Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 489
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service. Office of Public Relations
Records, 1955-1956, 1975-1989
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service. Office of Public Relations |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1955-1956, 1975-1989 |
Quantity: | 17.58 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) |
Collection: | Record Unit 489 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records document the public relations aspects of the traveling exhibitions. They include press releases, clippings, photographs, and other publicity materials. One scrapbook contains clippings about early shows, 1955-1956 |
Descriptive Entry
These records document the public relations aspects of traveling exhibitions created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). They include press releases, clippings, photographs, and other publicity materials. One scrapbook contains clippings about early shows, 1955-1956. Researchers should also consult Record Units 90, 290, 316, 487, and 488 for additional documentation of SITES exhibitions.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionPermission to duplicate photographs should be obtained from the Director of the Office, as some restrictions may apply.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 489, Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, Office of Public Relations, Records
Container List
Box 1
An Age of Gold
Albert Einstein
Alvar Aalto
The American Cowboy
American Drawings II
American Drawings III
American Drawings IV (2 folders)
American Impressionism (6 folders)
American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art
America's Architectural Heritage
America's First Ladies
And Now A Message...
And the Band Played On
Aquaculture: A World View of Sea Farming
Archaeology of Israel
Art as Language
Arte Objeto
Artists and Models
The Art of Cameroon (3 folders)
Artists and Space Flight
Aspects of Color
Assignment Aviation
Box 2
Aymara Weavings: Ceremonial textiles of Colonial and Nineteenth Century Bolivia (2 folders)
Aymara Weavings - News releases
Aymara Weavings - Photographs
Aymara Weavings - Slides
Aymara Weavings - Installation and opening
Ban Chiang (2 folders)
Ban Chiang - Publicity (2 folders)
Biblical Paintings of J. James Tissot
Birds of Prey
Black American Landmarks (2 folders)
Building Brooklyn Bridge
Building a New World: Black Labor Photographs
Buildings Reborn: New Uses, Old Places (2 folders)
Buildings Reborn - Public relations photographs
Built for the People of the U.S.A.
Cartoon History
Box 3
CBS Software
A Celebration of Birds (2 folders)
The Center Space: Pueblo Indian Architecture
China From Within
Chinese Children's Drawings
The Contemporary American Potter
Contemporary German Textile Art
Early Flight
Edison and the Electrical Age
Edgar Chahine
Embroideries by the Children of Peru
Ethiopia: The Christian Art of an African Nation
European Illustration: 1974-1984
Eva Zeisel: Designer for Industry
A Flowering of Science: Plants from Captain Cook's First Voyage
Flying Fantasies: Butterflies and Moths
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Galapagos: Born of the Sea
Good as Gold: Alternative Materials in American Jewelry (3 folders)
Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt
Iceland: Fire of the Arctic
Iceland Summer
Image of the Black in Western Art
Images of China
Box 4
Images of Labor (2 folders)
Innovative Furniture
Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo (3 folders)
In Touch: Printing and Writing for the Blind
Invisible Light
Irish Silver from the Collection of the National Museum, Dublin (3 folders)
Jacquard Textile Experiments
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
John Sloan in Santa Fe
Kings, Heroes and Lovers
Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (2 folders)
Marine Mammals of the World
Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Ireland
Master European Drawings
Box 5
Matchsafes: Striking Designs
Mimbres Pottery
Native Harvests: Plants in American Indian Life
Newcomb Pottery
Newcomb Pottery - Clippings
Noritake Art Deco Porcelain
Portraits and Dreams: Photographs of Appalachian Children (2 folders)
Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collection (4 folders)
Pressed on Paper
Radiance and Virtue: The R. Norris Shreve Collection of Chinese Jade
Raphael Soyer: Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking
Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks
Sculpture: Exploring Three Dimensions
The Seasonal Trade: Holiday Gift and Greeting Cards
Serves Porcelain
Box 6
The Shopping Bag: Portable Graphic Art
SITES Bicentennial Publicity
Southeastern Potteries
Sri Lanka
Story of a Goblet
Studied Beauty: Portraits of Cecil Beaton
Symbols of Faith
Tallgrass Prairie: An American Landscape (3 folders)
This Mighty Dream
Threads: Seven American Artists and Their Miniature Textile Pictures
Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia
Transformed Houses
Box 7
Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution
Treasures of the Quicksilver Galleons
Upland Game Birds of North America
Urban Open Spaces
The Vanishing Race and Other Illusions: A New Look at the Work of Edward Curtis
Western Views and Eastern Visions
We'll Never Turn Back
What Mean These Stones?
World Print III
World Print IV
Year of the Hopi
Yesterday's Tomorrows (3 folders)
Advance Exhibition Schedules, January 1975-October 1986
American Master Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
America's Space Truck: The Space Shuttle (2 folders)
Artist and the Space Shuttle
Baseball Immortals (2 folders)
Beaumont Newall: A Retrospective
Beauties of the Coral Reef (2 folders)
Community Industries of the Shakers
Box 8
Contemporary Print Images
Drawn from the Sea: Art in the Service of Ichthyology
Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age from the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland (2 folders)
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Person Singular
Exploring Microspace
Fields of Grass
Five Centuries of Italian Textiles
Generations (2 folders)
Genre Scenes: Works on Paper (2 folders)
Jupiter and Its Moons (3 folders)
Peggy Loar (former SITES director)
Magnificent Voyagers
Box 9
Material Evidence (3 folders)
New Horizons
Out of Africa
Power and Gold (2 folders)
Recent American Works on Paper
Renaissance Bronzes
Russia: The Land, the People (3 folders)
Sharing Traditions: Five Black American Artists in Nineteenth Century America from the Collections of the National Museum of American Art (3 folders)
Sharing Traditions - Background
Sharing Traditions - Press release (2 folders)
Box 10
South of Winter: Arkansas Wildlife (2 folders)
Treasures from the Land
Twenty-Five Years of Manned Space Flight
A Collector's Eye: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection
American Drawings From the Cooper-Hewitt Museum: Training the Hand and Eye
And Now A Message... (4 folders)
Art Nouveau Bing
Art of Botany
Brooklyn Bridge
Carnegie's Libraries
Child to Child
Colorful Kite Tales
Computers in Your Pocket: The History of Hand-Held Calculators
Daughters of the Desert
Diamonds Are Forever: Artists & Writers in Baseball
Diamonds Are Forever - Press Release
Diamonds Are Forever - Color Slides
Diamonds Are Forever - Background
Diamonds Are Forever - Black-and-white photographs
Drawn from the Sea
Box 11
Edison and the Electrical Age (3 folders)
Exploring Microspace
Fields of Grass - News release
Generations
Generations - Background
Generations - Book party
Generations - Photographs
Generations - Warren Lambert
Glamour and Allure
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Black-and-white photographs
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Background publications
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Installation slides
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Color transparencies
Hooray for Yiddish Theater in America!
Impressions of a New Civilization
John Held's America: Flappers, the Jazz Age and Beyond
King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea (2 folders)
Magnificent Voyagers
Magnificent Voyagers - Background/Correspondence
Box 12
Mark Twain: Joy-Flags and Milestones
Master Watercolors and Drawings from the Norton School of Art
Mexico as Seen by Her Children
Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels
New Vistas: American Art Pottery
Odyssey: Mirror of the Mediterranean
Polished Perfection: The Art of Turned-Wood Bowls
Portraits in Black
Power and Gold
America's City Halls
Anasazi World
Artists and Models
Art Nouveau Bing (2 folders)
Athletes and Heroes
The Dog Observed
Ebla to Damascus
Box 13
Hollywood: Legend and Reality (5 folders)
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Publicity
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Copies/Clips (3 folders)
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Original clippings (2 folders)
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Volume I
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Volume II
Homage to Amanda
Magic of Neon
Peonies of Greece
Box 14
People of the Forest: Photos by Gertrude Blom
Perfect in Her Place : Women at Work in Industrial America
American Master Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
America's Space Truck: The Space Shuttle
Anasazi World
The Architectural Drawings of Jean Paul Carlhian
The Art of Cameroon
The Art of Cameroon Grassfields
Athletes and Heroes
Audubon: Science in to Art
Ban Chiang
Baseball Immortals
Beauties of the Coral Reef
Community Industries of the Shakers
Contemporary Print Images
The Dog Observed
Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age from the National Gallery of Ireland
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Person Singular
Five Centuries of Italian Textiles
Gauguin and His Circle in Brittany: The Prints of the Pont-Aven School
Hollywood: Legend and Reality
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Tour: Miami
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Tour: Cincinnati
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Tour: Denver
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Tour: Japan
Hollywood: Legend and Reality - Attendance figures
Homage to Amanda
The Laser at 25
Marconi
Master European Watercolors and Drawings
Master Weavers
Material Evidence
Music and Dance from Papua New Guinea
Box 15
New Horizons
Out of Africa
Perfect in Her Place
Renaissance Master Bronzes
Russia, The Land, The People
Sharing Traditions
Treasures from the Land
Treasures from Hungary
Twenty-Five Years of Manned Space Flight
Unfamiliar Fauna of the Open Sea
America's City Halls
American Impressionism
American Porcelain: New Expressions in Ancient Art
An Age of Gold: Three Centuries of Paintings from Old Ecuador
Aquaculture: A World View of Seafarming
Art of Cameroon
Art of Cameroon - Advertising
Art of Cameroon - Grant news release
Art of Cameroon - Press kit contents
Art of Cameroon - Correspondence
Art of Cameroon - Tour schedule and contacts
Art of Cameroon - Black-and-white photographs
Art of Cameroon - Slides
Art of Cameroon - Installation photographs
Art of Cameroon - Original images, etc.
Arte Objeto
Artists & Models: Portraits from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden
Aspects of Color: Works on Paper from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Ban Chiang: Discovery of a Lost Bronze Age
Beaumont Newall: A Retrospective
Black American Landmarks
Building Brooklyn Bridge
CBS Video Project
Celebration of Birds
China From Within
Contemporary German Textile Art
Box 16
Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria (4 folders)
Early Flight 1900-1911
Edgar Chahine: La Vie Parisienne
Ethiopia: The Christian Art of An African Nation
European Illustration: 1974-1984
Exploring Microspace
Eva Zeisel: Designer for Industry
A Flowering of Science
Flying Fantasies
Genre Scenes: Works on Paper from Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Ice Age Art
Iceland: Fire of the Arctic
Image of the Black in Western Art
Innovative Furniture in America
Inua: Spirit of the Bering Sea Eskimo
Kentucky Quilts
Kings, Heroes & Lovers: Pictorial Rugs from the Tribes and Villages of Iran
Hollywood: Legend and Reality
Lithographs of Whistler
Images of Old Age in America
In Touch: Printing and Writing for the Blind in the 19th Century
Irish Silver
Jacquard Textile Experiments
Jamaican Art
Jupiter and Its Moons
French Cinema Posters, 1924-1939: The Art Jean A. Mercier
The Magic of Neon
Matchsafes in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women
Art Nouveau Bing
Peonies of Greece: Myth, Science, Art
Pressed on Paper: Fish Rubbings and Nature Prints
Box 17
Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collection
Precious Legacy - Tour
Precious Legacy - Publicity
Precious Legacy - Background
Precious Legacy - Education, Tours
Precious Legacy - News releases (originals and copies)
Precious Legacy - Slide sets
Precious Legacy - Installation photographs
Precious Legacy - Black-and-white photographs
Precious Legacy - Release
Precious Legacy - Radio advertisements
Precious Legacy - Publicity lists
Precious Legacy - Correspondence
Precious Legacy - Press conference/Previews
Precious Legacy - Color slides
Recent American Works on Paper
Sculpture: Exploring Three Dimensions
Shopping Bag: Portable Graphic Art
Surrealist Art
Symbols of Faith
Three Centuries of German Painting and Drawing
Treasures of the Smithsonian
We'll Never Turn Back
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
Box 18
German Drawings: Masterpieces from Five Centuries
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