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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Assistant to the Secretary
Dates:
1957-1966
Size:
5.7 linear meters.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 171
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Projects represented in these records include the National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, and the acquisition of the Patent Office Building; Smithsonian Associates; National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board; National Council on the Arts; extensive liaison with the Astrophysical Observatory and its stations around ...

Correspondence and Memoranda
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1880-1884
Size:
0.1 linear meter.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 127
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include the correspondence of Stephen C. Brown with Spencer F. Baird at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, regarding operation of the Smithsonian.

Correspondence and Memoranda
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1890-1919
Size:
0.4 linear meter.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 128
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include correspondence from the Registrar to Museum staff and others, mostly regarding transportation of specimens, and the annual report of the Registrar to the Assistant Secretary, including a statement of specimen distributions.

Shipment Records
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1850-1874, 1879-1885
Size:
0.8 linear meter.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 129
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include receipts from express companies for shipments from the Smithsonian. Entries usually give little or no information on contents of shipments, although more information is included for 1879-1884. One volume is for shipments by sea.

Canal Zone Biological Area Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary
Dates:
1912-1965
Size:
5.71 linear meters.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 135
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Because the Smithsonian's relations to STRI have been both longstanding and various, STRI files are scattered through the records of the Secretary's office. The earliest STRI files in this unit have been interfiled with newer records or pulled forward, where they dealt with ongoing problems at the facility, so that no original order remains. ...

Fiscal Records, Private, Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution
Dates:
1846-1959
Size:
7.5 linear meters.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 100
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

Accession Records
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1886-1907
Size:
0.1 linear meter and 5 microfilm reels.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 111
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Temporary accession books list temporary accessions of the United States National Museum in order of receipt for the years 1886-1907. Permanent accession record books are included in record unit 110. A volume list follows.

Shipment Records
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1864-1940
Size:
0.4 linear meter.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 125
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include a list of packages announced as being sent to the Smithsonian, listed and numbered in order of their announcement, and containing the following information when complete: transportation number, sender, origin, address sent to, how sent, date received, and expenses. The purpose was to control shipments of which the Sm...

Accession Records
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Creators:
United States National Museum, Office of the Registrar
Dates:
1874-1908
Size:
0.1 linear meter.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 126
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This is a record of specimens and objects stored and controlled by the Registrar's office. Information on contents is usually very limited.

Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution,Office of International Activities
Dates:
1963-1969
Size:
2.2 linear meters.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 91
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include correspondence, memoranda, and other information about the activities of the Office, which establishes cooperative research programs with institutions of higher learning in other countries and fosters programs for the international exchange of persons in those fields of science and humanities related to the Smithsonian's ...

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