Special Projects Records
This accession consists of records that document the movement of National Museum of Natural History collections to the Museum Support Center (MSC). Materials include reports; budget summaries; meeting agendas and minutes; move schedule; collections inventory information; MSC strategic plan for facilities management; newsletters; videotape introduction to MSC; committee and development …
Publicity Records
These records consist primarily of extensive publicity materials relating to the building and opening of the Quadrangle complex. They include photographs at many stages of construction, fundraising booklets, donor lists, press kits, press releases, and interviews. Also included in the collection are publicity materials relating to the Smithson Bicentennial, including …
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
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Assembled by collectors Dr. Henry D. Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century photography of Japan. Includes albumen prints, portions handcolored, some signed and numbered in the negative. Taken by photographers Felice Beato (b. ca. 1825), Baron Raimon von Stillfried (1938-1911), Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880s), Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and …
Records
This accession consists of photographs, captions, and press releases related to engineering and engineering research. The files were originally compiled by and for the journalists who worked for the organization Science Service (see Record Unit 7091) from the 1920s through the 1960s. These informational "morgue" files were organized in the Science Service library …
Audiovisual Records
These records document the promotion of events and exhibitions at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The records include promotional films; audio and video taped interviews with Arthur M. Sackler curators (Fu Shen, Esin Atil) and Secretary Robert McCormick Adams; public service announcements (PSAs); tapes …
Publicity Records
This accession consists of records documenting Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) publicity and outreach. Materials include promotional materials; educational products (some including specimens, videos, and books); presentations; several volumes of "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Contributions to Research" (compendiums of research papers); reports; videos about STRI facilities, staff, and research produced …
Project Files
This accession consists of project files, including correspondence with sponsors and media, memoranda, press releases, newspaper clippings, project proposals, legislative information, photographs, event files, advertisements, publicity reports and planning files. Particularly well documented is the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian to the Smithsonian and the opening of …
Audiotapes
This accession consists of master cassette audiotapes of educational programs and meetings presented by the various program offices within the Smithsonian Associates (TSA).
Records
This accession consists of records that document short-term events such as dinners for Regents, special meetings, awards, and special guests of the Smithsonian Institution. Documentation includes memoranda, correspondence, purchase and catering receipts, menus, lists and addresses of guests, agenda, invitations, facilities applications, minutes of meetings, acceptance lists, printed programs, invoices …
Clippings
This accession consists of newspaper and magazine clippings related to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and its mission, research, and activities. In addition to clippings, materials include reprints as well as published reports and publications by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and its Center for Tropical Forest Science.
