This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
This accession consists of program files created and maintained by Nancy J. Fuller. These records cover various symposiums, lectures, workshops and programs, including Fuller's work with ecomuseums and Native American museums. Materials include bibliographies, correspondence, reports and projects, audiotapes, photographs, serials and transcrip...
This accession consists of records documenting the marketing and publicity of recordings produced by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, part of the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. These records were created by Brenda Dunlap, Marketing Director, 1994-2001, and Richard Burgess, Marketing Director, 2001-2014. Mat...
This accession consists of the records of David Warren, Deputy Director of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and document project related activities. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; budget summaries; meeting minutes; collections management information; reports; contract proposals; NMAI construction ...
This accession consists of the records of the Department of Aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum, pertaining to the World War I exhibition, curated by Dominick A. Pisano. Materials include background materials, correspondence, scripts, and some reviews.
In 2002 Betty Skelton donated a collection of materials outlining her career as an aviatrix and race car driver to the National Air and Space Museum. The donated material consists primarily of news clippings, pamphlets, magazines, photographs, and scrapbooks covering the span of Ms. Skelton's career.
The Alice Bell Finlayson papers, which date from 1901 to 1990 and measure 5.16 linear feet, document the career of educator, community organizer, and journalist Alice Bell Finlayson. The papers are comprised of books, correspondence, curriculum vitae, documents from community organizations, journals, magazines newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks.
The bulk of this collection was processed by Jane Livermore, a devoted and tireless volunteer in the Smithsonian Institution Archives between 1995 and 2004. Livermore is a former Science Service employee. She worked in the organization's library, oversaw the educational project "THINGS of Science," and served as Assistant to the Director. ...
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
The research material of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, measures 30.1 linear feet and dates from 1965-2004. The collection, amassed throughout Ybarra-Frausto's long and distinguished career as a scholar of the arts and humanities, documents the development of Chicano art in the United States and chronicles Ybarra-Frausto's role as a community leader and scholar in the political and artistic Chicano movement from its inception in the 1960s to the present day.