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
- 1876: A Centennial Exhibition (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- Alfred Eisenstaedt (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- American Masters (Exhibition) (1974-1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Architectural Photographs and Color Transparencies by Ezra Stoller (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Beguiling the Babies: Photographing Children in the 19th Century (Exhibition) (1986-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Children of the World (Exhibition) (1965: Washington, D.C.)
- Clarence John Laughlin (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Color Sells (Exhibition) (1997-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Diana Walker, Photojournalist (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Disney, Walt, 1901-1966
- Eikoh Hosoe: Man and Woman (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Georges Melies: Inventor of the Magic of Films (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Gum and Carbon Prints (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Haberstich, David
- Harry Garfield (Exhibition) (1962-1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Harry K. Shgeta (Exhibition) (circa 1960s: Washington, D.C.)
- Hawkins, Elliott
- History-of-Photography Collection (Traveling exhibition) (1969)
- Images of War by Robert Capa (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- James B. Johnson: A New Perspective of Washington (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Janine Niepce (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Joseph Costa (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Liebhold, Peter
- Light, Chemicals, and Camera (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Microfilm: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Exhibition) (1971: Washington, D.C.)
- Moods in Industry (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Photographic History
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of Photography
- National Museum of History and Technology
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts and Photography
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- New Images 1839-1973 (Exhibition) (1973-1974: Washington, D.C.)
- One Photographer's New York (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- Ostroff, Eugene
- Philippe Halsman (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographing the Frontier (Exhibition) (1977-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Andreas Feininger (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Arthur Rothstein (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Irving Penn (Exhibition) (1963: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by Kosti Ruohomaa (Exhibition) (1964: Washington, D.C.)
- Photography and the City (Exhibition) (1968-1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Platinum Women (Exhibition) (1981-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Russell Lee (Exhibition) (1965-1966: Washington, D.C.)
- September 11: Bearing Witness to History (Exhibition) (2002-2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Silver and Silk (Exhibition) (1975-1977: Washington, D.C.)
- Stephen Whealton (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Steven C. Wilson (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Tanaka: Photographs of Heron Hill (Exhibition) (1967: Washington, D.C.)
- The Art of Animation (Traveling exhibition) (1959)
- The Camera and the Human Façade (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- The Hand of Man on America (Exhibition) (1970-1971: Washington, D.C.)
- The Lingering Shadow: Photographs from the History of Photography Collection (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War (Exhibition) (2004- : Washington, D.C.)
- United States National Museum (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography
- Victor Keppler (Exhibition) (1962: Washington, D.C.)
- Wedderburn, Alexander J.
- Western Views and Eastern Visions (Exhibition) (1980-1981: Washington, D.C.)
- White House Festival of the Arts (Exhibition) (1965: 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.)
- Women, Cameras and Images II: Betty Hahn and Gayle Smalley (Exhibition) (1969-1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Women, Cameras, and Images: Imogen Cunningham (Exhibition) (1968-1969: Washington, D.C.)
- World Exposition of Photography (Exhibition) (1966: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Animated films
- Camera industry
- Congresses and conventions
- Museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Photographers
- Photography -- History
- Traveling exhibitions
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