Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 95-164
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Registrar
Exhibition Records, 1981-1991
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the files created by the Office of the Registrar in the course of their work on fifteen exhibitions shown between 1982 and 1991, including Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States, on view from January through July 1985; Charles Willson Peale and His World, November 1982 through January 1983; Miguel Covarrubias: Caricatures, November 1984 through January 1985; A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, April through September 1985; William Edward West, 1788-1857: Kentucky Painter, April through June 1985; Joseph Wright: American Artist, February through June 1985; and U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image, July through November 1985.
The files include information about the transport of objects, such as insurance documents and bills of lading; facilities and condition reports and photographs; object checklists and photographs; documentation of security arrangements; and information on the development of the catalogue.
The bulk of the records consist of lender files containing loan agreements, memoranda, object photographs, and correspondence between the museum and the lender.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionBox 6 restricted indefinitely; see finding aid; Transferring office; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Baseball Immortals: The Photographs of Charles Martin Conlon, 1905-1935 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982-1983) Washington, D.C.)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Centennial (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Eric Knight and Lassie (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Gentleman from Indiana: Booth Tarkington, 1869-1949 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Joseph Wright: American Artist, 1756-1793 (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Metropolitan Opera Centennial: A Photographic Album (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits by Brady: Imperial Photographs from the Harvard College Library (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Studies from Life: Portrait Photogrphs by Julia Margaret Cameron from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- William Edward West, 1788-1857: Kentucky Painter (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Wright, Joseph, 1756-1793
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-164, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Registrar, Exhibition Records