Records
The Archives would like to thank Frederick J. Collier and Martin A. Buzas for their assistance in the transfer of these records to the Archives.
United States Space Program Oral History Collection [Kapp]
This collection consists of reel to reel audio tapes relating to the United States space program. The material includes recordings of events, missions, press conferences, and other happenings from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
Correspondence and Memoranda
This accession consists of correspondence and memoranda concerning the administration and activities of the Department. Also included are invoices, curatorial papers, and administrative records. Some materials date to when the museum was known as the Museum of History and Technology and from before the creation of the museum when it …
Records
This collection consists of records, mostly dated 1816-1830, concerning the founding and operation of the Columbian Institute by Edward Cutbush, Thomas Law, and others. Records document efforts to raise money for a building, publishing projects, and a botanical garden; and to collect natural history specimens. Also included are minutes of meetings …
Subject Files
This accession consists of records that document the administrative and professional activities of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), Office of the Director. Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Abram Lerner, HMSG Director from 1974-1984, and James T. Demetrion, Director 1984- . Some of the Lerner correspondence dates back to 1965, when …
Program Records
These records document the development of automated data management systems for the collections of NMNH and other museums, the establishment of data handling and storage standards, and the consolidation of administrative structures to control automation policy at the Smithsonian. They include documentation of the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Project …
Records
These records consist primarily of budget proposals, appropriations, and estimates of different Smithsonian Institution offices; and chronological files for 1973. The majority of files document the FY 1976 budget.
Records
This accession consists of the records of the Office of Programming and Budget and include correspondence, memoranda, meetings, reports, budgets, personnel task force materials, travel records, visitor statistics, and zero base budgets.
Records
These records consist of memoranda, budget summary sheets, and proposed budgets from Smithsonian Institution (SI) bureaus; and proposed budget publications.
Records
These records consist of documentation of the federal budget process, including reports on work in Smithsonian bureaus and offices.
