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History of Smithsonian Folklife Oral History Interview
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Dates:
2005-2006
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (2 half document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9619
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. P...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Office of the Director
Dates:
1977-2001
Size:
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 06-001
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of exhibition records created by Spencer R. Crew during his tenure as curator in the Division of Community Life, and later, as Director of the National Museum of American History. The records document planning for the exhibitions Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 and Go Forth and Serve: Black Lan...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
Dates:
1968-2010
Size:
10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 11-021
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, slides, transparencies, scripts, itineraries, floor plans, checklists, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes, and other related records. Rec...

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 23-July 4, 1988
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1988
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution., Traveling Exhibition Service
Dates:
circa 1977-2002
Size:
22 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-129
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions.

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
Dates:
1975-2003
Size:
23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 04-064
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes and related records. Records are ...

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Digitized Content Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Department of Public Programs
Dates:
1968-1992
Size:
41 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 584
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records mostly consist of staff correspondence and memoranda documenting administrative and program-oriented activities of the Department of Public Programs. The records pertain to fundraising, social history lectures and seminars, the Senior Series Program, budget, educational outreach proposals, grant information, planning for the...

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Administrative Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary
Dates:
1989
Size:
40 cu. ft. (40 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 92-070
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Records consist of Secretary Robert McCormick Adams' administrative files for 1989. Included are correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other communications received or issued by the Office of the Secretary, reflecting a wide range of official activities. The records contain correspondence relating to major Smithsonian exhibitions; copies ...

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Digitized Content Norcross Greeting Card Collection
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Creators:
Norcross, Arthur Dickinson, d. 1968
Tuck, Raphael, fl. 1880s
Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Rust Craft Publishers (Boston, Mass.)
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Dates:
1800-1981
bulk 1880-1881
Size:
202 Cubic feet (179 boxes, 362 volumes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0058
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collections consists of the records of both the Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in New York City in the 1920s and The Rust Craft Greeting Card Company, founded in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906. Both the Norcross and Rust Craft companies collected antique greeting cards. Also includes a small number of modern cards by other manufacturers, circa 1930-1980. Collection represents development of the greeting card industry, social trends in the United States and technology of the printing industry from 1924 through 1978.

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Grant Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Secretary for Public Service
Dates:
circa 1980-1990
Size:
3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 95-005
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of files documenting grants by the Assistant Secretary for Public Service to Smithsonian offices for educational outreach programs among their constituents. Examples include a project sponsored by the American Indian Program to encourage Native American artists. The files include correspondence and memoranda, budgets, ...

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