Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 94-107
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
Special Exhibition Records, 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 Natural History. Office of Exhibits |
Title: | Special Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1982-1988 |
Quantity: | 9.48 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 oversize folders) |
Collection: | Accession 94-107 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These files consist of records documenting the research and production of the exhibition "Magnificent Voyagers, United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842," curated by Herman J. Viola. Materials include research materials, funding proposals, contact sheets, speech notes, loan records, evaluations, committee materials, drafts of some chapters, and some oversize graphics. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of materials documenting the research and production of the exhibition "Magnificent Voyagers, United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842," curated by Herman J. Viola. Materials include research materials, funding proposals, contact sheets, speech notes, loan records, evaluations, committee materials, drafts of some chapters, and some oversize graphics.
Index Terms
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Name
- Magnificent Voyagers: The US Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Exhibition). (1985-1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Viola, Herman J.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 94-107, National Museum of Natural History, Office of Exhibits, Special Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Magnificent Voyagers, United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Negatives
Achievements of exhibition (evaluations)
Agassiz, Louis
Agate, Alfred T.
Alden, James
Allen, D. E.
Antarctica
Anthropology
Appleman, Dan
Aulick, John H.
Australian Bicentennial
AV shows (2 folders)
Bartlett, Harley, Harris, "The Reports of the Wilkes Ex. And the Work of the Scientists"
Bayer, Frederick M.
Beidleman, Richard (notes), The scientifics in Australia
Bibliographies
Bird specimens
Bixby, William, The Forgotten Voyage of Charles Wilkes
Boston Public Library
Brackenridge, William D.
Botany
Bradley, Harold William, The American Frontier in Hawaii, The Pioneers 1789-1843
1st Brochure, support
2nd Brochure, public
Budget
Brooks, Van Wyck, Fenollosa and His Circle With Other Essays in Biography
Bryan, G. S., "The Purpose of Equipment and Personnel in the Wilkes Expedition"
Buck, Peter H., Explorers of the Pacific, European/American Discoveries in Polynesia
Callahan, James Morton, "American Relations in the Pacific and the Far East 1784-1900"
Cartography
Case, Augustus L.
Catalogs and Posters
Chile (Pollard as Ambassador)
Collins, Williams, "Overland Journeys in Oregon and California of the U.S. Navy Exploring Expedition"
Colvocoresses, George
Committee meetings, agendas
Committee memoranda, incoming
Committee memoranda, outgoing
Conklin, Edwin, "Connection of the American Philosophical Society With Our First National Exploring Expedition"
Congressional decisions
Conservation
Conservation guidelines
Condition report information
Cook's voyages
Court Martial
Couthouy
Dale, John
Dana, James Dwight
Darlingtonia
DeHaven, Edwin Jesse
Design/Construction
Design
Box 2
Drayton
Dibner Library
Education brochure
Education film
Eights, James
Eld, Henry
Emmons, George Foster
Engravers
Erskine, Charles, 20 Years Before the Mast
Evelyn, Doug
Exploring Expedition., general information
Exploring Forerunners
Eyde, Dick
Farrow, Elsie B., "The Man Who Named Antarctica and His Expedition"
Feipel, Louis N., "The Wilkes Exploring Expedition, Its Progress Through Half a Century: 1826-1876"
Firearms of Wilkes Expedition
Fish
Fiske, Richard
Genesis of Natural History Building
Guest List
Gilchrist, Edward
Hale, Horatio
Hassler, Ferdinand
Harrison, George M. - Passed midshipman, court martial
Hawaii, South Pacific in general
Henry, Joseph/Wilkes
Hudson, William Levereth
Instruments
Inventories, Wilkes specimens
Itinerary of United States Exploring Expedition
Kaeppler, Adrienne and Jane Walsh
Know, Samuel R.
Latin America
LeConte, John Lawrence
Library of the Expedition
Literary spinoffs
Long, Andrew K.
Long range planning proposals
Lundeberg, Philip
Magnificent Voyagers/Japanese
Maintenance of Collection
Marine contingent on United States Exploring Expedition
Mat and frame
Mauna Loa
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
May, William
Melville and Wilkes
Merchandising
Missionaries
Modern place names
Mystic Seaport Museum
National Institution for the Promotion of Science
National Museum
Naval Institute, U.S.
The Navy
Naval Lyceum of Natural History, New York
Naval Observatory, U.S.
Naval Science, support for theme statement
New species discovered by United States Exploring Expedition
Newcomb, Simon, "Abstract Science in America, 1776-1876"
Newspaper accounts of the expedition
NOIA Reception
Oregon Report - NW Evaluations
Origins of United States Exploring Expedition
Outfitting the Exploring Expedition
Box 3
Palmer, James C., naval surgeon
Patent Office/Greenhouse
Peale Museum, Philadelphia
Peale, T. R., articles on
Peale's articles
Perry, Oliver H.
Photo requests
Physical anthropology and the Wilkes Expedition
Pickering, Charles
Pinkney, Robert F.
Peacock, The Columbia river
"Pioneers of the Arctic"
Plates
Plates and prints
Ponko, Vincent, "Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U. S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th century"
Position description
Preliminary script - Topic Outline
Prints and proofs
Professionalization of sciences
Programs and special events for Wilkes exhibition
Publications (2 folders)
Publicity
Publicity responses
Requisitions (2 folders)
Rehn, James G., "Proceedings: American Philosophical Society, v. 82, 1940"
Reichilderfer, F. W., "The Contributions of Wilkes to Terrestrial, Magnetism, Gravity and Meteorology"
Reingold, Nathan
Research leads
Return of the specimens
Reviews of the publications
Reynolds
Reynolds & Poe
Ringgold, Cadwalader
Scheduling
Ships
Sigma Xi/American Scientist
Sinclair, George (journal)
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Expedition Service (SITES) (2 folders)
Smith, Geoffry, "The Navy Before Darwinism: Science, Exploration and Diplomacy Antebellum America"
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Box 4
Songs
Special Exhibition Fund
Speech accompanying slide presentation
Speech/Background notes (from Ann Brickfield)
Speiden
Stamp campaign
Subcommittee: History
Subcommittee: Steering
Sultan!
Superfund (exhibits) (2 folders)
Surgical Instruments, Armed Forces Pathology Lab
Symmes, John C.
Symposium (2 folders)
Tappan, Benjamin
Telecommunication projects
Towle, Edward L., "Science, Commerce, and the Navy on the Seafarring Frontier (1842-1861)"
Townsend, John Kirk
Transcriptions (2 folders)
Travel Forms
Travel, Liquid Research Proposals
Underwood, Joseph A.
University of California Press
USIA
Vendovi
Viola, Herman, J.
HJV's desk
Visuals
Volunteers/Interns
Watson, George
Wells, Ellen
Indexes to Westminster Review
Wickman, John Edward, "Political Aspects of Charles Wilkes' Work & Testimony, 1842-1849"
Box 5
Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877)
Wilkes Medal
Wilkes resumes
Wilkes material (SI Archives, Dan Appleman)
Wilkes Lake Down (2 folders)
Wilkes
Wilkes Expedition - Correspondence
Wilkes, general (CM) (3 folders)
Dewey, Betty W.
Dexter, Ralph W. - Kent State University
Dillon, Wilton S.
Duke University - Wilkes manuscripts collection
Education materials related to exhibition
Ferguson, Jeffrey
Fiji Museum
Franklin and Marshall College
Galperin, Sharon
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
Gilkerson, William H.
Goetzmann, William H.
Handley, Charles O.
Harvard University, Gray Herbarium
Hawaiian Mission's Children's Society
Henderson, J. Wilkes
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Hudson's Bay Company
The Huntington
Hydrographer of the Navy (Great Britain)
International Congress of Maritime Museums
Jaffe, David
Japanese artifacts, Wilkes Expedition
Jeffries, Mrs. Donald
Jennings, Mrs. Richard G. (Hudson memorabilia)
Johns Hopkins University, Eisenhower Library
Johnston, Betty (photographer, volunteer)
Kane, John D. H. (Admiral)
Kazar, John Dryden
Kazar, John
King, Tony - The Washington Historical Society
Library of Congress (2 folders)
Madine, James and Helen
Malay manuscripts
Mariner's Museum, Newport News
Massachusetts Historical Society
Miller, Char
Milwaukee Public Museum
Montclair State
Museums
National Academy of Design
National Archives (3 folders)
National Maritime Museum
National Museum of American History (Folder 1 of 2)
Box 6
National Museum of American History (Folder 2 of 2)
National Museum of Denmark
National Museum of Natural History (2 folders)
Margolis, Carolyn
Of Kayaks and Ulus - A Smithsonian Institution Curriculum Packet for Schools
Loans
Wilkes, Gilbert
Wilkes, John III
Yale University
Yochelson, Ellis L.
Zug, George R.
National Portrait Gallery
National Park Service, Hawaii
NOAA
Naval History Center
Newark Museum
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Newberry Library
New Haven Colony Historical Society
New Jersey Historical Society
New York Historical Society
New Zealand
North American Society for Oceanic History
Oregon Historical Society
Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden
Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University, New Haven)
Peabody Museum (Harvard University)
Peabody Museum (Salem, Mass.)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Textile Finishers (tent)
Philippines
Ponko, Vincent
Proctor, David
Resident Associates Program
Roosevelt Library
Rosewater, Joseph
Schmidt and Cleere
Science Museum - South Kensington, London
Seattle
Silverberg, Robert
Smedberg, William Renwick, III
Smith, Geoffrey S.
SI Castle
Smithsonian Libraries
South Street Seaport Museum
Stanton, William
Styer, Charles Wilkes
Towle, Edward L.
Tyler, David B.
U.S. Naval Academy
University Museum (University of Pennsylvania)
Vogel, Hal
Washington State Historical Society
Whitman Mission Historical Site
Wickman, Jon E.
Wilkes, Mrs. C. Woolley
Wilkes, Charles D. - Correspondence
Academy of Natural Sciences
American Museum of Natural History
Box 7
American Philosophical Society
Australia, correspondence with
Bayer, Frederick
Beidleman, Richard G.
Bellec, Francois de Vaisseau
Birkner, Michael
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Black, Mrs. Stanley W.
Blair, Edward McC.
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Bowman, Thomas
British Columbia, Archives
Byars, David O. - Washington State Historical Society
California, possible sources of information
Cambridge University Museum
Cambridge, University of, Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Chace, Fenner A.
Chile
Cleaver, Mrs. William Jessup [Anne Hoffman Cleaver]
Columbia Historical Society
Colvocoresses, Harold
Communications File
Correspondence summary
Miscellaneous correspondence
Wilkes correspondence
Dead ends
"Magnificent Voyagers" - Maps
"Magnificent Voyagers" - Wall text
"Magnificent Voyagers" - Text, vertebrate specimens, and negatives
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