Personal and business correspondence; photographs; writings; biographical materials; and printed materials.

This accession consists of videotapes related to the exhibitions Surprise! Surprise! Pop-up and Moveable Books and Hollywood: Legend and Reality.

These records are the administrative files of the Office of the Director, National Museum of Natural History. Most of the records date from the late-to-mid 1950s. Those records created prior to 1959 are the records of the Director of the United States National Museum, although they are records relating primarily to that segment of the U. ...

Photographs taken by Allan L. Pitcher, a Foreign Service officer working and traveling in Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Ghana and Upper Volta. Images include individual and group portraits of men, women and children, leaders and village elders. There are numerous images of markets to include close-ups of market stalls and street views. Also included are images of rites, ceremonies and various dance performances in Liberia, among the boys about to enter the initiation camp, women of Sande society and dances performed in conjunction with government ceremonies. Another focus of the photography are industry and economic activities. Slides show rubber production in Firestone Rubber plantation (Liberia), mining and dam construction. Among the most important images are architectural shots, which include African residences as well as official buildings. Pitcher also photographed the Esso station with the screens by Adebisi Akanji and a shrine in Oshogbo.

The collection contains Charles Rowell's typed and hand-written interpretations of Anko's calendar, A sound recording of Rowell discussing the Anko calendar, and newspaper clippings relating to Rowell's paintings based on Anko's calendar.

The estate papers of New York tonalist painter Henry Ward Ranger, measure one linear foot and date from 1888-circa 1999, with the bulk of the material dating from 1904-1954.The collection primarily documents the settlement of Ranger's contested will and the administration of his estate, but also provides scattered biographical information on Ranger's life, provenance information about his work, and documentation of the significance of his estate gift to the National Academy of Design. Records include appraisal information including an estate ledger, correspondence and memoranda including two letters from Ranger, court documents, financial and real estate records, news clippings, and two photographs and eight negatives of Ranger.

The Marian Gore "Art Scene" interviews and papers measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1958 to 1969, with all sound recordings dated between 1962 and 1964. The core of the collection consists of 37 radio programs recorded by Marian Gore for KPFK radio in Los Angeles, California, consisting of interviews with artists, collectors, gallerists, and museum curators. A series of artist files contains notes, correspondence and other materials related to her interview subjects, and a printed materials series contains mainly exhibition posters, programs, and announcements produced by the art spaces with which her subjects were affiliated.

Exhibition schedules, 1961-1983; scrapbooks, 1961-1984, containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, news releases, printed material about exhibitions, lectures, symposiums and music and film series sponsored by the museum, and photographs of gallery installations and museum guests; and newsletters from the Education Department.

This accession consists of a website, a blog, and an online exhibition maintained by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). The primary NMAI website, crawled on July 5, 2017, includes information about the museum as well as its exhibitions, collections, programs, and professional training opportunities. It also includes educationa...

This accession consists of the records of Paul Forman, curator of modern physics, which document his participation in exhibition planning at the National Museum of American History, as well as his work on exhibition publications and object research. Earlier records date from when Forman was in the Division of Electricity and Nuclear Energ...