Technical Project Files
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Robert Schneider, Technical Director, 2000-2015, documenting the technical design of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and other programs. Materials include drawings, specifications, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, research, meeting materials, correspondence, and related materials.
Subject Files
This accession consists of records documenting the administration of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The bulk of the materials were created by Kerry Brougher, Curator, Chief Curator, Director of Arts and Programs, and Deputy Director, 2000-2014, as well as Acting Director, 2007-2009, and Interim Director, 2013-2014. Smaller amounts of records were created …
Administrative Records
This accession consists of records documenting administrative activities at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, especially the budget process and management of facility and other special projects. Materials include budgets, reports, correspondence, memoranda, proposals, spending plans, design documents, architectural drawings, and related materials. Some materials were created within the Department …
Website Records
This accession consists of the "Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center" website and the Smithsonian Transcription Center Tumblr blog as they existed on December 29, 2015. The website invites the public to become digital volunteers and transcribe digitized collections from across the Smithsonian Institution in order to make them more accessible. This accession …
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Website Records
This accession consists of the "Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery" website as it existed on April 8, 2016. The website is an online exhibition that serves as a companion to a physical gallery of the same name at the National Air and Space Museum. Both highlight an era with an eclectic …
Digital Content Available
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of field notes of Kristian Fauchald (1935-2015), a research zoologist specializing in worms at the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 1979-2015. The majority of these materials document his fieldwork in Belize, Florida, and Aldabra Island. Materials include field data sheets.
Project Files
This accession consists of the records that document the planning, development, and execution of the exhibition, Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast, which was at the National Museum of the American Indian Mall museum from February 3, 2006 to January 2, 2007 and at the George …
Grant Proposals
This accession consists of records documenting outside funding for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) research, projects, and activities. Materials include proposals, quotations, and bids from contractors, equipment makers, and other vendors to provide services, equipment, and instruments for SAO. Files marked [JPL RSA]* are Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Research Support Agreements …
Website Records
This accession consists of "The American Experience in the Classroom: Using Art to Teach History and Language Arts, Grades 5-12" website, maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), as it existed on March 8, 2016. The American Experience in the Classroom is a resource that features artworks from the SAAM's collection that …
Digital Content Available
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of field notes of Fenner Albert Chace (1908-2004), zoologist in the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, documenting work in the Ifalik (Ifaluk) Atoll, Micronesia. Chace specialized in the research of crustaceans. Materials also include scientific illustrations and a map.
