This accession consists of records that document the production activities undertaken by Carolyn L. Hopewell, Office of Telecommunications. Materials include correspondence concerning budetary matters and memoranda referring to educational outreach funding, publicity photographs, newspaper clippings, minutes of meetings, audio scripts, a statu...

This accesion consists of records that document the exhibition activities of Lydia Puccenelli, Curator, circa 1967-2000. Puccinelli was a curator with the Museum of African Art before it became a part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979 and was later renamed the National Museum of African Art. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, ...

These records contain exhibition material, including staff research notes on artists and artwork; administrative records concerning the shipment of exhibited artwork, loan correspondence, security and display of the exhibited material, photographs of display items, and installation photographs; staff correspondence including correspondence ...

This accession consists of records documenting the planning and development of exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The majority of the files were created by Kristen Hileman, Assistant Curator, 2003-2007, and Associate Curator, 2007-2009, and Evelyn Carol Hankins, Associate Curator and Curator, 2008- , with smaller amounts...

This accession consists of materials concerning departmental matters created and maintained by Laurence J. Dorr during his tenure as Chair of the Department of Botany in the National Museum of Natural History. Dorr served as Chair from October 1, 2015, through February 17, 2019. Materials include correspondence, meeting notes and agenda, ...

Collection consists of approximately 13,500 images (original photographs, copy prints, and film and glass plate negatives) for freight, passenger, private, and street and rapid transit cars manufactured by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The collection contains primarily early railroad Americana, including interior and exterior views of private and business cars as well as passenger and street cars. The collection is an important part of the historical record of the railroad car-building industry as well as the history of architecture and interior design.

The Frederick Johnson collection consists of original negatives made from 1924 to 1931 by Johnson primary among the Mi'kmaq, Innu, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Montagnais, Abenaki, Anishinaabe, and Mistassini Cree peoples of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec, Canada. Frederick Johnson began his anthropological studies as a teenager, accompanying anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1951) on trips to Native communities in Eastern Canada. Between 1923 and 1929, Johnson studied at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted several research trips in Canada, some of which were sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

The records of the DC Cowboys Dance Company, an all-male, gay, non-profit dance company based in Washington, DC. that was active from 1994-2012. They peformed nationally and internationally live and on television, "celebrating diversity through dance."

The papers of painter, collage artist, and printmaker Nancy Spero measure 27.5 linear feet and 19.12 GB and are dated 1940s-2009. Biographical materials, correspondence, interviews, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed and digital material, and photographic materials provide an overview of her exhibitions, major projects, and personal life. Also documented is her interest and participation in political movements and social issues including anti-war, women's rights, animal rights, repressive regimes, and the treatment of political prisoners.

The papers of painter and illustrator Elihu Vedder measure approximately 9.2 linear feet and date from 1804-1969, with the bulk of the material dating from 1840-1923. The collection documents Vedder's personal life and work. Best known for his illustrations of the 1884 edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Vedder's papers include correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, a limited number of drawings, books and printed material, legal and financial papers, and scattered personal and family papers.