Agency history record, 1987-

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Subject

  • Sagstetter, Karen
  • Louie, Richard
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of the Associate Director
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of the Assistant Director, Freer Gallery of Art
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of the Deputy Director
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of Membership and Development
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Department of Education
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Special Events Coordinator
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of Public Affairs and Marketing
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Smithsonian Annals, 1986-1997
  • Smithsonian Directory, 1999
  • The Publications Department of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery was officially created around 1987. Before 1987, Richard Louie as Assistant Director of the Freer Gallery and Associate Director of the Freer and Sackler galleries handled publications for many years before his untimely death in 1990. Karen Sagstetter was then appointed as the Head of Publications. The Publications Department reports to the Deputy Director.
  • The task of the Publications Department is to create booklets, brochures, sales catalogues, leaflets, invitations, lecture and announcement posters, mailing lists, and the like to be used by such units as the Special Events Coordinator, Department of Education, Office of Membership and Development, and Office of Public Affairs and Marketing.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1987
  • 1987-

Topic

  • Museums
  • Museum publications

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00345

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