Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 02-186
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
Exhibition Records, circa 1986-2001
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the organization, design, and promotion of exhibits. Major traveling exhibitions represented include Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows, Kids Bridge, Millennium Messages, An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Art from the United States and Vietnam, and VanDerZee Photographer (1886-1983). The last box contains records documenting proposed exhibitions that were never realized or were carried through to completion but did not travel. These records were retained because they raised specific issues with regard to the process for selection or rejection of proposed exhibitions.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, planning documents, exhibit proposals, research notes and materials, letters of agreement, floor plans, releases, itineraries, contracts, exhibition booking agreements and contracts, object loan agreements, packing instructions, budgets, object lists, label copy, press releases, press kits, catalogues and other published materials, education kits, videos, a CD-ROM, scripts, label copy, condition reports, clippings, and installation and object photographs, and slides. Some materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Full Deck: Art Quilts (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1999)
- Capturing the Spirit (Traveling exhibition)
- Kids Bridge (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1997)
- Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Marketplace (Traveling exhibition) (1997-1998)
- Constance Stuart Larrabee: World War II Photo Journal (Traveling exhibition) (1990-1995)
- Dreams and Traditions: 300 Years of British and Irish Paintings from the Ulster Museum, Belfast (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1998)
- Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows (Traveling exhibition) (1993-1995)
- Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (Traveling exhibition) (1994-1996)
- New Horizons: American Painting, 1840-1910 (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1988)
- An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Art from the United States and Vietnam (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1997)
- Ocean Planet (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1999)
- The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation (Traveling exhibition) (1991-1993)
- Remaking America: New Uses, Old Places (Traveling exhibition) (1986-1991)
- Santa Fe Trail: Photographs by Joan Myers (Traveling exhibition) (1986-1989)
- Seeds of Change (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1995)
- Songs of My People (Traveling exhibition) (1991-1997)
- Steichen and His Men: A Photographic Portrait of World War II (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1993)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Traveling exhibition) (1991-1994)
- Tongass: Alaska’s Magnificent Rain Forest (Traveling exhibition) (1994-1999)
- Training Hand and Eye: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Traveling exhibition) (1989-1990)
- Try This On: A History of Clothing, Gender, and Power (Traveling exhibition) (1994-1997)
- Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the Mexican-American Boundary (Traveling exhibition) (1993-1997)
- Under the Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition of Light (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2000)
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1999)
- Victorian Gardens: A Horticultural Extravaganza (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1993)
- View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972 (Traveling exhibition) (1989-1993)
- Voyages and Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1997)
- What Style Is It? (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1992)
- Whispered Silences: Japanese-American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later (Traveling exhibition) (1996-2000)
- Who’s in Charge: Works and Managers in the United States (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1996)
- Altered States: Alcohol and Other Drugs in America (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1994)
- Rosebud Souix: A People in Transition (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1988)
- Seeing Japan (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1992)
- Information Age: People, Information and Technology (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Paint by Number (Proposed traveling exhibition) (circa 2001)
- Kamuy: Spirit of the Ainu (Proposed traveling exhibition) (circa 1997)
- Mexican Panoramas: A 19th Century View (Proposed traveling exhibition) (circa 1998)
- Game Face: What Does a Woman Athlete Look Like? (Exhibition) (2001)
- Stonehenge Observed (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1987)
- Stories from Life: The Photographs of Horace Bristol (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1996)
- Stormy Weather (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1995)
- Contrasts: Forty Years of Change and Continuity (Traveling exhibition) (1990-1994)
- Millennium Messages (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2000)
- The Prairie Schoolhouse: A Photo Essay (Traveling exhibition) (1996-2000)
- American Glass: Masters of the Art (Traveling exhibition) (1998-2000)
- Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1989)
- Saynday was Coming Along: Drawings by Silverhorn (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1996)
- Quadrangle Project/Mural (Exhibition) (1980-1987)
- Tracks in the Sky (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1991)
- Southern Africa 1936-1949: Constance Stuart Larrabee Photographs (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2001)
- Coral Reefs of the Caribbean: Ecosystem in Crisis (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1998)
- Jewels of Lalique (Exhibition) (1998: New York, N.Y.)
- Matchsafes (Exhibition) (1981: New York, N.Y.)
- Revolution, Life, and Labor: Soviet Porcelains, 1918-1985 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: New York, N.Y.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-186, Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records