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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 94-094

National Museum of American History. Office of the Director

Subject Files, circa 1989-1990

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Museum of American History. Office of the Director
Title:Subject Files
Dates:circa 1989-1990
Quantity:5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 94-094
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records document the administrative activities of the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Materials include the outgoing and incoming correspondence and memoranda of Roger G. Kennedy, Director, 1980-1992, and Douglas E. Evelyn, Deputy Director, 1980-1991; records pertaining to budgetary and administrative affairs of NMAH departments and divisions; collections management; museum shops; the Native American Program; property inventories; the Research Opportunity Fund; special events; exhibition planning, research, and publications; asbestos removel at NMAH; fellowships and grants; NMAH restoration and renovation issues; and meetings. Records also contain Museum Programs performing arts photographs.

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These records document the administrative activities of the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Materials include the outgoing and incoming correspondence and memoranda of Roger G. Kennedy, Director, 1980-1992, and Douglas E. Evelyn, Deputy Director, 1980-1991; records pertaining to budgetary and administrative affairs of NMAH departments and divisions; collections management; museum shops; the Native American Program; property inventories; the Research Opportunity Fund; special events; exhibition planning, research, and publications; asbestos removal at NMAH; fellowships and grants; NMAH restoration and renovation issues; and meetings. Records also contain Museum Programs performing arts photographs.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 94-094, National Museum of American History, Office of the Director, Subject Files

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Container List

Box 1

Department of Social and Cultural History

Box 1 of 5

Division of Ceramics and Glass

Box 1 of 5

Division of Community Life

Box 1 of 5

Division of Costume

Box 1 of 5

Division of Domestic Life

Box 1 of 5

Division of Graphic Arts

Box 1 of 5

Division of Musical History

Box 1 of 5

Division of Musical History - Jazz Masterworks

Box 1 of 5

Division of Musical History - Friends of Music

Box 1 of 5

Division of Musical History - John Hammond Fund

Box 1 of 5

Division of Photographic History

Box 1 of 5

Division of Political History

Box 1 of 5

Division of Political History - First Ladies Gowns, 1988

Box 1 of 5

Division of Political History - First Ladies Gowns, 1989-1990

Box 1 of 5

Division of Textiles

Box 1 of 5

Department of Science and Technology

Box 1 of 5

Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Box 1 of 5

Division of Armed Forces History

Box 1 of 5

Division of Biological Sciences

Box 1 of 5

Division of Computers, Information and Society

Box 1 of 5

Division of Electricity and Modern Physics

Box 1 of 5

Division of Engineering and Industry

Box 1 of 5

Division of Medical Sciences

Box 1 of 5

Native American Program

Box 1 of 5

Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Box 1 of 5

Society for the History of Technology (SHOTs)

Box 1 of 5

Technology and Culture

Box 1 of 5

Division of Transportation

Box 1 of 5

Assistant Director for Academic Program, Gary Kulik, American Quarterly

Box 1 of 5

Building Manager

Box 1 of 5

Conservation

Box 1 of 5

Department of Exhibits

Box 1 of 5

Department of Exhibits (Partnership in Design with the University of Maryland)

Box 1 of 5

Exhibit Design

Box 1 of 5

Exhibit Production

Box 1 of 5

Development - Office of External Affairs

Box 1 of 5

Public Affairs, Office of External Affairs

Box 1 of 5

Special Events, Office of External Affairs

Box 1 of 5

Department of Public Programs (1990 and 1989 File)

Box 1 of 5

African-American Program

Box 1 of 5

Education, Department of Public Programs

Box 1 of 5

Hispanic American Program, Department of Public Programs

Box 1 of 5

Intern and Fellows, Department of Public Programs

Box 1 of 5

Museum Program, Department of Public Programs

Box 1 of 5

Publication, Department of Public Programs

Box 1 of 5

Box 2

National Numismatics Collection

Box 2 of 5

National Philatelic Collection

Box 2 of 5

Registrar's Office (2 folders)

Box 2 of 5

Acknowledgment (Gifts)

Box 2 of 5

Affirmative Action

Box 2 of 5

Afro-American Index Project

Box 2 of 5

American History Club Magazine

Box 2 of 5

Archives Center

Box 2 of 5

Asbestos

Box 2 of 5

Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians and Aides (AMSTA)

Box 2 of 5

Beschloss, Michael

Box 2 of 5

Budget FY 1991 - Federal

Box 2 of 5

Budget

Box 2 of 5

Budget FY 1989 - Trust Fund

Box 2 of 5

Budget FY 1990 - Federal

Box 2 of 5

Budget GRH

Box 2 of 5

Budget - FY 1990 Spending Plans

Box 2 of 5

Budget FY 1989 Base Analysis Data

Box 2 of 5

Budget Hearing FY 1990

Box 2 of 5

Budget FY 1990 Priority Call

Box 2 of 5

(Budget) Senate Hearing of FY 1988 Budget (Douglas Evelyn's File)

Box 2 of 5

Business Cards

Box 2 of 5

Cafeteria

Box 2 of 5

Campbell Soup Advertising Project (1989)

Box 2 of 5

Collections, Federal

Box 2 of 5

Carmichael Auditorium

Box 2 of 5

Collections Management Policies and Procedures

Box 2 of 5

Collections Management

Box 2 of 5

Computer Service Center

Box 2 of 5

Combined Federal Campaign

Box 2 of 5

Congressional Hearing (1990)

Box 2 of 5

Curators' Association

Box 2 of 5

Daka Food Service

Box 2 of 5

David Copperfield

Box 2 of 5

Director's Office (General)

Box 2 of 5

Deputy Director's Office (General)

Box 2 of 5

Discovery Channel

Box 2 of 5

Duke Ellington Collection

Box 2 of 5

Emergency Self Protection Plan

Box 2 of 5

Equal Employment Opportunity

Box 2 of 5

Box 3

Fellows

Box 3 of 5

Floor (Third)

Box 3 of 5

Forman, Paul

Box 3 of 5

Garber Facility

Box 3 of 5

Gordon (Bob), 1989

Box 3 of 5

Gordon (Bob), 1990

Box 3 of 5

Ice Cream Parlor

Box 3 of 5

SI Invitations (Roger Kennedy) (2 folders)

Box 3 of 5

In-Kind Gifts and Services

Box 3 of 5

Library, NMAH

Box 3 of 5

Library, Dibner

Box 3 of 5

Major Reinstallations

Box 3 of 5

Management Committee

Box 3 of 5

Master Coordination Plan

Box 3 of 5

Minority Hiring

Box 3 of 5

Museum Shops

Box 3 of 5

Native American Program

Box 3 of 5

Patent Model Foundation, U.S.

Box 3 of 5

Polaroid

Box 3 of 5

Paper Recycling

Box 3 of 5

Project Managers Meeting

Box 3 of 5

Property Inventory

Box 3 of 5

Property Inventory (1989)

Box 3 of 5

Property Pass

Box 3 of 5

Publications (Staff)

Box 3 of 5

Research Opportunity Fund

Box 3 of 5

Retirement (Early)

Box 3 of 5

Restoration and Renovation (R&R), 1990

Box 3 of 5

Restoration and Renovation

Box 3 of 5

Roundtable Discussion

Box 3 of 5

Scott, David, Planning Consultant

Box 3 of 5

Security

Box 3 of 5

Safety

Box 3 of 5

Silver Hill - Asbestos

Box 3 of 5

Space

Box 3 of 5

Statement to the Public about Renovation

Box 3 of 5

Staff Dining Room - 5th Floor

Box 3 of 5

Staff Meetings

Box 3 of 5

Tax Reform Act

Box 3 of 5

Technology and Culture

Box 3 of 5

The Way Things Work

Box 3 of 5

Timecards/Timekeepers

Box 3 of 5

Training

Box 3 of 5

Vacation Calendar

Box 3 of 5

Abdy (Sir Valentine)

Box 3 of 5

Accounting and Financial Service

Box 3 of 5

African American Heritage Museum

Box 3 of 5

African American Institutional Study

Box 3 of 5

African American Resources Booklet

Box 3 of 5

Anacostia Museum

Box 3 of 5

Archives of American Art

Box 3 of 5

Atherton Seidell Endowment

Box 3 of 5

Box 4

Assistant Secretary for Museum (Tom Freudenheim)

Box 4 of 5

Assistant Secretary for Administration (John Jameson)

Box 4 of 5

Assistant Secretary for Public Service (Ralph Rinzler)

Box 4 of 5

Assistant Secretary for Research (Robert Hoffmann)

Box 4 of 5

Black History Month

Box 4 of 5

Brooks, Robert A., Award

Box 4 of 5

Budget (SI)

Box 4 of 5

Business Lunch Charge Card

Box 4 of 5

Congressional Liaison (Margaret Gaynor)

Box 4 of 5

Constituency Information Project

Box 4 of 5

Council of Bureau Directors

Box 4 of 5

Design and Construction, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Education Office

Box 4 of 5

Educational Outreach Fund

Box 4 of 5

Educational Outreach Fund (1988)

Box 4 of 5

Endowment Fundraising Town Meeting

Box 4 of 5

Equal Opportunity, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Environmental Conservation Activities Report (1989)

Box 4 of 5

Environmental Awareness, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Experimental Gallery

Box 4 of 5

Fellowships and Grants, Office of (1989)

Box 4 of 5

Fellowships and Grants, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Five-Year Prospectus (1991-1995)

Box 4 of 5

Guard Reductions, FY 1990

Box 4 of 5

Gallery Closing

Box 4 of 5

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Box 4 of 5

Honoraria

Box 4 of 5

Horticulture, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Information Resource Management, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Information Resource Management, Office of (1989)

Box 4 of 5

Inspector General, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Library, SI

Box 4 of 5

Mail Service

Box 4 of 5

Management Committee

Box 4 of 5

Media Project, SI

Box 4 of 5

Membership and Development, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Millennium Project

Box 4 of 5

Monthly Report, Secretary

Box 4 of 5

Museum Programs, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Museum Shops

Box 4 of 5

National Museum of African Art (Sylvia Williams)

Box 4 of 5

National Air and Space Museum (Martin Harwit)

Box 4 of 5

National Gallery of Art

Box 4 of 5

National Museum of American Art

Box 4 of 5

National Museum of the American Indians (Dave Warren)

Box 4 of 5

National Museum of the American Indians Search Committee

Box 4 of 5

National Portrait Gallery (Alan Fern)

Box 4 of 5

National Museum of Natural History (Acting Director, Jim Tyler)

Box 4 of 5

National Associates Program

Box 4 of 5

Office of Committee for a Wider Audience

Box 4 of 5

Office of Facilities Services (Richard Siegle)

Box 4 of 5

Office of Human Resources

Box 4 of 5

Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Box 4 of 5

Office of Plant Services (OPlantS)

Box 4 of 5

Parking

Box 4 of 5

Performance Appraisals

Box 4 of 5

Performance Standards Review Board

Box 4 of 5

Product Development and Licensing (Office of)

Box 4 of 5

Product Development and Licensing (Office of), 1989

Box 4 of 5

Public Affairs, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Quincentenary Programs, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Quadrangle

Box 4 of 5

Radio Smithsonian

Box 4 of 5

Recruiting Senior Scholars to the Smithsonian

Box 4 of 5

Regents Audit and Review Committee

Box 4 of 5

Regents (Board of)

Box 4 of 5

Regents Development Planning and Advisory Committee

Box 4 of 5

Regents Fellow

Box 4 of 5

Regents Publications Award Program

Box 4 of 5

Renwick Gallery

Box 4 of 5

Research Policy Committee

Box 4 of 5

Research Support Survey

Box 4 of 5

Resident Associates Program

Box 4 of 5

Resident Associates Program (1989)

Box 4 of 5

Risk Management, Office of

Box 4 of 5

Box 5

Secretary's Office (Robert McC. Adams)

Box 5 of 5

Secretary's Program Support

Box 5 of 5

Secretary's Correspondence

Box 5 of 5

Scholarly Studies Program

Box 5 of 5

Smithson Society

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Associates

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Forum of Material Culture

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Guide to Historic America

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Council

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian African American Association

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Institution Press

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Sesquicentennial

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian World

Box 5 of 5

Smithsonian Year

Box 5 of 5

Special Exhibition Fund

Box 5 of 5

Staff Bulletin

Box 5 of 5

Telecommunications, Office of

Box 5 of 5

Visitors Information and Associates' Reception Center (VIARC)

Box 5 of 5

Visitors

Box 5 of 5

Women Committee

Box 5 of 5

Woodrow Wilson Center

Box 5 of 5

A - General

Box 5 of 5

American Association of Museums (AAM)

Box 5 of 5

AAM Dues

Box 5 of 5

African-American Museum Association

Box 5 of 5

American Council of Learned Societies

Box 5 of 5

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Membership Dues from NMAH

Box 5 of 5

American Association for State and Local History

Box 5 of 5

American Studies Association

Box 5 of 5

Association of Science and Technology

Box 5 of 5

B - General

Box 5 of 5

C - General

Box 5 of 5

Chicago Historical Society

Box 5 of 5

Computer Museum

Box 5 of 5

D - General

Box 5 of 5

E - General

Box 5 of 5

F - General

Box 5 of 5

G - General

Box 5 of 5

George Washington University

Box 5 of 5

H - General

Box 5 of 5

Historic Georgetown Foundation

Box 5 of 5

I - General

Box 5 of 5

Institute for Puerto Rican Affairs, Inc.

Box 5 of 5

J - General

Box 5 of 5

K - General

Box 5 of 5

L - General

Box 5 of 5

M - General

Box 5 of 5

Maryland Historical Society (Mrs. David R. Owens [Eleanor Abell Owens]), 1989

Box 5 of 5

N - General

Box 5 of 5

National Endowment for the Arts

Box 5 of 5

National Endowment for the Humanities

Box 5 of 5

O - General

Box 5 of 5

O - General (1989)

Box 5 of 5

Organization of American Historians

Box 5 of 5

P - General

Box 5 of 5

P - General (1989)

Box 5 of 5

Charles E. Peterson (Architectural Historian, Restorationist & Planner)

Box 5 of 5

S - General

Box 5 of 5

T - General

Box 5 of 5

U - General (1989)

Box 5 of 5

United States Information Agency (William P. Glade)

Box 5 of 5

V - General

Box 5 of 5

W - General

Box 5 of 5