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Object Details

Creator:
National Museum of American History. Department of Public Programs
Topic
Museums -- Public relations
Science museums
Historical museums
Museums -- Education aspects
Creator:
National Museum of American History. Department of Public Programs
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Records
Historical Note
In 1980 an Office of Public and Academic Programs was established at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), subsequently the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Josiah O. Hatch, a Special Assistant to the Director of the Museum, was assigned as Director of the Office. Hatch submitted reports for Public and Academic Programs to Douglas E. Evelyn, Deputy Director of NMAH. When the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Performing Arts became defunct in 1983, part of its staff was reassigned to the Office of Public and Academic Programs. In 1984, the Office was reorganized as the Department of Public Programs. It included sections of production, education, the Program in Black American History, performances, publications, and the Office of Public Affairs. Hatch became its head as the Assistant Director for Public Programs. The next year, Lonn W. Taylor succeeded Hatch. The Department of Public Programs is responsible for a variety of tasks associated with providing the public with opportunities for learning. It works with the Museum's other departments to produce educational materials such as scholarly publications, kits and guides, and information on various topics of interest that interpret NMAH exhibitions. The Department also sponsors or coordinates programs and performances using Museum collections; presents special programs on important aspects of American life and culture that cannot be exhibited through artifacts alone; and organizes colloquia, symposia, and lectures. Staff has included Josiah O. Hatch, Director of the Department of Public Programs, 1980-1983, and Assistant Director for Public Programs, 1984; Lonn Taylor, Deputy Assistant Director for Public Programs, 1984, and Assistant Director, 1985- ; Harold A. Closter, Production Director, 1983-1986, Program Manager, 1987-1990, and Deputy Assistant Director, 1991- ; Bernice Johnson Reagon, Director of the Program in Black American History, 1983-1987; James M. Weaver, Director of Performance Programs, 1983-1986; Shirley E. Cherkasky, Coordinator of Museum Programs, 1983- ; Elizabeth M. Sharpe, Education Specialist, 1985-1986, and Deputy Assistant Director for Public Programs, 1987- ; and Manuel J. Melendez, Performing Arts Production Specialist, 1984-1991.
Extent
41 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes)
Date
1968-1992
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Identifier
Record Unit 584
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Floor plans
Videotapes
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Brochures
Illustrations
Clippings
Floppy disks
Electronic records
Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 584, National Museum of American History. Department of Public Programs, Records
Genre/Form
Floor plans
Videotapes
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Brochures
Illustrations
Clippings
Floppy disks
Electronic records
Descriptive Entry
These records mostly consist of staff correspondence and memoranda documenting administrative and program-oriented activities of the Department of Public Programs. The records pertain to fundraising, social history lectures and seminars, the Senior Series Program, budget, educational outreach proposals, grant information, planning for the Program of Hispanic American History, and the Country Music Program. In addition, there are budget reports; videotapes, audiotapes, abstracts, and planning documents from the Conference on Music in America at the Smithsonian Institution; minutes of meetings; information on educational projects for NMAH exhibitions; research material consisting of exhibition scripts, blueprints, and photographs; outline of Highlight Tours at NMAH; and brochures, articles, and newspaper clippings on NMAH special events. The record unit also includes records which date back to the Division of Performing Arts. Performing Arts records primarily consist of working files; videotapes and audiotapes of performances from the Country Music Program, Jazz at the Smithsonian, and the Festival of American Folklife; and budgetary information.
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Record ID
ebl-1503511023318-1503511023331-0
Metadata Usage
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  • Conference on Music in America - Audiotapes #1-5 (5 audiotapes)

  • Special Events

  • Nursery School Lists/DC, MD & VA

  • Contact Sheets - Third Week - Folklife Festival 1976

  • Labor history - Sloss Furnace National Landmark

  • Photographs - Exhibition - Which Side Are You On?

  • Life in America: 18th Century - Fundraising

  • Videotapes - Chet Atkins and J. Burns - Master tapes 1 and 2; dub tape 1; November 14, 1982 (3 3/4" U-matic tapes)

  • A Century of Struggle - Photographs and negatives, 1989 (2 folders)

  • Music

  • Inaugural Plans, 1976-1977

  • Images of Labor

  • Wexler, "Change of Face"

  • Fellow's Furniture, 1990-1991

  • Twentieth Century Encyclopedia with Walter Cronkite, 1990

  • National Museum of American History

  • Tukak Teatret, 1982

  • Music from Marlboro, 1978-1979

  • Bobby Bare

  • Men and Women, FY 1983-1988

  • Souvenir Photo (notebook)

  • General schedule, 1978-1983

  • SI/Howard University - Reception, 1982

  • A Century of Struggle - Brochures

  • Quilting

  • Science, Power & Conflict - Memoranda and reports, 1988

  • The Indiana

  • Performing Arts: Chamber Music Program - Funding

  • Facility Use and Visitor Needs in the National Museum of History and Technology, 1973

  • Hank Williams Original Drifting Cowboys

  • George Washington: Figure Upon the Stage - Public Programs and Projects (2 folders)

  • Inaugural concerts - Planning notes, 1981 (3 folders)

  • Labor exhibits and collections

  • Chapter 4 - On Land and On Sea - Drafts, 1980

  • Corporations - Lists and General Information

  • The Duke Ellington Festival (1989)

  • Rev. Brewster Reception and Luncheon

  • Education - Postal History Learning Center

  • Guards/volunteers

  • Senior Series Program - Program evaluation forms - Development, 1979-1980

  • Doubleday Lectures - Lists, 1981

  • Theatrical, Union Demonstrators

  • NOVA - WGBH

  • "Invention" Film (Maglev Train)

  • Videotape - Doubleday Series (3/4" U-matic tape)

  • Country music inquiries, 1980-1983

  • Box 4

  • Box 8

  • Labor history - Labor history societies

  • Research: SI Support Programs, FY 1985

  • Wenzinger Luncheon

  • Life in America/Engines of Change, miscellaneous memoranda, 1987

  • DPA, Intermission and Concession, 1981-1982

  • PHAH Resource People - Local, 1986-1988

  • Program in Hispanic-American History - Mailing List, FY 1988

  • AASLH - Annual meeting, 1988

  • DC Community Humanities Council, 1984-1987

  • Scandinavia Today

  • The Search For Life: Genetic Technology in the Twentieth Century - Final report - January 1-March 31, 1988

  • Genes in the news

  • Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (1992)

  • Touring Performance Service reports, 1968-1976 (2 folders)

  • Audiotapes - Sarah Vaughan and Gunther Schuller, November 5, 1980 (6 1/4" audiotape reels)

  • Special Guests for PPA Events

  • Tales of Treasure (1990)

  • Audiotape - The Hutchinson Family, April 28, 1978 (1/4" audiotape)

  • Doubleday, 1983-1984

  • Brochure - Music in America

  • Budget Requests, FY 1990

  • Calendar of events, 1983-1984

  • Photographs - Folklife Festival, 1976

  • Potomac Meeting Planners

  • Labor organizations - 'The George Meany Center'

  • Quintanilla, Horacio (Artwork), 1987

  • Performance Files - Grandpa Jones

  • The Irving Berlin Centennial

  • First Rooms 1988 - Information Age - Memoranda and reports, 1988

  • Woodbine Nursing Home - Evaluations, 1978

  • Exhibitions - Super Man

  • Untitled

  • 50th Presidential Inaugural Festivities at the Smithsonian Institution

  • Contact Sheets - Ninth Week - Folklife Festival 1976

  • Box 30

  • Life in America: 18th Century - The Past and Your Future

  • 1989 Holiday Celebration at NMAH

  • Senior Series Program - Grant proposal, 1980-1981

  • Educational Outreach background papers, 1984

  • Hartman & Cox

  • Aditi - Festival of India

  • Registration forms

  • Messiah/Tech., 1980-1981

  • American Women of the Etching Revival

  • Labor and performing arts - Labor films and drama

  • Kitty Carlisle Hart - Doubleday lecture, 1981

  • Activity director's and observers evaluation

  • "The Piano" videodisk - memoranda, 1987

  • Box 27

  • Evaluation Form, 1988

  • Maryland Academy of Sciences

  • Tarde Hispana (1987)

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The Jacksonville Bandstand - Dedication Program (cover): Ribbon cutting and inaugural concert program for the Jacksonville Bandstand on the west grounds of the National Museum of American History, July 4, 1984. [Image no. SIA2010-3384]
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