Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-126
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Public Affairs
Publicity Records, 1968, 1974-1977, 1982-1998
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that describe all aspects of the National Portrait Gallery's publicity efforts through the former Office of Public Affairs, now called the Office of External Affairs, particularly the planning and execution of events associated with exhibitions or portrait presentations, such as receptions, dinners, performances, symposia, and lectures.
Materials include correspondence and memoranda regarding event planning; forms requesting horticulture and building services; correspondence and agreements with talent and caterers; invitations and guest lists; event programs; and contact sheets and photographs of the events. The records also contain correspondence with other museums and the media regarding exhibitions or individual portraits; press kits; press releases and fact sheets; copies of catalogs and brochures; and news clippings and reviews.
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.)
- Annie Liebovitz Photographs 1970-1990 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
- Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Bush, George, 1924-
- Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Champions on Time (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Clinton, Bill, 1946-
- Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
- Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- From Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
- Hirschfeld, Al
- Image of the Presidency: Photographs by George Tames, 1944-1974 (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Like and Unlike: Caricature Protraits by Henry Major and Herman Perlman (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the NPG's F.H.Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Oliphant's Presidents: Twenty-five Years of Caricature (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
- Points of View: Single Subject/Multiple Artists (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait Posters (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Rebels: Painters and Poets (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Recent Acquisitions (Exhibition series). (1978-1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Sackler, Arthur M.
- Selections from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution. 150th Anniversary Program
- Spirit of the Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- The Family 1976: Richard Avedon's Photographs for Rolling Stone (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Time Covers the War: Personalities from World War II (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Time, Inc.
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- To the President: Folk Portraits by the People (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Washington Print Club
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
Subject
- Art museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Press coverage
- Museums -- Public relations
- Panzer, Mary
- War correspondents
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-126, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Public Affairs, Publicity Records