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Exhibition Records, 1961, 1968-1981, 1989-2022, and undated

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Summary

This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) regarding the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, checklists, contracts and agreements, reports, articles, itineraries, loan information, object lists, design, exhibition installation, scripts, promotional materials, press releases, floor plans, newsletters, brochures, concepts, calendars and events, catalogs, notes, rights and permissions, clippings, surveys, fundraising, proposals and applications, marketing information, meeting agendas, books, publications, visitor comments, budget summaries, audiovisual materials, photographs, slides, transparencies, negatives, and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.

Subject

  • Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey (Traveling exhibition) (2012-2015)
  • Voyages and Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1997)
  • More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (Traveling exhibition) (2006-2009)
  • The Dancer Within (Traveling exhibition) (2008-2010)
  • Native Words, Native Warriors (Traveling exhibition) (2006-2014)
  • Freedom's Sisters (Traveling exhibition) (2008-2012)
  • In Search of Giant Squid (Traveling exhibition) (2004-2009)
  • Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the Mexican-American Boundary (Traveling exhibition) (1993-1997)
  • View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972 (Traveling exhibition) (1989-1993)
  • American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print (Traveling exhibition) (2008-2012)
  • American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (Traveling exhibition) (2011-2015)
  • Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission (Traveling exhibition) (2017-2020)
  • Titanoboa: Monster Snake (Traveling exhibition) (2013-2018)
  • Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 (Traveling exhibition) (2010-2017)
  • What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones (Traveling exhibition) (2014-2017)
  • Women and Flight (Traveling exhibition) (1997-2003)
  • I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story (Traveling exhibition) (2013-2016)
  • Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (Traveling exhibition) (2015-2020)
  • English Silver: Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1995)
  • Five Centuries of Italian Textiles (Traveling exhibition) (1985-1988)
  • Water/Ways (Traveling exhibition)
  • H20 Today (Traveling exhibition)
  • India Along the Ganges: Photographs by Raghubir Singh (Traveling exhibition) (1990-1992)
  • William H. Johnson: An American Modern (Traveling exhibition) (2011-2014)
  • Community Industries of the Shakers (Traveling exhibition) (1986-1988)
  • Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1993)
  • Visions of Flight: A Retrospective from the NASA Art Collection (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1991)
  • The Artist and the Space Shuttle (Traveling exhibition) (1983-1986)
  • America's Star: The U.S. Marshals, 1789-1989 (Traveling exhibition) (1988-1991)
  • Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (Traveling exhibition) (1987-1989)
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posters for a Better World (Traveling exhibition) (2005-2007)
  • Singgalot (The Ties That Bind): Filipinos in America, from Colonial Subjects to Citizens (Traveling exhibition) (2008-2012)
  • Vanishing Pollinators (Traveling exhibition) (2001-2005)
  • Lunch Box Memories (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2006)
  • Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian Institution (Traveling exhibition) (2004-2006)
  • Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices (Traveling exhibition) (1996-1997)
  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (Traveling exhibition) (2009-2016)
  • Serving Home and Community: Women of Southern Appalachia: Photographs by Barbara T. Beirne (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2003)
  • Hannelore Baron: Works from 1969 to 1987 (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2004)
  • The Graceful Envelope (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2005)
  • These Rare Lands (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2006)
  • Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2007)
  • American Voices: Latino Photographers in the United States (Traveling exhibition) (circa 1997)
  • Art of Jack Delano (Traveling exhibition) (1997-2000)
  • The Working White House: Two Centuries of Traditions and Memories (Traveling exhibition) (2008-2012)
  • Mail Call (Traveling exhibition) (2012-2016)
  • Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America (Traveling exhibition) (2012-2015)
  • Patios, Pools, and the Invention of the American Backyard (Traveling exhibition) (2015-2021)
  • Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project (Traveling exhibition) (2015-2019)
  • Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography (Traveling exhibition) (2009-2014)
  • Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer (Traveling exhibition) (2006-2010)
  • The Art of the Stamp (Traveling exhibition) (2005-2008)
  • July 1942: United We Stand (Traveling exhibition) (2003-2005)
  • American Heroes: Japanese American WWII Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal (Traveling exhibition) (2012-2014)
  • Covered Bridges: Spanning the American Landscape (Traveling exhibition) (2006-2009)
  • A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island (Traveling exhibition) (2003-2008)
  • Through My Father's Eyes: The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado (1914-1976) (Traveling exhibition) (2003-2006)
  • Southern Africa, 1936-1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2003)
  • Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain Forest (Traveling exhibition) (1994-1999)
  • Small Wonder: Worlds in a Box (Traveling exhibition) (2001-2003)
  • Sculptures from the Flames: Ceramics by Gustav and Ulla Kraitz (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
  • Wenceslaus Hollar: 17th-century Prints from the Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
  • Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos (Exhibition) (2000-2001: Washington, D.C.)
  • Artists at Work: A Smithsonian Celebration of Staff Creativity (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
  • Imperial China and Ottoman Turkey: Chinese Porcelain from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul (Proposed exhibition)
  • Facing the Gods: Ritual Masks of the Himalayas (Traveling exhibition) (1989-1991)
  • Jewels of Lalique (Exhibition) (1998: New York, N.Y.)
  • Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
  • Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2006)
  • On Miniature Wings: Model Aircraft from the National Air and Space Museum (Traveling exhibition) (1999-2002)
  • Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2003)

Notes

  • Electronic List in accession file.
  • Folder List in accession file.
  • For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above.

Organization

By exhibition

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1961
  • 1961-2022
  • 1961, 1968-1981, 1989-2022, and undated

Restrictions & Rights

Restricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2038; Transferring office; 9/27/1984 memorandum, Glenn to Loar; Contact reference staff for details

Topic

  • Loans
  • Traveling exhibitions
  • Contracts

Form/Genre

  • Brochures
  • Collection descriptions
  • Clippings
  • Manuscripts
  • Newsletters
  • Pamphlets
  • Transcripts
  • Compact discs
  • Digital versatile discs
  • Floppy disks
  • Electronic records
  • Ephemera
  • Floor plans
  • Drawings
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • Black-and-white photographs
  • Color negatives
  • Color photographs
  • Color transparencies
  • Black-and-white transparencies
  • Audiotapes
  • Videotapes

Local number

SIA Acc. 24-002

Physical description

36 cu. ft. (36 record storage boxes)

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