Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 19-149
National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
Exhibition Records, 1953-2008
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting staff exhibition planning, development, and production of photographic history collections, as well as works by renown contemporary American photographers, at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) and the Arts and Industries Building. Earlier records date back to when the photographic history staff and collections were in the Division of Photographic History, the Division of Graphic Arts and Photography, and the Section of Photography in the Division of Graphic Arts at NMAH, which, prior to 1980, was known as the National Museum of History and Technology and the Museum of History and Technology, respectively. Some records predate the creation of NMAH when the Section of Photography was in the United States National Museum. Also documented in these records is the traveling exhibition The Art of Animation, created by Walt Disney and his staff of artists, which traced the history of motion in pictures and was shown at the National Museum of Natural History.
Staff represented in these records include curators Alexander J. Wedderburn and Eugene Ostroff; assistant curator David Haberstich; museum technician Elliott Hawkins; and photo specialist Peter Liebhold.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; proposals; scripts; budget summaries; object lists; press releases; brochures; exhibition catalogs; opening invitations; photographs, slides, and negatives; symposium information; floor plans; newspaper clippings; Hall of Photography planning information and installation photographs; audiotapes; and drawings. 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
- Wedderburn, Alexander J.
- Ostroff, Eugene
- Haberstich, David
- Hawkins, Elliott
- Liebhold, Peter
- Disney, Walt, 1901-1966
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Photographic History
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts and Photography
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography
- United States National Museum (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of Photography
- National Museum of History and Technology
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- History-of-Photography Collection (Traveling exhibition) (1969)
- Harry Garfield (Exhibition) (1962-1963: Washington, D.C.)
- One Photographer's New York (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Andreas Feininger (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Gum and Carbon Prints (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Philippe Halsman (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Children of the World (Exhibition) (1965: Washington, D.C.)
- Eikoh Hosoe: Man and Woman (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- James B. Johnson: A New Perspective of Washington (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Clarence John Laughlin (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Victor Keppler (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Russell Lee (Exhibition) (1965-1966: Washington, D.C.)
- The Lingering Shadow: Photographs from the History of Photography Collection (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Georges Melies: Inventor of the Magic of Films (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Light, Chemicals, and Camera (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Janine Niepce (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Irving Penn (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographing the Frontier (Exhibition) (1977-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- The Hand of Man on America (Exhibition) (1970-1971: Washington, D.C.)
- Platinum Women (Exhibition) (1981-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Photography and the City (Exhibition) (1968-1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Arthur Rothstein (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Kosti Ruohomaa (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- Silver and Silk (Exhibition) (1975-1977: Washington, D.C.)
- Architectural Photographs and Color Transparencies by Ezra Stoller (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Tanaka: Photographs of Heron Hill (Exhibition) (1967: Washington, D.C.)
- World Exposition of Photography (Exhibition) (1966: Washington, D.C.)
- Western Views and Eastern Visions (Exhibition) (1980-1981: Washington, D.C.)
- Stephen Whealton (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- White House Festival of the Arts (Exhibition) (1965: Washington, D.C.)
- Steven C. Wilson (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Microfilm: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Exhibition) (1971: Washington, D.C.)
- American Masters (Exhibition) (1974-1975: Washington, D.C.)
- The Art of Animation (Traveling exhibition) (1959)
- Harry K. Shgeta (Exhibition) (circa 1960s: Washington, D.C.)
- Beguiling the Babies: Photographing Children in the 19th Century (Exhibition) (1986-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Images of War by Robert Capa (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- The Camera and the Human Façade (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Joseph Costa (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Alfred Eisenstaedt (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Women, Cameras, and Images: Imogen Cunningham (Exhibition) (1968-1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Women, Cameras and Images II: Betty Hahn and Gayle Smalley (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Women, Camera, and Images III: Berenice Abbott (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Women, Camera, and Images IV: Barbara Morgan (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Diana Walker, Photojournalist (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War (Exhibition) (2004- : Washington, D.C.)
- September 11: Bearing Witness to History (Exhibition) (2002-2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Color Sells (Exhibition) (1997-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- New Images 1839-1973 (Exhibition) (1973-1974: Washington, D.C.)
- Moods in Industry (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- 1876: A Centennial Exhibition (1976: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Congresses and conventions
- Museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Photography -- History
- Camera industry
- Traveling exhibitions
- Animated films
- Photographers
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 19-149, National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society, Exhibition Records