Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-118
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Administrative Office
Central Administrative Records, 1972, 1984-1999
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the activities of the Administrative Office of the National Portrait Gallery. Topics include finance, procurement, and grant management. Records were created and maintained by Barbara A. Hart, Associate Director of Administration, and Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director.
Boxes 1-2 are arranged topically by department, project, or program, and concern administrative management activities. These include proposals, budgets, expenditures, financial reports, and related matters.
The bulk of the collection (boxes 3-9) contains material regarding the management of grant funds for various projects and exhibitions. The majority of the funding was obtained through internal granting agencies including the Office of Grants and Fellowships, the Smithsonian Women's Committee, the Research Opportunity Fund, the Special Exhibition Fund, and the James Smithson Society.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, progress reports, proposals, funding reports, expenditure reports, notes, and related records.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Avedon, Richard
- Carr, Carolyn Kinder
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Celebrity Caricature in America (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Davy Crockett: Gentleman from the Cane (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
- First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Hans Namuth (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Hart, Barbara A.
- In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Irving Penn Master Images (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Charles Willson Peale Papers
- Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
- Penn, Irving
- Portraits in Motion (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Red Grooms (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Selections from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Associates. James Smithson Society
- Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research. Research Opportunities Fund
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Fellowships and Grants
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Provost. Special Exhibition Fund
- Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Time, Inc.
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
Subject
- Art museums
- Fund accounting
- Fund raising
- Gifts
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Administration
- Musicals
- War correspondents
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-118, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Administrative Office, Central Administrative Records