Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of fiscal year budgetary/estimate reports, museum maintenance operation attendants, blueprints and drawings, museum exhibit records, correspondence, memoranda, fiscal year employment plans, and construction records pertaining to museum repairs.

Museums, buildings and events documented in this collection include: the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History), the National Collection Fine Arts (later the National Museum of American Art) and National Portrait Gallery building, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Renwick Gallery, the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (now the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), the Mount Hopkins Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the National Mall, the Folklife Festival, the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Anacostia Museum, the National Museum of African Art, the Silver Hill Facility, the Museum Support Center, the Old Post Office building, the Quadrangle Complex, the Barney Studio House, the Smithsonian Institution Service Center, the Arts and Industries Building, Presidential inaugurations, the Smithsonian Institution Building, and miscellaneous locations.