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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 14-102

National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society

Curatorial Records, 1955-2004

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society
Title:Curatorial Records
Dates:1955-2004
Quantity:3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 14-102
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of the records of Jon B. Eklund, curator of chemistry and computers, which document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Science, Medicine and Society and during the years when he was in the Division of Information Technology and Society; the Division of Computers, Information and Society; and the Division of Physical Sciences. Also consists of the records of Audrey B. Davis, during the years she was a curator in the Division of Medical Sciences, and Patricia Peck Gossel, curator in the Division of Biological Sciences and later, when that division merged with Medical Sciences, in the Division of Science, Medicine and Society. Some of Gossel and Eklund's records date prior to their tenures, respectively, at the Smithsonian Institution, and when the National Museum of American History was known as the National Museum of History and Technology. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; meeting agendas and minutes; agreements; lecture papers, articles, and book reviews; collections management information; photographs; information in regard to conferences, symposiums, workshops, and committees; and newspaper clippings.

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This accession consists of the records of Jon B. Eklund, curator of chemistry and computers, which document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Science, Medicine and Society and during the years when he was in the Division of Information Technology and Society; the Division of Computers, Information and Society; and the Division of Physical Sciences. Also consists of the records of Audrey B. Davis, during the years she was a curator in the Division of Medical Sciences, and Patricia Peck Gossel, curator in the Division of Biological Sciences and later, when that division merged with Medical Sciences, in the Division of Science, Medicine and Society. Some of Gossel and Eklund's records date prior to their tenures, respectively, at the Smithsonian Institution, and when the National Museum of American History was known as the National Museum of History and Technology. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; meeting agendas and minutes; agreements; lecture papers, articles, and book reviews; collections management information; photographs; information in regard to conferences, symposiums, workshops, and committees; and newspaper clippings.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 14-102, National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society, Curatorial Records

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Container List

Box 1

Jon B. Eklund

Jon B. Eklund: Resume and Personal Information, 1971-1999

Box 1 of 3

Jon B. Eklund: Envelope Drawings

Box 1 of 3

Jon B. Eklund: Donation to the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1997

Box 1 of 3

Address to the American Chemical Society, 1978-1979

Box 1 of 3

Foucault Pendulum, 1988

Box 1 of 3

Paper Review: "The Reservisor: Communications and Computing in the Early Postwar Period," 1993

Box 1 of 3

The Smithsonian Associates, 1995

Box 1 of 3

Artifacts Workshop Lecture Paper

Box 1 of 3

Jon B. Eklund: General Correspondence, 1968-1995 (6 folders)

Box 1 of 3

Jacob J. Hagopian, 1990

Box 1 of 3

Phlogiston Theory Paper

Box 1 of 3

Whirlwind Objects, 1997

Box 1 of 3

Corps of Engineers Project, 1976-1977

Box 1 of 3

Possible Donations, 1985

Box 1 of 3

J. Harry Du Bois Company, 1976-1982

Box 1 of 3

Charles Goodyear, 1974-1976

Box 1 of 3

Electronics Technology and Computer Science (SHOT) Annual Meeting, 1986

Box 1 of 3

Leo H. Baekland Papers, 1989

Box 1 of 3

Charles Babbage Institute, 1988

Box 1 of 3

Gene Tepper, 1988

Box 1 of 3

Transition Working Group, 1995

Box 1 of 3

Computer Daily Newspaper, 1987

Box 1 of 3

General Electric Company, 1971-1972

Box 1 of 3

Lecture Paper regarding the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC)

Box 1 of 3

Cooper-Hewitt Museum Loans, 1980

Box 1 of 3

"Field to Factory" Exhibition Installation, 1987

Box 1 of 3

National Air and Space Museum (NASM)-Sloan New Liberal Arts Workshop, 1987

Box 1 of 3

American Chemical Society at Loyola College, 1980

Box 1 of 3

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Department of Chemistry, 1979-1980

Box 1 of 3

Society for Coatings Technology, 1978-1979

Box 1 of 3

Naval Research Laboratory Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1978

Box 1 of 3

A Note on Publications

Box 1 of 3

John McCaffrey, 1989

Box 1 of 3

The National Plastics Museum, Inc., 1984

Box 1 of 3

Resident Associate Program, 1983-1985

Box 1 of 3

The Computer Museum (Boston, Massachusetts), 1989

Box 1 of 3

Association of Graduate Training Programs in Conservation (AGTPC) Conference, 1994

Box 1 of 3

American Chemical Society, 1975-1993

Box 1 of 3

Research Pending Correspondence, 1973

Box 1 of 3

Cooperstown Graduate Programs, 1974-1975

Box 1 of 3

Surveying a Collection of Chemicals and/or Pharmaceuticals for Hazardous Materials

Box 1 of 3

Award Certificates and Official Documents, 1969-1994

Box 1 of 3

Museum Service Program Proposals, 1973-1981

Box 1 of 3

Ideas Contributed, Correspondence, 1977-1981

Box 1 of 3

National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), Office of the Director, 1973-1979

Box 1 of 3

Library Advisory Committee on History, 1968-1981

Box 1 of 3

Library Research, 1967-1968

Box 1 of 3

Washington History of Science Club, 1969-1970

Box 1 of 3

NMAH Curatorial Planning, 1977-1981

Box 1 of 3

Box 2

John B. Eklund: Memoranda, 1975-1993

Box 2 of 3

National Museum of Scotland, 1989

Box 2 of 3

History Project on the Microsoft Corporation

Box 2 of 3

Energy Management Program, 1982

Box 2 of 3

Electroplating Sample, 1975

Box 2 of 3

Robert Multhauf, 1968-1982

Box 2 of 3

The Center for History of Chemistry (CHOC), 1985-1986

Box 2 of 3

Optical Society of America, 1991

Box 2 of 3

American Association of Physics Teachers, 1985

Box 2 of 3

Development of the Personal Computer

Box 2 of 3

Jon Eklund: Publications, 1974-1992

Box 2 of 3

College Chemistry Notes: Organic and Thermo Dynamics, 1955-1958

Box 2 of 3

Professional Consultations and Requests, 1970-1985

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Lawrence Badash, 1965-1973

Box 2 of 3

John J. Beer, 1975-1978

Box 2 of 3

Daniel J. Boorstin, 1975

Box 2 of 3

Stephen G. Brush, 1973-1976

Box 2 of 3

Susan Faye (Walter F.) Cannon, 1965-1982

Box 2 of 3

Audrey B. Davis, 1969-1976

Box 2 of 3

Otto F. Dingeldein, 1978-1979

Box 2 of 3

Sidney Fine, 1976-1981

Box 2 of 3

Bernard S. Finn, 1967-1973, 1995

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Bruce B. Graves, 1976

Box 2 of 3

Diana Long Hall, 1979-1987

Box 2 of 3

John A. Hennings, 1974-1976

Box 2 of 3

Brooke Hindle, 1976-1984

Box 2 of 3

Stuart Pierson, c. 1969-1978

Box 2 of 3

Jack Pribram, 1964-1975

Box 2 of 3

Science Museum of London, 1979-1984

Box 2 of 3

Alan E. Shapiro, 1972-1978

Box 2 of 3

Ronald E. Zupko, 1974-1980

Box 2 of 3

Chemical Engineering and News, 1978-1979

Box 2 of 3

Syracuse University, 1974

Box 2 of 3

Cellulose Degradation, 1974

Box 2 of 3

University of Maryland, 1990

Box 2 of 3

University of South Carolina, 1990

Box 2 of 3

Lois F. Lunin, 1985-1986

Box 2 of 3

Armand G. Winfield, Inc., 1989-1990

Box 2 of 3

S. T. Greer Associates, Inc., 1994

Box 2 of 3

C. M. Boswell, 1969-1973

Box 2 of 3

Russell Bourne, 1979

Box 2 of 3

Robert Friedel, 1993

Box 2 of 3

Paul Forman, 1988

Box 2 of 3

NMAH Chemicals Policy, 1981-1982

Box 2 of 3

Division of Computers, Information and Society: Accountability Review, 1989

Box 2 of 3

Collections Management Accountability Plan (CMAP) Meeting, 1993

Box 2 of 3

Chemistry Collection Plan

Box 2 of 3

Ellen Baker Wells Memorial Service, 1995

Box 2 of 3

Curators' Association Meeting, 1984

Box 2 of 3

Museum Advisory Committee, 1979-1985

Box 2 of 3

Computer Collection Object Categories, 1997

Box 2 of 3

Division of Computers, Information and Society: Collection Plan, 1992

Box 2 of 3

Art and Science Exhibition Tour: Jon Eklund with Rosalynn Carter and Elena Ceausescu, April 1978

Box 2 of 3

Workshop on Artefacts and the History of Technology, 1996

Box 2 of 3

Seminar on Early Pyrotechnology, 1979

Box 2 of 3

NMAH Colloquiums, 1983-1986

Box 2 of 3

Ways of Knowing Seminar, c. 1990

Box 2 of 3

Box 3

Patricia Peck Gossel

Patricia Gossel: Resume and Personal Information, 1973-2004

Box 3 of 3

Louis Rosenfeld, 1987

Box 3 of 3

Fellowship, Division of Medical Sciences, 1982-1984

Box 3 of 3

Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, 1984

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: General Correspondence, 1988-2004 (2 folders)

Box 3 of 3

Hershel L. Herzog, 1991

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: "The Social Reception of the Birth Control Pill," 1993

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: "Controlling Human Nature," 1991

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: "Packaging the Pill," 1996

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: "By-Product of Practice: Accruing a Biology of Bacteria," 1994

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: "Bacteriology at Johns Hopkins, 1886-1923," 1997

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Patricia Gossel: "Leopold von Ranke," 1978

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Patricia Gossel: "The Influence of Tissue Culture Technique on the Work of Alexis Carrel and Warren and Margaret Lewis," 1979

Box 3 of 3

Robert Bud, 1997-1998

Box 3 of 3

Deborah Oakley, 1997

Box 3 of 3

Patient Compliance, 1997

Box 3 of 3

"Taking Precautions" Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia), 1997

Box 3 of 3

Lara Marks, 1997-2002

Box 3 of 3

Elizabeth Watkins, 1993-1997

Box 3 of 3

Award Certificates, 1991-2000

Box 3 of 3

Incoming Acknowledgment Letters, 1989-1997

Box 3 of 3

Women in Molecular Biology Conference, 1995

Box 3 of 3

Lecture at the District of Columbia Science Writers' Association, 1995

Box 3 of 3

The Oxford Companion to United States History, 2000

Box 3 of 3

Joel R. Cohen, American Public Health Association, 1997

Box 3 of 3

The Johns Hopkins University, 1985

Box 3 of 3

Journal of the History of Medicine, 1984-1985

Box 3 of 3

American National Biography, 1992-1997

Box 3 of 3

Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1993-1998

Box 3 of 3

Montana State University, 1973-1977

Box 3 of 3

Patricia Gossel: Donations to the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1992-1996

Box 3 of 3

Christiane Citron, 1969-1994

Box 3 of 3

American Society for Microbiology, 1998-1999

Box 3 of 3

Lemelson Center Proposals, 1996

Box 3 of 3

Jewish Museum Berlin, 2003

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Tylenol Conference, 2002

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Divisional Supervisor Meetings, 1991-1993

Box 3 of 3

Experimental Gallery Sciences Planning Meeting, 1990

Box 3 of 3

Audrey B. Davis

Audrey B. Davis: Personal Information, 1974

Box 3 of 3

Audrey B. Davis: General Correspondence, 1968-1974

Box 3 of 3

Lecture Paper: "Innovation in Dental Medicine: The Historian's Role"

Box 3 of 3

Audrey B. Davis: "Medicine in the Revolutionary Period," 1975

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Audrey B. Davis: "Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England, 1650-1680," 1970-1972

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Audrey B. Davis: "Magnesia Alba Before Black," 1972

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Audrey B. Davis: "Some Implications of the Circulatory Theory for Disease Theory and

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Treatment in the Seventeenth Century," 1971

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Audrey B. Davis: "The Emergence of American Dental Medicine"

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H. Lewis McKinney, 1971-1972

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Carolyn Treadgill, Coronado Press, 1972

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Doris Hastape (?): Oral History Interview Transcript

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Gordon Hubel and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972

Box 3 of 3

Charles Goodall

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Pagel Festschrift, 1971

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Newspaper Clippings, 1973

Box 3 of 3

Request for Rudolph Schindler Paper, 1972, 1985

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Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc.

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Facts on Prospective and Practicing Women in Medicine, 1968

Box 3 of 3

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