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National Museum Building Construction Records
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Dates:
1902-1909, 1917-1919, 1928-1929
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 folder oversize materials)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 80
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records, together with record units 79, 81, and 187 contain full documentation of construction of the 1911 National Museum Building, from internal planning and contracts to construction details and costs. Rathbun prepared a history of the museum construction, which was published as A Descriptive Account of the Building Recently Erected ...

Records
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Dates:
1942-1946
Size:
16.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (29 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 87
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection includes records concerning the Board's projects, general correspondence, committee and organization work and information concerning specialized data and special subjects. Postwar regional administration records, geographic reports, country information files, photographs and uncompleted project records are also included, a...

Correspondence
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Dates:
1878-1906
Size:
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 138
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records are the official incoming correspondence of the Division of Insects (outgoing correspondence for part of the period is included in record unit 139). Included is correspondence from entomologists and others requesting determinations, loans of specimens, or regarding purchase or gift of specimens for the museum; and correspondence ...

Correspondence and Specimen Records
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Dates:
1882-1918
Size:
2.5 cu. ft. (5 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 139
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include receipts for specimens, annual and monthly reports of the Division, and correspondence regarding acquisition, distribution, and loan of specimens.

Correspondence
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Dates:
1909-1963
Size:
17 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 140
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records comprise the official correspondence of the Department of Entomology. Because a close relationship existed between the Department of Entomology of the National Museum and the Bureau of Entomology of the Agriculture Department, there is considerable correspondence of Agriculture Department staff, notably August Busck and Carl...

Correspondence
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Dates:
1963-1967
Size:
2 cu. ft. (4 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 148
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

A great majority of the records concern donation of other receipt of specimens in the National Museum; distribution or loan of specimens from the Museum; requests for determination of specimens by other entomologists and the general public (a considerable proportion of the determinations were made for state departments of entomology); and ...

Records
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Dates:
1903-1911
Size:
24.02 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 16x20 box) (5 tall document boxes) (11 folders oversize materials)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 81
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The National Museum Building Construction Records, 1894 - 1919 (bulk 1903 - 1911), document the process and methods used to construct the National Museum Building that is now known as the National Museum of Natural History. These records primarily refer to the management of the construction aspects of the project, documenting specifications ...

Subject Files
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Dates:
1948-1970
Size:
48 cu. ft. (48 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 155
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records are the administrative files of the Office of the Director, National Museum of Natural History. Most of the records date from the late-to-mid 1950s. Those records created prior to 1959 are the records of the Director of the United States National Museum, although they are records relating primarily to that segment of the U. ...

Ellis Leon Yochelson Papers
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Dates:
1991-1994
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 95-139
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist primarily of Ellis Leon Yochelson's professional correspondence relating to his invertebrate paleontological research with the United States Geological Survey. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence with other scholars about the identification of fossil samples, commentary on research papers, and other iss...

Exhibition Records
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Dates:
circa 1982-1990
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 95-146
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, scripts, drawings, plans, and related materials documenting the planning and preparation of temporary and permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History, including the "Ocean Planet" exhibition. Most of the records were created by Carl A. Alexander, Exhibits Programmer.

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