Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-086
National Portrait Gallery. Conservation Laboratory
Condition and Treatment Records, 1980-1999
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the assessment of condition and proposed treatment for objects slated for exhibition. Objects represented in the collection come from within the National Portrait Galley (NPG) collection and outside loans.
Materials include condition and treatment reports, memoranda, checklists, photographs, notes and related materials.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
- Namuth, Hans
- Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006
- Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
- Penn, Irving
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Exhibitions
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
- Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), President, 1822-1885
- Frazee, John, 1790-1852
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
- Time, Inc.
- American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776 (Exhibition) (1987-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Artists on Paper: Prints, Photographs, and Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery Collection (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and the China Trade, 1784-1844 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Davy Crockett: Gentleman from the Cane (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Faces of Time: Seventy-Five Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Private Lives of Public Figures: The Nineteenth-Century Family Portrait (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- John Frazee, Sculptor (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Drawings by Hugo Gellert (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Art of Henry Inman (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the NPG's F.H.Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Hans Namuth (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographic Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery Collection (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Irving Penn Master Images (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Rebels: Painters and Poets (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait Posters (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- From Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Champions of American Sport (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
- Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Image of the Presidency: Photographs by George Tames, 1944-1974 (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from the Archives of American Art (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Twentieth Century Self-Protraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- America's Smithsonian (Traveling exhibition) (1996-1998)
Subject
- Museums -- Collection management
- Museum exhibits
- Art museums
- Museum loans
- Conservation and restoration
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-086, National Portrait Gallery. Conservation Laboratory, Condition and Treatment Records