Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 583
National Museum of American History. Office of the Director
Subject Files, circa 1982-1988
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: | National Museum of American History. Office of the Director |
Title: | Subject Files |
Dates: | circa 1982-1988 |
Quantity: | 33 cu. ft. (33 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 583 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records document the tenure of Roger G. Kennedy, Director, NMHT, 1979-1980, and Director, NMAH, 1980-1992, as well as some of the work of Douglas E. Evelyn, Deputy Director. The records concern activities of the Office of the Director and the administration of NMAH. Of special note are records regarding the conclusion in 1982 of the collections inventory mandated by Congress in 1979 and the 1983 beginning of work on the first major renovation of exhibition spaces since 1964. Records include correspondence and memoranda with educational institutions, government agencies, professional associations, scholars, domestic and foreign museums, and NMAH curators concerning programs with other organizations; special events held at NMAH, including lecture series and fundraising; policies and planning for NMAH operations; the acquisition of objects for the national collections; and exhibition records, including floor plans, sketches, blueprints, and scripts. |
Historical Note
The National Museum of American History (NMAH) was created on October 3, 1980, from the former National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT).
Descriptive Entry
These records document the tenure of Roger G. Kennedy, director, NMHT, 1979-1980, and director, NMAH, 1980-1992, as well as some of the work of Douglas E. Evelyn, deputy director. The records concern activities of the Office of the Director and the administration of NMAH. Of special note are records regarding the conclusion in 1982 of the collections inventory mandated by Congress in 1979 and the 1983 beginning of work on the first major renovation of exhibition spaces since 1964.
These records include correspondence and memoranda with educational institutions, government agencies, professional associations, scholars, domestic and foreign museums, and NMAH curators concerning programs with other organizations; special events held at NMAH, including lecture series and fundraising; policies and planning for NMAH operations; the acquisition of objects for the national collections; and exhibition records, including floor plans, sketches, blueprints, and scripts.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
Subject
- Historical museums
- Museum directors
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Administration
- Museums -- Collection management
- Science museums
- Special events
- United States -- History
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 583, National Museum of American History. Office of the Director, Subject Files
Container List
Box 1
1983/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Social and Cultural History
Department of Social and Cultural History
Ceramics and Glass
Ceramics and Glass - McKean, Hugh, Tiffany Glass
Community Life
Costume, 1983
Costume, 1984
Domestic Life
Graphic Arts
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments - Friends of Music
Photographic History
Political History - Peter Collection
Textiles
1983/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Science and Technology
Department of Science and Technology
Electricity
Extractive Industries
Mathematics
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanisms
Medical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Military History
Naval History
Transportation
Senior Historian Office
Senior Historian Office/Shot
1983/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Divisions and Offices
Director's Office
Deputy Director's Office
Administrative Office
Numismatics
Numismatics/Inventory
Numismatics/Mexican Silver Coins
Numismatics/Micro - Photography Project
Philately
Philately/Audit (2 folders)
Philately/Oberhauser Collection
Box 2
Registrar Office
Objects Processing Facility
Conservation
Building Manager's Office
Public Affairs
Public Affairs and Special Events
Public and Academic Programs (2 folders)
Public and Academic Programs/Black American Culture Program
Public and Academic Programs/Docents
Public and Academic Programs/Performing Arts
Public and Academic Programs/Publications
Public and Academic Programs/Senior Series
Public and Academic Programs/Technology and Culture
Exhibits Department
Exhibits Maintenance
Eisenhower Institute (2 folders)
1983/Noncurrent MAH
Abrams Book
Accountable Property
Afro-American Communities Project - Horton, James
Applicants
Appraisals
Archives Center
Asbestos Removal
Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Bedini, Silvio
Bookstore
Budget, FY 1983
Budget, FY 1984
Budget, FY 1985
Budget, Major Installations
Cafeteria
Collections Committee
Care of Collection Series
Collections Management
Collections Management Politics and Procedures
Comptroller of the Currency Collection
Box 3
Computers
Computer Service Center
Congressional Hearings (2 folders)
Copier
Curators
Daly, George
Director's Office (General)
Deputy Director's Office (General)
Donors
Doubleday
Energy Conservation
Equal Employment Opportunity
Fellows
Fire Protection
First Ladies Fellowship
Fundraising
Gift Acknowledgments
Ice Cream Parlor
Interns
Inventory (General) (2 folders)
Inventory Budget
Inventory Computerizing
Inventory Countdown
Inventory Divisional Meetings
Inventory Numismatics
Inventory Philatelic
Inventory Photographic Project
Inventory Science and Technology
Inventory Silver Hill
Inventory Status Reports
John Bull
Kennedy - SI Invitations
Kennedy - Outside Invitations
Box 4
Levine, Lawrence
Letterhead/Business Cards
Minority History
Museum Advisory Council
Museum Advisory Council Minutes, 1983
Museum Advisory Council Meeting, Announcements
Museum Shop
Museum Support Center (3 folders)
National Institute for Music Theater
Native American Program
Nitrate Film
Objects Processing Facility
Objects Processing Facility - Task Force
Old Glory
Professional Accomplishments and Evaluation Committee (PAEC)
Project Managers
Public Inquiries
Puckrein, Gary - Visions (4 folders)
Restoration and Renovation
Safety
Security
Security Keys and Locks
Shelf Survey
Silver Hill
Silver Hill Asbestos
Silver Hill Improvements
Box 5
Space Division Collection Disposition Reports
Special Events
Staff Listings
Staff Meetings
Staff Parties
Staff Publications
Standard of Conduct
Storage Committee
Storage (Cold)
Storage Equipment
Subscriptions
Telephones
Timecards, Timekeepers
Vacation Schedules
Video Disk
Volunteer Receptionist
Word Processing
1983/Noncurrent SI
Affirmative Action
Archives
Archives of American Art
Assistant Secretary for History and Art (Charles Blitzer/John Reinhardt)
Associates, National
Associates, Resident
Awards
Audio-Visual
Bicentennial of the Constitution
Budget, FY 1984
Building Manager's Council
Business Lunch Cards
Choral Society
Combined Federal Campaign
Congressional Liaison
Conservation Analytical Laboratory
Cooper-Hewitt
Council of Directors
Design and Construction, Office of
Educational Outreach Fund
Emergency Preparedness
Energy
Executive Committee
Fellowships and Grants, Office of
Festival of American Folklife
Fluid Research Fund
Freer Gallery of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Horticulture
Information Resource Management
Joseph Henry Papers
Legislation
Library
Library, Dibner
Library, MAH Branch
Mail Service
March on Washington
Membership and Development, Office of
Museum Programs, Office of
National Air and Space Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of American Art
National Armed Forces History Museum Advisory Board
Natural History Museum
National Portrait Gallery
Office of Equal Opportunity
Office of Grants and Risk Management
Office of Plant Services (OPlantS)
Performing Arts, Division of
Personnel
Public Affairs
Publications
Quadrangle Project
Regents (Board of)
Renwick Gallery
Secretary, Office of
Secretary's Correspondence
Secretary Program Report (2 folders)
Box 6
Smithson Society
Smithsonian Council (2 folders)
Smithsonian News Service
Smithsonian Institution Press
SITES (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)
Smithsonian Year, 1983
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Bibliography
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Department Submissions
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Final Submission
Smithsonian Year, 1983, General
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Milestones
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Photographs
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Staff Listing
Smithsonian Year, 1983, Submissions
Special Events
Spring Celebration
Standard of Conduct
Sultner Bequest
Supply Services, Office of
Symposium and Seminars, Office of
Telecommunications, Office of
Telephone Directory
Television
U.S. Exploring Expedition Exhibit
Visitors
Volunteers
Women's Committee
Woodrow Wilson Center
Zoological Park
1983/Noncurrent/Non SI
A, General
American Association of Museums
American Association of Museums 1983 Meeting
Applicant A-L
Applicant M-Z
B, General
C, General
Carter, Jimmy Library
D, General
E, General
Edison Papers
F, General
G, General
Greene & Greene Furniture
H, General
I, General
Box 7
International Council of Museums
J, General
K, General
L, General
Lerski, Hanna Hryniewiecka
M, General
Melosh, Barbara
Museums, American
Museums, Foreign
N, General
National Endowment for the Humanities
Navy Yard
O, General
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
P, General
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation
Public Inquiries
R, General
S, General
Statue of Liberty
T, General
U, General
V, General
W, General
X, Y, Z, General
1983/Noncurrent Exhibits
Noncurrent Exhibits
Exhibits Proposed (1982)
Exhibits Proposed (1983)
1983/Noncurrent/George Eastman House Exhibit
George Eastman House Advisory Board
George Eastman House Background
Correspondence
George Eastman House Chron. to Announcements
George Eastman House Description of Collections, Conservation
George Eastman House Comments to Others
Box 8
George Eastman House Correspondence, 7/19/1984-8/13/1984
George Eastman House Correspondence, 8/15/1984-10/13/1984
George Eastman House Correspondence, 10/12/1984
George Eastman House Correspondence, 11/1/1984
George Eastman House (General 1985)
George Eastman House (General 1986)
George Eastman House - Helena Wright's Work
George Eastman House - Meeting, 9/14/1984
George Eastman House - Planning and Budget
George Eastman House - Periodicals
George Eastman House - Releases (News)
George Eastman House - Surveys, etc.
1984/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Social and Cultural History
Department of Social and Cultural History
Ceramics and Glass
Community Life
Domestic Life
Graphic Arts
Mechanisms
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments/Friends of Music
Musical Instruments/Steinway Archives
Photographic History
Political History
Political History (1983)
Textiles
Box 9
1984/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Science and Technology
Department of Science and Technology
Armed Forces History
Electricity and Modern Physics
Extractive Industries
Mathematics
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Medical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Naval History
Transportation
1984/Noncurrent/Divisions: Divisions and Offices
Senior Historians Office
Shot
Technology and Culture Journal
Administrative Offices
National Numismatics Collection (NNC)
NNC - Inventory Micro-Photography Project
NNC - Mexican Silver Coins
National Philatelic Collection
Office of the Registrar
Division of Conservation
Building Managers Office
Special Events
Public Affairs
Department of Public Programs
Education
Black American Culture Program
Department of Exhibits
Box 10
Exhibits Schedules
Exhibits Production
Exhibits Design
Eisenhower Institute
1984/Noncurrent MAH
Abrams Book
Acknowledgments (Gift)
Accountable Property
Advertising
Affirmative Action
Afro-American Communities Project
American Association of Museums
American Studies
Appraisals
Applicants
Archives Center
Archives - Warshaw Collection
Art Wood Collection
Architecture, Men, Women and Money
Asbestos
Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Audit
Basement
Bedini, Silvio
Bidding at Auction
Bookstore
Bradford Cup
Braudel's Book
Budget, FY 1984
Budget, FY 1985
Budget, FY 1986
Cafeteria
Calder Stabile Gwenfritz (2 folders)
Care of Collections Series
Carmichael Auditorium
Carnegie Institution
Collections Committee
Collections Management
Colloquium Series
Combined Federal Campaign
Commerce Department Museum
Computers
Computer Services Center
Condition Reports
Congressional Hearings
Construction
Curators
Box 11
Dallas Loan
Data Entry Program
Director's Office (General)
Deputy Director (General)
Donors
Doubleday
Dulles
DuPont
Ellie Trowbridge, Special Assistant to the Director
Emergency Plans
Energy and Environmental Improvements
Equal Employment Opportunity
Exhibit Labels
Fellows
First Floor Plans
Five Year Prospectus, FY 1986-1990
Fourth Floor
Fundraising
Hartman Proposal/Leroy Proposal
Ice Cream Parlor
ID Revalidation
Interns
Inventory
Inventory Audit Report
Jazz Improvisation
Julian Kanter Collector
Emory Kemp
Kennedy's Outside Invitations
Kennedy's SI Invitations
Koizumi, Seisli
Levine, Lawrence
Library
Library Liaison Committee
Life and Culture in the 1930s
Marriott/Leroy Proposal for a new cafeteria
Marriott/Quality Assurance Committee
Mayr, Otto
Microphotography
Monthly Program Report
Morgan Collection
Museum Advisory Committee
Museum Advisory Committee Minutes
Museum Shop
Museum Support Center
Box 12
National Academy of Engineering Query
National Institute of Music Theater
Native American Program (2 folders)
Native American Program Planning Committee
Navy Yard
Needs Assessment
Norcross Material
Objects Processing Facility
Office of Printing and Photographic Services
PAEC
Personnel, 1984
Personnel, 1983
Photography Survey/Diane Vogt-O'Connor
Photo Task Force
Print-Outs
Product Development Committee
Product Licensing
Product Management
Property Passes
Public Inquiries
Puckrein, Gary (VISIONS)
Publications Handbook
Reproduction Services
Research
Research Policy Committee
Research Proposal
Restoration and Renovation
Roger's Sweater
Safety
Sears
Second Floor
Security
SELGEM Software
Silver Hill
Silver Hill Asbestos
Simpson Collection
Space
Staff Dining Room
Staff Listing
Staff Meeting
Staging Area
Status Reports
Storage Committee
Storage Equipment
Storage Suitland
Tax Reform Act
Terrace
Video Disk
Wexler, Peter
Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Box 13
1984/Noncurrent SI
Affirmative Action
Anacostia Museum
Archives
Arts and Industries Building
Assistant Secretary for History and Art, Dr. John Reinhardt
Assistant Secretary for History and Art, Special Assistant Dean Anderson
Assistant Secretary for Museum
Assistant Secretary for Science, David Challinor
Associates Program - National
Associates Program - Resident
Awards
Audio-Visual
Building Manager's Council
Bradford Cup
Budget
Collections Management
Congressional Liaison/Congressional Correspondence
Cooper-Hewitt
Council of Directors
Data Communications
Design and Construction
Development Committee
Emergency Preparedness
Equal Opportunity, Office of
Exhibits Report
Fellowships and Grants
Fluid Research Fund
International Activities
Joseph Henry Papers
Legislation
Library
Membership and Development, Office of
Museum Programs, Office of
National Air and Space Museum
National Museum of American Art
National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
National Museum of Natural History - Fiske
National Portrait Gallery
OPlantS
Personnel
Protective Services, Office of
Publications
Quadrangle Project
Regents, Board of
Regent Fellow
Regents Fund
Research Opportunities Fund
Secretarial Correspondence
Secretary's Office
Smithsonian Committee for a Wider Audience
Smithsonian Council
Smithsonian Institution Press
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
Smithsonian Research Reports
Smithsonian World
Smithsonian Year
Smithson Society
Sultner Bequest
Symposia and Seminars, Office of Wilton Dillon
Box 14
Telecommunications, Office of
Visitors, SI
Women's Committee
Woodrow Wilson Center
National Zoological Park
1984/Noncurrent/Non SI
A, General
American Advertising Federation
American Association of Museums
American Cinematheque
Applicant A-L
Applicant M-Z
B, General
Battelle
C, General
Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records (COPAR)
D, General
E, General
Edison Papers
F, General
G, General
H, General
I, General
Investigative Cooperative with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
J, General
K, General
L, General
Lerski, Hanna
M, General
Museum, American
Museum, Foreign
N, General
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
O, General
P, General
Public Inquiries
R, General
Random House
S, General
Box 15
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island (2 folders)
T, General
Twenty Anniversary of the Land Ordinance of 1785
U, General
W, General
X, Y, Z, General
Young, Jefferson
1985/Noncurrent SI
Abody, Sir Valentine
Affirmative Action
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Anderson, Dean, Secretary for History and Art
Archives
Archives Smithsonian Institution, Retired Director's Office Files
Assistant Secretary for Public Service, Ralph Rinzler
Assistant Secretary for Research, David Challinor
Building Manager's Council
Budget
Carter, Jimmy Trust
Congressional Liaison/Congressional Correspondence
Conservation Analytical Laboratory
Cooper-Hewitt
Council of Bureau Directors
Design and Construction
Development Committee
Education Outreach Fund
Proposed Employee Bulletin
Executive Committee
Exterior Graphic Information System for the Smithsonian Institution
Fellowships, International
Five-Year Prospectus, FY 1986, FY 1990
FY 1987 Five-Year Prospectus
Office of Folklife Programs - Folklife Advisory Council
Fundraising
Greenway, Frank
Information Resources Management
Information Resources Management, DEE File - Review of the Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Henry Papers
Management Committee
Membership and Development, Office of
Museums Programs, Office of
Museums Shops
National Air and Space Museum
National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
National Associates Program
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of American Art
Natural History Museum
National Portrait Gallery
Box 16
National Associates Program
Office of Telecommunications
OPlantS
Organizational Chart
Performance Standards Review Board
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Printing and Photographic Services
Protective Service, Office of
Public Affairs
Publications
Quincentennial Planning
Regents (Board of)
Regent Fellow
Regent Fund
Regents (Board of)
Regents Publication Award Program
Reinhardt, John, Director, Directorate of International Activities
Research Opportunity Fund
Renwick Gallery
Research Associates Program
Research Staff - SI
Resident Associates Program
Risk Management, Office of
Sabbatical Leave Program
Scholarly Studies Program
Secretary's Office, Robert McC. Adams
Special Events
Special Exhibition Fund
Smithsonian Catalog
Smithsonian Committee for a Wider Audience
Smithsonian Council
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES)
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Research Reports
Smithson Society
Smithsonian World
Smithsonian Year
SI Press
Symposia and Seminars, Office of Wilton Dillon
Telecommunications, Office of
Television
Visiting Associates Program
Visitors
Women's Committee
Women's Council
Woodrow Wilson Center
National Zoological Park
1985/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Social and Cultural History
Ceramics and Glass, McKean and Hugh Tiffany Glass
Community Life
Costume
Domestic Life
Graphic Arts
Musical Instruments
Friends of Music
Photographic History
Political History
Textiles
1985/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Department of Science and Technology
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Armed Forces History
Box 17
Electricity and Modern Physics
Mathematics
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanisms
Medical Science
Naval History
Transportation
1985/Noncurrent/Departments/Divisions: Divisions and Offices
Senior Historian
Technology and Culture Journal
Administrative Offices
National Numismatics Collection
National Philatelic Collection
Office of the Registrar
Division of Conservation
Building Manager's Office
1985/Noncurrent MAH
Accession Records/NMAH
Accountable Property
Acknowledgments (Gifts)
Advertising (2 folders)
Advertising, Marlboro Project
Advisors (Outside) MAH
Afro-American Community Project, Jim Horton
Afro-American Index Project
Appraisals
Archives Center
Art Wood Collections
Asbestos
Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Audio-Visual Collections
Audit
Automatic Teller Machine
Bradford Cup
Budget, FY 1985 (3 folders)
Budget, FY 1986
Budget, FY 1987
Budget Plans - Inventory and Computer
Trust Fund Budget, FY 1985
Trust Fund Budget, FY 1986
Carmichael Auditorium
"Ceremonial Court"
Child Care
Coca Cola's Advertising History
Collections Committee
Collections Management Policies and Procedures
Collections Management Policies and Procedures (1984)
Box 18
Colloquium Series
Combined Federal Campaign
Computer Service Center
Congressional Hearings
Corporate Support of Smithsonian Activities
Director's Office (General)
Deputy Director Office (General)
Donors
Doubleday
Emergency Plans
Fellows
Financial Report, NMAH
First Floor Plans
Folkways Record
Fourth Floor
Fundraising
William Hammer Collection
Health Unit
Hold Folder Director's Office
Ice Cream Parlor
ID's
International Visitors
Inventory
Invitations (Outside)
Invitations (SI)
Julian Kanter Collection
Library
Library, Dibner
Loan to O.D. (1984)
Mail Service
Major Reinstallations
Marriott
Master Coordination Plan - NMAH (Office of Design and Construction - ODC #R8430115)
Miscellaneous Business Activities
Monthly Program Reports
Museum Advisory Committee
Museum Advisory Committee - Minutes
Museum Shops
Museum Support Center
Native American Program Planning Committee
Native American Program - Rayna Green
Native American Program - American Indian Program Search Committee
Non-expendable Property (1980-1985)
Object Processing Facility
Office of Printing and Photographic Services
Office of Protective Services (OPS)
Pain Service Room
Parking
Patent Model Foundation (USPMF) Articles of Incorporation
USPMF Budget Fundraising Campaign Kit
USPMF Burroughs Welcome Fund
USPMF Potential Board Members
Patent Model Show - Cooper-Hewitt
Patent Model Show - Robert Post
Payroll File (Master)
PCB's
"Pepsi Generation" Oral History Project
Peterson Collection
Box 19
Photographic Collections
Photographic Survey - Diane Vogt-O'Connor
Pistols - Jackson, Washington and Lafayette
Postal Museum (National, 1985)
Postal Museum (National, 1984) (2 folders)
Post Office (National Historic File, 1984)
Postal Museum (National, 1984)
Potier, Adrian H. de
Presidential Reception Suite
Project Codes, NMAH
Product Development
Property Passes
Publication Policy
Puckrein, Gary (Visions)
Radio Shack Computer
Readers Digest
Reingold, Nathan
Research
Research Center/Proposed
Research Funding Support
Restaurant (MAH)
Restoration and Renovation
Robert Mills Papers - Pam Scott
Safety
Safety Committee
Savings Bond Campaign
Security
Sesquicentennial in 1986
Silver Hill
Silver Hill Asbestos
Space Planning Consultant/David Scott
Smith, Merrit Roe
Space
Staff Dining Area
Staff Listing
Staff Meetings
Staff Parties
Standard Operating Procedures
Storage
Summer Youth Employment Program
Storage - Silver Hill
Tax Reform Act
Telephone
Third Floor
Training
Trees of Christmas
Virgo, Dick, Office of the Director
Vacation
Video Disk
Wallace, Susan
1986/Noncurrent MAH
Accountable Property
Acknowledgments (Gift)
Admission Charges
Advertising
Advertising, Alka Seltzer
Afro-American Index Project
Afro-American Community Project, Jim Horton
Archives Center
Asbestos
Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Audit
Automatic Teller Machine at the NMAH
Box 20
Beschloss, Michael
Budget - G-R-H
Budget, FY 1986 - Federal
Budget, FY 1986 - Trust Fund
FY 1986 Budget - DEE
Budget Hearings, FY 1986 - DEE
Cafeteria
Care of Collection Series
Carmichael Auditorium
"Ceremonial Court"
Child Care
Cigarette Machines
Coca Cola's Advertising History
Collections (20th Century)
Collections Committee
Collection Management Policies and Procedures
Collections Management (1985)
Collections Management (1986)
Colloquium Series
Combined Federal Campaign
Computer Services Center (CSC)
Congressional Hearings
Copy Machine
Curators Association
DAKA
Dallas Loan
Delegation of Authority
Deputy Director's Office (General)
Doubleday
Duke Ellington Collection
Exhibit Review Meetings - DEE file
Ellie Trowbridge/Special Assistant to the Director
Emergency Plans
"Employee of the Month"
Fellows
Financial Report, NMAH
Fire Protection Plan
Fundraising
Health Unit
Howard, Jeff
ID's
Interns
Inventory
Inventory Steering Committee
Joint Programs with Universities - General
Joint Program with Johns Hopkins University
Joint Program with The American University
Joint Program with University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Julian Kanter Collection
Kemp, Emory
Kemp, Emory (1985)
Library
Loans to the Director's Office
Marriott
Master Coordination Plan (NMAH)
Museum Support Center
Box 21
Native American Program
Native American Search Committee
Navy Yard
Non-expendable Property
Non-expendable Property - Photo History
Non-expendable Property Forms
Objects Processing Facility
Office of Printing and Photographic Services (OPPS)
PAEC
Parking
Patent Models
U.S. Patent Model Foundation - "Advertising Materials"
Pepsi Generation - Oral History Project
Photographic Collections
Pogue, Forrest
Polaroid
Postal Museum (National)
Presidential Reception Suite
Project Codes
Project Management
Property Passes
Publication Policy
Publication - "Presenting the Past," Essays on History and the Public
Puckrein, Gary (Visions)
Radio Shack Computer
Research
Research Center for the History of Science, Technology and Culture
Restaurant (MAH)
Restoration and Renovation
"Rock & Roll Hall of Fame"
"The Rockefeller Foundation"
Safety
Safety Committee
Savings Bond Campaign
Sears
Security
Simpson, Collection, Ralph Linsly
Space
Staff Meetings
Staff Parties
Standard Operating Procedures
Storage
Stationery
Summer Youth Employment Program
Task Force on Sponsorship and Recognition
Tax Reform Act
Third Floor
Vacation Schedules
Video Disk
1986/Noncurrent SI
Accounting and Financial
Accounting and Financial (1985)
Academic Hiring and Appraisal, Advisory Group
Archives (Smithsonian)
Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
Audits, Office of
Assistant Secretary for Museums, Freudenheim, Tom L.
Assistant Secretary for Public Services, Rinzler, Ralph
Assistant Secretary for Research, Challinor, David
National Associates Program
Resident Associates Program
Black History Month
Brookings Institution Programs
Carter, Jimmy Trust
Combined Federal Campaign
Congressional Liaison/Congressional Correspondence
Council of Bureau Directors
Development Committee
Educational Outreach Fund
Equal Opportunity, Office of
Environmental Research Center - SI, Rockville
Erwin, Terry L. - The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program
Fellowship and Grants, Office of Roberta Rubinoff
Fundraising
Box 22
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
Horticulture, Office of
Interactive Video Technologies
Information Resource Management, Office of
International Congress of the History of Art
Library (SI)
Membership and Development, Office of
Monthly Program Report (Secretary)
Museum Programs, Office of
Museum Shops
Museum Studies Fund
National Air and Space Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of American Art
Natural History Museum
National Portrait Gallery
National Science Resources Center (NSRC)
NIH - Museum of Medical Research
Office of Committee for a Wider Audience
Office of Facilities Services, Richard Siegle, Director
Office of Folklife Programs
Office of Personnel Administration
OPlantS
Pan-Institution List
Parking
Personnel
Postal Rate Commission Study
Protective Services, Office of
Public Affairs, Office of
Publications
Publications Review Board, Smithsonian
Quadrangle Project
Quincentennial Planning
Regents (Board of)
Regent Fund
Regents' Publication Award Program
Reinhardt, John, Director, Directorate of International Activities
Research Policy Committee
Research Staff - SI
Research Opportunity Fund
Scholarly Studies Program
Secretary's Office - Robert McC. Adams
Secretarial Correspondence
Smithson Society
Smithsonian Council (2 folders)
Smithsonian Kellogg Project
Smithson Society
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES)
Smithsonian World
Space
Special Events, Office of
Special Exhibition Fund
Sultner Request
Symposia and Seminars, Office of Wilton Dillon
Telecommunications, Office of
Travel
VIARC - Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center
VIPs
Visiting Associates Program
Visitors (SI)
Women's Committee
Women's Council
Woodrow Wilson Center
Zoological Park, National
1985-1986/Noncurrent/Non SI
A - General
American Study Association - American Quarterly
American Association of Museums (1985)
American Association of Museums (1986)
American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
American Association for State and Local History
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Applicants A - L (1985)
Applicants M - Z (1985)
Applicants A - L (1986)
Applicants M - Z (1986)
Association of Science and Technology Centers (1984)
Association of Science and Technology Centers (1985)
Association of Science and Technology Centers (1986)
B - General
Bicentennial of the French Revolution (1985)
C - General
Congressional Spouses Wives Visit (1985)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Council on Foundations (1985)
D - General
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
E - General
F - General
G - General
GeoVision Inc. (1985)
German Delegation (1985)
Getty Conservation Institute
H - General
Hammond, Mark Wayne (1985)
Hammond, Mark Wayne (1986)
Health Care Expo '85
I - General
IREX - Soviet Delegation (1985)
J - General
K - General
L - General
Lerski, Hanna (1985)
M - General
Museum of the American Indian (1985)
N - General
Nestle Company (1985)
National Endowment for the Arts (1985-1986)
National Endowment for the Humanities (1985-1986)
National Institute for Music Theater (1985)
Nell Nelson Estate (1985)
O - General
Osaka Industrial Association
Osterlund, David
P - General
R - General
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S - General
"Sea Witch," 1985
Serafini Marion, Estate
Statue of Liberty (1985-1986)
T - General
Twenty-Sixth International Congress of the History of Art - XXVIth (1985)
U - General
United States Committee for the Restoration of the Citadelle (USCRC)
V - General
W - General
Wheeler - Vietnam Generation Project (1985)
Wheeler - Vietnam Generation Project (1986)
X, Y, Z - General
1986/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Divisions and Offices
Administrative Office
Building Manager's Office
Conservation
National Numismatics Collection
National Philatelic Collection
Office of the Registrar
Registrar Office (Central Catalog) (2 folders)
Office of External Affairs/Kortum
Public Affairs
Special Events (1985)
Special Events (1986)
Department of Public Programs (1985)
Department of Public Programs (1986)
Education (1985)
Education (1986)
Box 25
Black American Culture (1985)
Black American Culture (1986)
Performances (1985)
Performances (1986)
Department of Exhibits (1985)
Department of Exhibits (1986)
Exhibit Schedules (1985)
Exhibit Schedules (1986)
Department of Exhibits - Lighting/Audio-Visual
Exhibits Maintenance (1985)
Production - Exhibits (1985)
Production - Exhibits (1986)
Design - Exhibits (1985)
Design - Exhibits (1986)
Eisenhower Institute (1985)
Eisenhower Institute (1986)
1986/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Department of Science and Technology
Department of Science and Technology
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Armed Forces History
Electricity and Modern Physics
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanisms
Medical Sciences
Mathematics
Physical Sciences (1985-1986)
Naval History
Transportation
Senior Historian
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Technology and Culture Journal
1986/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Department of Social and Cultural History
Department of Social and Cultural History
Ceramics and Glass
Community Life
Costume
Domestic Life
Graphic Arts
Musical Instruments
Friends of Music
Steinway Archives - Musical Instruments (1985)
Photographic History
Political History
First Ladies Gowns
1987/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Department of Social and Cultural History
Department of Social and Cultural History
Ceramics and Glass
Community Life
Costume
Domestic Life
Graphic Arts
Division of Musical History
Friends of Music
Photographic History
Political History
First Ladies Gowns
Box 26
Textiles (1986)
Textiles
1987/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Department of Science and Technology
Department of Science and Technology
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Armed Forces History
Computers, Information and Society
Electricity and Modern Physics
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanisms
Medical Sciences
Physical Science and Mathematics
1987/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions: Divisions and Offices
Administrative Office
Assistant Director for Academic Programs, Gary Kulik, American Quarterly
Building Managers Office
Department of Exhibits
Design - Exhibits
Lighting/Audio-Visual
Education
Exhibits Management
Exhibits Schedules
Special Events
Office of Public Affairs
Department of Public Programs
Museum Programs, Division of
Black American Culture Program
Publications - Public Programs
Public Programs - Publication Division
Office of the Registrar
National Numismatics Collection
National Philatelic Collection
Naval History
Transportation (2 folders)
1987/Noncurrent MAH
Accountable Officer
Acknowledgment (Gifts)
Advertising, Marlboro Project
Advertising, Marlboro Project (1986)
Affirmative Action
Afro-American Community Project, Jim Horton
Afro-American Index Project
Archives Center (2 folders)
Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Audit
Bedini, Silvo
Beschloss, Michael
Budget, FY 1989 - Federal
Budget, FY 1989 - Trust Fund
Budget, FY 1988 - Federal
Budget, FY 1987 - Federal (1986)
Budget, FY 1987 - Federal (2 folders)
Budget, FY 1987 - Trust Fund (1986)
Box 27
Ceremonial Court
Child Care Center
Collections without Curators
Collection Management (2 folders)
Collection Management Policies and Procedures
Colloquium Series
Combined Federal Campaign
Computer Service Center (CSC)
Congressional Hearing (1988)
Curators Association
Dake Food Service
Database
Director's File
Doubleday
Emergency Plans
Exhibits Review Committee
Fundraising
Fellows
Inventory Office
Interns
Ice Cream Parlor
Jones, Larry
Joint Program with Universities (General)
Joint Program with University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Library
Library, Dibner
PAEC
Staff Meetings
Storage
Storage - Silver Hill
Storage - Suitland
Summer Youth Employment Program
Vacation Schedule
1987/Noncurrent SI
Academic Hiring and Appraisal Advisory Group
Accounting and Financial Service
Administrative Highlight Calendar
Affirmative Action
Anacostia Neighbor Museum
Archives (SI)
Assistant Secretary for External Affairs, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
Asian Pacific American Heritage Week Committee (APAHWC)
Assistant Secretary for Museums, Freudenheim, Tom
Assistant Secretary for Public Services, Rinzler, Ralph
Office of Assistant Secretary for Research - Search Committee
Assistant Secretary for Research, David Challinor
Robert Brooks Award
Building Manager's Council
Business Lunch Charge Card
Carter, Jimmy Inaugural Trust Communications
Communication
Congressional Liaison - Margaret Gaynor
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Council of Bureau Directors
Cultural Education Committee, Office of Assistant Secretary for Public Services
Design and Construction, Office of
Development Committee
Educational Outreach Fund
Electronic Mail
Enid A. Haupt Garden
Equal Opportunity, Office of
Fellowship and Grants, Office of
Fellowship and Grants, Office of (1985)
Five Year Prospectus
Five Year Prospectus (1986)
Freer Gallery of Art
Horticulture, Office of
International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMS)
Internship
Box 28
Information Resource Management, Office of
International Video Technologies
Mail Service
Management Committee
Monthly Program Report (Secretary's)
Museum of the Presidency
Museum Shops
National Air and Space Museum
National Associates Program
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of American Art
National Museum of American Indians
National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board (1986-1987)
National Museum of Natural History
Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
Office of Committee for a Wider Audience
Office of Environmental Management and Safety (OEMS)
Office of Facilities Services, Richard Siegle, Director
Office of Folklife Programs
Office of General Counsel
Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
OPlantS
Parking
Performance Standard Review Board
Procurement and Property Management, Office of, Robert Perkins, Director
Protective Services, Office of
Public Affairs, Office of
Quadrangle
Regent Fellow
Regent Fellow (1986)
(Regent's) Major Acquisitions Fund
Regent Publication Award Program
Reinhardt, John, Director of Directorate of International Activities (2 folders)
Research Opportunities Fund
Resident Associate Program
Scholarly Studies Program
Secretarial Correspondence
Secretarial Correspondence (1985)
Secretary's Column in SI Magazine - Responses
Secretary's Office, Robert McC. Adams
Smithson Society
Smithsonian Communications Council
Smithsonian Council
Smithsonian Kellogg Project
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Press
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
Smithsonian World
Smithsonian Year
Special Events, Office of
Special Exhibition Fund
Staff Bulletin
Box 29
Travel
Visitors
Visitors Information and Associates' Reception Center (VIARC)
Visitors
Women's Committee
Women's Council
Woodrow Wilson Center
Zoological Park - Michael Robinson
1987/Noncurrent/Non SI
A - General
American Association of Museums
American Association for State and Local History
Applicants A-L
Applicants M-Z
Association of Science and Technology Centers
B - General
C - General
Council of Foundations
D - General
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
E - General
F - General
G - General
George Eastman House
H - General
Hammons, Mark Wayne
I - General
K - General
L - General
Labor 75th Anniversary
M - General
N - General
National Museum of Japanese History
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
O - General
Osaka Industrial Association
Osterlund, David
P - General
Presidential Design Award
R - General
S - General
Statue of Liberty
T - General
W - General
Wheeler - Vietnam Generation Project
X, Y, Z - General
1988/Noncurrent/Department/Divisions
Department of Science and Technology
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Armed Forces History
Naval History - Armed Forces History
Computers, Information and Society
Electricity and Modern Physics
Engineering and Industry
Medical Sciences
Photographic History
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Transportation
Administrative Office
Assistant Director for Academic Programs - Gary Kulik, American Quarterly
Building Manager
Conservation
Department of Exhibits
Exhibit Schedules
Office of External Affairs
Office of Public Affairs
Office of Special Events
Department of Public Programs
Box 30
Education
Division of Museum Programs
Black American Culture Program
Hispanic American Program
Publications, 1986
Office of the Registrar
Community Life
Costume
Graphic Arts
Ceramics and Glass
Political History
Textile
Numismatics
National Philatelic Collection
1988/Noncurrent MAH
Ceremonial Court
Cash Awards
Carmichael Auditorium
Budget, FY 1990 - Federal
Budget, FY 1988 - Federal
Audit
Audiovisual
Association of Museum Specialist, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)
Archives Center
Afro-American Index Project
Afro-American Communities Project
(Scholarly) Advisory Board
Advertising
Acknowledgments (Gifts)
Accountable Officer
Child Care Center
20th Century Collection
Computer Service Center
Doubleday
Exhibit Review Meeting
Exhibit Credits
Exhibition Seminar Conference
SI Invitations RK (Outside)
Fellows
Exhibit Schedules
Lower Level Gallery
MAH Loans to Museum (Outgoing)
Loans to the Director's Office
Dibner Library
Joint Program with American University, 1987
Joint Program with University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Jazz Project
Japan Project
Intern
Ice Cream Parlor
Inaugural Event
Box 31
History Awareness Campaign
Exhibit Projects
Duke Ellington Collection, 1987
Duke Ellington Collection, 1988
Property Inventory
Patent Models
Parking, 1987
Parking, 1988
PAEC
Object Processing Facility, 1987-1988
Native American Program, 1987
Native American Program, 1988
National Museum Support Center
Museum Guide, 1987
Museum Advisory Board, 1987
Melrose Diner
Major Reinstallations
Combined Federal Campaign
Alka Seltzer Advertising History Project
Constitution Avenue, 1987
Curator's Association
Daka Food Service
Director's Office (General), 1986-1988
Staff Dining Room (5th Floor), 1987-1988
Staff Meetings
Staff Parties, 1987
Silver Hill Asbestos
Space
Simpson Collection
Security
Safety
Safety Committee
Sears (1987)
Silver Hill, 1987-1988
Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame
Ruffins, Fath
Robert Mills Papers, 1986-1988 - Pamela Scott
Smoking policy
Timecards/Timekeepers
Third Floor
Taylor Gallery
Tax Reform Act
Taylor, Lonn
Storage - Silver Hill
Restoration and Renovation, 1987
Restoration and Renovation, 1988
Research
Research Opportunities Fund
Research Leave
Publication, 1987
Publication, 1988
Property Passes, 1987
Property Passes, 1988
Non-Expendable Property
Product Licensing and Development, 1986-1987
Product Licensing and Development, 1988
Presidential Reception Suite, 1987
Postal Museum, 1987
Postal Museum, 1988
Pogue, Forrest, 1987
Personnel
PCB'S, 1986-1987
Photographic Collection, 1987-1988
Visions Foundation, 1988
1988/Noncurrent/Non SI
A, General
American Association of Museums (AAM)
AAM Dues
Applicants A-L
Applicants M-Z
Box 32
AASLH Membership Dues from NMAH
Association of Science and Technology Center
B, General
C, General
Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution
Council on Foundations
D, General
E, General
F, General
Frye, Melenda
G, General
H, General
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Hughes, Thomas P.
J, General
K, General
L, General
M. General
N, General
National Endowment for the Humanities
O, General
P, General
R, General
S, General
T, General
United States Marshal Service
V, General
W, General
X, Y, Z, General
1988/Noncurrent SI
Audit, Office of, 1987
Audit, Office of, 1988
Anderson, Dean (Under Secretary)
Assistant Secretary for External Affairs (Thomas Lovejoy)
Assistant Secretary for Museums (Tom Freudenheim)
Assistant Secretary for Survey Research Program (Doering)
Assistant Secretary for Administration (John Jameson)
Assistant Secretary for Research (Robert Hoffman)
AIDS Policy
Atherton Seidell Endowment, 1987
Atherton Seidell Endowment, 1988
Budget (SI)
Brook, Robert A. (Award)
Business Lunch Charge Cards
Castle Building
Collection Acquisition Fund
Congressional Liaison, Margaret Gaynor
Office of Contracts and Grants
Cooper-Hewitt
Council of Bureau Directors
Council of Information and Education Directors
Cultural Education Committee
Equal Opportunity, Office of
Fellowships and Grants, Office of
Forum on Material Culture
Freer Gallery of Art
Glaser Proposal
Horticulture, Office of
Information Architecture Progress
Box 33
Information Resource Management, Office of
Latino Working Committee
Five Year Prospectus
Library
Management Committee
Museum Shop
National Air and Space Museum (Harwit)
National Museum of American Art (Charles Eldredge)
National Associates Program
National Museum of Natural History
National Portrait Gallery, Alan Fern, 1987-1988
National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property
OPlantS
Performance Standard Review Board
Pubic Affairs, Office of
Regent Fellow
Regent Publication Award Program
Regents (Board)
Resident Associate Program
Research Opportunities
Review Panel for the Director of Programming and Budget
Office of Services and Protocol, Kennedy Schmertz
Scholarly Studies Program
Sloan Foundation Video History
Smithson Council
Smithson Society
International Activities, Office of
Museum Programs, Office of
Office of General Counsel
Office of Committee for a Wider Audience
Personnel
Office of Environmental Management and Safety (OEMS)
Special Exhibition Fund
Secretary's Correspondence
Secretary Office, Robert McC. Adams
Visitors
Visiting Associate Program
Women's Council
Woodrow Wilson Center
Smithsonian Year
Smithsonian Research Report
Smithsonian Press
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
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