Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records that document the curatorial activities of Frank Gettings, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1969-1999. Some exhibitions curated by Frank Gettings for the Hirshhorn included: Picasso's Etchings: Selections from the Museum's Collecion (1975); Robert Rauschenberg: Stoned Moon Series (1976); Art Deco Posters …
Website Records
This accession consists of "Zoku," the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery intranet, as it existed on June 11, 2020. "Zoku" includes information for staff regarding administrative support, service requests, internal resources, and museum projects. It also includes policies, guides, a knowledge base, and a monthly newsletter from the …
Website Records
This accession consists of "SkyNet," the National Air and Space Museum intranet, as it existed on June 11, 2020. "SkyNet" includes information for staff regarding facilities, internal resources, museum projects, and groups and committees. It also includes policies, organizational charts, and meeting minutes. Materials are in electronic format.
Grant Files
This accession consists of records that document the development and programmatic relationship between the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), the United States Information Agency, and various overseas research centers. Materials include grant applications, proposals, final financial reports, and final program reports.
Program Records
This accession consists of the program records of the Office of Education at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and documents their work on educational programming for the museum and its exhibitions. Programming documented includes "Face to Face: Adventure with History!;" "Discover Portraits: Learning to See;" "Those Inventive Americans;" and "Include …
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records maintained by Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director, 1991- , concerning the proposed international traveling exhibition "But Beautiful . . . Portraits of Jazz: Music by Masters, Paintings by Frederick Brown." Materials include correspondence, images, clippings, and other related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) from April 19-November 16, 1975. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports.
Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers
The papers of Fred Lawrence Whipple (FLW) document his astronomical research; his professional work in the field of astronomy; and his career as Director of the SAO. They include correspondence with professional colleagues, amateur astronomers, SAO staff scientists, Smithsonian Institution officials, scientific societies and professional groups, government agencies, and Harvard …
Correspondence
These records document the tenure of Eugene Jarosewich (1926-2007). Jarosewich was a Chemist in the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineral Sciences, Division of Meteorites from 1964 to 1998, and remained on as chemist emeritus until his death in 2007. Materials include a series of record books that record Jarosewich's analysis of …
Correspondence
This accession consists of records documenting interactions between Julian Raby, Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and other museums and cultural institutions. Some materials also document policy and planning at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery as well as Raby's professional activities …
