How to Obtain a FREE Copy of the
Guide to the Smithsonian Archives, 1996
The Smithsonian Institution Archives is now offering complimentary copies of the 1996 Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. This expanded edition supersedes the 1983 Guide, which has long been out of print.
This Guide will be of special interest to students and scholars of American history, especially the development of museology, the history of science, the history of Western exploration, and the evolution of scientific research into its present-day complex forms.
Order Information
The 1996 Guide is now available FREE of charge. To order a copy of this publication, contact:
Mary Markey
(202) 633-5914
email: markeym@si.edu
OR:
Send your name, address, and the number of Guide copies you would like to receive, to:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
attn: M. Markey
P.O. Box 37012 MRC 507
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
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Scope of the Guide
The Smithsonian Archives program is chiefly concerned with official records of the Smithsonian and papers of Smithsonian staff. This guide to its holdings supersedes the 1983 Guide to the Smithsonian Archives and includes two-thirds of the Archives' holdings as of 1995. The Guide also includes archives of the Anthropology Department of the National Museum of Natural History and Bureau of American Ethnology, kept in the National Anthropological Archives; records of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives; permanent object collection files of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, kept in those museums; and some records processed by Smithsonian Archives staff but retained in other museums for curatorial use.
In addition to records and manuscripts described in this Guide, the Smithsonian's many independent repositories hold a wealth of material. These repositories include: the National Anthropological Archives; Archives of American Art; Archives Center, National Museum of American History; Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Archives; Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library Archives; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Archive; Human Studies Film Archives; National Museum of Natural History; National Air and Space Archives; and the National Museum of the American Indian Photograph Archives.
Seventy-two cubic feet of Smithsonian records have been transferred to the National Archives. See the Guide to the National Archives of the United States, Washington, 1987.
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