Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 19-232
National Museum of American History. Division of Culture and the Arts
Exhibition Records, 1993-2010
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the records of Michelle Anne Delaney, Curator, documenting her 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 and the Arts and Industries Building. Earlier records date back to when Delaney and other photographic history staff were in the Division of Information Technology and Society and the Division of Photographic History, respectively. Also represented in these records are curator Shannon Thomas Perich and photo specialist Peter Liebhold. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; proposals; budget summaries; meeting agendas and minutes; scripts; floor plans; production schedules; object lists; a report; loan information; press releases, brochures, clippings, pamphlets, and announcements; an agreement; press kits; design information; opening invitations; a speech paper; and photographs. Some materials are in electronic format.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2026. Box 1 contains copyrighted materials, see finding aid; Transferring office; 11/4/2016 memorandum, Johnstone to Bowers; 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
- America's Voices, America's Stories (Proposed exhibition)
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Kasebier (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Delaney, Michelle Anne
- Diana Walker, Photojournalist (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion (Exhibition) (2000-2001: Washington, D.C.)
- History in the News: Collecting September 11 (Exhibition) (2005-2006: Washington, D.C.)
- I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Liebhold, Peter
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Information Technology and Society
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Photographic History
- Perich, Shannon Thomas
- Photo du Jour: David Hume Kennerly's Picture-a-Day Journey Through the First Year of New Millennium (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Photographs by John Paul Caponigro and Kendall Messick (Exhibition) (2005-2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Richard Avedon Memorial Photographs (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.)
- September 11: Bearing Witness to History (Exhibition) (2002-2003: Washington, D.C.)
- The 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photography (Exhibition) (1996-1997: Washington, D.C.)
- The Kennedys Photographed by Richard Avedon (Exhibition) (1996-1997: Washington, D.C.)
- The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise (Exhibition) (2009-2010: Washington, D.C.)
- Travel Diary of a Photographer: Volkmar K. Wentzel in India, 1946-1948 (Proposed exhibition)
- Visual Journal: Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- World War II Photographic Perspectives (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Camera industry
- Committees
- Lectures and lecturing
- Loans
- Museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Photographers
- Photography -- History
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 19-232, National Museum of American History. Division of Culture and the Arts, Exhibition Records