This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Ralph Rinzler, Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 1978-1983; Assistant Secretary for Public Service, 1984-1989, and Assistant Secretary Emeritus, 1990-1994. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, meeting materials, policies, fliers,...
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, ...
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Ralph Rinzler, Assistant Secretary for Public Service, 1984-1990. Materials include correspondence and memoranda; clippings; brochures; meeting minutes and agendas; audiotapes; and other related materials.
The records are arranged in four alphabetic series, in the order in which they were received from the originating office. The series overlap in chronology and subject matter and are probably just segments of one general alphabetic subject file that was haphazardly weeded and separated as parts of the file became non-current. Much of the pre-1...
These records document activities of the former Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Service, which was renamed the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service in 1992, and the Office of the Assistant Provost for Education and Cultural Programs in 1994. Included is correspondence and memoranda of Ralph Rinzler, ...
These records document the activities of the Assistant Secretary for Public Service in the 1970s and 1980s, with a small amount of material dating back to 1968. The records concern the offices reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Public Service, including the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Press, the Office ...
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Ralph Rinzler, Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 1978-1983; Assistant Secretary for Public Service, 1984-1989, and Assistant Secretary Emeritus, 1990-1994. Topics include surveys, special events, audiovisual program development, folklife programs...
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Ralph Rinzler during his tenure as Assistant Secretary for Public Service and as Assistant Secretary Emeritus, respectively. Earlier records date back to when Rinzler was Director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Materials include correspondence, ...
This accession consists of records relating to the Intertoys Multiexpo (the first international multiple museum exhibition of toys, play materials, and learning aids) of 1971, compiled by William W. Warner, Assistant Secretary for Public Service. It was a joint venture between the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Gallery of Ontario, UNICEF, ...
This accession consists of records that document the work of the Committee for a Wider Audience (CWA), chaired by Dr. Vera Hyatt. Its objective was to make Smithsonian Institution (SI) programs, exhibits, and the like less reflective of ethnocentric Western cultural assumptions and more hospitable to other cultural expressions and points ...