Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 07-135
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
Exhibition Records, circa 1984-2004
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service |
| Title: | Exhibition Records |
| Dates: | circa 1984-2004 |
| Quantity: | 11.69 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box) |
| Collection: | Accession 07-135 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of records that document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. The records are arranged by exhibition title, followed by the exhibition ID number and the dates of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes, audio cassettes, and other related records. Some materials are in electronic format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. The records are arranged by exhibition title, followed by the exhibition ID number and the dates of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes, audio cassettes, and other related records. Some materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Art As Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1994)
- Earth 2U, Exploring Geography (I and II) (Traveling exhibition) (1995-2003)
- Fragile Ecologies: Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1995)
- The Long Road Up the Hill: Blacks in Congress, 1870-1983 (Traveling exhibition) (1985-1996)
- Saynday was Coming Along: Drawings by Silverhorn (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1996)
- Seeds of Change (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1995)
- Barn Again! (Traveling exhibition) (1996)
- Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2004)
- Star Wars: The Art of the Starfighter (Naboo) (Traveling exhibition) (2001-2002)
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2003)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 07-135, Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe (663), 1/1992-10/1994
Loans
Barn Again! (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - SITES version), 1996
Barn Again
Earth 2U: Exploring Geography (125, 126, 607, 799), 11/1995-8/2003
Graphics Text
Curriculum Guide
General Information
Exhibits
Landscapes & Landshapes
Displays
Proposal - Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, 1994 (2 folders)
Proposal - EXPLUS Incorporated, 1995
Dispersal
Collector Cards
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Letter of Agreement
Sending Earth 2U Trunks
Bird Sales
Activity Guide, Front Cover
Photo Document
Script II
Master Document II
Repairs, Earth 2U I
Activity Guide
Earth 2U, Exploring Geography - Version I
A Guide to Earth 2U, Versions I and II
A Guide to Earth 2U, Installation
Box 2
Installation Photographs
Installation Instructions
700 Population
800 Landscapes & Landshapes
200 Exploration and Adventure
500 Everyday Things
600 Forces of Nature
300 Tools and Techniques
Donation - Palm Beach, 2003
Earth 2U
Activity Trunk Guide
Crates
Photographs - Master List
ADMAT, Version II
Master Document, Large
Hubble and Earth 2U - Expense Reports, FY 2002
Photographer List - Non-NGS
Refurbishment Changes
PVI - Refurbishment Issues
PVI - Local Information
Proto Vision, 2/27-28/2001
Replacements
Hubble Photographs
Repairs, Earth 2U II
Last Photographers
Master Document - Saginaw, February 2002
Stamping Stations - Saginaw, February 2002
Landscapes & Landshapes - Saginaw, February 2002
Passport Kiosk, Entry Postcards - Saginaw, February 2002
Population - Saginaw
Everyday Things - Saginaw
Expense Report 2002, New Request 2003
Disposition of Crates
Permissions
Cooke, Richard A., III
Payment Problems
Photographer Lists
Earth 2U I, Palm Beach, Florida, 2001
Master Document I
Script I
Photographs and Slides
Replacements - Garbage Photographs
Garbage
British Library, London
National Geographic Society (NGS) Photo Lab
Budget - Extension
Proto Vision Amendment
Invoices - Proto Vision, 2001
Budget - Spending, FY2002
Ralph Roenbeck, 2002
Dan Lloyd
Uncharted Territories
Box 3
Photographs - Complete
Loren McIntyre
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio - Naval Museum, Pigli
Alexandra David-Neel Foundation
Joel Satore
Maps
Photographs - Miscellaneous
Photograph Replacement (2 folders)
Concept Layouts
Photographs - Water Video
Photographs
Close-Out Package, EXPLUS Incorporated (2 folders)
Slides - Introduction/Tools and Techniques/Crossroads
Slides - Everyday Things
Slides - Landscapes & Landshapes/Forces of Nature/Population/Trunk, Workshops
Slides - Miscellaneous, Drawings
Slides - Miscellaneous, Drawings/SITES Originals
Thank You Cards
Public Relations - Contacts, 1999
Public Relations - Contacts
Public Relations - Printed Materials
Public Relations - Newspaper Clippings, Virginia Museum of Natural History
Public Relations - Background
Public Relations - Miscellaneous
Public Relations - Where in the World?
Public Relations - Photographs (2 folders)
Box 4
Earth 2U Information
Installation Manual, Version 1.0: Exhibits
Installation Manual, Version 2.0: Exhibits
Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe (22, 47, 02), 8/2000-8/2004
Drawings and Brochure
Star Wars: The Art of the Starfighter (Naboo) (108) (Public Relations files only), 04/2001-09/2002
Public Relations Materials
Box 5
Earth 2U: Exploring Geography (125, 126, 607, 799), 11/1995-8/2003
Public Relations - Silver Dollar City
Public Relations - General
Public Relations - Pictures, Slide, Negatives
Public Relations - Miscellaneous
Public Relations - Background
Public Relations - CD-Rom
Public Relations - Earth 2U
Public Relations - Photographs, Publicity Guidelines
Public Relations - Photographs, Receipts
Public Relations - Earth 2U
Public Relations - Things to Return to SITES
Public Relations - Slides and Photographs
Public Relations - Miscellaneous
Public Relations - Press Included in 1996 End of Year Report
Public Relations - Press Clippings, 2000-2002
Public Relations - DC Premier, 1995
Public Relations - Video Duplicating
Public Relations - Press Clippings, West Virginia
Public Relations - Contacts
Public Relations - Press Clippings
Spending Plan, 2003
Fragile Ecologies: Artists' Interpretations and Solutions (595), 9/1992-1/1995
Loans
Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe (22, 47, 02), 8/2000-8/2004
Proto Vision Layouts, Proposals, Reconfiguration, 8/2002
Proto Vision Reconfiguration - Huntsville and Minnestrista
Reconfiguration - Budget, 8/2002
Reconfiguration - Itinerary, 8/2002
Bulbs
Box 6
Budget/Spending, FY 2002
Proto Vision Reconfiguration, July 22, 2002
Virginia Air and Space, Hampton, 10/2002
Reconfiguration Meeting, 9/30/2002
Reconfiguration - STScI, 8/2002
Lighting
Kennedy Space Center
Universe 700 A-H
Current and Future 800 A-B
Proto Vision Schedules
Planets 400 A-F
Stars 500 A-H
Galaxies 600 A-H
Operations 303 A-D
Servicing/Upgrade 304 A-E
What is HST 301 A-E
History of HST 302 A-B
Scale Model 300
Don Dixon
Small Version Sign-Off, 8/22/2000
Skolnick Travel Invoices, 1998-2000
Steve Stankiewicz
Illustrations
Video and Interactives RFP, 4/1999
STScI Exhibition Tagging
Meeting Minutes, 1998
Version II, Master Document
Funding, 1998
Photograph Invoices
Photograph R&R
Photographs Borrowed
Education Flyer
New Registrar, 3/2003
Ralph Roenbeck, 2002
Shipping, 3/2003
Dispersal, Hubble I
Boxes - Dan Lloyd
Earth 2U and Hubble Spending Plan, 2003
Trunks Designer
Trunks Budget
Trunks Organizer
10th Anniversary
Women's Committee Poster
Educational Programs/Trunk
Large Version Punch List
Batwin + Robin
Entry Tunnel
Fly Through
Tools Credit Lines
Interactives Timeline
Chedd Angier Review, November 22
Chedd Angier Email
Interactives
Chedd Angier Project
Imaging Software
Post 6/3/2000 Opening Questions
Proto Vision Overtime
Rhinocore
Graphic Panel Review
Jackson and Tull, Model
Trunks Organizer, 1999
Working Budget/LAG
Opening, NASM
Letter of Understanding
Production, 2000
Box 7
Letter of Agreement, 4/15/1998
Book Proposal
Advisory Committee Meeting, 7/24/1998
Women's Committee
Marketing
Logo
Carla Hall
Organization, 4/2000-11/2000
Organization, 1/2000-3/2000
BrushMarks, 8/1997
Goddard
Report
Organizer, 1998
Organizer, 1999
Organizer I, 7/1997
Proto Vision Invoices
Proto Vision, 1999
10th Anniversary
Models
Artifacts, 3/1998
Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) Production Meeting
Version I, Master Document
Proto Vision, Small Version
Proto Vision Travel, 9/21/1999
Proto Vision Kick-Off, 11/4
Proto Vision Email
Earth 2U: Exploring Geography (125, 126, 607, 799), 11/1995-8/2003
Bettendorf, 4/3-4/1998
Kalamazoo
Alaska
New Vision
Branson, 4/21-22
Branson, 8/1998
Branson/Bettendorf, 3/1997
Utah, 5/22/1999-9/19/1999
Bettendorf, 3/4/1998
Seattle, 1998
Branson/Los Angeles
Box 8
Branson Installation, 4/1998
Los Angeles Science Center, 7/1998
Little Rock, 10/15/1999
Cleveland
Chicago/Letter
Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe (22, 47, 02), 8/2000-8/2004
Introduction 100
Entry Tunnel 200
Version I, Budget Final, 1998
North Carolina, 2001
Hubble II, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Fabrication RFP, Evaluation, 9/1999
Budget, 7/1997
Huntsville, Alabama, 8/2002
Kansas City/302 Fire Damage
302 Damage
Secondary Mirror, NASM
Bettendorf, 2001
Kansas City, Union Station, Hubble I
Sioux Falls
Saginaw Opening, 9/8/2000
Springfield
AAM Design Competition, 2001
Proto Vision Cost Overrun
Evaluation
Illustrations - Skolnick Art/Direction, 9/1999
Illustration - Don Dixon, 9/1999
Element One, 3/2000
Video
Illustrations
Fabrication RFP
Threads - Caps
Maintenance
Design RFP, 7/1997
Design Concept, 4/15/1998
Review RFP, 10/14/1997
Richard Maurer
Box 9
Budget
Letter of Agreement
Contract Amendments - LOA, STScI
Skolnick Accounting/Contracts
Value Engineering
Models
Fabrication RFP
Fabrication
Contracts
Project Plan
National Science Standards
Videos
Interactives
Activity Descriptions
Entry Tunnel
Interactives RFP
Software Development
Maryland Science Center
Jackson and Tull
Lockheed
Sponsor Meeting
Women's Committee
Hubble Rendering
Memos
Graphics Review
Brochure
Public Relations
Production
Crates
Trunk Items
Book
Trackman - Editor
Dean's Invoices
700 and 800
600
500
301
400
300-800
Hubble D. Material
Graphics, 1-00
Skolnick and STScI Email
Goddard Comments
Glove Box, 12/1998
Installation Guide
Credit Panel
Draft 4 - Label Copy
Hubble Label Copy
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 2001
Proto Vision - Repairs, Version I, 3/2003
Design - Contract
Slides and Photographs
Cone Activity/Star Cluster Activity - Evaluation, 11/1998
Black Holes Activity/Galaxy Distances Activity, 11/1998
Geography Alliance
Above the Atmosphere - Evaluation, 11/1998
Slides
Script I
Box 10
Script II
Master Document (Large)
Master Document (Small)
General Exhibit Information
Hubble Binder Information
Large Version - Installation, Disassembly, and Maintenance Manual (2 folders)
(The) Long Road Up the Hill: African-Americans in Congress, 1870-1983/90 (275/659), 12/1985-4/1989, 10/1991-11/1996
Exhibition Script, 1994
Saynday Was Coming Along: Drawings by Silverhorn (698), 4/1992-6/1996
Loan Agreements
Seeds of Change (693, 709), 1/1992-12/1993, 3/1994-11/1995
Seeds of Change
709 SITES Version - Shipping
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (058) (Public Relations files only), 09/1999-02/2003
The Field - Correspondence and Notes
Field Museum Opening - Notes
Field Museum Briefing Book
The Field - Press Kit
The Field Museum - Educational Materials
Video Education Surveys
The Field - Symposium, December 9
Clippings, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) - Notes and Correspondence
Clippings, Houston
Houston - Enron
Toledo Museum of Art - Correspondence and Notes
Clipping, Toledo
Toledo Press Materials
Box 11
Brooklyn Kick-Off Meeting
Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA) - Opening Agenda and Information
Clippings, Brooklyn Museum of Art
BMA - Correspondence and Notes
BMA - Press Materials
Powerhouse - Correspondence and Notes (2 folders)
Powerhouse - Education
Teacher's Night Packet
Powerhouse - Materials
Powerhouse - Marketing
Clippings, Powerhouse
Clippings, General
Press - Film
Star Wars: The Art of the Starfighter (Naboo) (108) (Public Relations files only), 04/2001-09/2002
Background
Exhibit Specifications
PSA Script
Family Day Postcards
Invite List - Family Day, 4/28/2001
Video Monitoring Services (VMS)
Exhibit Script
Bills
Naboo
Public Relations Kits
Thank Yous
Extra Naboo CDs
Contacts
Chabot Space and Science Center
Mid-America Science Museum
Indianapolis
Clippings
Naboo Starfighter
Box 12
Torch Article
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (058) (Public Relations files only), 09/1999-02/2003
National Release
The Art of Star Wars Press Kit
Admat Sample
Audio Tour Script
Background - Marketing Piece
Groff Creative Press Kits
Script - Exhibitions
PSA - Mark Brush Contract
Letterhead, National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Clippings, NASM
Museums Washington
Press Correspondence
Sponsorship
Event Network
Lucasfilm Documentary
Slides, Transparencies, and Photographs
Attendance Figures
Lucasfilm Contract
Fairfax Distance Learning #1
Fairfax Distance Learning #2
Releases - Fairfax
Fairfax Distance Learning Curriculum Guide
San Diego - National Tour Launch
San Diego - Correspondence and Notes
San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) Opening Events
San Diego Opening - Images
San Diego Press Kit
San Diego - Press Clippings and Advertisements
Clippings, San Diego
Minneapolis - Correspondence and Notes
Clippings, Minneapolis
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