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Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Department of Exhibitions
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1930-1969
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 280
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document, for the most part, the Department under the administration of Calvin S. Hathaway, Curator, 1946-1951, and Director, 1951-1963. Included is correspondence of Hathaway with members of the exhibition staff and with collectors and institutions concerning the exhibits in the museum; exhibit files, arranged alphabetically by ...
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Hague, Marian
Greenleaf, Richard Cranch, 1887-1961
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Library.
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1940
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1 photographic album (57 photographic prints mounted on blank leaves of paper, b&w, 29 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CH.XXXX-0004
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Smithsonian Libraries
Images of 16th-early 19th century European hand-made lace and tassels from the collection of Richard C. Greenleaf. The Greenleaf collection of lace was later given as a bequest to the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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1864-1980
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4.57 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 16x20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-100
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of various materials transferred from subject files in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum library. In the first series are files assembled by researcher Brooks Adams during the development of the exhibition Hair, which was on view at the museum from June 10 through August 17, 1980. Also included are exhibition files for The ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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1881, 1895-1976
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56 cu. ft. (56 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 267
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Committee to Save the Cooper Union Museum
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1963-1971, with related material from 1932
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 633
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These files were assembled by the management and staff of the Cooper Union Museum, and later the Cooper Hewitt Museum, to document their activities during discussions about the Museum's future and its transfer from the Cooper Union to the Smithsonian Institution from 1963 to 1970. The records contain correspondence and memoranda of Museum ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Administrator
- Dates:
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1962-1988
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7.21 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 545
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Library
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1864-1977
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 598
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These materials were accumulated over time in the Library of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (CHM). Most were produced before the Cooper Union Museum was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1968, and some predate the establishment of the Museum itself in 1896. The publications include an incomplete series of Cooper Union annual reports ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Friends of the Museum of the Cooper Union
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1934-1963
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1 cu. ft. (2 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 288
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the Friends of the Museum's annual appeals and annual meetings. Included is correspondence requesting donations; invitations to the meetings and exhibit openings; correspondence with guest speakers; receipt and expense reports; copies of speeches given at the annual meetings; and membership lists.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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1897-1973
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4.24 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (2 12x17 boxes) (2 16x20 boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 289
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of newspaper and journal articles concerning the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibitions, the closing of the Cooper Union Museum of Decorative Arts in 1963, the Museum's transfer to the Smithsonian Institution in 1968, and the Museum's relocation to the Carnegie Mansion in 1970. Included are exhibition albums consisting o...
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
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circa 1985-2008
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23.85 cu. ft. (21 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (2 tall document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-175
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting research, planning, design, execution, and installation of exhibitions during the tenure of David Revere McFadden, Curator, 1978-1993; Deborah Shinn, Curator-in-Charge, 1995-1996, and Assistant Curator, 1997-2002; and Sarah Coffin, Curator, 2004- . Exhibitions documented in this accession include ...