Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 94-127
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
Exhibition Records, 1979-1993
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 Natural History. Office of Exhibits |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1979-1993 |
Quantity: | 10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 94-127 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of background and working files regarding design and maintenance of exhibit halls in the National Museum of Natural History. The records contain correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, slides, plans, and other materials relating to permanent and temporary exhibits. These records were maintained by Carl A. Alexander who retired from the Smithsonian Institution in September 1994. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of background and working files regarding design and maintenance of exhibit halls in the National Museum of Natural History. The records contain correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, slides, plans, and other materials relating to permanent and temporary exhibits. These records were maintained by Carl A. Alexander who retired from the Smithsonian Institution in September 1994.
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Name
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 94-127, National Museum of Natural History, Office of Exhibits, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
McQueen/Janosik, August 8-October 4 (Watercolors)
Murrill Stones Show, September 27-November 23, 1980
Music and Dance in Papua New Guinea, January 10-March 9, 1986 (2 folders)
Arthur Singer (Fifty State Birds)
Arthur Singer State Birds
Singer Show
Arthur Singer
Rosalind Solomon, May-August 1985
Rosalind Solomon Rotunda Exhibit
Lee Steadman Galapagos Rotunda Show
Lee Marc Steadman, January-March 1985
Michael Fenton
Martha Capelletti Sites
Betsy Hemmings Sites
Pamela M. Henson Archives
Gail A. Kaplan Sites
Richard E. Litov
Sigrid Bonner
Anna Abramoqicz
Budget, FY 1990
Lou Stovall
Samy Saad Abdel Hamed / Egypt
Mrs. Savita Sarda Bombay India
Mrs. Savita A Aarda, Natural History Gallery Prince of Wales Museum Bombay
Christine Taylor, Johnson Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
Jurg Kreienbuhl Paintings
Elizabeth Mayock, Yugtorvik Regional Museum
Gwen McAlister, American Indian Art Magazine
Gregory Miller, Army Corps of Engineers
David Peters - Dinoland
Takashi Shirai, National Science Museum
Susan Robinson, Manotick, Ontario
Jane C. Robertson/ Diagram Visual Information Limited
Liza Minichiello, Godfrey Merlen, Paintings of the Galapagos
Avery Normal Institute
Gerry O. Wyche
Corine Horowitz
Tina Mion Rotunda Reject
Silvia Sanides Science Correspondent
Dan Swift, Lexington, Kentucky
Linda Stevens, Education
D. Sockby, New Zealand
West Coast Bracket Maker
National Museum of Wales
Xu Wei Shu Peking National History Museum
Smithson Society
11 Ton Rock Move
Biological Diversity
Museum Careers Seminars, 1987
Edwin Martin, North Carolina State University
Comments by Yuko Murakami
Temporary Exhibits
Anthropology Maintenance Lists
Rotunda Gallery
American Indian Workshop
Public Inquiries
Office of Exhibits Purpose/Function
Organization of American States
Museum of American Folk Art
Monthly Obligations and Expenditures
American Association of Museums (AAM) Material
Navy Museum Info
Goals for the 21st Century
Getty Conservation Institute (2 folders)
Miscellaneous
Design Plus Two
Rotunda Exhibit
Performance Appraisal
Exhibits Task Force
Intership Graphics
Memo File, 1991
Hall 11 Basketry Exhibit
Memos
Volunteers/Interns Information
Schedules, 1988
Museum Reference Center/Museum Reference File
Jessica Lind Washington University Press
Exhibit Builders Tour
Pronghorn Antelope
Dick Thorington Hall 12
Eskimo Map
Hall 10 Evolution Hall, 1979-1989
Hall 9 Northwest (NW) Mask Case
Indian Tiger and Chital Deer
Workshop, Saturday, February 28
Mexican Design and Production Research
Museum Seating and Trash Containers, 1986
Mounting Works of Art on Paper
Mexican American Cultural Center
Rotunda Shows
Meetings Minutes
Optech International Limited
Box 2
Programmer Material
Hall 23
Exhibits Material (2 folders)
Pamela S. Roberson, Photographer Rotunda
Polar Bear
Rotunda
Rotunda Shows
Rotunda Exhibits, 1985-1988
Rotunda
Royal Gifts from Thailand
Potomac River Basin
Rogertory Peterson Exhibit, April 27, 1984
Mrs. William Nolan, Women's National Farm and Garden Association Inc.
Naguere/Adams Leaf Lines
Suzanne Noguerre
New Guinea Show Shipping Material
New Coral Reef
Nomads: Masters of the Eurasian Steppe
Ostrich Case and Miscellaneous
75th Anniversary of Park Service (2 folders)
Micronesia Exhibit Discovery Room Gallery
Micronesia Discovery Gallery
Mountain Light Photos by Galen Rowell (2 folders)
Mountain Light
Mountain Light Rotunda Gallery, January 9-March 31, 1987
Marcia Roberson Mountain Light
Music and Dance Papua New Guinea, January 11-March 9, 1986
Mexico, Treasures of
Far Side, Rotunda Gallery, April 9-May 31, 1987
Korean and Philippine Exhibits, April 1987, April 1988
Mamluk Exhibit
Hall 7 Korean
Emil Her Many Horses Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum
Office of Museum Programs
Hall 26 Dah edh-Dhra People Heads
Exhibits Central
Hall 26 American School of Classical Studies
Hall Development Schedule Hall 26
Banners
Habitat Materials
Glazing
Sprinklers
Form 23's
Canvas Contract
Plexiglass orders
Temporary Exhibits
Tours-Museum Programs
Silica Gel Information
Native American and Global Cultural Exchange Exhibits
Box 3
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Material - Photos
Insurance Affairs
Hall 16
Halls 18/19
Barbara Horn Interior Department
Halls 9, 11 Indian Halls
Hall 11
Pest Control Data
Portrait Gallery
Steve Quin
Michael Ray South Carolina State Museum
Memo Copies
Nevada State Museum
Hall 9 Inupiat Corrections "Eskimos"
Pacific Cultures - Hall 8
Ponape Case Hall 8
Miscellaneous
Foyer
Education/Exhibits Staff Retreat
Fiscal Information
Exhibit Checklist and Data
Gayle Edmunds Visitor Coordinator Museum Programs
Diorama Information Request
Carpet Contract H9
Kathy Barrus Museum Shops
Baird Auditorium Improvement Budget
Albert J. Copley, Science Division N. E. Missouri State University
Sally Industries
Cindy Guire Houston Texas
Budget
Tour, Workshop Museum Programs
Wednesday Staff Meetings
Women's Committee Grants
Naturalists' Center
Kenneth Israel
Jane Peirson Jones City of Birmingham, England Museum and Art Gallery
Itaipu Benusionnal
James Hood Australian Museum
Faith Hubley
Michael Hutley
Bob Hynes
Peters, Olimara and Vera - Photos
Roland Brown Request Collections Manager IZ
Special Events
Specimen Removal Problems
Hall Maintenance
Files on schedule - Old
Ginillim Paintings Show, January 31-March 29
Grass Work of Labrador
Grasses Exhibit
Grasses Exhibit Rotunda Show
Grasses Exhibits Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) show, 1986
Greenwell, October 10-December 6
Andrew Jackson Grayson: Bird Illustrations from the 19th Century (2 folders)
Grayson Exhibit
Gorilla Exhibit
Case Models (Paul Marchand)
Jonas Brothers for job, National Museum of Sri Lanka
SFC-O-1585
Jonas, Louis
Artists
Dorothy Michele Novick
Escalator
Box 4
Escalators
Anna DiCarlo
Gerry Hanlon/Copywriter
John C. Crank, Crank Associates
Contractors
Calori and Vanden-Eynden
Kenneth Gillham ARBS
Daniel L. Hadley Design
Christopher Ray Designer
Kevin Lee Allen Design
SFC-2-0490, SFC-2-0481
PC-72-9102
Hall 7
African Mask Case
Bazaar Contract
SFC-2-1831
Grace Kim, 1988
Indonesian Museum Staff
Industrial Map of Korea
Cherokee Indian File
Tu-wamoja material
Handling Museum Objects
Hah inventory
Lunda Gill Rotunda, September 19-November 9, 1986
Gendron Jensen Rotunda Show
Gifts of Mother Earth Zuni Pots
Gift of Mother Earth Yelloware Bred bowl/laddle
The People of China, Lunda Hayle Gill
Denise B. Krause
Berisalv Krzic
Abid Mahmood Research
G. Lewis Museum Babriel Foucher Musee d'Histoire Naturelle
Janet Spritzler Levin Guatelmon Guernica
Steven Kahle
Annette Kaupp and Associates
Walter B. Knoles
Kaaba model rotunda
Memoranda, 1980s
Museum Programs
Evaluators
Final Case Contract Hall 26
Trade Circle Fabric
Hall 26
Photo Orders
Case Contract #2
Carpeting
Lighting Components
Case Contract 26
Construction Contract Kalmia
Whale Hall Negatives
Women's Committee Notes Activities
Oneida Nation Museum
Native American Museum Material
Artists in National Parks
Art and Design in Action
Combined Federal Campaign
Antarctica by three artists Lucia DeLeiris, Alan Campbell, Betty Rothaus
Anderson Show
Mary Carroll Santa Barbara Botanical gardens
"Chiefly Feast" Exhibits, October 29, 1993
"Crystal Gardens"
Brenda Carter
Linda Ching
Condensation of World Culture
Dinosaurs Kokoro
Beyond the Java Sea
Duck Decoys Hall 24/25
Art of Exploration Osprey Productions Inc
Banners
Asian Pacific Heritage Week 1988 American Contribution
Audubon Birds of America
Banded Iron Bronze Plaques
Banded Iron Petrified Logs
Box 5
Bateman (Evans) Exhibit
Balts
Uncle Beasley (2 folders)
Mario Correa-Embassy of Chile Pre-Columbian Art Illustrations
Birds in Art /Kathy Kelsey Foley Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Bird Carving Ward Foundation Discovery Room Gallery, Fall 1986
Bird Carving, November 1, 1985
Bird Carving Ward Foundation
Dr. John Cody Moth Illustrations
On China Hiroji Kubota
China Today (2 folders)
Marilyn Bridges, January-April 1984
Sigrid Bruch Show, June 19-August 15
Carlson Stremmel
China-Hiroji Kubota, September 11-November 13, 1987
On China by Hiroji Kubota
Patrick Bremer Insect Sculptor
Blossoms
Sigrid Bonner
Brazilian National Park Photographic Exhibit
Peter Crossman Camera III Animation
Coyote: A Myth in the Making Harry E. Fonseca
Dinosaurs, Mammoths and Cavemen
Dinosaurs, Past and Present
Flowers from the Royal Garden of Kew
Curtio Botanical Magazine Rotunda Show
Curtio's Botanical Magazine (now the Kew magazine)
Rotunda Gallery Flowers from the Royal Garden of Kew
For Love of Nature, Rotunda Gallery, November 1986-January 1987
Demonte Family Etienne, Rosalia, Yvonne
Lucia deLeiris, Discovery Gallery, July-October 1986
Ms. Janet L. Davidson National History Museum Los Angeles
Darkened Waters Exhibition
All-American Horse Paintings by G. Harvey
Elephant Label
Earth Day Automobile Exhibit
Ebla to Damascus
Dewees Show, April 4-May 31, 1981
Demonte Family
Henry Evans Bot. Paintings
Elephant
First Egyptians Exhibit
George Foster
Temp Show - Tony Foster - John Muirs High Sierra
Box 6
Installation Photos
Audio-Visual Information
American Experience
Map Contract
Galapagos
Wood and Ramirez Inc.
Pat's Taxidermy
Aguila Taxidermy Studio
Pat's Taxidermy
Eagle Taxidermy
Bird Taxidermy
Mammals Taxidermy
TEMSI photo machines
M. S. Rolph
Professional Building Blocks
Ralph Morrill P.O. 0594 completed (5 folders)
Pierre Mion (2 folders)
McAdams, June
Hall 23 Background Painters
Mural Contract
Matternes, Jay
David J. Hasinger
Temporary Exhibits
Tarahumara Series
Alice Tangerini Series
Zuni Pots Hall 24/25 (2 folders)
Ward Foundation
Inside of Active Volcanoes
Caroline Thorington
Wulsin
Temporary Shows and Festivals - Past
Wilderness Exhibit
Wilderness America
Critical Path Method
Christopher Malezewski
Andrew Chalanick
Michael Fenton Rotunda Project
Rotunda
Workshop
Temporary Exhibit Schedule
Imagining Antarctica
Antarctica Science and technology in the deep freeze
Artist Section Afro American Artists
Aditi - A Celebration of Life
Air India
75th Anniversary Material
Aldabra - North Foyer
Box 7
Franz Dutler, Franz Wood Sculpture
Projected Schedules, October 1984-March 1985
Carl's Latest Temp Exhibit List, February 1990
Across the Sea Hall 24, May 1988
Carmen Fernandez
Stan Shelter
Anwar Hossain, Photographer
Alison Ballance, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Biruta Akersbergs Hansen
Dr. WIlliam Z. Fradklin
Sam Freedman
Jay Barnes - North Carolina Aquarium
Mark A. Barill
Louise Cort Hiroshima Kazuo
Letitia C. Doggett
Antonia d'Urso
Dinamation
One with the Earth Temp Indian Exhibit, 1983
Parting the Green Curtain
One with the Earth
Corinne Kratz's Okiek Portraits
Okiek Portraits
Seasoned Eye II
Philippine Folk Artists
Philippine Exhibit
Readasaurus Display
Delores Root
Far Side
Andrew Jackson Grayson
A Separate Vision
Mexican Exhibit Specifications
On China
Kaaba Diorama Heritage Show
SFG Korean Show
SITES: Daughters of the Desert
Charles Knight
Dinosaurs Past and Present
Kjell Sandved Show
Royal Gifts from the Kingdom of Thailand
Mexican Masks
Slavatore Mancini Terra Incognita
Grass Work of Labrador
Smithsonian Dinosaurs Past and Present (2 folders)
Volunteer Attendance Records
The Exhibit File
Museum Programs Material
Exhibition Resources
Exhibit Planning
Giant Grasshopper
Design and Production of Exhibits Workshop
Conservation of North American Hall
Box 8
Trilobite Exhibit
By Word Material
SITES Show Farallon Islands
Fitzhugh Exhibits
Heidi Larson Hall 11, Janaury-March 1985
Ma Hai Feng Wildlife Artist Bird Carvings, November 1, 1985
Nancy Holiday
Betty Field-Haley
Nancy Halpern
The Funny Side of Science Sidney Harris
Ann Parks Hawthorne
Beatrice Pitney Lamb
Pioneers of Bird Illustrations Don Luce
Philip L. Green Long Legged Wading Birds
Colombian Gold Exhibit/Gold of El Dorado
Susan Gross Spirits of the Rock
"Gold Museum Colombia"
Mulford Foster Paintings Ref: Michael A. Spencer
George E. Green The Rock People
Flower Show
Eleanor Flomenthaft - Images of Chaos
Faces from the Earth - Seneca Iroquois
Exhibits Effectiveness
North American Archaeology
D-3 Potlatch the Great Giveaway
Eskimo group G-1
Hall 11 Case 9-9A Teheulche
Hall 9 Case 13
Hall 9 Case 14
Hall 9 Case 16
D-1 Indians Coastal North America
16B Shadow Box Ornaments of Birds Animal Material
Hall 9 Case 17
Ornaments of Shell and Silver 17-B
Hall 9 Case 18
Hall 9 Case 19
Hall 9 Case 20
Hall 9 Case 21
Hall 9 Case 22
Hall 9 Case 23
Hall 9 Case 24
Hall 9 Case 25
Hall 9 Case 26
Hall 9 Case 27
Hall 9 Case 1-4 (4 folders)
Hall 9 Case 6-9 (4 folders)
Shadowbox Lacrosse SB-9B
Hall 9 Case 10-11 (2 folders)
Hall 9 12 Transparencies D-1
Hall 9 Case 12
Memoranda, 1982-1983
Science Museums Study
Miscellaneous
Diane Witlin, Columbia
Total Convention Services, Inc.
Jayne H. Baum Gallery
Portraits of Trees
Ben Schmidgall
Sierra Club Future Exhibit Consideration
Society of Animal Artists Inc
M. Spenser Mulfort Foster Paintings Botanical Paintings
Act chief records
Space Biospheres Ventures
In Splendor and Seclusion: Royal Women and Art of the Court of Benin Nigeria
Stewards of the Earth Photographs by Michael Ableman
Terra Nova Explored
Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940
Mary Vaux Walcott Exhibit
Yosemite
M. Delores M. Rivas for: Aurelio Teno
Jeanette Bennington, East/West Center
AIDS Exhibit
Albatross Exhibit
"Hawaiian Goddesses"
Philip C. Paratore Dinosaur Portfolio
Box 9
Grand Canyon Perspectives
Lettersen Sculptures/Peruvian Sculptures OAS
Isle of May: One Man's Island (2 folders)
Dreamscapes by Jimmy Pike
Luella Murri Photographs
Oglala Lakota College Poster Show Joallyn Archambault's Proposal
Potomac Basin Reporter
E. Masferre Photographs Exhibit Proposal for 1992
Maya of Yucatan: Survival of a Culture in Transition
Valerie McFadden, Director of Traveling Exhibits Cincinnati MNH
Graham Stuart Thomas - Flowers
Mungo Martin Exhibit
Vision of the Americas
North American Hall
Fiscal Material
Visions of the Americas
Visions of the Americas: Letters to Contractors
Special Conditions
Vision of the Americas
Partial Specimen List Native American Halls/Indian Halls A Vision of the Americas
McKinsey Report and Related Information
Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Hall 6 Tom Simkin
Manikins Study Tom Kavanagh
Hall 9 John Smith Diorama
Color Me Mankind
Requests to ODC (Office of Design and Construction) 2773's
Turtle Museum
Box 10
Hall 9 (2 folders)
Totem Pole
Tipi Case Group
D-2 Bison Diorama
Hall 9-11 Cases to be redesigned
Indian Ethnology Hall 9
Hall 8 (2 folders)
Peoples of the Pacific Hall 8 Scripts
Hall 8 (5 folders)
Hall 11
Indian Ethnology Hall 11
Hall 11 (2 folders)
Yoruba Photos
Perkins Letter to Design Contractors
Black-and-White Negatives
"A Vision of the Americas"
"American Land"
"The Complete Paintings and Drawings of Graham Stuart Thomas"
"Aboriginal Art: A Portfolio of Colour reproductions."
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