Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 89-079
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
Administrative Records, 1985-1988
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary |
Title: | Administrative Records |
Dates: | 1985-1988 |
Quantity: | 42.24 cu. ft. (40 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 tall document boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 89-079 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of correspondence, photographs, memoranda, and other material which document the activities of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Robert McCormick Adams, for FY 1986. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of correspondence, photographs, memoranda, and other material documenting the activities of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Robert McCormick Adams, primarily for FY 1986.
Listings in bold and capital letters indicate both the topic of folder contents and major subheadings from the Secretary's Office file plan.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 89-079, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records
Container List
Box 1
AWARDS: General (2 folders)
Brooks, Robert A.
Career service
Exceptional service
Fleming, Arthur S.
Getty prize
Henry Medal
Langley Medal
Marconi prize
National Air & Space Museum Trophy
National Medal of Science
Smithson, James (medal)
Smithson, James (Order of)
Sustained superior performance
Tyler
World Food Prize
COMMITTEES
Research Policy Committee
COMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE (2 folders)
Symposium/general
Women's Changing Roles in Museums
Canvas of Culture
Constitutional Roots, Rights & Responsibilities
Grass systematics and evolution
History of Information in American Society
Man and Beast Revisited
USA-USSR archaeological (1986) (2 folders)
CONSERVATION
Aldabra
Endangered species
Box 2
Endangered species/Marine Mammal Commission
Energy crisis
Galapagos Island
Tiger project
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MALL
Parking
EXHIBITS
After the Revolution: Everyday life in America, 1780-1800
Crossroads of continents
Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940
Her Own Proper Sphere: In the Progressive Era, 1890-1925
Information Revolution (IBM) (3 folders)
Insect Zoo
Made in America
Man Makes Culture Makes Man
Manhattan Project
Men and Women: Dressing the Part
United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Vatican
LECTURES
MUSEUMS (A-O)
Box 3
Museums (P-Z)
Regional museums
PROJECTS: Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
PUBLICATIONS
Directories
Publications (A-Z)
Publication distribution
Smithsonian Publications Council (SPC)
Smithsonian Year (SI annual report)
RESEARCH
VISITORS CENTER
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Executive Director (Hobbins)
Special Assistant to the Secretary (Couden)
UNDER SECRETARY
Audits and Investigations, Office of (2 folders)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION
Admission charge
Box 4
Airplane
Allocation of Space
Allocation of Space - Post Office/Trade Commission (International Trade Commission)
Announcements
Auto
Congressional Liaison, Office of (2 folders)
Congressional Liaison - Hearings (5 folders)
Contracts-grants-proposals
Grants (2 folders)
Proposals (3 folders)
Proposals - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Proposals - National Science Foundation (NSF) (2 folders)
Delegation of authority
Facilities Services, Office of (OFS)
Box 5
OFS Architectural History and Historic Preservation
OFS Design and Construction, Office of (ODC)
OFS ODC Quadrangle (5 folders)
OFS ODC Quadrangle/Haupt Garden
OFS Protection Services (Office of) OPS
OFS OPS emergency manual, Guidelines - National Museum of Natural History
OFS OPS emergency manual, Guidelines - National Museum of American History - Renwick Gallery
OFS OPS emergency manual, Guidelines - National Museum of American Art - Silver Hill
OFS OPS emergency manual, Guidelines - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
OFS Building plans/general
OFS Building plans/A&I Building
OFS Plant Services, Office of (OPLANTS)
OFS Horticulture, Office of
OFS Letterhead-stationery
OFS Management Analysis, Office of (MAO)
OFS Memorandums/heads of organizational units
OFS Office of Information Resource Management, OIRM (2 folders)
OFS Parking (2 folders)
Personnel Administration, Office of (2 folders)
Box 6
Personnel - American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Personnel - Combined Federal Campaign
Personnel - Consultant
Personnel - Employee Benefits, Office of
Personnel - Equal Employment Opportunity, EEO (5 folders)
Personnel - Women's Council
Personnel - Grievances and complaints
Personnel - Health and insurance
Personnel - Honorary appointments
Personnel - Honorary Appointments - Research associate (3 folders)
Personnel - Honorary Appointments - Senate of Scientists
Personnel - Leave (sabbatical)
Personnel - Pay & tenure
Personnel - Recruiting (3 folders)
Box 7
Personnel - Announcements (3 folders)
Personnel - Retirement (TIAA) plan
Personnel - Savings bonds
Senior Candidates
Personnel - Senior Candidates - Curator of Computers, Information and Society
Personnel - Senior Candidates - Director, Product Development and Licensing
Personnel - Senior Candidates - Director of Facility Services
Personnel - Senior Candidates - Senior Survey researcher
Personnel - Summer employment
Personnel - Supergrade
Personnel - Trust fund employees (private roll)
Personnel 201 (A to Z) (24 folders)
Box 8
Printing and Photographic Services, Office of (OPPS)
Procurement and Property Management, Office of (OPPM)
Programming and Budget Office (OPB)
FY 1986 (3 folders)
FY 1987 (3 folders)
FY 1988 (5 folders)
Hearings 1986 (2 folders)
Budget justifications to Office of Management and Budget (OMB), FY 1987
Budget justifications to Appropriations Committee, FY 1987
Box 9
OPB Hearings, 1987 (4 folders)
Safety program (2 folders)
SI seal
Staff bulletins
Travel Services, Office of
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR MUSEUMS (3 folders)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HISTORY AND ART
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Archives of American Art (AAA) (3 folders)
AAA Board of Trustees
Bicentennial of the Constitution
Center for Asian Art
Freer Gallery of Art
Freer - Visiting Committee
Box 10
Sackler Gallery of Art
Sackler - Visiting Committee
Conservation Analytical Lab (CAL) (2 folders)
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design & Decorative Arts (2 folders)
Cooper-Hewitt - Advisory Board
Cooper-Hewitt - Search committee
Exhibits Central, Office of (OEC)
Hirshhorn, Joseph Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG)
HMSG Board of Trustees
HMSG Nominating committee
Museum Support Center
National Air & Space Museum (NASM) (4 folders)
Box 11
NASM Children's Challenge Center for Space Science Education (2 folders)
NASM general (4 folders)
NASM Director search committee (2 folders)
NASM Dulles (2 folders)
NASM Enterprise
NASM Magazine
NASM Restaurant
NASM Special Events calendar
Box 12
NASM Visiting Committee
National Museum Act
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) (3 folders)
Commission on the NMAfA
National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board (NAFMAB)
National Museum of American Art (NMAA) (2 folders)
NMAA Commission
NMAA Renwick Gallery
NMAA - Renwick - Visiting craft committee
National Museum of American History (NMAH) (4 folders)
NMAH Advertising
NMAH Agriculture & Mining, Department of
NMAH Armed Forces History, Division of
NMAH Building plans
NMAH Cafeteria
Box 13
NMAH Community Life, Division of
NMAH Costumes and Furnishings, Division of
NMAH Domestic Life, Division of
NMAH Electricity and Nuclear Energy, Division of
NMAH Engineering and Industry, Division of
NMAH Exhibiting
NMAH Mechanisms, Division of
NMAH Medical Sciences, Division of
NMAH Musical Instruments, Division of
NMAH Numismatics, Division of
NMAH Photographic History, Division of
NMAH Political History, Division of
NMAH Philatelic Collection (Postal History, Division of)
NMAH Textiles, Division of
NMAH Transportation, Division of
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
NMNH Anthropology, Department of (SOA) (5 folders)
NMNH SOA Film archives
NMNH SOA Indians (folder and book)
NMNH SOA Indian reburial issue, briefing notebook (2 folders)
Box 14
NMNH SOA International Programs of the National Human Studies
NMNH Botany, Department of
NMNH Cafeteria (Associates Court)
NMNH Calendar
NMNH Entomology, Department of
NMNH Exhibiting
NMNH Invertebrate Zoology, Department of
NMNH Mineral Sciences, Department of
NMNH Paleobiology, Department of
NMNH Search committee
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology, Department of
NMNH Birds, Division of
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
NPG Commission
Registrar's Office
Registrar's Office - Council
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES) (Folders 1-2 of 4)
Box 15
SITES (Folders 3-4 of 4)
SITES Advisory Board
SITES Statue of Liberty
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH (2 folders)
Columbus Quincentennial (3 folders)
Council of American Overseas (Research Centers)
Dazzler
Henry, Joseph Papers
Man and the Biosphere Program
Mathias, Charles McC. Lab for Environmental Research
National Zoological Park (NZP) (3 folders)
Box 16
NZP Building plans
NZP Friends of (FONZ)
Office of Fellowships and Grants (OFG) (4 folders)
OFG Internship
OFG Search committee
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) (Folders 1-3 of 4)
Box 17
SERC (Folder 4 of 4)
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) (2 folders)
SIL Dibner Library
SIL Smithsonian International Exchange Service
Smithsonian Marine Station at Link Port
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
Office of the Committee for a Wider Audience (OCWA)
Academic Programs, Office of (OAP) - Docents
OAP Educational program
OAP Pan-institutional list
OAP Smithsonian Advisory Council on Education
OAP Universities/general (A-D)
Box 18
OAP Universities/general (E-Z)
OAP Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
OAP Folklife Programs, Office of
OAP Folklife Festival
Box 19
Office of Public Affairs (OPA)
OPA News clippings
OPA News service (2 folders)
OPA Press releases
OPA Research reports
OPA Science at the SI
OPA Search committee (OPA, director)
OPA Torch
Smithsonian Associates (SA)
SA Contributing membership (2 folders)
SA Donors
SA Patrons
SA Sponsoring
SA Supporting
SA Sustaining
SA Lecture and seminar program (2 folders)
SA Luncheon group
Box 20
SA Membership/general (A-Z)
SA Study tours
SA Women's Committee
SA Smithsonian Council (SI Council)
SA Smithsonian Press (SI Press) (2 folders)
SA Handbook of North American Birds
SA Handbook of North American Indians
SA Recordings
SA Regents Publication award program
Magazine/general (2 folders)
Box 21
Magazine - Article
Magazine - Horizons
Magazine - View from the Castle
Symposia and Seminars, Office of
Telecommunications, Office of (OTC)
OTC Center for Electronic & Film Media/search committee
OTC National Demonstration Lab for Interactive Educational Technologies
OTC Smithsonian World
OTC Buried Mirror
OTC University of the Air
OTC Visitors Information & Associates Reception Center (VIARC) (3 folders)
VIARC Visitors to the SI
VIARC Conducted tours
VIARC Surveys and reports
Box 22
TREASURER'S OFFICE (2 folders)
Accounting and Financial Services, Office of
Business Management, Office of
Business Management - Museum shops
Business Management - Restaurant concessions
Office of Facility Management and Planning
Financial System Functional Requirements Task Force
Funds - General
Funds - Angel, J. Lawrence Memorial Fund
Funds - Associates Exhibiting Fund
Funds - Erickson, Suzanne Liebers Memorial
Funds - Glennan-Webb-Seamans
Funds - Improvement of the Insect Collection
Funds - Korean Heritage
Funds - Latin American Archaeology
Funds - Pope, John A. (memorial)
Funds - Ramsey Fund
Funds - Research Opportunities Fund (ROF)
Funds - Rosewater, Joseph Fellowship
Funds - Seidell, Atherton Endowment
Funds - Silberglied, Robert E. Memorial
Funds - Smithson, James
Funds - Special Exhibition
Funds - Webb, James E.
Funds - Williston, Samuel Wendell Research Fund
Investment Policy Committee (Folders 1-3 of 5)
Box 23
Investment Policy Committee (Folders 4-5 of 5)
Office of Risk Management
South Africa Research Consortium
Scudder, Stevens & Clark
Trust funds - General
Collection Acquisition Program
Educational Outreach Program
Scholarly Studies Program
General Counsel (OGC)
OGC Agreements
OGC Smithsonian Gift (SI gift) (3 folders)
OGC Wills
Box 24
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Service and Protocol, Office of
Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program (2 folders)
SI Foreign Currency Program - Advisory Council
Special Events, Office of (3 folders)
Special Events - Invitation list (guest list)
Special Events - Menu
Special Events - Use of facilities
Office of Membership and Development (OMD) (2 folders)
OMD Credit cards
OMD Development Committee
OMD National Associates Board (3 folders)
OMD Smithsonian National Associates Program
OMD James Smithson Society (3 folders)
Box 25
OMD Smithsonian Resident Associates Program (2 folders)
Management Committee
Management Committee - Bureau Directors Meeting
Management Committee - Council of Education and Information Directors
Management Committee - Management Committee Meetings
Management Committee - Meeting Minutes
Management Committee - Science Bureau Directors' Meeting
SMITHSONIAN SECRETARIES
Secretary, Robert McCormick Adams (RMA)
Adams - Anthropology (4 folders)
Adams - Anthropology - SI Series in Archaeological Inquiry (2 folders)
Box 26
Adams - Appointments
Adams - Book
Adams - Book review
Adams - Clippings
Adams - Clubs and associations (A-Z)
Adams - Gifts
Adams - Honorary appointments and degrees
Adams - Interviews
Adams - Invitations (3 folders)
Adams - Meetings
Adams - Personnel
Adams - Christmas cards (2 folders)
Adams - Photos (2 folders)
Adams - Speech (3 folders)
Box 27
Adams - Trips
Adams - Written articles (2 folders)
Secretary Emeritus, S. Dillon Ripley (SDR)
Ripley - Book
Ripley - Honors
Ripley - Invitations
Ripley - Trips
Ripley - Trips - India
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
NGA Board of Trustees (3 folders)
NGA Finance Committee (2 folders)
NGA News release
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Box 28
Kennedy Center - Board of Trustees (5 folders)
Kennedy Center - Executive Committee
Kennedy Center - Fine Arts Accession Committee
Kennedy Center - Friends of
Kennedy Center - Nominating Committee
FEDERAL AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, COUNCILS AND DEPARTMENTS
Agriculture, Department of
Commerce, Department of
Commission for the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
Defense, Army & Air Force, Department of
DC Government
Education, Department of
Eisenhower, Dwight David, Commission
Energy, Department of
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal City Council
Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities (FCAH)
General Accounting Office - Comptroller (GAO)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Health & Human Services, Department of (HHS)
National Institutes of Health
Interior, Department of
Interior - Advisory Council on Historical Preservation (Folders 1-2 of 7)
Box 29
Interior - Advisory Council on Historical Preservation (Folders 3-7 of 7)
National Park Service
Justice, Department of
King, Martin L. (Federal Holiday Commission)
Labor, Department of
Librarian of Congress
Merit System Protection Board
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Archives
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Endowment for the Arts (3 folders)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
OMB Bulletins
OMB Circulars
Office of Personnel Management
Box 30
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp.
State, Department of
United States Information Agency (USIA)
United States Postal Service
White House
White House - Peace Corps
White House - President's Commission on Arts and Humanities
White House Historical Association
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) (5 folders)
WWICS Board of Trustees
WWICS Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Box 31
PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science (7 folders)
American Association of Museums (AAM)
American Council of Learned Societies
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies
American Oriental Society
American Philosophical Society
American Research Center in Egypt
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
American Schools of Oriental Research
American Society for Information Science
American Studies Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Association of American Universities (3 folders)
Box 32
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
Brookings Institution
Business Committee for the Arts Inc.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Consortium of Social Science Associations
Council on Foreign Relations
Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Cultural Survival Inc.
DC Preservation League
Dumbarton Oaks
Foundations (A-H)
Box 33
Foundations (I-Z)
History of Science Society (HSS)
Incorporated Research Institutions of Seismology (IRIS)
Institute of Museum Services
International Research & Exchanges Board (Irex) (2 folders)
Box 34
Joint Center for Political Studies, Inc. (3 folders)
Middle East Institute
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (6 folders)
National Sciences Resources Center (NSRC)
NSRC Advisory Board
Box 35
National Geographic Society (NGS)
Santa Fe Institute (2 folders)
School of American Research
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (2 folders)
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2 folders)
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for History in the Federal Government
Society of Professional Archaeologists
United States Capitol Historical Society
Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists
Washington Consortium of Universities
World Resource Institute
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR)
Commonwealth Science Council
International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP)
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
International Wild Waterfowl Association Inc.
Sumerian Agriculture Group
UNESCO
United Nations
World Wildlife Fund
Directorate of International Activities (2 folders)
Box 36
COUNTRIES (BY NAME)
Africa
Algiers
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Beirut
Belize
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burma
Cameroon
Canada
Central America
Ceylon
Chile
China
Colombia
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
England
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India (2 folders)
India - Festival of India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq (2 folders)
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Korea
Kuwait
Box 37
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mexico
Monaco
Morocco
Nepal
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Puerto Rico
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Siberia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Uruguay
USSR
Venezuela
West Germany
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Miscellaneous (A-V)
Box 38
Miscellaneous (W-Z)
REGENTS
Ad hoc Committee on Museum Admissions
Audit & Review Committee
Dinner
Executive Committee
Meetings - January 27, 1986
Meetings - May 5, 1986
Meetings - September 15, 1986
Meetings - January 26, 1987
Membership
Newsletter
Nominating Committee
Personnel Committee
CONGRESSMEN - SENATORS (Not Re-elected to 101st Congress)
Chiles, Lawton
Evans, Daniel J.
Hecht, Chic
Jeffries, Jim
Melcher, John
Proxmire, William
Quayle, Dan
Stafford, Robert T.
Stennis, John C.
Trible, Paul S., Jr.
Weicker, Lowell P., Jr.
CONGRESSMEN - REPRESENTATIVES (Not Re-elected to 101st Congress)
Badham, Robert E.
Biaggi, Mario
Boland, Edward P.
Boner, William Hill
Bonker, Don
Burton, Sala
Chappell, Bill, Jr.
Daniel, Dan
Daub, Hal
Gray, Kenneth J.
Gregg, Judd
Jones, Ed
Kemp, Jack F.
Latta, Delbert L.
Lowry, Mike
Lujan, Daniel, Jr.
Box 39
Lungren, Dan
Mackay, Buddy
McKinney, Stewart B.
Mica, Dan
Nichols, Bill
Price, Melvin
Rodino, Peter W., Jr.
Roemer, Buddy
Rudge, Thomas J.
Stratton, Samuel S.
Sunia, Fofo I. F.
Swindall, Pat
Taylor, Gene
Wortley, George
Zorinsky, Edward
Box 40
Card index, 1986, AAL-BOY
Card index, 1986, BRA-DEX
Card index, 1986, DIA-GAV
Card index, 1986, GAY-HUM
Box 41
Card index, 1986, HUN-LEV
Card index, 1986, LEW-MYE
Card index, 1986, NAD-ROB
Card index, 1986, ROC-SPO
Box 42
Card index, 1986, SPR-WIB
Card index, 1986, WIC-ZWI
Box 43
Computer print-out index, 1986, 1-3664, A-Z
Computer index, 1986, alphanumeric, September 15, 1986 to December 31, 1986
Box 44
Computer index, 1986, alphabetic listing, January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1987
Computer index, 1986, numeric listing, January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1987
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