Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 95-049
Smithsonian Institution. International Center
Latin American Tropical Rainforest Project, 1986-1994
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. International Center |
| Title: | Latin American Tropical Rainforest Project |
| Dates: | 1986-1994 |
| Quantity: | 8.5 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
| Collection: | Accession 95-049 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of records that pertain to the planning, coordination, and funding for "Nuestros Bosques, Nuestros Herencia" (Our Forests, Our Heritage), a traveling educational exhibit about tropical rainforests in the Americas. The exhibit was cooperatively produced by teams from other Latin American countries, and it was developed out of the Smithsonian Institution's 1988-1994 traveling exhibition "Tropical Rainforests, A Disappearing Treasure" to serve as a forum to promote environmental awareness about rainforests to people in Latin America. The files consist of corespondence between the coordinating teams from participating Latin American countries, funding and grant applications to private foundations, individuals involved in the development of various aspects of the project, and internal communications. In addition, there are minutes and memos from various planning meetings, proposals for the different educational components of the traveling exhibit, feedback from the different Latin American participants about the exhibit format, documents concerning development of Public Service Announcements and accompaning video, and detailed financial records. Finally, many of the documents are in Spanish with and without the English text. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that pertain to the planning, coordination and funding for Nuestros Bosques, Nuestros Herencia (Our Forests, Our Heritage) a traveling educational exhibit about tropical rainforests in the Americas. The exhibit was cooperatively produced by teams from other Latin American countries, and it was developed out of the Smithsonian Institution's 1988-1994 traveling exhibition Tropical Rainforests, A Disappearing Treasure to serve as a forum to promote environmental awareness about rainforests to people in Latin America.
These files consist of correspondence between: the coordinating teams from participating Latin American countries, funding and grant applications to private foundations, individuals involved in the development of various aspects of the project, and internal communications.
In addition, there are minutes and memoranda from various planning meetings, proposals for the different educational components of the traveling exhibition, feedback from the different Latin American participants about the exhibition format, and documents concerning development of Public Service Announcements and accompanying video. Finally, many of the documents are in Spanish with and without the English text.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Nuestros Bosques, Nuestros Herencia (Traveling exhibition)
- Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1994)
Subject
- Rain forests
- Museum exhibits
- Environmental education
- Environmental protection
- Traveling exhibitions
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Latin America
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-049, Smithsonian Institution, International Center, Latin American Tropical Rainforest Project
Container List
Box 1
Spanish translations (2 folders)
Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure - Teacher Manual and Student Activities
Tropical Rainforests - Project and Curriculum Guide - Teaching About Tropical Rainforests: A Model for Workshop Design
Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure - Final Report, February 27, 1991
More Than Trees! - Education Packet
Project Description
Latin American contacts
Peru - Approximate costs of an exhibit
Thematic Guide of Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure
San Diego workshop
Letters from participants - San Diego
Jeannette Aviles Campos / Nicaragua
Silvio Barros (Beatriz Carvalho) / Brazil
Patricia Chavez-Riva / Peru
Luisa Elena Guinand / Venezuela
Denise Hamu / Brazil
Peter Milko / Brazil
Agenda - Mexico meeting
Mexico - Advance materials, invite letters, and parameters
Mexico meeting - Travel
Project budget
Clayton Lino / Brazil
Jorge Orejuela / Colombia
M en C. Ramon Perez Gil / Mexico
Auta Rojas Barreto / Brazil
Rosa Maria Vidal / Mexico Pronatura-Chiapas
Tere Luisa Rueda / Colombia
Antonio Carlos Soares / Brazil
Allen Young / Milwaukee Public Museum
Filmmakers - People to do video for exhibit (2 folders)
Projected Budget and funding needs - Latin American Tropical Rainforests exhibition
Computer game - Spanish / Portuguese translation costs
Shipping
Responses
International Advisory Council
International Advisory Working Group
Latin American Tropical Rainforests exhibition - Conceptual outline
Latin American Tropical Rainforests exhibition - Production schedule
Project highlights
Letter to all participating organizations
List of organizations interested in sponsoring the Latin American TRF exhibit
Letter of Acknowledgment to Latin American sponsoring organizations
Review panel meeting - Summary of deliberations
List of participants - San Diego and Mexico meetings
Report - Mexico City meeting
TRF - Project status report
Brian J. LeMay (BJL) - Environmental Activities Report Green films Mexico communications about the site visits (Trip May 1991)
Copies of letters and memos sent o review panel members, May 3, 1991
Copies of Brazilian budget TRF proposal
Brian LeMay - Brazilian trip program
Questions to answer in evaluation design and fabrication facilities in Latin America
Review panel for TRF exhibition proposals
Rating sheet - LA/TRF exhibition
Combined rating sheet - Latin American Tropical Rainforest exhibition Latin American TRF exhibition - Summary of deliberations, May 15, 1991 Copies Mexican budget (Spanish)
Request for proposal - TRF/LA - Review panel schedule
Catalogo de medios audiovisuales
Seminario-Taller: Tecnicos Indigenas en la Conservacion de los Recursos Naturales, 1990
Paul Wood / Mexico
Oscar Vallarino / Panama
Gonzalo Oviedo / Ecuador
Alexandra Sanchez de Lozada / Bolivia
Magali Rey Rosa / Guatemala
Ana Luisa Baez Rojas / Costa Rica
Alicia Castillo / Mexico
Ana Maria Echeverri / Colombia
Arquitecta Yani Hereman / Mexico
Deirdre Hyde / Costa Rica
Kathie McCleskey's final report
Meeting TRF Review, May 15, 1991
Master list (of countries)
Letter of intent / Contracts
Box 2
Argentina - Joao Meirelles Filho
Belize
Brazil
Caribbean Groups
Chile
Colombia (2 folders)
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Mexico - Fundamat
Mexico - Centro de Ecologia, UNAM - Mexico City
Mexico - Margen Rojo
Mexico - Sociocultur / Llamas
Mexico - Yani's Exhibition on Beetles
Mexico - Pronatura
Mexico - Marcela Alvarez
Mexico - Instituto de Ecologia - Jalapa (formerly in Mexico City)
Mexico - Inaine
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru (2 folders)
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
Funding groups - Office of Sponsored Projects
Funding groups - Project design
Funding groups - Rockefeller Foundation
Funding groups - MacArthur Foundation
Advisory Committee
Executive Committee
Review Team
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)-Office of International Relations (OIR) Transfer (International Coordinator)
General - Tropical Rainforests Latin American exhibition
McCleskey Report
Rainforest info
Box 3
Bibliography / Reference materials
Freudenheim / Brown
Mexico City Meeting Follow-Up
Mexico City meeting - Agenda, participants, talking points, follow-up reports
Memorandum of Understanding
Letter of Interest Responses - List
Mexico and Colombia trip
LeMay and Makaki Travel - Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, May 5-11, 1991
LeMay Brazil Travel, May 1991
Exhibition Team Competition
Translation for exhibition script
Request for Proposal (RFP) - Exhibit design proposal - English
RFP Review Committee
Florestas Tropicais
Tropical Rainforests
Drawings - Tienda La Abundanicia
Colombian proposal (3 folders)
Traveling exhibits materials prepared by Teresa Rueda (Colombia)
Museografica
From Lacandon to the Amazon: Tropical rainforests of Latin America - Margen Rojo (2 folders)
Mexico proposal - English version (master)
Review Panel Deliberations, May 15, 1991
Rating sheets filled by the review panel
Panama Meeting, July 1991
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) meeting
Panama's meeting notes
Conceptual outlines (from January 1991 Mexico and July 1991 Panama group meetings)
Panama meeting
List of participants - Panama, July 1991
Panama Meeting budget
Panama meeting report by BJL
English version of Panama meeting report
Spanish version of Panama meeting report
Letter to Panama meeting participants and Panama meeting report
Coordinators package
Advisory committees
Advisory council (notables)
Letters to DC ambassadors
Audiovisual
Consortium stationery
People lists
Sliding scale "fair estimates"
Box 4
IMAX rainforest film
2nd script - Copies in Spanish
Translations
MFM (Smithsonian exhibition)
News
National Coordinators
Letter of interest - Country coordinators
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
National Coordinators (collectively)
Correspondence to country coordinators
Opening dates
Exhibition openings in Latin America
Opening dates, coordinators list, letter to release exhibitions from customs
Project participants, updated list, April 1993
Current status
Schedule of exhibitions
Executive summary, April 1993
Name and address lists
Project description - Latin American Rainforests exhibition
Project description and schedule
Consortium of the Americas tropical rainforests exhibition
Invoices - Draft model for organizations coordinating the TRF exhibition
Letter of presentation of project for customs clearance
Questionnaire and country coordinators letter, September 28, 1992
Post - Nuestros Bosques Activity
Bolivia (3 folders)
Bolivia - Final Reporting
Brazil (4 folders)
Brazil - Communications with Denise Hamu, 1992-1993
Brazil - UNCED Conference
Brazil - Exhibition invitations in Brazilian opening, June 6, 1992
Brazil - Invitations to Rio opening
Brazil - Final report
Costa Rica (2 folders)
Ecuador (2 folders)
Ecuador - Final reporting
Guatemala (Folder 1 of 3)
Box 5
Guatemala (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Guatemala - Final report
Mexico (2 folders)
Nicaragua (3 folders)
Panama (2 folders)
Panama - Final reporting
Peru - APECO
Peru (2 folders)
Venezuela (2 folders)
Venezuela - Final report
Colombian Exhibition Team
Exhibition team
Colombia
Colombia I
Colombia II
Colombia 2
Jorge Orejuela
Colombia miscellaneous communications
Museo del Oro
Lucia Teresa Rueda
USIS coordination of exhibit in Colombia
Itinerant exhibits regulation Gold Museum, Colombia
Correspondence - Teresa Rueda
Fabrication
Fabrication Contract
Contract amendment
Box 6
Contracts - Office arrangements
Second phase - Fabrication correspondence (2 folders)
Second phase - Subcontractors, subcontracts
Second phase - Fabrication budget
Contract amendments
Contract second phase - Fabrication "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia"
Fabrication Phase II - Stage II
Jorge Alberto Orjuela - Interventor
Fimdesa
Miguel Bromstein - Fotoletras
Exhibition team - Fabrication and budget
Fabrications specifications
Panel support system
Crates
Crate specs from Bogota
Crate drawings
Shipping - Crating
Request for shipping and air travel for exhibition, "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia"
Shipping agencies in Latin America
Exhibition insurance
Exhibition brochure
Logo
Exhibition poster and logo notes
Poster
Logo de la Exposicion
Planos de Montaje - Manual del Coordinator
Photographs for exhibition - Tropical Rainforests
Drawings - Mounting the diorama case
Colombia communications - Final productions stages
Production statement, July-August 1992
Final report - Production
On-Site Consultations
Rio prototype, May 1992
Photos and art
Script Review
Exhibition design review
Memos from James E. Sims (JES) about exhibition
Ana Maria Echeverri
Smithsonian's script review, January 6, 1992
El Bosque Tropical: Nuestra Herencia - Final version, December 1991
English version of script
Bill Overal - Review of exhibition script in Portuguese
Portuguese version of exhibition
Script review
Script review by international advisors / partners
Rainforest script - Review, etc.
Scripts
SI review script group
Response to Brazilian committee from exhibition team
Box 7
Script, September 1991
Script, October 1991
Script, November 1991
Script / Design, January 1992
Script / Design, Late January 1992
Colombia travel, January 1992
Trip to Colombia - Exhibition review, January 25-February 2, 1992
Agenda for Colombia, January 25-February 2, 1992
Script, February 1992
Bogota travel, March 1992
Trip to Bogota, March 2-5, 1992
Meeting notes - Bogota, by BJL
Bogota, March 3-7, 1992
Agenda - Final review of fabrication
Things to do - Bogota
Designs, March 1992
Script / Designs, June 1992
Latino Working Committee - Exhibition script translation
Colombia travel - Lemay, June 1992
Bogota meeting notes by BJL, June 16-19, 1992
Bogota - August 1992, LeMay and Cossu
Handbook Development
Exhibition handbook - "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia"
Exhibition handbook - "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia" - 1st draft
Manual de Coordinador - "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia" (3 folders)
ADM - Public Relations - Responses to requests for information
Notebooks, 1991-1993 (2 folders)
Box 8
Final report - MacArthur
Education programs
Resource book production costs
Newsletters, 1988-1991
Rainforest: Exploring Life on earth Summary of the Evaluation Project, 1989
Colombian proposal (English / Spanish)
Brazilian proposal (English)
Mexican proposal (Spanish)
MacArthur and Rockefeller Correspondence
Funding - Rockefeller
MacArthur
Rockefeller Fund - 165E2201
MacArthur Fund - 165F2800
MacArthur grant correspondence
Funding prospects
Other funding sources - Correspondence, proposals
Final Reports to Rockefeller and MacArthur
MacArthur - SITES Planning Grant - Final report
Final report - Rockefeller - Development Phase
Interim report to MacArthur for fabrication of exhibition
Final report - MacArthur Foundation - Production Phase
MacArthur Education programs - Final report
National Zoological Park Opening, April 1993
Zoo copy - Introductory panel
National Zoo copy of "Nuestros Bosques: Nuestra Herencia"
Exhibition opening - National Zoological Park, April 8, 1993
NZP - Exhibition copy
Public Service Announcement (PSA) and Introduction Video (Interlock)
PSA format for Latin America
Interlock Media Associates - Exhibition video
Interlock Media
PSA brochure text
Interlock Media contract forms
Interlock Media - Video I
Contract modifications for Interlock, April 1993
Interlock II
Interlock III
Box 9
Promotional Package
Jeanne Krohn - Contract amendment by BJL, April 1993
Krohn - Promo package
Financial and Miscellaneous Records
Budget - English and Spanish
Contracts
Contract modifications
Projected budget
Contracts office response to exhibition teams - Brazil and Mexico
Miscellaneous materials (2 folders)
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