Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Lissim, Simon, 1900-1981
- Dates:
-
1924 - 1981
- Size:
-
1.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1276
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection covers the period 1924-81 and consists of exhibition catalogs, correspondence, photographs, slides, drawings, photostats, contracts, book proofs, and related biographical material on Lissim. Extensive material on the designer's work for the Sevres porcelain factory includes correspondence, original contracts, photographs of porcelai...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1980-2006
- Size:
-
10.56 cu. ft. (24 blueprint storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 10-061
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of drawings documenting the design of exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Exhibitions documented in this accession include "Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760;" "Avant-Garde Letterhead;" "Lace;" "What Could Have Been: Unbuilt Architecture of the 80s;" "Solos: Smartwrap;" "Faberge: Jeweler ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1958-1996
- Size:
-
9.5 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-181
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Director's chronological correspondence, budget files and financial reports, exhibition files, planning reports, acquisitions committee meeting minutes, Cooper-Hewitt publications (News, Programs, and Newsletter, and other brochures), and video and audio tapes (primarily news coverage and promotional productions). ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Sutnar, Ladislav
- Dates:
-
1927-1976
- Size:
-
85 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CH.2001-26-1
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Libraries
Material relates to Sutnar's career including exhibitions, designs for corporate clients, designs for books on packaging design and catalog information. Little office correspondence and personal information is provided.The major part of the collection consists of Sutnar's designs, including logos, letterheads, catalogs, and advertising campaigns for a large number of clients, notably Addo-X, Carr's Department Stores, JC Penney, RCA, and Vera, as well as product and catalog design for Sweet's Catalog Service. Also included are drafts of books, sketches, over 5,000 photographs, photoprints, and photonegatives. Other materials include clippings, page layouts, brochures and booklets about package design and magazine layouts.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Dates:
-
1976-2000
- Size:
-
12 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-117
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the installation, development, and publicity of exhibitions and visitor response to those exhibitions. Materials include installation photographs, object lists, label copy, scripts, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, and visitor comment books. An exhibitions list is found at the front ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Administrator
- Dates:
-
1962-1988
- Size:
-
17.58 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 545
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records were created mostly by administrators Rohlfing, Dobkin, and Dunne. They document the activities of the Museum Advisory Board and the acquisitions committee and contain files on fundraising, membership, product development, sales, education, collections management, and exhibitions. The records also include audit reports and annual...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of the Registrar
- Dates:
-
1958, 1975-1987
- Size:
-
35 cu. ft. (35 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 541
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records pertain to the exhibitions of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, beginning with the first held under the auspices of the Smithsonian, Immovable Objects/Lower Manhattan from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in June 1975, and ending with Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament, which closed in September 1987. In addit...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1969-1992
- Size:
-
25 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 531
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the conceptualization, development, design, and execution of several exhibitions held by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum from 1973 through 1992, and of exhibitions rejected or cancelled by the museum. Exhibition files include proposals; research files; correspondence with object lenders, scholars, and exhibition designers; ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
circa 1985-2008
- Size:
-
23.85 cu. ft. (21 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (2 tall document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-175
- Repository:
-
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 ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1984-1999
- Size:
-
18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-123
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting incoming loans for Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibitions. Materials include condition reports, correspondence, loan agreements, color object photographs, object lists, shipping information, photocopies of images, catalogs, and contracts. A small portion of the records also document ...
