Subject Files
This accession consists of records that document planning for the seminar "Gender Perspectives: The Impact of Women on Museums," which took place in March 1990. Jane R. Glaser, Special Assistant in the office of the Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities (in 1990, called the office of the Assistant Secretary for …
Program Files
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Margery Gordon, Education Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1984-2015, and at the National Museum of American Art (formerly the National Collection of Fine Arts), 1973-1984, documenting the development and execution of educational and public programs. The bulk of the …
Roxie C. Laybourne Oral History Interviews
The Smithsonian Institution Archives 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. Program …
Records
This accession consists of records documenting Smithsonian Institution Women's Council (SIWC) activities and advocacy interests. Materials include memoranda; reports; clippings; SIWC four star: newsletter for the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council; members lists; meeting agendas and minutes; and audio cassettes of speakers. Some materials are in electronic format.
Catherine Burt vertical file on black women
The collection, which dates from the 1980s and measures 1.42 linear feet, was compiled in the course of preparations for the "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds" exhibit, which was staged at the Anacostia Museum from February 1976 to December 1976. This collection documents the lives and achievements of African American women in a variety of fields, including law, medicine, education, politics, science and the arts. The collection is comprised of documents, magazine and newspaper clippings, correspondence, photocopies, brochures and pamphlets.
Gathered visions: selected works by African American women artists exhibition records
An exhibition on contemporary African American women artists curated by Robert L. Hall and exhibited at the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution from November 1990 to April 1991. Artists included are: Erlena Chisolm Bland, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Margo Humphrey, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Viola Burley Leak, Winnie Owens-Hart, Stephanie E. Pogue, Malkia Roberts, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Sylvia Snowden, Renée Stout, Denise Ward-Brown, Joyce E. Wellman, and Adell Westbrook.
Black women: achievements against the odds exhibition records
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
An exhibition on two-hundred years of achievements by black women. The show was created and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It was exhibited at the Anacostia Museum from February 1976 to December 1976. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, and floor plans.
Norma Broude and Mary Garrard papers
Garrard, Mary D.
Papers compiled by Norma Broude, Mary Garrard, and Broude and Garrard together relating to the feminist art movement, especially the history of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA). Files include a dossier formed by the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists (1972), reports, correspondence, meeting files, founding documents, surveys, committee records …
Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots Collection
This collection will consist of three series of materials: biographical material, transcripts of interviews with the pilots and negatives and photographs. The contact sheets were added on March 26, 2007. A copy of the media digest for Women in Flight, (prepared by NASM's Office of Public Affairs) was added to this collection …
Council Records
This accession consists the of records of Margaret Vining, who served as executive secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council (SIWC). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes documenting SIWC activities and administration topics such as committee meetings, the Women in Museums Network, publications, membership, fundraising, sponsorship, and Take Our Daughters …
