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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 18-141

National Museum of the American Indian. George Gustav Heye Center. Office of Public Affairs

Publicity Records, 1960, 1965, 1971-1979, 1984-2014
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. George Gustav Heye Center. Office of Public Affairs
Title: Publicity Records
Dates: 1960, 1965, 1971-1979, 1984-2014
Quantity: 8.08 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
Collection: Accession 18-141
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

This accession consists of records that document the publicity of exhibitions, collections acquisitions, events, lectures, the design and construction of the museum, American Indian news, and other related public programs of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC). Some materials date to when the museum was known as the Museum of the American Indian and before it was a part of the Smithsonian Institution. Materials include correspondence, news clippings, brochures, floor plans, architectural drawings, posters, newsletters, magazines, memoranda, photographs, slides, video, audio, and other related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records that publicize exhibitions, acquisitions, events, lectures, and other related public programs of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC). Topics covered include the museum design, construction, American Indian tribe news, media coverage, events, exhibitions, and NMAI news. Materials include correspondence, news clippings, brochures, floor plans, architectural drawings, posters, newsletters, magazines, memoranda, photographs, slides, video, audio, and other related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-141, National Museum of the American Indian. George Gustav Heye Center. Office of Public Affairs, Publicity Records

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Container List

Box 1

Establishment of NMAI, 1960, 1965

Box 1 of 8

Life Magazine - Our Indian Heritage, 1971

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1976, 1979

Box 1 of 8

Custom House Site - NMAI Brochures, 1984

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1985

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1989

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1989

Box 1 of 8

Smithsonian Institution (SI) and NMAI - Establishment and News, 1989

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1990

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1991

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1992

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1992

Box 1 of 8

Foundations, 1993

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1993

Box 1 of 8

Aspen Festival, 1993

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1993

Box 1 of 8

GGHC - Executive Summary, 1993

Box 1 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 1994

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1994

Box 1 of 8

Marketing and Media, 1994

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1994

Box 1 of 8

GGHC - Opening, 1994 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 8

Pequot's Gift and News, 1994

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1994

Box 1 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 1995

Box 1 of 8

Correspondence, 1995

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1995

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1995

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1995

Box 1 of 8

Marketing and Media, 1995

Box 1 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 1996

Box 1 of 8

Harvest Ceremony - Student Program, 1996

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1996

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1996

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1996

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1997

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1997

Box 1 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 1997

Box 1 of 8

Publicity Reports - Administrative, 1997

Box 1 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1997

Box 1 of 8

Magazines, 1998

Box 1 of 8

Newspapers, 1998

Box 1 of 8

Correspondence, 1998

Box 1 of 8

Legends of Our Times, 1998

Box 1 of 8

Box 2

Programs and Brochures, 1998

Box 2 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 1998

Box 2 of 8

Building Design - Facilities, 1998

Box 2 of 8

Newspapers, 1999 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 1999

Box 2 of 8

Magazines, 1999 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters, Speech, and Publications, 1999

Box 2 of 8

Correspondence, 1999

Box 2 of 8

Newspapers, 2000 (3 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Magazines, 2000

Box 2 of 8

Correspondence, 2000

Box 2 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters, Speech, and Publications, 2000

Box 2 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2000

Box 2 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters, Speech, and Publications, 2001

Box 2 of 8

Correspondence, 2001

Box 2 of 8

Newspapers, 2001 (3 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Magazines, 2001 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Box 3

Programs and Brochures, 2001

Box 3 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2002

Box 3 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2002

Box 3 of 8

Office of Public Affairs (OPA) Selected, 2002

Box 3 of 8

Newspapers, 2002 (4 folders)

Box 3 of 8

Magazines, 2002

Box 3 of 8

Correspondence, 2002

Box 3 of 8

OPA Selected, 2003 (2 folders)

Box 3 of 8

Newspapers, 2003 (4 folders)

Box 3 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2003

Box 3 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2003

Box 3 of 8

Box 4

Magazines, 2003 (2 folders)

Box 4 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2004

Box 4 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2004

Box 4 of 8

Magazines, 2004 (2 folders)

Box 4 of 8

Newspapers, 2004

Box 4 of 8

OPA Selected, 2004

Box 4 of 8

Newspapers, 2004 (2 folders)

Box 4 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2005

Box 4 of 8

OPA Selected, 2005

Box 4 of 8

Newspapers, 2005

Box 4 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2005

Box 4 of 8

Magazines, 2005

Box 4 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2006

Box 4 of 8

Newspapers, 2006 (folders 1-2 of 3)

Box 4 of 8

Box 5

Newspapers, 2006 (folder 3 of 3)

Box 5 of 8

OPA Selected, 2006 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2006

Box 5 of 8

Magazines, 2006 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2007

Box 5 of 8

OPA Selected. 2007 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Magazines, 2007 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2007

Box 5 of 8

Newspapers, 2007 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2008

Box 5 of 8

OPA Selected, 2008

Box 5 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2008

Box 5 of 8

Newspapers, 2008 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Box 6

Magazines, 2008 (2 folders)

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2009

Box 6 of 8

Newspapers, 2009

Box 6 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2009

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2009

Box 6 of 8

Newspapers, 2010

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2010

Box 6 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2010

Box 6 of 8

OPA Selected, 2010

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2010

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2011

Box 6 of 8

Newspapers, 2011

Box 6 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2011

Box 6 of 8

OPA Selected, 2011

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2011

Box 6 of 8

Newspapers, 2012

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2012

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2012

Box 6 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2012

Box 6 of 8

Newspapers, 2013

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2013

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2013

Box 6 of 8

Programs and Brochures, 2013

Box 6 of 8

Magazines, 2014

Box 6 of 8

SI and NMAI - Newsletters and Publications, 2014

Box 6 of 8

Guides and Information, undated

Box 6 of 8

Box 7

Video Recordings

Children's Festival at the NMAI - WCBS, 9 a.m., 00:13:15 and 6 p.m., 00:30:00, 2003 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Clips from "On and Off the Res with Charlie Hill", Producer: Sandra Osawa, 2000 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Custom Inflight - Continental Airlines, the Continental Traveler - Newark, New Jersey, TRT: 00:26:53 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Echo Febiofestu - Curated Program "Redskin" featured, 2003 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

First American Art Exhibit at the NMAI, News All Day, 8 a.m., TRT: 00:02:35, May 7, 2004 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Heye Center (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Juanita Velasco Interview, WNJU, 6 a.m., TRT: 00:04:00, November 1, 2002 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), Museums of Lower Manhattan Public Information Videos, American Indian Smithsonian Institution, Assemblages, January 19, 2006 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

National American, About the NMAI, undated (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Mall Museum, B-Roll, TRT: 12:32, October 6, 2003 (BetacamSP videotape)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 2 (2 BetacamSP videotapes)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, LMDC, Voltage Video, TRT: 08:17:04, July 25, 2006 (3 BetacamSP videotapes)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 2 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 3 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 4 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 5 (2 VHS videotapes)

Box 7 of 8

New York, New York, Inflight Entertainment, Inc., TRT: 00:25:06, January, February, March, 2002 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

New York, New York, Inflight Entertainment, Inc., April-July, 2004 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

New York, New York, Inflight Entertainment, Inc., TRT: 00:26:30, January-April, 2005 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

New York, New York, Inflight Entertainment, Inc., TRT: 00:29:00, May-August, 2005 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Oaxaca Exhibit at the NMAI, New York News Monitors, Today in New York - WNBC, TRT: 00:03:35, January 11, 2003 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Old Man Kokopeli Illusions, The Magic Vessel & Coyote Tales, Gateway Performance Productions, TRT: 00:20:00 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian Institution, NMAI, Horizon Television, Inc. (2 VHS videotapes)

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian Institution, NMAI, Washington, D.C. - "Listening to Our Ancestors", B-Roll Package, Exhibition Closes, TRT: 2:34, January 2, 2007 (2 Betacam SP videotapes)

Box 7 of 8

Studio Y, Memphis Bleek, Hip Hop Teenz, DJ Cipha, December 5, 2000 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Sunday Morning, "Mohawk Ironworkers", 2002 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Waldorf Astoria, Applevision, August/September, 2000 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

A Walk up Broadway with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis, WNET Channel 13, March 10, 1999 (VHS videotape)

Box 7 of 8

Box 8

Catlin Identity, Zip Disk (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Erica Lord - Binary Selves, Excerpt, (Copy), 2007 (MiniDV videotape)

Box 8 of 8

Exhibitions and Graphics, NMAI, Zip Disk, 1999-2002 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

NMAI, Identity by Design, 2007 (MiniDV videotape)

Box 8 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 1 (BetacamSP videotape)

Box 8 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 3 (2 BetacamSP videotapes)

Box 8 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 4 (2 BetacamSP videotapes)

Box 8 of 8

NMAI, Voltage Video, B-Roll, Tape 5 (BetacamSP videotape)

Box 8 of 8

Electronic Records

Art of America, Episode (EP) .01 - Looking for Paradise, circa 2011 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Eiteljorg Show, Photographs of "We are Here!", 2012 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Garguillor, Home Directory Files, Discs 2-4, 2006 undated (3 electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Git-Hoan Dancers, Our Land Celebration, 2010 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women Dresses, 2007-2008 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Marangmotxingmo Mirang, From the Ikpeng Children to the World (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

The Martha Stewart Show, NMAI, 2008 (2 electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

More than a Museum, Smithsonian NMAI, TRT: 9:15, 2006 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

National Museum of the American Indian, LMDC, TRT: 8:17:04, July 25, 2006 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Return of the Horse, 4:3, TRT: 1:00:00 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

A Song for the Horse Nation, Gallery Images, 2009 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Sunday Arts News, WNET.org Thirteen (3 electronic records)

Box 8 of 8
#248 News, January 16, 2011
#249 News, Letterbox, January 23, 2011
Sunday Arts Primetime Special, January 27, 2011

Telling a Crow Story, Richard Throssel, Exhibit Images, 2003 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo, Files, 2011-2012 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Way of the Wampum Class, Teachers Day, Images of Class, April 23, 2009 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

All Nations, Skate Jam, 2009 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Art Market and Preview Party, Photographs by Benjamin West, 2012 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Art Market, Event and Collection, Photographs by Cody Harjo, Discs 1 and 2, 2012 (2 electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Basketweavers - Pictures, 2003 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

BBC Radio Interviews with Jane O'Brien, Native American Film & Video Festival, TRT: 00:45:44 March 27, 2009 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8
Track 1 - Dustin Craig, TRT: 00:14:59
Track 2 - Elizabeth Weatherford, TRT: 00:7:16
Track 3 - Paul Rickard, TRT: 00:10:19
Track 4 - Rachel Edwardson, TRT: 00:13:10

Booming Out: Mohawk Ironworkers Build New York NMAI, Images, 2002 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Brule' - We the People, A Tribal Gathering of Music, TRT: 00:53:00, 1996 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Cradle Boards, Newborn and Shirts with Caption, Exhibition Images, 2001 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Downtown Lower Manhattan, Lines by Kitty Carlisle Hart, TRT: 0:00:38, 1994 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Edge of America, Tribeca and NMAI Press Images for Chris Eyre, 2003 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

The Edge of Enchantment, NMAI, Images 2002-2003 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

First American Art, Installation #1, 2004 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Graphic Identity and Map of Museum, 2004 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Hide: Skin as a Material and Metaphor, Phase 1, NMAI, Nadia Myre and Sonia Kelliher-Combs, March 6-August 1, 2010 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Indivisible - Copy, 2009-2011 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

John Gambling and Mayor Bloomberg Live Broadcast, NMAI, LMDC Remote Broadcast, September, 29, 2006 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Listening to Our Ancestors, Exhibition Photos by Walter Larrimore, NMAI, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

LTA Community, Pronunciations, TRT: 00:03:00 January 30, 2006 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

The New Old World, NMAI, 2002-2003 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

NWC - May 5-6, Scripts, 2005 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Powwow on the Mall, Photographs, 2002 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Public Programs, Event Photographs, 2002 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Public Relations (PR) GGHC, All Roads Are Good (ARAG), 2004 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Ramp it Up, Skatedeck Workshop, Photos by Stephen Lang, June 3, 2010 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Saving Native American Languages, Jane, O'Brien, The Strand, BBC World Service Radio, 1994 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Sekeres and GGHC - 06425, SI NMAI, May 3, 2006 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

The Shops - Gift Shops, Images, 2002 (2 electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Up Where We Belong, ITunes, Audio Guide, TRT: 00:56:00, 2012 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8

Version #3, NMAI Brochure, 2005 (electronic records)

Box 8 of 8
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Folder 1 NMAI GGHC Pavilion Renovation, and Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles Travelling Exhibition, 2001-2002

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