Alice Thomson with artifacts from Ethiopia and Somalia

ID: 83-5610-18 or SIA2010-1525

Creator: Penland, Dane A

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1983

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-009 and Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: July 1983

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Summary

Alice Thomson, inventory coordinator for Natural History's Anthropology Department, takes an inventory of some 19th-century artifacts from Ethiopia and Somalia during phase one of Smithsonian Institution's massive inventory project. Behind her are storage cabinets with some drawers open. Featured in The Torch, July 1983.

Subject

  • Thompson, Alice
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Institution Collection Inventory
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
  • National Collections

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • The Office of the Registrar initiates a new Congressionally mandated Smithsonian collection inventory program using an automated data processing system in 1978. This is the first thorough tabulation of the Institution's collections since the Smithsonian was founded in 1846. Under the program, the responsibility for coordinating inventories on an Institution-wide basis is assigned to the Smithsonian Registrar.
  • Smithsonian Collection Inventory staff complete the first phase of the Congressionally mandated inventory of all Smithsonian collections in 1983. They have identified c. 100 million objects and specimens since the inventory began in October of 1978. They now have computer records for each accession. Phase two will consist of the "reconciliation phase," matching pre-existing records against the inventory records, and reconciling any discrepancies.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-009 and Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: July 1983

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1983

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Topic

  • Women
  • Artifacts
  • Art
  • Storage
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Inventory control
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Objects
  • Art objects
  • Museums--Collection management
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

83-5610-18 or SIA2010-1525

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: 35 mm negative

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