This accession consists of curatorial correspondence and memoranda from the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), Aeronautics Department, documenting the history of aeronautics, NASM exhibitions, and professional activities. Department correspondents include Samuel B. Fishbein, Museum Specialist; R. E. G. Davies, Curator of Air Transport; ...

This accession consists of records documenting updates to the "Black Wings" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum as well as educational outreach, publications, research, special events, and other activities pertaining to groundbreaking African American aviators. The "Black Wings" exhibition opened in 1982 in the Pioneers of Flight ...

This accession consists of records documenting the history of aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum (NASM) exhibitions, and professional activities of the curators. Correspondents include Tom D. Crouch, Chairman; Tom Alison, Curator; Dorothy Cochrane, Curator; R. E. G. Davies, Curator of Air Transport; Von Hardesty, Curator of Soviet ...

This accession consists of curatorial correspondence and memoranda from the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), Aeronautics Department, pertaining to the history of aeronautics, NASM exhibitions, and professional activities. Department correspondents include F. Robert van der Linden, Curator; Thomas M. Alison, Curator; Alex M. Spencer, ...

This accession consists of National Air and Space Museum (NASM) records created and maintained by Peter L. Jakab, Curator, 1985-2002. Topics covered include planning and communications of lecture programs such as the General Electric Aviation Lecture Series, aviation history, and events. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, photographs...

This accession consists of the records of Martin J. Collins, Curator, documenting planning, development, and production activities for the exhibitions The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age, Looking at Earth, Space Race, Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, and Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age, particularly in r...

This accession includes award files that document funding for education, research, and exhibitions. Materials include correspondence and memoranda, contract information, grant requests, budget summaries, financial reports, and authorizations. These files show grantee name, grant code, sponsor name, and date. They are listed in grant number ...

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.

This accession consists of program records documenting accepted applicants for fellowships, research positions, and internships at the Smithsonian Institution, with earlier records dating back to when the Office of Fellowships and Internships was known as the Office of Fellowships, the Office of Research Training and Services, the Office ...

The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.