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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 00-069

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Exhibition Records, circa 1977-1999

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:circa 1977-1999
Quantity:28 cu. ft. (28 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 00-069
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of records documenting exhibitions mounted by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Materials include itineraries, slides, news clippings, scripts, press releases, shipping documents, checklists, loan records, correspondence, photographs, lists, motion pictures, videotapes, audiotapes, and catalogs.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records documenting exhibitions mounted by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Materials include itineraries, slides, news clippings, scripts, press releases, shipping documents, checklists, loan records, correspondence, photographs, lists, motion pictures, videotapes, audiotapes, and catalogs.

This collection is arranged by exhibition title (exhibition ID number) and date(s). See also Records Units 487 and 290 and Accession 95-161.

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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, Accession 00-069, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records

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Container List

Box 1

African-American Artists: Selections from the Evan-Tibbs Collection, 1880-1987 (446), 1/1989-11/1992

Box 1 of 28

African-Reflections: Art from Northern Zaire (428), c. 1988

Box 1 of 28

Africa's Legacy in Mexico: Photographs by Tony Gleaton (756), 1/1993-8/1996

Box 1 of 28

After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800 (311), 1/15/1986-3/2/1997

Box 1 of 28

All Systems Go: America's Transportation System for the 1990s (425), 2/1990-3/1994

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Altered States: Alcohol and Other Drugs in America (with the Strong Museum), c. 1995

Box 1 of 28

American Greek Revival Architecture (618), 3/1991-5/1996

Box 1 of 28

Box 2

American Impressionism (167), 1982-1983

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American Voices (International Gallery only), c. 1997

Box 2 of 28

Americans at Home, 1850-1950, n.d.

Box 2 of 28

America's Space Truck: The Space Shuttle (179), 10/1981-11/1983

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America's Star: The U.S. Marshals, 1789-1989 (374), 12/1988-6/1991

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Amistad, c. 1997

Box 2 of 28

!Arriba!, c. 1999

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Art As Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe (663), 1/1992-10/1994

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Art of Our Time: Selections from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection (432), 1/1989-9/1993

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Box 3

Art of Our Time: Selections from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection (432), 1/1989-9/1993

Box 3 of 28

Art of Sri Lanka: Contemporary Works on Paper (043), 1/1981-1/1982

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The Artist and the Space Shuttle (269), 10/1983-11/1986

Box 3 of 28

Artrain: Art in Celebration! (with The Smithsonian Associates) (010), 3/1996-5/1999

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Box 4

Artrain: Art in Celebration! (with The Smithsonian Associates) (010), 3/1996-5/1999

Box 4 of 28

Athletes: Photographs, 1860-1986 (400), 1/1988-2/1992

Box 4 of 28

Badges of Pride: Symbols and Images of American Labor (438), 3/1989-5/1992

Box 4 of 28

Baseball Immortals: The Photographs of Charles Martin Conlon 1905-1935 (337), c. 1985-1988

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A Basketmaker in Rural Japan (with the Sackler Gallery) (016), c. 1995

Box 4 of 28

Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South (with the Anacostia Museum) (818), 12/1993-9/1996

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Between A Rock and A Hard Place (with the National Museum of American History), c. 1998

Box 4 of 28

Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington (710), 4/1993-12/1996

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Beyond the Java Sea (with the National Museum of Natural History), c. 1989

Box 4 of 28

Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation (222), 2/1986-11/1990

Box 4 of 28

Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds (251), 5/1977-10/1981 and 2/1986-4/1989

Box 4 of 28

Bulgarian Icons (202), c. 1985

Box 4 of 28

Capturing the Spirit: Portraits of Contemporary Mexican Artists (578), 11/1991-10/1994

Box 4 of 28

Carnegie Libraries: Sesquicentennial Celebration (351), 2/1986-1/1990

Box 4 of 28

Ceramics of the Weimar Republic (393), 6/1988-3/1991

Box 4 of 28

Child to Child: American-Soviet Children's Art Exchange (381), 6/1987-6/1990

Box 4 of 28

China Between the Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble, 1917-1927 (466), 6/1989-8/1993

Box 4 of 28

Chinese Exclusion Act, c. 1995

Box 4 of 28

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities (I/449 + II/509), 4/1990-4/1998 and 11/1990-11/1993

Box 4 of 28

Box 5

A Collector's Eye: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection (137), 11/1986-4/1990

Box 5 of 28

Computers in Your Pocket: The History of Hand-Held Calculators (413), 8/1988-9/1990

Box 5 of 28

Constance Stuart Larrabee: World War II Photo Journal (582), 5/1990-5/1995

Box 5 of 28

Coral Reefs of the Caribbean: Ecosystem in Crisis (with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) (043), c. 1999

Box 5 of 28

Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska (427), 9/1988-2/1992

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A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell (596), 8/1990-5/1995

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Box 6

A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell (596), 8/1990-5/1995

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A Different Light: L'Ecole Lyonnaise, 19th Century Paintings (816), c. 1995

Box 6 of 28

Dining at the White House: Two Centuries of Presidential Tableware (467), 1989

Box 6 of 28

Diversity Endangered (Posters Exhibition) (386), 1987

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Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Rijksmuseum voor Volenkunde (404), 9/1989-12/1991

Box 6 of 28

Dreams and Traditions: 300 Years of British and Irish Paintings from the Ulster Museum, Belfast (883), 5/1997-8/1998

Box 6 of 28

Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age from the National Gallery of Ireland (345), 4/1987-4/1988

Box 6 of 28

Edgar Chahine: La Vie Parisienne (293), 3/1984-1/1986

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Box 7

English Silver: Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection (732), 5/1992-5/1995

Box 7 of 28

Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Marketplace (806), 4/1997-9/1998

Box 7 of 28

Exploring Microspace (289), 1/1986-6/1989

Box 7 of 28

Facing the Gods: Ritual Masks of the Himalayas (383), 1/1989-4/1991

Box 7 of 28

Family Folklore I (255), II (464), III (593), 2/1992-12/1995

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Box 8

Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 (362, 450), 1/1988-7/1992 and 7/1988-1/1994

Box 8 of 28

Fragile Ecologies: Artists' Interpretations and Solutions (595), 9/1992-1/1995

Box 8 of 28

Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage (394), 12/1989-1/1992

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Box 9

Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection (394), 12/1989-1/1992

Box 9 of 28

Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows (701), 2/1993-9/1995

Box 9 of 28

From Site to Site: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery (354), 1/1988-10/1991

Box 9 of 28

Full Deck Art Quilts (875), 3/1995-11/1999

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Box 10

Full Deck Art Quilts (875), 3/1995-11/1999

Box 10 of 28

German Woodcuts in the Age of Durer: Selections from the Schloss Museum, Gotha, Germany (796), c. 1995

Box 10 of 28

Glamour and Allure: The Hollywood Photographs of George Hurrell (418), 4/1988-7/1990

Box 10 of 28

Go Forth and Serve: Black Land Grant Colleges, c. 1992

Box 10 of 28

Good as Gold: Alternative Materials in American Jewelry, c. 1981

Box 10 of 28

The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly: Attitudes toward Animals (690), 5/1992-9/1995

Box 10 of 28

The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy (332), 11/1987-4/1991

Box 10 of 28

Great American Comics: 100 Years of Cartoon Art (395), 10/1989-6/1992

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Box 11

Harlem Photographs by Aaron Siskind from the National Museum of American Art (739), 11/1993-7/1995

Box 11 of 28

Hollywood: Legend and Reality (258)

Box 11 of 28

Human Rights Posters, c. 1989

Box 11 of 28

In Splendor and Seclusion: Women in Art and Life at the Royal Court of Veinna, Nigeria (426), c. 1988

Box 11 of 28

Inside Active Volcanoes: Kilauea & Mount St. Helens (406), 7/1989-3/1993

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Box 12

Irish Decorative Arts of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Collections of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (409), 2/1990-3/1992

Box 12 of 28

Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography (390), 9/1987-1/1993

Box 12 of 28

Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass/Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings (456), c. 1988

Box 12 of 28

Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, 1792-1867: Architectural Drawings and Watercolors of Paris and Rome (516), 10/1990-11/1991

Box 12 of 28

The Japan Project, c. 1986

Box 12 of 28

A Journey Through Chinese Hell: The "Hell Scrolls" of Taiwan (452), c. 1988

Box 12 of 28

The Kids Bridge (758), 9/1992-7/1997

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The Laser at 25 (328)

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The Legacy Endures: Conserving Wetlands and Waterfowl (454), 2/1989-2/1991

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Lights, Camera, Action! Lithographs for the Cinema by Jean A. Mercier, 1920-1940 (338), 10/1985-5/1988

Box 12 of 28

Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the Meserve Collection (National Portrait Gallery) (735), 11/1992-1/1997

Box 12 of 28

The Long Road Up the Hill: Blacks in Congress, 1870-1983 (275, 659), 12/1985-4/1989 and 10/1991-11/1996

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Magnificent Voyages: The U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1883-1842 (273), 11/1987-6/1989

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Box 13

Major League, Minor League: Photographs of America's Baseball Stadiums by Jim Dow (836), 6/1993-9/1998

Box 13 of 28

Marconi (225), 9/1985-11/1991

Box 13 of 28

Mark Twain and Huck Finn: Joy-Flags and Milestones (283), 1/1985-4/1990

Box 13 of 28

Mary Cassatt: Graphic Art, 5/1981-5/1982

Box 13 of 28

Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, 11/1983-6/1985

Box 13 of 28

Master Swedish Drawings and Watercolors, c. 1988

Box 13 of 28

Master Watercolors and Drawings from the Norton Gallery of Art (371), 2/1988-9/1989

Box 13 of 28

Medieval Art from Yugoslavia (373), c. 1987

Box 13 of 28

Mexico: A Landscape Revisited (797), 9/1994-3/1996

Box 13 of 28

Box 14

Mexico: A Landscape Revisited (797), 9/1994-3/1996

Box 14 of 28

Mexico As Seen By Her Children (103), 11/1985-2/1990

Box 14 of 28

The Mithila Folk Painters of India, c. 1981

Box 14 of 28

More Than Meets the Eye (616), 3/1994-1/1998

Box 14 of 28

Moroccan Jewelry, c. 1988

Box 14 of 28

Box 15

Moscow: Treasure and Traditions (435), 6/1/1990-2/3/1991

Box 15 of 28

Box 16

Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels, 1945-1981 (286), 1984-1989

Box 16 of 28

Music and Dance in Papua New Guinea (304), 4/1985-7/1988

Box 16 of 28

National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Discovery and Adventure (433), 11/1988-1/1993

Box 16 of 28

New Horizons: American Painting 1840-1910 (276), 11/1987-5/1988

Box 16 of 28

Box 17

New Horizons: American Painting 1840-1910 (276), 11/1987-5/1988

Box 17 of 28

New Vistas: American Art Pottery 1880-1930 from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (309), 4/1985-10/1988

Box 17 of 28

Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940 (195)

Box 17 of 28

No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoonists on the Environment (718), 10/1992-1/1996

Box 17 of 28

Box 18

An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Art from the United States and Vietnam (672), 9/1995-8/1997

Box 18 of 28

Ocean Planet, from the Office of Environmental Awareness and the National Museum of Natural History (850), 4/1995-1/1999

Box 18 of 28

Box 19

Odyssey: Mirror of the Mediterranean (174), 10/1982-4/1988

Box 19 of 28

Official Images: New Deal Photographs (431), 9/1988-3/1994

Box 19 of 28

Paintbrush Diplomacy: Children's Art from the Americas (443), 1/1990-2/1994

Box 19 of 28

Perpetual Campaign: The Making of the People's President (594), 1/1992-12/1994

Box 19 of 28

Pioneering the Space Frontier (388), c. 1987

Box 19 of 28

Plains Indian Arts: Continuity and Change (44), 9/1989-12/1989

Box 19 of 28

Polished Perfection: The Art of Turned-Wood Bowls, Edward Jacobson Collection (359), 1/1986-9/1989

Box 19 of 28

Portraits and Prospects: British and Irish Watercolors and Drawings from the Ulster Museum (410), 8/1989-6/1992

Box 19 of 28

Portraits in Black: Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin from the Harmon Collection of the National Portrait Gallery (290), 1/1985-6/1989

Box 19 of 28

Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (305), 9/1985-3/1989

Box 19 of 28

Box 20

Pride of Place: The Collections of the National Trust of Scotland (682), c. 1990

Box 20 of 28

Provincetown and the Art of Printmaking (557), 6/1990-4/1992

Box 20 of 28

The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation (458), 7/1991-7/1993

Box 20 of 28

The Realm of the Coin: Money in American Art (720), 12/1992-11/1994

Box 20 of 28

Reflections of the Land: American Art, 1920-1940, n.d.

Box 20 of 28

Remaking America: New Uses, Old Places I/II (365/529), 10/1986-12/1991 and 10/1989-9/1991

Box 20 of 28

Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna (294), 7/1986-6/1987

Box 20 of 28

Revolution, Life, and Labor: Soviet Porcelains, 1918-1985 (from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum) (859), c. 1995

Box 20 of 28

Rheinish School: Late Medieval Paintings and Sculpture from the Wallraf-Richartz, c. 1991

Box 20 of 28

Rhythm and Blues: Black American Popular Music, 1945-1955 (363), 2/1987-2/1991

Box 20 of 28

The Road to Heaven is Paved by Good Works: The Art of Reverend Howard Finster (604), 9/1990-3/1992

Box 20 of 28

Box 21

The Road to Heaven is Paved by Good Works: The Art of Reverend Howard Finster (604), 9/1990-3/1992

Box 21 of 28

Russia, The Land, The People: Russian Painting, 1850-1910 (372), 10/1986-7/1987

Box 21 of 28

A Russian Impressionist: Paintings and Drawings by Leonid Pasternak, 1880-1940 (324), 11/1987-10/1989

Box 21 of 28

Science and the Artist's Book (with the National Museum of Natural History), c. 1996

Box 21 of 28

Sea Stars (436), 3/1989-2/1993

Box 21 of 28

Secessionism and Austrian Graphic Arts from the Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz, 1900-1920 (414), 1/1990-10/1991

Box 21 of 28

Seeds of Change (collaborative) (693) - ALA Panel Versions I-IV (565/633/634/635), 1/1992-12/1993

Box 21 of 28

Seeds of Change (collaborative) (693) - SITES Panel Version I (709), 1/1992-5/1994

Box 21 of 28

Seeds of Change (collaborative) (693) - SITES Panel Version II (865), 3/1994-11/1995

Box 21 of 28

Box 22

Seeds of Change (collaborative) (693) - SITES Panel Version II (865), 3/1994-11/1995

Box 22 of 28

Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997-10/1999

Box 22 of 28

Box 23

Seeing Jazz (012), 10/1997-10/1999

Box 23 of 28

Six Jamaican Artists, c. 1996

Box 23 of 28

Songs of My People I (669), 1/1991-11/1994

Box 23 of 28

Songs of My People II (691), 4/1992-11/1994

Box 23 of 28

Songs of My People III (828), 2/1993-7/1997

Box 23 of 28

Soundtracks (341), 2/1988-3/1990

Box 23 of 28

Spectacular Vernacular: Traditional Desert Architecture from West Africa and Southwest Asia (219/379), 1/1986-5/1991

Box 23 of 28

Steichen and His Men: A Photographic Portrait of World War II (403), 10/1988-12/1993

Box 23 of 28

Stories from Life: The Photographs of Horace Bristol (011), c. 1996

Box 23 of 28

Stormy Weather, c. 1995

Box 23 of 28

Box 24

Strength and Diversity: Japanese-American Women, 1885-1990 (702), 2/1993-1/1996

Box 24 of 28

Superman: Many Lives, Many Worlds (417), 2/1989-5/1991

Box 24 of 28

Surealist Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn (320), 3/1986-5/1987

Box 24 of 28

There's No Place Like Home: A Journey to Oz and Back, c. 1999

Box 24 of 28

Threadworks: Miniature Textile Art (for USIA) (399), 11/1988-7/1991

Box 24 of 28

Three Centuries of German Painting and Drawing from the Collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne (315), 8/1985-7/1986

Box 24 of 28

Box 25

To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (579), 4/1991-12/1994

Box 25 of 28

Tokpela (629), c. 1990

Box 25 of 28

The Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain Forest (874), 4/1994-1/1999

Box 25 of 28

Treasures from the Land: New Zealand Craftsmen and their Native Materials (265), 11/1985-11/1988

Box 25 of 28

Treasure from the Smithsonian (Edinburgh) (296), 1984

Box 25 of 28

Box 26

Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure (364), 5/1988-1/1994

Box 26 of 28

Try This On: A History of Clothing, Gender, and Power (808), 11/1994-6/1997

Box 26 of 28

Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the Mexican-American Boundary (662), 10/1993-2/1997

Box 26 of 28

Unfamiliar Fauna of the Open Sea (281), 4/1984-8/1987

Box 26 of 28

VanDerZee: Photographer (1886-1983) (861), 5/1995-1/1999

Box 26 of 28

Box 27

Victorian Gardens: A Horticultural Extravaganza (384), 5/1988-9/1993

Box 27 of 28

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: A National Experience (375/535), 11/1986-2/1993

Box 27 of 28

The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972 (459), 7/1989-10/1993

Box 27 of 28

Views of Rome: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (344), 11/1988-2/1991

Box 27 of 28

Visions of Flight: A Retrospective from the NASA Art Collection (411), 9/1988-5/1991

Box 27 of 28

Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum (752), 10/1995-2/1997

Box 27 of 28

We'll Never Turn Back (126), 3/1981-2/1983

Box 27 of 28

Box 28

What Style Is It? (314/538), 11/1987-12/1992

Box 28 of 28

Whispered Silences: Japanese-American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later (898), 1/1996-2/2000

Box 28 of 28

White House Craft, c. 1995

Box 28 of 28

Who's in Charge: Works and Managers in the United States (721), 8/1992-3/1996

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Zoo Ark (412), 2/1988-8/1990

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