor Vehicles, 1960-1962
SAO - STP - Operation of Stations, 1957-1962
SAO - STP Clocks, Precision Timing System, 1961-1965
SAO - Special Audit of Satellite Tracking Stations
SAO - STP Tickler File, Leases and Agreements, 1962-1963
SAO - Estab. of Satellite Tracking Station, ca. 1959-1960
Box 25
SAO - Station Chief's Conference, October 1960
Stations
SAO - List of Station Personnel, Bk I, 1960-1962
SAO - List of Station Personnel, Bk II, 1963-1965
SAO - Africa, Bk I, 1957-1959
SAO - Africa, Bk II, July 1959-1962
SAO - Africa, Bk III, 1963-1966
Box 26
SAO - Argentina, Bk I, 1956-1958
SAO - Argentina, Bk II, 1959-1960
SAO - Argentina, Bk III, 1961-1962
SAO - Argentina, Bk IV, 1963
SAO - Australia, Bk I, 1959-1960
Box 27
SAO - Australia, Bk II, 1960-1961
SAO - Australia, Bk III, 1962-1963
SAO - Curacao, Bk I, 1956-1958
SAO - Curacao, Bk II, 1959-1961
SAO - Curacao, Bk III, 1962-1966
Box 28
SAO - Egypt, 1957, 1966
SAO - Ethiopia, Bk I, 1963-1966
SAO - Florida, Bk I, 1957-1959
SAO - Florida, Bk II, 1960-1964
SAO - Florida, Bk III, 1965
SAO - Greece, Bk I, 1962, 1965
SAO - Hawaii Observatory, Lang Controversy, 1959-1960
Box 29
SAO - Hawaii, Bk I, 1956-1958
SAO - Hawaii, Bk II, 1959-1960
SAO - Hawaii, Bk III, 1961-1965
SAO - India, Bk II, 1963-1964
SAO - Indonesia, Bk I, 1963-1965
SAO - Iran, Bk I, 1957-1958
Box 30
SAO - Iran, Bk II, 1959
SAO - Iran, Bk III, 1960
SAO - Iran, Bk IV, 1961-1962
SAO - Iran, Bk V, 1963-1964
SAO - Iran, Bk VI, 1965-1967
Box 31
SAO - Japan, 1957-1964
SAO - Lincoln, Nebraska, 1965
SAO - New Mexico, Bk I, 1956-1957
SAO - New Mexico, Bk II, 1958-1960
SAO - New Mexico, Bk III, 1961
SAO - Oslo, Norway, 1964
SAO - Pasadena, 1958
SAO - Peru, Bk I, 1957-1958
Box 32
SAO - Peru, Bk II, 1959
SAO - Peru, Bk III, January-June 1960
SAO - Peru, Bk IV, 1960
SAO - Peru, Bk V, 1961-1962
Box 33
SAO - Peru, Bk VI, 1963
SAO - Shiraz, Iran, Photos, 1959
SAO - Spain, Bk I, 1957-1958
SAO - Spain, Bk II, 1959-1962
SAO - Spain, Bk III, 1963-1965
SAO - T. W. Taylor, Handwritten notes on Celescope
SAO - T. W. Taylor, Handwritten notes on Trip to Iran and India, 1963
SAO - T. W. Taylor, Memos and Outgoing Correspondence, June 1966
Box 34
SAO - U. S. Int. Geophysical Year Program, 1957
SAO - IQSY, 1962-1964
SAO - Wallop's Island Meteor Simulation, 1963-1965
Series 3
Smithsonian Information Exchange (SIE)Some Smithsonian Information Exchange files were placed in box 14 (above).
Box 34
SIE, Bk I, 1961-1963
SIE, Bk II, 1964
Box 35
SIE, Bk III, 1964 (Continued)
SIE, Bk IV, 1964 (Continued)
SIE, Bk V, January-March 1965
Box 36
SIE, Bk VI, April-June 1965
SIE, Bk VII, July-September 1965
SIE, Bk VIII, 1965 (Continued)
SIE, Bk IX, January-March 1966
Box 37
SIE, Unbound papers made for SIE Advisory Board, 1966
SIE - "Analysis of Selected Consumer Comments," CA 1965
SIE Budget File, 1963-1965
Box 38
SIE, Battelle Report and SDR letter, copies
SIE - Battelle, Phase I, 1965
SIE - Battelle, Phase I, Bk 2, 1965-1966
SIE - Letter to NSF, 1966, re: Battelle Report
SIE - Battelle, Phase II, 1965-1966
SIE - Catalog Contract Review, 1965
Box 39
SIE - Clearinghouse Brochure, 1965
SIE - Info - Congressional Record
SIE Contracts and Fiscal, 1965-1966
SIE - Daddario Subcommittee, Data from questions from 1965
SIE - Management Improvement Project, 1964, GSA Report, SIE Comments
SIE - Management Improvement Survey, GSA, SIE Comments
SIE - NSF - SI Relationships, 1960-1965
SIE - NSF Papers - copies - 1965
Box 40
SIE - Printout Reports 1963 - Viral Tumorigenesis
SIE - Printout Reports 1963 - Oceanography
SIE - FY 1964 Report
Select Committee on Government Research
SIE - Related Study of Bio-Sciences Info. Exchange, 1954
SIE - Systems Survey, 1961, Booz-Allen
SIE - T. W. Taylor's Comments on Management Improvement Project, 1964 [Missing]
SIE - T. W. Taylor's Handwritten Notes
Box 41
T. W. Taylor, Reading File, September 1964-October 1965
Box 42
T. W. Taylor, Reading File, November 1965-May 1966
Series 4
National Collection of Fine ArtsBox 43
Efficiency Rating File
NCFA - Bk I, 1958-1960
NCFA - Bk II, 1961
NCFA - Bk III, 1962
NCFA - Bk IV, 1963
NCFA - Bk V, 1964
Box 44
NCFA - Bk VI, January-June 1965
NCFA - Bk VII, July-December 1965
NCFA - Bk VIII, January 1966
NCFA - General
Research Proposal to HEW
NCFA - Budget File
Biennale
David Scott
NCFA - USIA
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