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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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  • Ceremonial Brass Quintet U.S. Army Band (1984)

  • Carter Family

  • Japanese-Americans and Executive Order 9066: Fifty Years After (1992)

  • Life in America: 18th Century - Education Programs

  • Stohlman Confectionary Shop

  • Administration - International Exhibitions, FY 1989

  • Howard University Gospel Choir / Mariachis, January 18, 1981, Natural History building; Country Gentlemen, January 18, 1981, American History building (2 U-matic S videotapes)

  • Exhibitions - A Material World - Demonstration Center

  • Fund Raising

  • WETA - SI World

  • Publication - Notes on the Arts, 1981

  • Conference on Music in America (1985)

  • Stanley, Ralph and The Clinch Mountain Boys and Don Stover and The White Mountain Boys, 1980

  • Performing Arts Five Year Plan, 1983-1988

  • Hospitality Planning - Festival of American Folklife, 1976 (2 folders)

  • Committees - Women's Committee, FY 1985-1986

  • Security

  • All-American Music on Film (1989)

  • Engines of Change Background Material for Docent Tours

  • MHT Book projects, 1970-1979

  • A Century of Struggle (Labor Conference)

  • Parlor To Politics, 1989-1990

  • Participant thank you letters

  • Field to Factory, 1986-1987

  • Contact Sheets - Opening Week - Folklife Festival 1976

  • In Union there is Strength, 1988

  • Contemporary Black American Congregational Song and Worship Traditions (1989)

  • Electricity Discovery Corner, 1983-1985

  • Labor unions - Printing Unions

  • The Bayley-Hazen Singers

  • Inauguration, 1985

  • Fourth of July Celebration, 1981

  • Cotton, Elizabeth - et al banjo, 1983

  • Travel Rack Agents

  • Performance Files - Slim Whitman

  • Box 20

  • Hands on History, 1986-1989

  • Museum Programs Index of Files, 1977-1983

  • 1993 Holiday Celebration at NMAH

  • Educational Outreach: Docent Program, 1984-1986

  • Contact sheets - Miscellaneous, 1980-1987

  • Moving Plan File

  • Wexler invoices

  • Project proposal - Grand Generation

  • NEH

  • Life in America: 18th Century - Contractors, 1983-1985

  • Committees - Committee for a Wider Audience, FY 1984-1988

  • A Century of Struggle - Miscellaneous, 1985-1987

  • Vietnam Generation, 1985-1986

  • Music Conservatories & Colleges

  • Mailing lists

  • George Washington: Figure Upon the Stage - General (2 folders)

  • Invent America

  • Music in the Palm Court (1988-1989)

  • Wexler

  • Photographs

  • Labor unions - Seafarer's International Union

  • Exhibitions - Palm Court

  • Labor education - Organizations and publications

  • Box 24

  • Time Incorporated "Hollywood"

  • DPA Benefit, 1982

  • Conference on Music in America - Program

  • Mailing conversion list

  • Exhibits: Proposals, 1981

  • SI Memoranda

  • Clocks, Capitalism & Culture, 1990-1991

  • Photographs and contact sheets

  • Survey results - New raw blue

  • Information Age memoranda, reports, 1988

  • Workers World

  • Country Gentlemen, January 18, 1981, American History building; Romantic Chamber Music Ensemble, January 18, 1981, Renwick Gallery (2 U-matic S videotapes)

  • Life in America Crowd Control, 1986

  • Consumers directory index

  • Brochure - Badges of Pride: Symbols and Images of American Labor, 1989

  • Background for 1876 Exhibit at A&I

  • Dance Conference, 1980

  • Collecting Tapes 1-3; Group Session: 1400-1515

  • Events for November 1983

  • Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys, 1978-1979

  • Life in America: 18th Century - Introduction audio-visual

  • Product Development and Licensing, FY 1978-1983

  • Search For Life reports and memoranda, 1987

  • Exhibits: Proposals, 1980

  • New names - Mailing list, 1984-1985

  • Rights to Music Collection

  • Days Inn of America

  • Devi Publications - Samples, 1977-1981

  • Education - Symposium - The Superhero in America, FY 1987

  • Exhibitions - A Material World, 1986-1990

  • American Labor Museum (Botto House)

  • Rhythm and Blues, 1991

  • Contact sheet - Bob Brookmeyer and Curtis Fuller, April 1981

  • Performing Arts: International Tours

  • Miscellansous Memoranda, Commentary and Short Reports re: Surveys/Evaluations, 1985

  • Booklet - Hank Williams: From Life to legend

  • A Delicate Balance of Rights and Powers: The United States Constitution and Japanese-Americans (1988)

  • Museum Organizational Structure - NMAH

  • Audience research - Exhibit Preview Area

  • Idea File

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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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