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Subject Files
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Creators:
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
Dates:
1968-2001
Size:
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 05-016
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of subject files documenting the administration of the National Portrait Gallery during the tenures of directors Charles Nagel (1964-1969), Marvin S. Sadik (1969-1981), Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000), and Marc Pachter (2000- ). Materials include correspondence, memoranda and related information.

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Freer/Sackler Files
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Dates:
1987-1999
Size:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 01-206
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records created and maintained by Patrick H. Sears, Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities, documenting individual departments within the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Materials include mission statements and strategic plans, memoranda, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, newsle...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Programs Department
Dates:
2005-2008
Size:
2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 09-235
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records created and maintained by Anne Ellegood, Curator of Contemporary Art, 2005-2009, documenting the planning, development, and installation of exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Exhibitions documented in this accession include The Cinema Effect: Illusions, Reality, and the Moving Image; ...

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Curatorial Correspondence
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Creators:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Curatorial Department
Dates:
1938-1956, 1970-1978, 1986-1994, 2000-2002
Size:
4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 07-160
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting the affairs of curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), particularly their correspondence with the other institutions and the public. Topics include the collection, new and rejected acquisitions, provenance, research, artists, collectors, exhibitions, labels, funding, and ...

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 30-July 11, 2006
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.2006
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

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Digitized Content Civil War Propaganda Scrapbooks
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Creators:
Campbell, Jean H.
Dates:
1861 - 1861
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1372
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains three scrapbooks filled with Civil War propaganda primarily from the North's perspective. The scrapbooks include illustrated envelopes as well as clippings from envelopes, magazines, and almanacs.

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Records
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Creators:
National Postal Museum
Dates:
1894-1993
Size:
10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 580
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of staff correspondence and memoranda of the National Postal Museum and its predecessors; early photographs of exhibitions; planning information for the Hall of Philately; newspaper clippings, articles, and research files documenting the origin and extensive history of the National Postal Museum; proposals, preliminary ...

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Digitized Content MS 1082 Prayerboard with Liturgy Written in Spanish and Salinan, Handwritten Ink on Paper Pasted on Wood Board
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Creators:
Pieras, Miguel, - approximately 1795
Sitjar, Buenaventura, 1739-1808
Cabot, Pedro, 1777-1836
Juan Batista Sancho
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Dates:
1817
Size:
1 Item (leaf )
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1082
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The prayer board is signed by P. Cabot, believed to be Father Pedro Cabot of the San Antonio Mission.

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John B. Walker Cut-Outs Collection
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Creators:
Walker, John Brown, 1815-1908
Coats, Helen Hotchkiss
Dates:
1815-1908
Size:
0.33 Cubic feet (1 Box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0249
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

John B. Walker was an itinerant artist who made paper cut-out designs that he sent to his friends as presents, decorations, and commemorations. His collection did not come to light until the early 1960s in Geauga County, Ohio.

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Director's Administrative Records
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Dates:
1967-2013
Size:
23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 15-341
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting the administration of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), previously known as the Office of Folklife Programs, 1978-1991, and the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, 1992-1999, during the tenure of Richard Kurin. Kurin served as the Deputy Director, 1985-1987; ...

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