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Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1967-1991
- Size:
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2.1 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 626
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The records of the Director of the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program document the administration and operations of the organization. They contain correspondence and memoranda concerning the budget, fiscal planning, and fundraising, as well as lectures, seminars, and performances offered by RAP. The files also include contact sheets s...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
- Dates:
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1967-1986
- Size:
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12.3 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 629
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document OMP's efforts to promote knowledge of museology and its techniques. Many of the records deal with daily operations of the office. Other records are concerned with cooperative work with international and national museum organizations, as well as topics like museum registration, conservation, public relations security, ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
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1975-1989
- Size:
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6.97 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 625
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the tenure of Jane R. Glaser as Director of the Office of Museum Programs (OMP), 1976-1989. Topics of note include the Kellogg Project and the range of workshops offered to museologists. Videotapes are also included.
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Smithsonian Institution., Office of American Studies
- Dates:
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1962-1987
- Size:
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11.5 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 609
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the operations of OAS. They also contain records from an organizational predecessor, the Department of American Studies, Museum of History and Technology, which had been chaired by Washburn. OAS records deal with the work of the Office and its involvement with other Smithsonian offices and bureaus; its work with num...
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Smithsonian Institution, National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
- Dates:
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circa 1960-1975
- Size:
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6.2 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 581
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the activities of NAFMAB, including collecting and accessioning, planning for a site, exhibits design, and carrying out various projects. Also included is a multi-volume chronology of events, 1946-1973, in addition to copies of files of NMHT curator Mendel L. Peterson, who represented the Smithsonian on a preliminary ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Consultant to the Secretary (Frank A. Taylor)
- Dates:
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1969-1980
- Size:
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0.4 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 605
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document Frank A. Taylor's work as both Consultant to Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, and as Research Associate for the Office of Museum Programs. Included are correspondence, memoranda, reports, handwritten notes, budgets, and newspaper clippings regarding four major projects: the Mid-American Center, Arkansas; the Smithsonian ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Conservation Analytical Laboratory
- Dates:
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1963-1983
- Size:
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5.7 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 576
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the Conservation Analytical Laboratory's (CAL) work with Smithsonian Institution curators and collections during the tenures of John H. Olin, Robert M. Organ, Jacqueline S. Olin, and Eleanor McMillan. They also document the Laboratory's extensive training programs and its wide contacts with other museums, both in th...
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National Postal Museum
- Dates:
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1915-1991
- Size:
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4.5 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 580
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of staff correspondence and memoranda of the National Postal Museum and its predecessors; early photographs of exhibitions; planning information for the Hall of Philately; newspaper clippings, articles, and research files documenting the origin and extensive history of the National Postal Museum; proposals, preliminary ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Secretary for Museum Programs
- Dates:
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1975, 1978, 1980-1986
- Size:
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6.2 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 575
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the work of the Assistant Secretary for Museum Programs, Paul N. Perrot, over a substantial period of his tenure and the tenure of his successor, William N. Richards. Records concern issues of general Smithsonian Institution administration and policy, as well as more specific topics dealing with specific museums and ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Registrar
- Dates:
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1974-1992, with related records from 1967
- Size:
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9 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 568
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.