Agency history, 1974-circa 2002

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Subject

  • Miller, Lillian B
  • Hart, Sidney
  • Schaffer, Michael D
  • Peale, Charles Willson 1741-1827
  • Ward, David C. 1952-
  • Peale family

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Guide to the Smithsonian Archives 1996
  • THE TORCH, August 1984, pg. 5.
  • Smithsonian Institution, "The National Portrait Gallery," [http://www.npg.si.edu], 12/21/99
  • Smithsonian Directory, 1999-2002
  • Annals of the Smithsonian Institution, 2000
  • The Charles Willson Peale Papers, a historical editing project established in 1974, is an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The project has collected copies of more than six thousand documents, spanning three generations of the Peale family. The archive traces the family's history from the arrival of Charles Peale, a transported felon; through the career of Charles Willson Peale, artist, Revolutionary soldier, naturalist and museum keeper, and Enlightenment polymath; down through the nineteenth-century careers and lives of his many children, including his sons Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Titian Ramsay, and Rubens. In addition to its richness as a source of biographical information on the Peale family, the archive is a source of information on American family, social, and cultural history from the 1730s to the 1880s.
  • Lillian B. Miller was the editor of the Peale Papers from 1974 until her death in 1997. She had worked as a Historian for three years at the Gallery prior to becoming Editor. Michael D. Schaffer was Assistant Editor, 1974-1977. Sidney Hart served successively as Research Historian, 1976-1977; Assistant Editor, 1977-1986; Associate Editor, 1986-1991; Senior Associate Editor, 1991-1997; Acting Editor, 1997-1999; and Editor, 2000-2002. David C. Ward has served as Research Historian, 1982-1986; Assistant Editor, 1986-1991; Associate Editor, 1991-1999; and Deputy Editor, 1999-2002. Leslie Reinhardt became Editorial Assistant in 1991. In or around 2002, it appears that the Charles Willson Peale Papers ended.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1974
  • 1974-2002
  • 1974-circa 2002

Topic

  • Art museums
  • Archives

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00109

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