This accession consists of the correspondence and records of Margaret Cogswell, Special Audience Coordinator of the Office of Educational Programs. Records pertaining to DC Cultural Consortium, 1990-1995; Artist's Equality, 1993-1996; Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, 1990-1992; Hispanic Heritage Month, 1991-1993; National Museum of ...

The collection documents Howard F. Bowker, a coin collector and expert in the coinage of East Asia.

The papers of Chicago artist and educator Ray Yoshida measure 10 linear feet and date from circa 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of the material dating from 1950 to 2005. Yoshida's career as a painter and collagist as well as his long tenure as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are documented through biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

This accession consists of Committee for a Wider Audience audiotape recordings documenting Heritage Month program keynote lectures, concerts, special events, symposiums, exhibition openings, and meetings. Earlier recordings date back to when the Committee for a Wider Audience was under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Service, ...

This accession consists of concert notes and other programs for the Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series and Asian performances presented by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

The Science Media Group (SMG) was founded by Dr. Matthew H. Schneps and Dr. Philip Michael Sadler as an experimental project to explore novel applications of video in the service of science education. In operation at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory from 1989 to 2013, this accession consists of...

The Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family Papers (1906-1976) document the professional and personal lives of a Japanese-American family in Boston during the twentieth century. The patriarch, Yatsuhashi Harumichi (1886-1982), was an influential Asian art dealer and the papers also document the professional experiences of Asian art dealers in the United States during the early and mid 20th century. Mr. Yatsuhashi worked at the antiquities firm of Yamanaka & Company before starting his own Asian antiquities shop in 1945. Included in the papers, portions in Japanese, are correspondence; catalogues relating to the Alien Property Custodian's 1944 liquidation of Yamanaka & Company's New York branch's holdings; photographs depicting art objects and shop interiors, the Yatsuhashi family, Yamanaka & Company, and extended family, friends, and colleagues; and items belonging to Mr. Yatsuhashi's wife, Shigeki, and some of their children.

Research material gathered by Brandon B. Fortune regarding two exhibitions and one exhibition catalog about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; including correspondence with museums and collectors, and photocopied book pages. The exact title of the first exhibition is now unknown, but it was likely similar to "World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893: Department of Fine Arts." The second exhibition was entitled "American Art at the 1893 World's Fair-Revisiting the White City," which was accompanied by a book with the same title.

Photographs depicting government buildings, Christian missions, Buddhist pagodas and monks, Muslim mosques, industry, agriculture, and dances in Burma. People depicted include Chins, Karens, Shans, Burmese, and Methodist missionaries. Some of the handcolored lantern slides are marked by the Christian Lecture Bureau in Chicago and others depict a ma...

This accession consists of records documenting the Heritage Month programs. These records were compiled and used by the Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center in order to provide information to the public. Materials include calendars of events, press releases, brochures, correspondence, and memoranda.