Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 94-092
National Museum of American History. Office of the Assistant Director for Academic Programs
Program Records, circa 1964-1969, 1978-1994
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 Assistant Director for Academic Programs |
Title: | Program Records |
Dates: | circa 1964-1969, 1978-1994 |
Quantity: | 7.50 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Accession 94-092 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of the records of Gary Kulik, Assistant Director for Academic Programs, National Museum of American History (NMAH), from 1987 to 1994. Some records predate Kulik's tenure at the Smithsonian while others date back to when Kulik was Assistant Curator for the Division of Textiles, 1978-1982; Vice-Chairman of the Department of Social and Cultural History, 1980-1982, and Chairman, 1983-1986; and Editor of the "American Quarterly," circa 1988-1994. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence with professional organizations, universities, museums, private corporations, historical societies, federal agencies, and the general public; reports, minutes of meetings, and other information pertaining to symposiums and conferences attended; personal research papers, such as "Designing the Past History: Museum Exhibitions from Peale to the Present" and "Textile-Mill Labor in the Blackstone Valley: Work and protest in the Nineteenth Century;" memoranda concerning administrative agendas for NMAH, as well as planning for the Hall of Textiles; academic program proposals; fellowship program information; and conference papers written by scholars of social and cultural history. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the records of Gary Kulik, Assistant Director for Academic Programs, National Museum of American History (NMAH), from 1987 to 1994. Some records date back to when Kulik was Assistant Curator for the Division of Textiles, 1978-1982; Vice-Chairman of the Department of Social and Cultural History, 1980-1982, and Chairman, 1983-1986; and Editor of the "American Quarterly," circa 1988-1994. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence with professional organizations, universities, museums, private corporations, historical societies, federal agencies, and the general public; reports, minutes of meetings, and other information pertaining to symposiums and conferences attended; personal research papers, such as "Designing the Past History: Museum Exhibitions from Peale to the Present" and "Textile-Mill Labor in the Blackstone Valley: Work and protest in the Nineteenth Century;" memoranda concerning administrative agendas for NMAH, as well as planning for the Hall of Textiles; academic program proposals; fellowship program information; and conference papers written by scholars of social and cultural history.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- American quarterly
- Kulik, Gary
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Dept. of Social and Cultural History
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Textiles
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of Textiles
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Academic Programs
Subject
- Congresses and conventions
- Historical museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Administration
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Science museums
- United States -- History
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 94-092, National Museum of American History. Office of the Assistant Director for Academic Programs, Program Records
Container List
Box 1
Kulik, Gary B.: Resumes, 1986
Article Review: "Lives and Times of New England Working Folk"
Henretta, James A.: "The Morphology of New England Society in the Colonial Period"
Lazerow, Jama: "Culture and Class Formation in Nineteenth Century America" (1987)
Breen, T. H.: "An Empire of Goods - The Anglicanization of Colonial America, 1690-1776" (1986)
Kulik, Gary B.: Review, the "Textile Production and the Urban Laboring Class - The Case of Early Industrialization in Philadelphia" (1983)
Smith, Merritt Roe.: "Social Processes and Technological Change" (1985)
Lemon, James T.: "Early Americans and their Social Environment" (1980)
Clark, Christopher
United States Patents, 1790-1840
Southern Labor History Conference, 1978
Research Participation Program, 1965-1969
Young, Alfred F.: "By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand - The Mechanic Classes and the Shaping of the American Nation, 1760-1820" (1980)
South Labour Archives: "Black Workers and Technological Change in Birmingham Iron Industry, 1881-1931" (1979)
Washburn, Wilcomb E.: "Stephen Saunders Webb's Interpretation of Bacon's Rebellion" (1987)
Steinberg, Theodore L.: "An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Industrialization" (1986)
Kulik, Gary B.: Drafts for "Designing the Past History - Museum Exhibitions from Peale to the Present" (2 folders)
Berlin, Ira: "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America" (1980)
Brown, Donna
Encyclopedia of American Social History, 1990-1991
Kulik, Gary B.: "The American Industrial Revolution to 1900"
Hindle & Hounshell: "On the Discipline of the History of American Technology" (1980)
Malone, Patrick M.: "Incremental Innovation on the Shop Floor" (1990)
Livingston, James: "The Social Analysis of Economic History and Theory - Conjectures on Late 19th Century American Development"
Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past (HELAP)
National Museum of American History: Exhibition Planning, 1980
American History Workshop, 1981
National Museum of American History: Exhibition Planning, Second Floor Entrance, 1981
Ice Cream Exhibition, 1981
George Washington Exhibition: Ideas, 1980
Correspondence, 1979-1981
Memoranda, 1979-1981
Butler Reginald D.: "Slave Life in Eighteenth Century Virginia - The Diary of Landon Carter" (1980)
Colloquia Committee, 1981-1982
Accessions Committee: Memoranda, 1979, 1981
Photographs of pages from Memoir of Samuel Slater
Textile Patents, 1979-1981
Hope Valley Project, 1980
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1981
Fellowship Information, 1980-1981
NMAH - Budget, FY 1982
Guidelines for the Use of Reproductions in Period Interiors, 1980
Social History Planning, 1980
Department of Social and Cultural History: Fiscal Year 1982
The Second Textile History Conference: The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1980
Kulik, Gary B.: "Trends and Developments in Research - American Textile Industry" (c. 1980)
University of Wisconsin: Grant, 1980
Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship Program, 1979
Docents Lecture
Bibliography: History of American Technology, 1983
Addy, John: "The Textile Revolution"
Box 2
Kulik, Gary B.: "The Pawtucket Strike of 1824 - Worker and Community Response to Textile Industrialism" (manuscript)
Kulik, Gary B.: "The Pawtucket Strike of 1824 - Worker and Community Response to Textile Industrialism" [?]; various drafts and notes.
David & Solar: "A Bicentenary Contribution to the History of the Cost of Living in America" (1977)
Dublin, Thomas: "Women Workers and the Study of Social Mobility" (1979)
Earle, Carville V.: "The Foundation of the Modern Economy - Agriculture and the Costs of Labor in the United States and England, 1800-1860"
Feller, Irwin: "The Diffusion and Location of Technological Change in the American Cotton-Textile Industry, 1890-1970"
Fischer, David Hackett: "The Revolution in Age Relations, 1770-1820" (1977)
Gersuny, Carl: "A Devil in Petticoats and Just Cause - Patterns of Punishment in Two New England Textile Factories" (1976)
Gross, Larry: "The Watkins Woolen Mill" (1979)
Hindle, Brooke: "The Machine in the New Nation" (1980)
Kulik, Gary B.: "Factory Discipline in the New Nation - Almy, Brown and Slater and the First Textile Mill Workers, 1770-1808" (1980)
Hughs, Thomas P.: "Harold P. Brown and the Executioner's Current - An Incident in the AC/DC Controversy" (1965)
Hughs, Thomas P.: "Emerging Themes in the History of Technology" (1979)
Lyons, John Stevens: "The Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Introduction of the Powerloom, 1815-1850"
McGaw, Judith A.: "Most Wonderful Machine - Technological and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America and the Case of Berkshire Paper Making"
James, Edmund J.: "The Labor Movement - The Problem of Today" (copy, 1888)
Nickless, Pamela J.: "A New Look at Productivity in the New England Cotton Textile Industry, 1830-1860"
Nobles, Gregory H.: "Hardship in the Hilltowns - Agricultural Development and Economic Conditions in Pelham, Massachusetts, 1740-1800" (1980)
Osterud, Nancy Grey: "The Family Economy and the Divisions of Labor in Two Nineteenth Century Industrial Communities - Leicester, England, and New York Mills, New York" (1978)
Paoletti, Jo Barraclough: "Children's Role in Wool Production" (1976)
Penn, Theodore Z.: "Innovation and Diffusion in Power Transmission Systems - The Early Nineteenth Century" (1980)
Prude, Jonathan: "The Coming of Industrial Order - A Study of Town and Factory Life on Rural Massachusetts, 1813-1860"
Richards, Paul: "The State and Early Industrial Capitalism - The Case of the Handloom Weavers" (1979)
Rosswurm, Steven: "The Philadelphia Militia, 1775-1783 - Active Duty and Active Radicals" (1981)
Saxonhouse and Wright: "Research Proposal - Comparative Studies of Labor Supply and Productivity in Early Industrialization" (1975)
Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast: "Form, Function, and Meaning in the Use of Fabric Furnishings - A Philadelphia Case Study, 1700-1775" (1979)
Essays in Southern Labor History, 1976
State Historical Society of Wisconsin: "The Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project" (1979)
Upton, Dell: "The Descent of Forms and Architectural Codes" (1977)
Wright, Gavin: "Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles Before 1880"
Wright, Helena: "Sarah G. Bagley-A Biographical Note" (1979)
Slater Mill Historic Site: Grant, 1980
Slater Mill Historic Site: Historical Information and Notes
Basic Textile Structure, Fiber, and Yarn Analysis, Identification, Dating and Characteristics
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1979-1980 (two folders)
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1981
Smith College - Smithsonian Program in American Studies, 1980
Academic Hiring and Appraisal Committee, 1987
Shammas, Carole: "The Domestic Environment in Early Modern England and America" (1980)
Kulik, Gary B.: Incoming Correspondence, 1982-1983
Box 3
American Industrial Revolution Exhibition, 1983
Photographs: Textile Machinery
Catling, Harold: "Life in Jennygate" (1970)
Kulik, Gary B.: "Historical Report - Slater Mill Dam Modification and Blackstone River Basin Study" (1976)
Rothenberg, Winifred B.: "The Marketing Perimeters of Massachusetts Farmers, 1750-1855" (1980)
Kulik, Gary B.: "A Factory System of Wood - Cultural and Technological Change in the Building of the First American Cotton Mills" (1979)
Kulik, Gary B.: "Opposition to Dam Building - Farmers, Artisans, and Capitalists and Politics of Water Rights in the Eighteenth Century" (includes drafts)
Textile History Literature
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1979-1980
The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, 1980
Smith College: The New Labor History and the New England Working Class Symposium, 1979
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1981
The Sloss Furnace Company (2 folders)
Agriculture: General
Kulik, Gary B.: "Dams, Fish, and Farmers - The Defense of Public Rights in 18th Century Rhode Island"
"Domestic Economy in the Eighteenth Century" (author unknown)
Lacey, Michael J.: "The National Seminary of Learning - Washington Scientists and the Rise of the Modern State in the Late Nineteenth Century" (1982)
Kulik, Gary B.: Review of Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982)
Shelton, Cindy
Parslow, Virginia D.: "James Alexander, Weaver" (1956)
Journal Kept for the Mansfield N.C. & W Manufactory and The Operative Mechanic and British Machinist
Society for the History of Technology, 1980-1981
Society for Industrial Archaeology, 1978-1981
Southern Labor Studies Association, 1979
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1979
Libby Shuttleless Loom Company, 1979. Includes correspondence, company history, and photographs of textile machinery
HELAP Information, 1980-1981
American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1984
American Italian Historical Association, 1983-1984
American Working Class History Project, 1983
Breen, T. H.: "Baubles of Britain - The Meaning of Things" (1986)
Jeremy, David J.: "Cotton Mills in Developing Regions, 1820-1840, Massachusetts, and Some Comparisons with Lancashire" (1984)
Riches, W. T. M.: "Dependence and Discipline - Workers in Cotton Mill in East Middle Tennessee, 1830-1860"
Federal Census of Manufacturer, 1820 and 1850-1880
Finn, Bernard
Hall, Jacquelyn: "Like a Family-Class, Community, and Conflict in the Piedmont Textile Industry, 1880-1980" (1984)
History Museum Project, 1985-1986
Hagberg, Jan-Erik: "Technology in the Hands of Women-Housework and Household Technology during the 1920s and 1930s" (1986)
Institute for Living History, 1984
Box 4
Iron Clad Agreement (2 folders)
Scholarly Studies Program, 1981-1983
Lowell National Historical Park Project, 1983 (2 folders)
Kenneth Lynch and Sons, 1981-1984
Mallgrave, Harry Francis: "The Idea of Style-Gottfried Semper in London"
Milano Symposium on Early United States History, 1984
Morley, Jane: "Technology, Art, and the Minds of Men-Revisioning the Lackawanna Valley"
Museum Management Program, 1985
National Capital Labor History Society, 1984
New York Council for the Humanities: Past Meets Present, 1983-1985 (two folders)
Old Sturbridge Village Proposal, 1985
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1985-1987
Shapiro, Michael S. - Professional materials
East St. Louis Museum of Culture and Anthropology Proposal and Study Information, 1986
19th Century Committee: Minutes of Meetings, 1986-1987 (2 folders)
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 1992
Box 5
Kulik, Gary B.: "Designing the Past" Includes research articles, notes, draft, and photographs. (2 folders)
George Washington University: American Vernacular Architecture Meeting, 1979
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980-1981
Science Museum, London, England, 1981
Kulik, Gary B.: Editor, American Quarterly, 1988
Reutter, Mark: "Goddess of Industry - The Making of Sparrows Point, 1887-1890" (1984)
Watson, Harry L.: "Conflict and Collaboration - Yeomen, Slaveholders, and Politics in the Ante-bellum South" (1985)
Winterthur Museum of Gardens: Early American Culture, 1986
Zembala, Dennis Michael; "Machines in the Glasshouse - The Transformation of Work in the Glass Industry, 1820-1915" (c. 1964)
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1982-1985. Includes paper titled "The Development of Factory Labor in the United States" (1985)
Budget: Fiscal Year 1988
Budget: Fiscal Year 1989
Budget: Fiscal Year 1990
Budget: Fiscal Year 1992
Budget: Technology and Culture, 1986
Budget: American Quarterly, 1989-1992
American Studies Association: Conferences, 1988-1990
American Studies Association: Conferences, 1991-1993
Johns Hopkins University: Reader's Reports, 1989-1993
Anacostia Museum, 1989
Kulik, Gary B.: Interview at University of Windsor, Canada, 1992
Center for Historical Studies Proposal, 1987
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1991-1993
National Museum for American History: Standing Committees, 1993
American Council of Learned Societies, 1991
Corporate Recognition Committee, 1987
Dibner Award Selection Committee, 1987-1991
History of Science and Technology: Fellowship Review Committee, 1992
Pawtucket Review Committee, 1992
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City, 1992
Material Culture Conference, 1992
Organization of American Historians - Nominating Committee, 1991
Mexican-American Commission on Cultural Cooperation, 1990
1993 Winterthur Museum Conference
World's Fairs - Windows on the Modern World, Symposium, 1992
American Historical Association - Program Committee, 1992-1993
Box 6
American University and Smithsonian: Landmarks in American History, Proposals and Contracts, 1990-1991
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, 1987-1990
Kulik, Gary B.: Consulting, 1989-1990
Calvert Marine Museum, 1986-1989
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1990 (2 folders)
Regional Council of Historical Agencies, 1990
Woonsocket Industrial Development Corporation Conference, 1991
Albany Institute of History and Art: Report, 1993
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1988-1993
American Quarterly: Funding, 1987-1991
Budget: Fiscal Year 1993
Budget: Fiscal Year 1989-1990
Exhibition Criticism Conference, 1989
The Gettysburg Review, 1989
Hagley Museum and Library, 1985-1993
The Public Historian (A Journal of Public History): "Imitations of the Past-A Review Essay," 1989
Afro-American Communities Project
Institute for Social History Research, 1989-1991
American Association of Museums, 1989, 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities: Sokal and Watson, 1992-1994
Regents Fellowship Nomination, 1987
Research Opportunities Fund, 1988-1990
National Museum of American History: Research Activities in the Department of Social and Cultural History, 1991-1992
Schlereth, Thomas, 1990
Smithsonian Institution Press and the Johns Hopkins Program, 1988-1989, 1993
Smithsonian Institution Press: Prospects, 1985-1986
Grier, Kasey: "Culture and Comfort - People, Parlors, and Upholstery, 1830-1930"
Goodwin, Daniel H., 1984-1990
Smithsonian Publications Council, 1987-1991 (2 folders)
Smithsonian Publications Council, 1990-1991
Spaulding House Research Library, 1992
Box 7
National Museum of American History: Draft Policy of Donor Recognition, 1986
Discovering America, 1986-1987
George Washington Program, 1991-1992
American University and the Smithsonian Institution: Landmarks in American History Project, 1987-1989
American University and the Smithsonian Institution: Landmarks in American History Project, Budget, 1989-1993
American University and the Smithsonian Institution: Landmarks in American History Project, Conferences, 1990-1994
George Washington University: African-American Museum, 1987-1991
The Johns Hopkins-Smithsonian Program in American Culture, 1987
Smith College, 1990-1991
Yale University-Smithsonian Program, 1986-1987
Landmarks Conference, 1989
Conference: The American Democratic Experience and the Lincoln Brigade, 1986-1987
New York State Table: Federation of Historical Services, 1989
American Association for State and Local History Conference, 1987
American Historical Association/Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Programs Conference, 1985-1986
American Studies Association Convention, 1985-1987
Rutgers University, 1989
New England American Studies Conference, 1987
Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA) Annual Meeting, 1988-1989
American Culture Conference, 1988-1989
Scandinavian-American Studies Conference, 1989
Exhibition Criticism Seminar, 1988-1989
Kulik, Gary B.: Correspondence, 1987-1990
Kulik, Gary B.: "Representing the Railroad" (c. 1989)
Rubin, Joan Shelley: "A Convergence of Vision - Charles Sheeler and Constance Rourke"
McFeely, Eliza: "The Idea of a Cosmopolitan American Culture in the Early Twentieth-Century Work of Henry James, W. E. B. Du Bois and Randolph Bourne"
Matthews, Frederick: "Present Pasts - Liberal Intellectuals Interpret American History, 1925-1950" (c. 1988)
Fourth International Conference of Scholarly Publishing: Helsinki, Finland, 1988
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 1988
Tampere (Finland) University American Studies Program, 1988-1989
American Studies Conference at UCLA, 1989
Blackstone Valley Conference: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1989
Kulik, Gary B.: "Textile-Mill Labor in the Blackstone Valley - Work and Protest in the Nineteenth Century" (1989)
Comments on Conference Papers, 1989
The Criticism of American Culture: A Symposium, 1989
Women and Progressive Era Conference, 1987
Labor History Book and Conference, 1986
Consumption Conference Proposal, 1986-1987
Clark, Christopher: "Materialism and Consumption in the Rural Northeast, 1750-1870" (c. 1985)
Inventory Steering Committee, 1987
Child Labor Committee, 1987
Kulik, Gary B.: Chronological Files, 1987
Kulik, Gary B.: Chronological Files, 1988
Committee on the Bicentennial of the Constitution and Federal Government, 1985
Kulik, Gary B.: Incoming Correspondence, 1986-1989
Box 8
Museum of American Textile History: Slater Bicentenary Conference, 1990
Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, 1990
Organization of American Historians, 1989-1992
American Association of Museums, 1991-1992
The Council of American Maritime Museums, 1991
Social and Cultural History Fellowship Review Committee, 1990
Winterthur Museum Program Review, 1991
Hagley Museum and Library: Spring Semester Series, 1990
Maine Historical Society Conference, 1990
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