Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 19-221
National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
Exhibition Records, 1950, 1959-1988, 1996, 2004, 2006
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document planning, development and production activities for the exhibitions A Material World, Loose the Mighty Power: Impressions of the Steam Engine in America, Abandoned Mine Scenes, On Time, Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, as well as the halls of Nuclear Energy, Mining, Agriculture, Petroleum, Iron and Steel, Farming Machinery, and Forest Products at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), which, prior to 1980, was known as the National Museum of History and Technology and the Museum of History and Technology, respectively. A few records also predate the creation of NMAH, when the museum was part of the United States National Museum. The original working title for the exhibition Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, which opened at the National Air and Space Museum and was produced in partnership with NMAH, was Finding Time and Place: From Chronometers to GPS. Earlier records date back to when the Division of Work and Industry was known as the Division of the History of Technology, the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Division of Extractive Industries, the Division of Manufacturing, the Division of Agriculture and Mining, the Division of Agriculture and Forest Products, the Division of Industrial Cooperation, and there are some records from the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and the Division of Transportation.
Staff represented in these records include curators Robert C. Post, William L. Withuhn, Philip W. Bishop, John T. Schlebecker, Robert M. Vogel, and John H. White; associate curator John Nathan Hoffman; and exhibit coordinator Claudine Klose.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; proposals; budget summaries; design information; production schedules; scripts; press releases; floor plans; drawings; object lists; loan information; catalogs, pamphlets, brochures, and clippings; photographs and negatives; and reports. Some materials are in electronic format.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years. until Jan-01-2022; Transferring office; 2/1/2011 memorandum, Johnstone to Jones; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- A Material World (Exhibition) (1988-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Abandoned Mine Scenes (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Bishop, Philip W.
- Hoffman, John Nathan, 1923-
- Klose, Claudine
- Loose the Mighty Power: Impressions of the Steam Engine in America (Exhibition) (1978-1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Industrial Cooperation
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Agriculture
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Farming Machinery
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Forest Products
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Iron and Steel
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Mining
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Nuclear Energy
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Petroleum
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Transportation
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of the History of Technology
- National Museum of History and Technology
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Agriculture and Mining
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Manufacturing
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
- On Time (Exhibition) (1999-2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Post, Robert C.
- Schlebecker, John T.
- Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There (Exhibition) (2013- : Washington, D.C.)
- United States National Museum
- Vogel, Robert M.
- White, John H., 1933-
- Withuhn, William L.
Subject
- Agriculture -- History
- Agriculture machinery
- Forest products
- Iron
- Loans
- Mining engineering
- Museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Nuclear energy
- Petroleum
- Steel
- Time -- Systems and standards
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 19-221, National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry, Exhibition Records