Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 17-299
National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
Exhibition Records, 1921-1922, 1947, 1956-1986
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: | National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1921-1922, 1947, 1956-1986 |
Quantity: | 5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Accession 17-299 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records that document the research, planning, and execution of exhibits by the Department of the History of Science and Technology. Exhibits include the Hall of Petroleum, the Hall of Iron and Steel, and "Inventing Standard Time." Some of the materials date to when the department was known as the Division of Industrial Cooperation, Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries, Division of Mineral Technology, Department of Arts and Manufactures, Division of Extractive Industries; and when the museum was known as the Museum of History and Technology, the National Museum of History and Technology and when it was part of the United States National Museum. Staff documented include Philip W. Bishop, Head Curator; Edward C. Kendall, Curator; Charles O. Houston, Associate Curator; and Carlene E. Stephens, Assistant Curator. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, label text, scripts, images, diagrams, floor plans, maps, drawings, and clippings. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the research, planning, and execution of exhibits by the Department of the History of Science and Technology. Exhibits include the Hall of Petroleum, the Hall of Iron and Steel, and Inventing Standard Time. Some of the materials date to when the department was known as the Division of Industrial Cooperation, Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries, Division of Mineral Technology, Department of Arts and Manufactures, Division of Extractive Industries; and when the museum was known as the Museum of History and Technology, the National Museum of History and Technology and when it was part of the United States National Museum. Staff documented include Philip W. Bishop, Head Curator; Edward C. Kendall, Curator; Charles O. Houston, Associate Curator; and Carlene E. Stephens, Assistant Curator. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, label text, scripts, images, diagrams, floor plans, maps, drawings, and clippings.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Bishop, Philip W.
- Houston, Charles O. (Charles Orville), 1918-2001
- Inventing Standard Time (Exhibition) (1983-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Kendall, Edward C.
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Industrial Cooperation
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Iron and Steel
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Petroleum
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Department of Arts and Manufactures
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
- Stephens, Carlene E., 1949-
- United States National Museum.$ b Department of Mineral Technology
Subject
- Iron
- Iron industry and trade
- Museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Petroleum
- Petroleum industry and trade
- Steel
- Steel industry and trade
- Time -- Systems and standards
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-299, National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Hall of Petroleum, June 28, 1967-1978
Petro: Photo of Ernestine Adams - Oil Women of Year and Biography from The Petro Engineer Publishing Company, 1976
Air Hammer Drilling (mission), 1960-1962
Air heads for pumping wells, 1966
Petro: Alyeska Pipeline - Slide presentation - Set no. 18
Petro: Alaskan Pipeline - Bibliography, 1975-1977
Petro: American Gas Association, 1958-1960
Petro: American Petroleum Institute (API) - Photos and slides captions, 1978
Petro: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1979
4.2.3 - Crude and product pipeline system maps, 1958
4.2.4 - Product pipelines underground storage maps, 1959, 1961
4.2.2 - Natural gas pipeline system maps, 1959-1962
1-2b Location of Ancient Seas, 1947, 1956
Petro: API Subcommittee on Smithsonian exhibition [Petro Hall] and Teacher's Guide, 1963
6-2 Artificial Lift 2.1.22, 1962
Petro: Arkansas Pine Prairie Oil Company, 1918
Asphalt (Institute) 5.2.9, 1957-1960
2 Oil in Antiquity 6.1.1.7, 1958
Baker Oil Tools, Inc. 6.2.1.18, 1961-1962
2-1a Bamberg Torsion Balance 1926, 1961-1964
Bankston, Gordon D. (Illustrator) 8.1.2, 1962-1963, 1970
Professor Bender - Earl E. Volcano Oil Field 6.1.1.9, 1960
Blaustein, Jacob - Horse drawn tank wagon 4.1.7, 1967-1968
Petroleum Booklet and Pamphlet Sales 8.2.4, 1967-1972
Bottom Hole Pressure Survey Tomball Field 6.1.3.33
Brown Oil Tools, Inc. 7.2.1.3, 1961-1962
Petro: Cheese Box Still, 1959-1960
3.5 Conservation 1.4.5, 1963-1966
5-4 Casing Perforating Methods 2.1.33, 1964-1966
5-1 Cementing Methods 2.1.37, 1962-1967
Corsicana Rig, 1959-1967
Petroleum: Corsicana Rig - Negative no. 61045-E
Petrol Derby Oil
Desk and Derrick Club 8.2.13, 1961-1976
Section 1 - The Finding of Oil - Design: Off Shore Drilling Structures 6.2.1.23
Design & Production Incorporated, 1959-1970
Petro Diagram - Sequence Oil Production Display (Schematic), 1963
Petro: Division of Research and Statistics of the API, 1919
Doll, H. G. Papers 6.1.1.17, 1966-1967
Petroleum Hall Donors, 1971-1972
Central Power Pumping Installations, 1965-1969
4-11a R. G. LeTourneau, Inc. 2.1.31, 1965-1968
Petroleum La Brea - Site of Recovery of Tap Pots - Photographs, 1959-1960
Petroleum - The First Female Petroleum Landman - Mrs. Gloria Knox - The Landman, August 1966
Kobe Pump 2.2.7, 1967
3-1a Kinds of Petroleum 7.2.5.1, 1962-1966
Petroleum: Kearsy & Co. Oil Production, 1979
10-4 Kerosene Dispense 5.2.10, 1966-1967
X-E Modern Kerosene Lamp 5.2.7, 1966
Kentucky Oil Fields (Map) 6.1.1.10, 1922
S. M. Jones Company 6.2.1.9, 1965
Jersey Production Research Co. Wall Mural Illustrating 1.2.15, 1962
1.3.21 Schmidt Magnetometer Magnetic Maps, 1964
6.1.1.8 Jersey Production Research Co. (One Hundred Years of Oil Geology), 1961
Petroleum Jennings Rig - Photographs, 7.2.3.35, 1961-1964
Invitations to Petroleum Hall Opening 8.2.6
Museum of Science and Industry 8.1.5, 1967
8-9 Inter-Refinery Pipe Lines for Chemicals Houston, 1966-1968
Immel Fishing Tool Co. 2.1.49, 1965-1967
Petroleum - Humphreys-Jones Gusher, Texas - Photograph, 1922
Humble Subsurface Pressure Gauge, 6.1.3.28
6.1.3.25 Aerial Photograph Avery Island
Humble Chamber of Commerce (Texas), 1960
Presentation on the Northwest Passage and film of the S. S. Manhattan, Humble Oil and Refining Company presentation, 6.4.3.10, 1970-1971
Hughes Tool Company 8.1.10, 1964-1969
Petroleum: Mass Sensor (see Photo folder) Hughes Aircraft Co., 1968
Scott, Floyd L. (Hughes Bits) 6.2.1.26, 1968-1969
Hughes Tool Company 2.1.46, 1961-1966
History and Development of Products Pipe Lines, 1957-1962
Hamil, Mr. Curtis Gill Spindle top drilling 7.2.3.15, 1959
Early Rotary Rig 6.2.1.3, 1965
Harner, Mr. George L. 5.2.4, 1965
Hall of Petroleum Specifications, 1959-1967
Petroleum: Oil Pollution, 1968
Petroleum map of the United States, 1960-1961
Petroleum oil equipment - James B. Stevenson 6.2.1.2, 1966
Offshore drilling and map, 1958
Offshore drilling - Notes, Phillip W. Bishop
Petroleum - Lighting - Kerosene, 1972
Offshore drilling platform - World's largest, 1959
National Oil Jobbers' Council 8.2.9, 1967
National Supply Division of Armco Steel 6.2.1.13, 1961
5.2.11 Natural Gas Industry - General reference article, 1965
Natural Gas - Production of and distribution
General Manufacturing - Natural Gas 3.3.8
9-1 Natural Gas 6.5.1.2, 1963-1966
9-2 Natural Gas and Petrochemicals 6.5.1.1, 1961-1970
Petroleum: Power from oil by John A. Secor
New Indria Mining and Chemical Company, 1968
Nash Dome Texas 1.1.8, 1963-1964
Petroleum: Project Mohole's Drilling, 1961-1976
Box 2
Pope's Well - U. S. Army Pecos River Valley, 1966-1970
East Texas Museum at Kilgore College
Petroleum: Duo-Sol pilot plant - The Milwhite Company, 1980
Mid-Continent Oil Museum - Gene W. Williams 8.1.4, 1968
Microscopic Behavior of Fluids in Porous Matrices 6.1.1.6, 1962
Memos Petroleum script and layouts 8.2.3, 1966-1967
Major U. S. Oil Basins - Map, 1960
McMurry Oil Tool Specialists, Inc., 1966
4-14 Lighting the Rig (Oil Well Supply Co.) 2.1.45, 1962
4-13 Lighting the Rig 7.2.2.4, 1962-1967
3.4.1 Petroleum Crude Refinery Capacity - U. S. Canada, 1966
Opening of Petroleum Hall Press Clippings and Articles 8.2.5, 1960-1967
Petroleum General Files, 1972, 1976, 1981
Petroleum Hall Removal, 1978
Petroleum Hall Material, 1977-1980
Petroleum mural - Identification lists, 1968
Hall of Petroleum - List of Invitees, 1967
Hall of Petroleum - Donor List
Raul de la Pena - Artist/engineer
Oil well fire - Fox-Bush Field, Butler County, Kansas, 1921
Oil Well Supply Division, 1959
Petroleum Oil Well Driller (History of the Hoodoo Well) 7.2.1.6, 1969
3. Oil from Salt Wells 2.1.7, 1958
6.3.3.7 Refinery Plot Plan Views and diagrams, 1958
National Petroleum Council (NPC) Preview Invitation List 8.2.12, 1967, 1971
6.4.1.1 Miscellaneous Historical clippings, 1922, 1964-1967
Platformer - Universal Oil Products 3.3.1.1, 1957-1960
1-5 Photogeology 1.2.12, 1964-1967
Polymerization 3.2.4, 1957
3.2a Permeability and Porosity 1.1.6, 1964
Petroleum Industry Bibliography 8.1.6, 1957-1959
American Petroleum Institute 8.2.10, 1961-1972
Petroleum Hall Pamphlet 8.2.4, 1968-1970
Pan American Petroleum Corp. 6.2.1.19 Primary Recovery Amoco Air Production, 1962, 1966
List of photographs on file
Production Operations Task Force - Exhibition sketch, 1957
6-7 Plunger Lift 2.1.20, 1962-1970
3-3 Pressure and Temperatures 1.2.5, 1965-1966
Polymerization process - Oil products, 1957
Standard Oil of Indiana - Dr. Heard's "Fire Magic Show" script
Hall of Petroleum - Object list and other documents, 1977
Hall of Petroleum - A catalog of the exhibits, 1967
Schlumberger Well Services 2.1.8, 1970-1971
Model of the salt dome provinces of the Gulf Coast States
8. Rotary Drilling, 1958
3-2c Reservoir Energy 6.2.1.22, 1962-1970
Division of Research and Statistics of the American Petroleum Institute, 1919
Estimates of Oil Reserves 1908
Gulf Research and Development Company 1.2.7, 1964
2-1 Geophysical Methods Gravity 6.2.1.24, 1966
Rotary Drilling Rig circa 1920 2.3.47, 1964
Hall of Petroleum - Exhibition script, 1966 (2 folders)
Hall of Petroleum - General, 1966-1967
Oil Shale Corporation, 1958
Shattuck, R. C. 6.2.1.8, 1961
Shell Development Company - Exploration, 1957-1959
Shell Oil Company (Roberts, F. H.) 6.1.1.13 - Wheel pumping jack, 1962
Shell Oil Company 2.1.10, 1968-1971
4-10c Shell Oil Company - Off-shore platform 2.1.29, 1968
7a Spindletop 1.4.7, 1958-1959
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 1967, 1980
Shell Oil Company - Script 2.1.28, 1965
Shell Oil Company - Butane storage 6.1.3.8, 1961
Sperm oil
Southern California Gas Company 6.5.1.4, 1959
4-3 Star spudding rig 6.2.1.17, 1959, 1966
Salt water damage near Kilgore, Texas, 1946
Sun Oil Company 5.3.3, 1962-1971
Swanson, E. B. 6.2.1.25, 1958-1960
Oil Well Supply Company Centennial, 1962
Petroleum transportation, 1961
Mr. Woodie War, Beaumont, Texas, 1962-1965
Platforming 3.2.2, 1959
General manufacturing - Teapot Dome 1921 Cloth tracing 7.1.3.8
TRAD 8.1.7, 1967
Map - Topographical data 6.2.1.21, 1963
Union Oil Company of California, August 23, 1935
The W. N. Gates Company - Advertising, 1976-1979
1-3 The use of geology in search of oil 6.1.1.3, 1964-1966
Fire control - Petroleum 7.2.3.13, 1961
FMC Corp - Oil Center Tool Division, 1962-1965
Survey map by E. de Golyer - Property of Vicente Ferrara, 1921
Irvine, William E., President, Marietta College - Fluid injection for recovery of oil 6.1.1.12, 1963
2-14 Moving coil seismometer (geophone) 1.2.2, 1947
The Virgin Anticline near St. George in southwestern Utah
Petroleum - General 8.1.3, 1970
Universal Oil Products - Model and flowboards
4-10a Undersea well drilling 2.1.32, 1962
Underwater drilling shell, 1965-1967
Universal Oil Products Company - Blankenship 8.2.11, 1961-1964
6.1.1.15 Gas engine and gear box for pumping jacks, 1962
1-1 The geology of oil 6.1.1.2, 1963-1967
1-1a Cross-section universal contract 1.2.1, 1965-1967
Box 3
Fluid catalytic cracking process - Presentation 3.1.4, 1963
Universal Oil Products (UOP) presentation ceremony - Hall of Petroleum 8.2.8, 1961
University of Oklahoma - Lent photographs, 1963
Wayne Pump Company 5.2.1, 1966
7-2 Well stimulation acidizing 2.1.14, 1959-1966
7-3a Well stimulation fracturing 2.1.12, 1962-1969
7-1 Well stimulation shooting 2.1.15, 1962-1967
Where oil may be found (salt dome model), 1966
P. B. Mitchell - Fish tail bit 2.2.4, 1962
4-2 First commercial oil well 2.1.50, 1957-1961
Dr. Gloria C. Feeney, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)/AIME, November 1-3, 1978
6 Exploration - J. F. Weinzierl 1.4.4, 1958-1961
6 Exploration - Society of Exploration Geophysicists 1.4.2, 1958-1959
6 Exploration - Geophysical Research Corporation 2.4.2, 1958-1959
Esso Research and Engineering Company 7.3.3.11, 1959-1961
Ethyl Corporation, 1958-1968
Energy Hall exhibition proposal, 1977-1980
Proposed exhibition - Energy lab, 1978
10-3 Early gasoline pumps 5.2.8, 1966
77 Eastern Gas and Fuel Association, John D'Addieco - Proposed exhibition, 1977-1978
Electromechanical devices to computer controls - 1930 to 1960
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, 1965
Drilling rig model, 1962
Drilling and production, 1959-1962
Drilling inventions 6.2.1.1, 1966-1967
Drilling origins 2.4.1, 1958-1959
Drilling completion workover, 1967
Drilling - Master list task force, 1962
Woodpecker drill collar - Jim Arnold Corporation
Dresser Industries, Inc. 5.2.2, 1970
Dresser Electronics - PMR 7 Portable magnetic recording system 1.1.5, 1963
Jersey Production Research Company - Rubber Sleeve core barrel 7.2.2.3, 1962
Haliburton Company - World's largest/deepest well 6.2.1.4, 1962
4-10b Off-shore drilling (DeLong Corporation) 2.1.17, 1958-1969
Hall of Iron and Steel
Iron and Steel - Status of exhibits, August 13, 1964
Iron and Steel - Summary of script, August 16, 1965
Iron and Steel - Exhibition script
Iron and Steel - Exhibition script, 1970-1971
Iron and Steel exhibit - Washington Area School Council - Teachers' Guide, 1956
Iron and Steel - Integrated Steel Plant Model Layout (Script Draft), 1963
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers A-4
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 5-9
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 10-15
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 16-20
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 21-25
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 26-30
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 31-35
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 36-40
Iron and Steel - Script - Exhibit numbers 41-48
Iron and Steel - Temporary Hall - A modern steel plant
Display Houses in Pittsburgh, 1960
Correspondence - African Ore Melting, 1961
Correspondence - American Iron and Steel Institute, 1960-1972
Correspondence - American Iron Ore Association, 1962-195
Correspondence - American Ship Building Company, 1965
Correspondence - American Cast Iron Pipe Company - K. R. Daniel, President, 1970
Correspondence - Aston Process, 1963-1966
Correspondence - Aston-Byers Wrought Iron Wiring Diagrams, 1962-1971
Correspondence - Beckman Instruments, Inc., 1964-1965
Correspondence - Blaw-Knox Company, 1960-1965
Correspondence - Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 1953-1972 (2 folders)
Correspondence - Bethlehem Steel Corporation - Open Hearth Furnace, 1963-1969
Correspondence - Bethlehem Steel Corporation - Basic Oxygen Furnace exhibit, 1970
Correspondence - Carlberg, Mr. Per (Sandvik Steel), 1957
Correspondence - Concast, Inc., 1965
Correspondence - Gibson, Dr. Gordon O. (Okahandja, S.W. Africa), 1961
Correspondence - Gibson and Kirk Company, 1965
Correspondence - Crucible Steel Company of America, 1962-1974
Correspondence - Design and Production, Inc., 1955-1971
Correspondence - Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, 1962-1963
Correspondence - Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (Vulcan Iron Works), 1967
Correspondence - General Electric Company (Metallurgy and Ceramics), 1960-1964
Box 4
Correspondence - Hill ACME Company Cleveland Ohio, 1960-1967
Correspondence - Ingersoll-Rand Company, 1962-1967
Correspondence - Iron Age, 1962-1967
Correspondence - History of the Iron Industry, 1920-1960
Correspondence - Kaiser Industries Corporation - Model of I.D. Process Steel Plant, 1961-1971
Correspondence - Koppers Company, Inc., 1960-1963
Correspondence - Long, J. C., 1964-1965
Correspondence - Los Angeles County Museum, 1965
Correspondence - Lynchburg Foundry Company, 1961-1963
Correspondence - Magnaflux Corporation, 1962-1970
Correspondence - McDowell Wellman Engineering Company, 1962-1969
Correspondence - Mesta Machine Company, 1960-1968
Correspondence - National Castings Council, 1960-1970
Correspondence - Pickands Mather and Company, 1960-1963
Correspondence - Porcelain Enamel Institute, Inc., 1961-1966
Correspondence - Radbroke Hall - Nuclear Power Group, 1965
Correspondence - Republic Steel Corporation, 1960-1965
Correspondence - U. S. Steel Corporation, 1960-1971
Correspondence - U. S. Steel Corporation - Hall symbol, 1959, 1970-1971
Correspondence - Sitting, Edgar H., 1964-1965
Correspondence - Tredegar Company, 1960
Correspondence - United States Industries, Inc., 1962-1965
Correspondence - Van Duyne, Philip - Meeker Foundry - Verbruggen's Drawings, 1964-1965
Correspondence - Visual Industrial Products, Inc., 1963-1970 (2 folders)
Correspondence - Wean Engineering Co., 1966
Correspondence - Williams, Edward R. (Continuous Casting), 1966-1970
Correspondence - "22. Electric Furnace Making Press," 1960-1964
Correspondence - 37. Quality Control Mechanical Testing Equipment, 1963
Proposed floor plan and outline of exhibits for a metals court - Foundry Equipment Manufacturing Association, Inc.
3. Map of Early Colonial Days 1585-1700, 1962
4. The Bloomery Process
6. Manufacture of Crucible Steel
7. Blister or Cementation Steel
8. Coke Ovens
9. Iron Ore Mining Methods
10. The sintering and pelletizing methods for beneficiating
11. Puddling Process
12. Ore Transportation and Handling
13. Blast Furnace Contour Development
14. Blast Furnace
16. Types of Power of Equipment used in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel
17. Early Foundry Furnaces
18. Complete Foundry Shop
19. Forging Iron and Steel Nasmyth Forge
20. Open Hearth Process of Steel Making
21. The Oxygen Steel Making Process - A new development
21a. Oxygen Plant
22. Electric Furnace Steel-Making Process
24. First steps in preparing steel for rolling, pouring steel ingot, stripping and soaking pit
25. The Blooming Slab or Billet Mill
28. The Sendzimir Steel Rolling Mill
30. Structural Mill and Gray Mill
Box 5
31. Pipe and Tube mill, 1938
32. Manufacture of Rod and Steel Wire
33. Wire Mill Draw Bench
33. Coating steel plate and strip by the electrolytic tin plating and zinc galvanizing processes
34. Porcelain Enamel, 1964
36. Quality Control (Chemical Tests) and Electrical Methods
37. Quality Control (Mechanical Tests)
38. Quality Control for Nondestructive Testing
39. Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel, 1964
40. Atomic and Crystallographic Structure
45. Geographical Western Movement of Industry in U.S.
Wage incentives, 1950
Steel quota plan committee, August 11, 1942
Inventing Standard Time, November 18, 1983 to June 14, 1984
Longitude Zero Symposium, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1984
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1982-1984
Section 1, Case 1 - Objects, documents, and graphics, 1983
Section 1, Platform 1 - William Bond and Son, astronomical regulator, 1983
Section 1, Platform 3 - Objects, documents, and graphics, 1983-1984
Section 2, Case 3 - Time and the railroads
Section 2, Case 4 - Time and the railroads - Objects, documents, and graphics, 1982-1983
Section 2, Case 5 - Early proposals for reform, 1984
Section 2, Case 6 - W. F. Allen and the Time Conventions
Section 2, Case 7 - The Day of the Two Noons
Section 3, Case 8 - U. S. Naval Observatory and Western Union, 1983
Section 3, Case 9 - International Meridian Conference
Opening, 1983
Funding, 1983
Smithsonian Magazine article, November 1983
Publicity, 1984
Production, 1983-1984
Maps
Clock towers - Library of Congress
Travelogues, Diaries
Incoming loans, 1983-1984
Objects, 1982-1983
Poster, 1983
Miscellaneous photographs
Box 6
Script, 1983
Standard time - Exhibition proposals, 1981-1982
Booklet, 1983
Talks on Standard Time, 1984-1986
Standard Time - Opening Party photos, 1983
Standard Time - Graphics, 1983
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