Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 13-194
National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs
Exhibition and Program Records, 1994-2011
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs |
Title: | Exhibition and Program Records |
Dates: | 1994-2011 |
Quantity: | 8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 13-194 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records which document the oversight and review process at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in regards to exhibitions, public programs, symposia, websites, productions, and performances. In particular, the activities of the Exhibitions and Program Committee (EPC) which was created in 1996. The EPC was charged with providing oversight and guidance of exhibitions and related public programs, as well as advising the Director of NMAH and the Management Committee in regards to all interpretive programs.In 2005, the EPC was reorganized as the Interpretive Planning Advisory Committee (IPAC) and Interpretive Review Committee (IRC). The IPAC was responsible for developing and maintaining the procedures and guidelines for proposing exhibitions and other public presentations. After evaluating proposals, the IPAC would make recommendations based on the merits (content and visitor experiences) of proposals to the IRC. The IRC in turn assesses the proposals from the perspective of NMAH's strategic framework and goals, paying attention to the feasibility of proposal and level of priority within the contact of NMAH's other activities and projects.In 2011, IPAC and IRC were reorganized into the Committee on Exhibitions and Programs (CEP) and Project Review Committee (PRC). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, guidelines, meeting agendas, meeting minutes and notes, proposals, exhibition schedules, videotapes, images, and clippings. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records which document the oversight and review process at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in regards to exhibitions, public programs, symposia, websites, productions, and performances. In particular, the activities of the Exhibitions and Program Committee (EPC) which was created in 1996. The EPC was charged with providing oversight and guidance of exhibitions and related public programs, as well as advising the Director of NMAH and the Management Committee in regards to all interpretive programs.
In 2005, the EPC was reorganized as the Interpretive Planning Advisory Committee (IPAC) and Interpretive Review Committee (IRC). The IPAC was responsible for developing and maintaining the procedures and guidelines for proposing exhibitions and other public presentations. After evaluating proposals, the IPAC would make recommendations based on the merits (content and visitor experiences) of proposals to the IRC. The IRC in turn assesses the proposals from the perspective of NMAH's strategic framework and goals, paying attention to the feasibility of proposal and level of priority within the contact of NMAH's other activities and projects.
In 2011, IPAC and IRC were reorganized into the Committee on Exhibitions and Programs (CEP) and Project Review Committee (PRC).
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, guidelines, meeting agendas, meeting minutes and notes, proposals, exhibition schedules, videotapes, images, and clippings.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2027; Transferring office; 05/30/2013 memorandum, Toda to Henderson; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Committee on Exhibitions and Programs
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Exhibitions and Program Committee
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Interpretive Planning Advisory Committee
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Interpretive Review Committee
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Project Review Committee
Subject
- Committees
- Congresses and conventions
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Public relations
- Performing arts
- United States -- History
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-194, National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs, Exhibition and Program Records
Container List
Box 1
Exhibitions and Programs Committee (EPC) - 1996-2005
EPC Background and history, 1994-2006 (2 folders)
EPC Guidelines, 2001
Miscellaneous exhibition guidelines, 1996-1997
Photo gallery proposals, 1991
EPC Proposal list, October 2003-October 2004
EPC Agendas, 2005
EPC Notes, 2005
EPC Agendas, 2004
EPC Notes, 2004
EPC Agendas, 2003
EPC Notes, 2003
EPA Agendas, 2002
EPC Notes, 2002
EPC Agendas, 2001
EPA Notes, 2001
EPC Agendas, 2000
EPC Notes, 2000
EPA Agendas and notes, 1999
EPC Agendas and notes, 1998
EPC Proposals, 1998
EPC Agendas and notes, 1997
EPC Agendas and notes, 1996
EPC Call for Proposals, February 1997
Correspondence, 1997-1999
Functional Review Reports, 1997
History in the News process, 1995, 2001
Exhibit proposal process, 1995-1996
SI Exhibition Policy Drafts, 1995
SD 603: Exhibition Planning Guidelines, 2003
EPC Program review, 2002
Proposals - A
Acupuncture - Upgrade of Public Health Showcase, 2002
African-American Freedom Struggle in the Midwest - Conference, 1997
African-American in History and Memory - Symposium, 1999
Alaska Pipeline, 1997
History of Alternative and Complementary Medicine - Public Program, 1998
Through My Father's Eyes (Janet M. Alvarado), 1999-2002 (3 folders)
America in the World of Science, 2003
America on the Move (AOTM), 2002
AOTM - Coming Attractions, 2002
AOTM - Opening Festival, 2003
America Plays: An Exhibition of Entertainment and Sports, 2000
American Families in Movies, 1997
American Jazz Masters, 2004
American Legacies, 1998
Box 2
American Life and Culture, 1954-1974; 2001
American Perspectives, 1997
American Pie: American Food and American culture, 1920-2001; 2001, 2008
An American Diary, 1997-1999
An American Home, 1998
Louis Armstrong Exhibit Case, 2002
Artificial Anatomy, 1998, 2001
Automobile Display, 1997
Azucar!: The Life of Celia Cruz, 1997, 2004
Proposals - Arts and Industries Building
Arts and Industries Building - Object Rotation, 1998-1999
Arts and Industries Building - American Racing Vehicles, 2003
Proposals - Asian Pacific American (APA)
About Cold Tofu, APA Heritage Month; May 3, 2003
Americans and Aliens or Alien Americans, February 19, 2002
Kaho olawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island, August 10, 2002
Day of Remembrance, February 19, 2004
Asian Pacific American documentary film presentation, April 18-19, 2002
Hawaiian - Eddie Aikau lecture, March 7, 2003
Korean Adoptees Discussion, 2003
Public program - The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience, 2002
Hawaiian History Event, September 5, 2004
Heritage Month Event, May 2005
Heritage Month Performance and Discussion, May 3, 2003
Taiko Drums Performance, May 24, 2003
Searching for Asian America, September 10, 2003
Panel Discussion - Korean American Literature in American History, October 24, 2003
Panel Discussion - Japanese Descendants in the Americas, November 1, 2003
Panel Discussion - Centennial of Korean Immigration and Experience in America, December 4, 2003
Book Talk and Signing - No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii During World War II, January 27, 2004
Rethinking APA History, April 16-17, 2004
Yamashita Film Showing, Book Signing and Lecture, November 16, 2003
A Most Unlikely Hero, Film Screening and Book Signing, July 17, 2004
Proposals - Asian Pacific American Program (APAP)
Forum and Experience of Japanese American and African American World War II Veterans, November 16, 2004
Forum to Commemorate the 63rd Anniversary of the Signing of EO 9066, February 19, 2005
Proposals - B
National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame Temporary Cases, 2002
Bethlehem, 1996
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present; 1996-1998
Between Freedom and Slavery: The Free Blacks of the Antebellum North - Conference, 1997-1999
Biologics Control Act of 1902, 2002
BodyWorks, 1998-1999
Bon Appetit: Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom, 2001
Bridge to Freedom (or We Shall Overcome), 2004
Harry Bridges, 2001
Brown v. Board of Education, 2002
Ralph Bunche Centenary Exhibition Case, 2003
Proposals - C
Call for Proposals, 2003
New Acquisitions - Children of the Korean War: An American Family Story, 2003
New Acquisitions - AbioCor Total Artificial Heart, 2003
New Acquisitions - Plastic Human Skeleton, 2003
New Acquisitions - Smithsonian in Print (1845-1920), 2003
New Acquisitions - Comcast cable-television converter boxes, 2003
Open Storage - Immigrant Instrument Makers in America, 2003
Open Storage - 1954 Hattie Carnegie designer gowns (Oscar de la Renta gown for Hispanic Heritage Month), 2003
Open Storage - Human Nervous System, 2003
Open Storage - Insulator Collection
Open Storage - Sears, Roebuck and Co. Toy Collection, 2003
Open Storage - Texas Instruments Collection, 2003
Theatre Proposal - "Mr. Mistoffeles" Costume, 2003
Theatre Proposal - Gypsy Robe, 2003
Theatre Proposal - Hello, Dolly! Costume, 2003
Theatre Proposal - Set Model for An American in Paris film, 2003
Photo Documentary Gallery - "The Photography of War," 2003
Other Proposals - Land of Plenty, 2003
Other Proposals - September 11: Views into the Collection, 2003
Other Proposals - Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives, 2000
Other Proposals - Tumultuous Fifties programming, 2003
Call for Photo Gallery Proposals - Corapeake, 2003
Call for Photo Gallery Proposals - History of Digital Photography, 2003
Call for Photo Gallery Proposals - Women in the History of Photography, 2003
Cancer Exhibit, 2000
The Carrboro Farmer's Market Project: Photographs by Sonia Ketchian, 1998
"The Cradle of Rock" and "Carrboro Market Photographs," 1997-1999
Chinery Guitars - Exhibit, 1997
Census in 2000 - History in the News Case (HINC), 1999
Ceramics and Glass Upgrade, 1997-1998
A Change of Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Coronary Epidemic - Showcase, 1998
Ceremonial Court - Freestanding case, 1997
Chicano Visions, 2002
Christmas Trees, 1997-1998
Codes and Ciphers, 1996
Collecting Black History - Showcase, 1996
From Colony to World Power: The Armed Forces in the Making of America, 1775-1918; 1999
Columbine High School, 2000
Community of Collectors, 2002
Computer World Smithsonian Award Program, 1997-1998
Constitution Avenue Fountain Renovation, 1997
Cray Computer and HDTV Upgrade, 1997
Creating a Movement: The Delano Farm Workers' Strike, 2005
Proposals - D
Declaration of Independence Desk - Exhibit, 1999
Deep Blue, 2002
Designing Demand: Industrial Design and Consumer Demand in the Tableware Market, 1998
Digital Prints, 1998
Digitization, 1997
Disability and the Practice of Public History - Conference, 1998
Disability Rights Movement - Showcase, 1999-2000
Proposals - E
Electronic Access Committee, 1997
Duke Ellington Youth Art Exhibition, 2000
Duke Ellington Centennial Exhibition, 1999
Emissaries of Peace, 2004, 2007
Encuentros - Public Programs, 1998
Energy and Environmental Exhibit, 2000
Exhibit of Products of Research, 2004
Exhibit Teams, 2001, 2003
Exhibiting History at the Smithsonian, 1996-1997
Proposals - F
2003 Fall Family Programs
In Your Face, 1997
The Family Car, 1997
The Feather Trade: Women and the American Conservation Movement, 1997
Fiesta Dress, 2002
Fifty Years of Computer Bugs, 1997
First Flight, 1999
First Ladies Upgrades, 1999
Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song, 1997
Flag Day, 1997
Flag Hall, 1999
Flat-Top Guitar, 1998
For Mom, Country, and Tofu-Pie: Eating in the Late Twentieth Century, 1997
For Which It Stands, 2000
Four Freedoms, 2002
Fuel Cells, 2002
Proposals - G
Gallaudet (History Through Deaf Eyes), 1995-2002 (Folder 1 of 5)
Box 3
Gallaudet (History Through Deaf Eyes), 1995-2002 (Folders 2-5 of 5)
Garfield, 2002
Genes, Genome, Gene Medicine, 2002
George Washington on Display, 1998-1999
Glasspar Sports Car, 1998
Global Connections, 2000-2001
Video Displays - Hall of Graphic Arts, 1997
Gypsy Robe, 2001
Proposals - H
Handheld Multimedia Guide Project, 2004
Hearts, 2004
Heinz History Center, 2000
(HMI) Hall of Musical Instruments South Corridor, 1998-2000
James Hoban, 2001
Home of the Free, student photojournalism exhibition, 2003
Homestake Mine, 2001
Housework, 1997
Langston Hughes, 2002
Proposals - I
Ice Cream Parlor - Jukebox, 2002
Information Age - Computer Upgrades, 1997
Information Age - Recent Acquisitions, 2002-2003
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Exhibition of Numismatic Collection, 2003
Ipswich House, 1998-2002
It's Saturday Night!, 2004
Proposals - J
Jamestown, Quebec, and Santa Fe, 2004
Jazz, 2001-2005
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), April 2005
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO), July 18, 2003
Jefferson Desk, 2001
John and Sara Project, 1996, 2001
July 1942: United We Stand, 2000-2002
Proposals - K
Kids Learning History Conference, 1998
Korean/Americans, 2001
Proposals - L
Labor and Learning: Inside Industrial Education at Hampton Institute, 1899-1900; 1997
Land of Plenty, 2003
Land Transportation, 1998
Latinos and American Identity, 2000
Latino Showcases, 2001
Leaps and No Bounds, 1998
Levittown is 50 Years Old, 1997
Lift Every Voice Public Program, 2004
Mary Todd Lincoln/Elizabeth Keckley - Lincoln Dress, 1998
Little Big Horn, 1997-1998
Looking for America: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1997-1998
Lunch Boxes and Bottles and Pails, Oh My! A Lunch Box Exhibit in Mail Street Cafes, 2003-2004
Proposals - Lemelson
Colors of Invention, 1997
Color Sells, 1997
Cool Stuff Conference - Canceled, 2002
Rube Goldberg History-in-the-News Case, 1999
Inventing Ourselves, Programs and Showcase Exhibit, 2003
Invention at Play, 1999-2002
Invention at Play, small version, 2002
The Inventive Side of Nobel, 2000
Traveling Version of Nobel Exhibit, 2001-2002
Lunchtime Discussions - September 11 - Public Programs, 2001
Mindplay, 1996
Sporting Invention, 1999
Who Invented the Environment?, 1997-1998
Proposals - M
The Machinery of Democracy, 2002
Managing Money: Two Centuries of Change, 2003
Manhattan Project 60th Anniversary, 2003
Mapping the Earth During the Cold War, 1996-1997
Marketing the Marshall Plan, 1997
Masters of Their Trade: Slave Potters in the South, 1997
Margaret Mead, 2001
A Message to Mankind, 2000
The Modern Age: The Rise of Consumerism in the Tableware Market, 1998
Box 4
Mormon Trek, 1996
Motor Home Display, 2000
Proposals - N
National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame, 2002
National Institute of Standards 100th Anniversary, 1999
National Numismatics Collection Website, 1998-2001
Native History, American History: Objects Out of Storage, 2003-2004
Newest Americans/First Americans, 2001
Political and Public Tragedy: Images of the Nixon White House 25 Years Later, 1997-1999
Nuclear Powered Submarines and the Cold War, 1998
Proposals - O
Olympic Museum, 2001
On Stage and Back Stage: Women in Jazz, 2003
On the Water Planning Charter, 2004
Our Stories, Our Journeys, 2004
Proposals - P
Paint By Number, 1999
Panama Canal, 1997-1998
Inside Out: Papier Mache Anatomical Models, 1998
Parlor to Politics Upgrades, 1998
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in American History and Legend, 2002
Personal Legacies, 2000
Petty Race Car, 2003
Philippine Niche and Santos, 1997-1998
Piano 300, 1997-1999
Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, 1998
Show Case Exhibition Proposal on Presidential Inaugurations, 2000
Presidential Scholars in the Visual and Literary Arts, 2001
The Price of Freedom, 2004
The Price of Freedom - Huey Helicopter, 2004
Priceless Children: Lewis Hine and the Photo-Session (1890-1925), 2000-2001
Products of Research, 2004
Project 51, 1999
Public Health Showcase - Upgrade , 2002
Proposals - Program in African American Culture (PAAC)
Public Programs - Jeni LeGon, 2003
Martin Luther King Jr. - Holiday Public Program, November 4, 2004
Public Programs - Lift Every Voice, September 11-12 and 18-19, 2004
Public Programs - Orient Express Concert, 1999
Public Programs - PAAC Annual Commemorations, 1998
Public Programs - Reel Americans films, 2002-2003 (2 folders)
Public Programs - Zuni Meets Appalachia, 2002
Proposals - Q
Quilt Rotations, 1997-1998
Proposals - R
Race Car Proposal for National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 2005
Religious Objects Tour, 1998
Religion in American Life Symposium, 1998-1999
Reproductions Memo - Real and Unreal, 1999
Revealing Things, 1998
Revelations of Tradition: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, 1997
Road Transportation Hall, 1997-1999
Road Transportation Hall - Evel Knievel, 1996
Road Transportation Hall - General Tire Sign, 1997
Road Transportation Hall - 1941 Indian Brand Motorcycle, 2000
Road Transportation Hall - Route 66, 1996
Road Transportation Hall - Vehicle Rotation
Road Transportation Hall - 1960s Racing Cart Display
Jackie Robinson, 1996-1997
Amalie Rothschild Photography Exhibit, 1997
The Rural South and the Nation, 2002
Proposals - S
Santo Pinhole, 1997-1998
Science Projects: A Taxonomy of Images, 1997
Scurlock Collection/Legacy, 1997-1998
The Search for Amelia Earhart, 2000
Showcases on Latino Acquisitions from Entertainers and Designers (Moda y Musica: Stage, Fashion and Style, 2001
Showtime, 1997, 2001
Sierra Club, 1998
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO), July 18, 2003
SJMO Residency in Washington, D. C., March 31 to April 3, 2004
SJMO, September 25, 2004
Speed and Spirit: NASCAR in America, 1999-2001
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers, 2004
Star Spangled Banner (SSB) Conservation Exhibit, 1996-1999
John Steinbeck, 2000
A Systematic Spirit, 2000
Proposals - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
The Art of Jack Delano
First Ladies, 2001
To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions, 1998
This Land Is Your Land - The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie,1998
Lunch Box Memories, 2001-2002
Piano 300, 1998
Reflections/Reflexiones
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers, 2001-2002
Stock Car Exhibit, 2001
Turbines to Tupperware, 2002
Wade in the Water, 1996
We Shall Overcome, 1997
Proposals - T
Two Einsteins, 2005
Target Shooting: The Legacy of a Family Sport
Textile Hall Rotation, 2000-2004
30 Years of Honky-Tonk: Photographs by Henry Horenstein, 1999-2003
This is the Army, 2002
Three Mile Island Anniversary Exhibit, 2003
What Time is this Place: Time for Navigation, 2004
Time Line, 1999
Tools of Mathematics Teaching, 2000-2002
Transistor Anniversary (History in the News), 1997
Trees of Christmas, 2001
Proposals - Traveling Exhibitions
An American ABC, The Culture of Childhood in 19th Century America, 2001
American Presidents: Life Portraits, 2000
America's Only Female Soldier, Private Cathay Williams - Public program
Amerikanuak!: Basques in the High Desert, 1996
Ancestors in the Americas, 1998
Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, 2000
H. C. Anderson in Greenville, Mississippi, 1946-1966; 2000
Atlanta's Majestic Diners, 1998
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Traveling Exhibit, 1997
Capturing Poseidon: Photographic Encounters with the Sea, 1999
Cities of the Dead: Life in New Orleans Cemeteries, 1997-1998
Closing: the Life and Death of an American Factory, 1998
The Clothes She Wears, 2001
Computer. Medicine, 2006
Marie Curie, 2001
DEW (Distant Early Warning), 2003
Bob Dylan's American Journey, 2004
Einstein, 2005
Box 5
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, 2000-2001
Ted Ellis, 2002
Enterprising Women: Women in Business, 1750-2000; 2002-2003
The John Ericksson Society, 2002
ESPN, 2004
Exhibit House Studio, 2001-2002
Exhibiting the Visual Culture of American Religious, 2000
Ralph Fasanella's America, 2000
Flight Through the Quilt World, 1999
Freedom a History of the United States, 2002
Freedom and Democracy for the Nomads of Mongolia: Chinggis Kahn Reclaimed, 2000
Goree on the Slave Path with the Participation of the Slave Traders, 2001
Gorki Automobile Factory, 2000
The Greater Good, 2000
Guitar Inquiry, 2004
Havens in a Heartless World: Virginia City's Saloons and the Archaeology of the Wild West, 2004
Home of the Free, 2003
How the West Was Worn, 2001
I Hear America Singing, 2001
International Gallery, Unchanged Memories Exhibition, 2003
International Space Station, The Earth Tour, 2001
Latino Looks: The History of Latinos in Film, 1999
Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau, 2000
Liberty on the Border: An American Civil War Experience, 2001
Mathews-Dickey Boys' and Girls' Club, 2004
Memory, 2001
Mississippi Through Haitian Eyes, 1999
The National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Exhibition, 2001
Native American Artists - After Lewis and Clark, 2003
Next Stop Vietnam: California and the Nation Transformed, 2002
On the Road, 2003
Paper or Plastic: Americans and Their Money, 2004
Primary Care in America: Images of Big Doctoring, 2002
Rockwell's America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell, 2004
Linda P. Schapper, 2000, 2004
Sciencetunnel, 2000
Sephardic Spain: The Memory of the Lost Homeland, 2002
Augustus Frederick Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits: 1905-1920, 2004
Sodom Laurel Album, 2003
Sue Sojourner - Holmes County, Mississippi, 2000
Speak Softly and Carry a Beagle: The Art of Charles Schultz, 2001
Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris, 2001
Texas Tejanos, 2003
Dox Thrash, 2001
Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America, 2001
Women Explorers, 2000
Proposals - U
United Nation's International Year of Older Persons, 1998-1999
The Underpinnings of Laundry, 1997
Universal Product Code Project, 1998
Proposals - V
Vaughn's Parade Float File, 2003-2004
Teodoro Vidal: A Collector and His Collection, 1997
Views, 1998-2000
The Village Foundation, 2001
Vintage Americana: Photography by Volkmar Wentzel, 1935-1960; 2004
Visions of the Virgin Mary, 1998
Changing Gallery for Visual Culture, 2003-2004
Visualizing History for the Public, 1997
Visualizing Time, 1997, 2000
Voyage of Hope, 1997
Proposals - W
Public and Private: Diana Walker Photojournalist, 1976-2001; 2002-2003
War Bond Posters, 2001
Washington Print Club, 1998
Welcome Center, 1998
West End Gallery Suggestions, 2000
West Point and public programs, 2000-2002
Whatever Happened to Polio?, 2002-2003
Within These Walls, 2001-2002
Women Depicted in Military Art, 1998
World Health Organization, 1997
World War II Programming, 2003-2004
Proposals - X, Y and Z
Yeoman (F) Upgrade, 1997
Box 6
Interpretive Planning Advisory Committee (IPAC) and Interpretive Review Committee (IRC) - 2005-2011
Advisory Committee and EPC Organizational Materials, 2005
Department of History (DOH) appointments, 2005
Charter, 2005
NMAH Exhibits Review Process, 2009
Exhibition schedule, 2009
IPAC - Chris Wilson, September 2006-February 2007
IRC Notes, 2010
IRC Agendas, 2010
IPAC Agenda and Notes, 2010
IRC/IPAC Meeting Notes, 2009
IRC/IPAC Agendas, 2009
IPAC Meeting Notes, 2009
IPAC Agendas, 2009
IPAC Agendas, 2008
IPAC Notes 2008
IRC Agendas, 2008
IRC Notes, 2008
IPAC Agendas, 2007
IPAC Notes, 2007
IRC Notes, 2007
IRC Agendas, 2007
IRC Agendas, 2006
IRC Notes, 2005-2006
IPAC Notes, 2005-2006
IPAC Agendas, 2005-2006
IPAC Advisory Committee's Statement on Diversity, 2006, 2008
IPAC Self-Evaluation Documents, 2007
IPAC Responses to Pena Culture and SJMO 2007-2008 Season, 2007
SSB Campaign, 2006
Exhibition Process Manual, April 14, 2000
IPAC Proposal Responses for: Collections and Stories of American Muslims; Vidal Website; MLK Program; Lift Every Voice, 2005
IPAC Proposal Responses for: Country Memory Lane; Flag Day Family Fest; Inventing Ourselves Website; Jamming with Yo-Yos, 2006
IPAC Proposal Responses for: Century American Traditions Fest; America on the Move (AOTM) First Person; Podcasting; American History Live
IPAC Shared File, 2005
IPAC/IRC Charter, August 29, 2005
IPAC Guidelines/Template Distribution to Staff, May 26, 2006
IPAC Statement of Purpose
IRC Statement of Purpose
Guidelines, 2006-2009
Template, 2006-2009
IPAC Project Proposal Template, 2007-2008
Template Background Documents
EPC File Titles
Program Review Issues, 2005
IPAC Proposals for 2007
Visitor Use and Past Evaluation through 2004
Anniversaries, 2008
Future Exhibit Topics, 2008
Proposals
Artifact Walls Special Cases, 2008
Artifact Walls Special Cases, 2009
Artifact Walls Special Cases (AWSC) - The Americans with Disabilities Act (not reviewed - light levels too high in AW case Adjacent to Welcome Center, 2010
AWSC - A Recent Acquisition: The Dadie and Norman Perlov Celluloid Collection Spring 2010, 2007-2009
AWSC - Art and Industry: A New Look at a Legacy Collection pulled, may be submitted at a later date, 2009-2010
AWSC - Automatic Calculation and Mathematical Abstraction - The Vision of Benjamin Peirce, 2009
AWSC - Balm of America, NMAH's Collection of Historic Patent Medicines, 2007
AWSC - Brainpower for the Cold War: Reforming Mathematics and Science Education, 2007
AWSC - Cameras, The Magic Box, 2009
AWSC - Civil War: Printing in the Field, 2007
AWSC - Creating Hawaii: Perception vs. Reality, 2009
AWSC - Fifty Years of Lasers, 2009
AWSC - Getting COBOL Running: The Development of the "Common Business-Oriented Language," 2009-2010
AWSC - Overcoming Adversary: Asian American Immigration after Exclusion, 2007
AWSC - Revolution and Diaspora: Mexico and the USA during the Mexican Revolution, 2007-2010
AWSC - Toys from the Attic, 2009
AWSC - Who Wants Chinese? Special Case name change from Ordering Chinese: From Chop Suey to Fortune Cookies, the Americanization of the Chinese Restaurant, 2009-2010
History Highlight Cases (HHC), 2010
HHC - 30 Years with HIV-AIDS, 2010
HHC - The Traveling Boudinis, 2010
HHC - Mush On!: The History of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, 2010
HHC - Patents and the Printing Trade, 2010
HHC - Collecting the History and Culture of Skin, 2010
HHC - Under the Big Top, 2010
HHC - The 40th Anniversary of Video Games, 2010
HHC - 100th Anniversary of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade, 2010
Special Programs, FY 2009
Program Proposals, FY 2010
IPAC Call for Proposals - Diversity, 2006
Last Call, 2006
Last Call - Exhibits, Programs, Websites, December 5, 2005
Proposals - Albert H. Small Documents Gallery
Documents Gallery (DG), 2007, 2010
DG Proposed Exhibition Schedule, 2007
Recommended Document Gallery Proposals, 2009
Act as a Nation: George Washington's Letter and the Young Republic, 1785, 2009
America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 2008
A Nurse at Armory Square: The Diary of Amanda Akin Stearns and the Experience of Civil War Nursing, 2010
Ellington and Strayhorn, 2008
The Gettysburg Address, 2007
Ralph Baer: Father of Video Games, 2010
Phyllis Diller Joke File, 2010
Jefferson Bible, 2007
The Ledger Drawing: An American Indian Record, 2009
Mapping the Universe: The "Astrolabe" of Simeon de Witt, 2009
Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail, 2008
The William Steinway Diary, 1861-1896, 2010
Proposals - Exhibitions (NMAH)
American Dreams (tentatively called Explore American History)
American Dreams, An Introductory Exhibit, 2007
American Icons: Portraits without People by Robert Weingarten, 2009
American Journeys Preliminary Exhibit Proposal, 2010
American Political Traditions, 2007
The American West and Early Federal Presentations of Scientific and Anthropological Discoveries, 2010
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Exhibition, 2005
Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero History Program, 1942-1964; 2006-2009
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Kasebier, 2008
Camelot Dawning: The First Formal Kennedy Family Portraits, 2010
Director's Timeline, 2009
The Dolls' House, 2008
Box 7
The First Ladies at the Smithsonian (Additional Gallery), 2009
Greenough's Washington, 1999, 2006
Greensboro Sit Ins 50th Anniversary Exhibition and Programs, 2009
Jim Henson Project, 2005
Hip Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life Showcase and public Program with Break dancer Crazy Legs, 2006
Holidays on Display exhibition and website, 2008
I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural
It's About Skin, exhibit, program, and website, 2008
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Exhibition proposal, website, and public program, 2006, 2009
Objects and Memory: The Tenth Anniversary of September 11th, 2010
John Roebling Bicentennial, 2005
Scurlock's Washington, 2006
Stories on Money, 2008-2009
Vital Signs: Medicine and Society Since 1950, 2007
Who Made the Star-Spangled Banner?, 2005
Proposals - Exhibitions (non-NMAH, non-traveling)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Baghdad Legacy, 2006
"Stanley" Robot Vehicle, 2005-2006
Proposals - Exhibitions (NMAH, traveling)
Richard Avedon: The John F. Kennedys exhibition, 2007
Experience Jazz (preliminary proposal), 2007
Traveling Numismatic History Displays, 2006
Proposals - Exhibitions (non-NMAH, traveling)
American Sabor: Latinos in U. S. Popular Music, 2007
Atlantic Revolutions: The World Made Anew (New York Historical Society), 2008
"A New World: England's First View of America" (British Museum), 2006
Collections and Stories of American Muslims, 2005
Freedom Fries: The Political Art of Steve Brodner, 2007
George Washington Carver Traveling Exhibit, 2007
Museo di Arte Moderna a Contemporanea di Treato e Roverto (MART) - Jazz Exhibit, 2007
Pioneers, Poets, and Prophets, Catholic Sisters in America , 2006
Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited, 2006-2007
Textural Rhythms, Constructing the Jazz Tradition, Contemporary African American, 2007
ToyTime, 2008
Proposals - Online
Online Publishers Association History of Advertising, 2006
Proposals - Lemelson Center Programs
BIO: Video, Spark!Lab, website (see Vital Signs Exhibit), 2007-2009
From Spark! To Click: Celebrating National Inventor's Month Programs, 2009
Hotspot of Invention: Charles Stark Draper at M.I.T., 2009
Innovative Sounds Program, 2006-2007
Inventing America: The Interplay of Technology and Democracy in Shaping American Identity (Lemelson Center), 2006
Inventing America: The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-2006 - Public program, 2006
Invention on the Mall Family Festival, 2006
Nano Days Festival 2010 Programs
National Inventors' Month Family Festival, 2010
Places of Invention Preliminary Exhibition Proposal, 2008
Places of Invention: People, Places, and Spaces (The Lemelson Center's 2009 New Perspectives Symposium), 2009
Portrait of Invention: A Conversation with Lester Brown, 2009
Spark!Lab, 2009
Sporting Invention Exhibit, 2008
Proposals - Museum Reopening
NMAH Reopening Floor Plans, 2007
Reopening Assignments, 2006
Artifact Walls - Randi Korn Student Evaluation, 2006
Artifact Wall Attachments, 2005-2006
Artifact Walls, 2006
Artifact Walls, Landmark and Corridor Case Objects, 2006
Welcome Center Chronological Object Index and Artifact Walls, 2007
First Ladies Exhibition Reopening Project Report, 2007
Landmark Objects, 2007
Proposals - Podcasts
American History Podcasts: A Prototype Series, 2006
Proposals - Special Programs
Call for special programs, FY 2011
Proposals - Programs
A Case for Equal Education: Los Angeles High School Walkouts in 1968, 2006
African American Presence in American Popular Song: Part One (1898-1922), 2008
All-American Music: Behind the Scenes with Porgy and Bess Program Proposal, 2010
American History Alive! Performance Space, 2006
An Afternoon with Jennifer 8. Lee, Author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, 2010
A Century of Challenge and Change, Filipino American Story Public Program, 2005-2006
AOTM - First Person Series, 2006
AOTM Preschool OurStory Prototype Series, 2006
Annual Commemoration of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., 2006
Annual Commemoration of EO9066 Special Program, 2010
Annual Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian, The Japanese American Experience in Print, 2008-2009
Beyond Beats and Rhymes, 2007
Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964, 2009
The Brubeck Lecture Program, 2009
Celebrating Afro-Latin Jazz (Latino Poll Fund Project), 2008
Central American Traditions Festival (Program in Latino History and Culture), 2006
A Conversation and Performance with Danilo Perez and his Trio, 2009
A Conversation with the Legendary Candido Camero, 2008
Cooking Cart program Proposal, 2009
Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in the US Symposium and Cultural Festival Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, 2010
Curators' Choice talks at NASM, 2007
Day of the Dead, 2005 (no review)
Damn the Torpedoes . . . (Historical Theatre Program), 2009
Day of the Dead, 2007
Day of the Dead, 2008
Day of the Dead, 2009
D.C. Asian-Pacific American film Festival, 2005 (no review)
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, 2006
David Evans Lecture, 2006 (no review)
50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders - National Youth Summit and Film Screening, 2010
Flag Day Family Festival, 2006
A Fresh Look: U.S. Perspectives on Argentina's Military Dictatorship, 1976-1983; 2010
Buckminister Fuller: Innovation by Design, 2005 (no review)
Holiday Trees, 2005 (no review)
Honky Tonk - Country Memory Lane - Seneca Rocks Concert program, 2006
Interpretive Cart Initiative, 2006 (no review)
Box 8
JAM, 2006
Jamming with Yo-Yos - Team Yo-Yo Presentation, 2006
Jazz Day, 2008-2009
Jazz Strategic Plan, 2009
Lift Every Voice: Walking Montgomery, The Voices of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 2005
Martin Luther King Holiday Program, 2011
NMAH Celebrates National Family Literacy Day, November 2, 2009
Negroes with Guns Film Program, 2005 (no review)
Nine from Little Rock, 2007
NMAH Public Programs Reopening 2008 - Labor Day 2009
Question 27, Question 28, 2006 (no review)
Printing Press Interpretive Cart, 2009
Radio at Work (HAM Radio Station), 2006-2007
Paper Engineering, Fold, Pull Pop and Turn - SI Libraries (SIL) - SIL Exhibition Gallery, 2010
Pena Cultural, Sharing Stories of Immigration, 2007
Smithsonian Business Ventures (SBV) Book Signings, 2007
Scraps from the Past: Two Centuries of American Scrapbooks, 2006
Secrets of the Parthenon Public Program, 2009
SJMO, 2007-2008 Season
SJMO Jazz Holiday Music Program, 2009
SJMO Jazz Appreciation Month Workshops and Concerts and JAM at NMAH, April 2010
Star-Spangled Songbook Part of the American Popular Song Series Interpretive Plan, 2009
Stereographic Interpretive Cart, 2009
Time Trials - Historical Theater Series, 2010
Walking Montgomery: The 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK Birthday Celebration, 2005
The Smithsonian Associates Program, 2006
Spanish Cuisine in the American (and Global) Kitchen, 2009 (no review, Latino Center)
Daily Programs, 2008-2009
Proposals - SITES
The History of Disability in America Proposal for exhibit, Website, program, training modules, 2008
Proposals - Special Programs
Special programs, FY 2009
Home for the Holidays: Popular Songs of the World War II era, 2009
Letters Home, 2008
President from Hawaii (book talk and signing), 2009
Japanese American Resettlement, 2009
Programs - FY 2010 - Annual Commemoration of EO9066; Discovery Theater Collaborative Plan - Greensboro Sit Ins; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital; Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon: The Vietnamese American Experience; Flag Day Family Festival; The Great Pinoy Boxing Era; Greensboro 50th Anniversary Program; HomeSpun: The Indian American Experience
Innovative Lives; Jazz Day; Looking American; Martin Luther King Holiday Program; National Inventor's Month Program; Program in Latino History and Culture; Taste of American History Dinner Series
Scurlock Studios Outreach Project, 2009
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra 2008-2009 Season
SJMO/TSA DC Concert Season Fall 2009-2010
Call for Special Programs Document and Project Proposal Template, December 27, 2007
Proposals - Smithsonian Channel Mission Critical TV Programs
Saving the Past, 2008 (not approved)
Smithsonian Channel Mission critical TV program proposals for 2008
50th Anniversary of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit In, 2009
Another America (ADA), 2009
Proposals - Symposia
Chocolate: The North American Experience, 2009
Experiments in 19th Century Color Photography One-Day Symposium, 2009
Proposals - Websites
100th Anniversary 1906 Pure Food and Drug Law/Balm of America Web Project, 2006 (no review)
The Biography of a Collection: The Old World Apothecary at the National Museum of American History, 2009
Inventing Ourselves Website from the Lemelson Center, 2007
Latin Jazz Online Education, 2006 (no review, to Latino Initiatives Pool)
The Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson, 2008 (no review)
Mexican and Mexican American Object Group Website, 2007
NMAH Patent Model Collection Website, 2006
Radio USA music feature on the NMAH Website
OurStory Website updates (AOTM exhibition), 2007
Quilts, View Behind-the-Scenes Video for NMAH Website, 2010
Science and Mathematics Education in the Age of Sputnik, 2006
Vidal Collection Website, 2005-2006
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