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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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  • Land Transportation, 1976

  • Box 10

  • Patent Model Project

  • Lucie E. Campbell: Gospel Music Composer (1983)

  • Exhibitions - A Material World - Materials Publications

  • The Electricity Discovery Corner

  • Jazz Concerts/Miscellaneous

  • Invitations - Banquet Mall

  • Experimental Gallery, FY 1980-1989

  • Read file - October 1988 - May 1989

  • Touch-Screen Computer: An Experimental Orientation Device at the NMAH, 1983

  • Reorganization, 1983

  • Patsy Montana, Recordings Reception

  • Contact sheet - Solo Jazz Piano, January 1981

  • Men and Women: Title Study, 1988

  • Newspaper Articles and Papers on Hispanic Americans in the U.S., 1985-1987

  • Box 2

  • Correspondence - Kennedy, Roger

  • El Otro D.C., October 16, 1987

  • Bandstand and Calder - General, 1982-1984 (2 folders)

  • Teaching learning communities, 1979

  • Videotape - Alberta Hunter (3/4" U-matic tape)

  • Box 14

  • MHT Book - Objects to be photographed

  • The Smithsonian National Outreach Conference (1987)

  • Safety in Numbers - A one-act play with music - Labor Institute for Human Enrichment, 1980

  • "Smithsonian Treasures" Wang Television Program

  • Senior Series Program - Spring program evaluations, 1979

  • Tourism - Country music, 1983

  • Teacher' s Guide, 1973-1975

  • Administration - Budget, FY 1987

  • Inaugural - General, 1977

  • Museum Programs, Division of, FY 1988

  • Trade Hispania, July 19, 1987

  • Exhibitions - New and Different

  • Division of Performing Arts: Reorganization - Proposals

  • Travis, Merle, 1976, 1983

  • Bliss Drill press ceremony, 1982

  • Correspondence, 1983-1985 (2 folders)

  • Exhibitions - Palm Court - Mason & Hamlin Piano

  • Brochures: Recordings, 1978-1982

  • Incoming correspondence, 1976

  • MASH exhibit, 1982-1984

  • A Century of Struggle - Music workshops and performances - Tape #2: "Which Side Are you On?" - Labor Songs and the Civil Rights Movement (Dave Sawyer, Mike Honey), Nov. 16, 1986 (1/4" audiotape)

  • Afro-American Tradition in Dec. Arts, 1979

  • Patsy Montana - Tape #2, October 15, 1985 (3/4" U-matic tape)

  • Bridges of Niagara

  • Conference on Music in America - Contact sheets

  • Ohio Composers

  • SI Division of Performing Arts - Invitations, 1981

  • Box 22

  • Audiotapes - Chuck Wagon Davis, October 24, 1981 (31/4" audiotape reels)

  • Days of Waiting

  • PHAH Organization, 1986

  • Papermaking Exhibition, 1991

  • Music and Dance of Northern New Mexico

  • Exhibits: Proposals, 1982

  • The Debusk Weaver Family

  • Smithsonian Council

  • Collections - Rhythm and Blues

  • Untitled

  • Search for Life

  • Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940

  • Festival of American Folklife, 1977-1978

  • Senior Series (2 folders)

  • MHT Book Working File

  • Conference - "Spin-offs"

  • Budget - New Sweden Project

  • Untitled

  • Memoranda, 1979

  • Labor Institute For Public Affairs

  • Mail in Motion: The City Mail Delivery Service in America (1987)

  • AFL-CIO news

  • The Search for Life

  • Harry N. Abrams - Contract

  • "Jazz in a Museum?" - Conference, 1990

  • Box 37

  • Life in America: 18th Century - Budget and funding - Exhibition

  • Public Programs Network, 1987

  • Budget - CQ - Fund 89559005, FY 1989

  • Chapter 5 - Monetary and Postal History - Drafts, 1980

  • Exhibitions - Engines of Change: Educational Programs

  • Videotape - Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theatre of Harlem - TRT 30:00 (3/4" U-matic tape)

  • Music in a New Nation (1989)

  • Performing Arts: Classical Music

  • Oral history, 1980-1981

  • Inaugural/Jazz Artists, 1976

  • DC Commission on Arts and the Humanities, FY 1987-1988

  • Contact sheet - Gerri Mulligan

  • Bibliography (Draft) PHAH, 1988

  • Audiotapes - James Talley Live at the Festival of American Folklife

  • Program evaluation - Forms, 1984

  • Merle Travis

  • Education - Interpretation - A&I Buidling

  • Notes Pertaining to Photographs (Photo logs) - Seventh week - Folklife Festival, 1976

  • Fund Raising

  • Box 9

  • Peanut Butter: The New Cultural History (1992)

  • Cooper, Wilma Lee, 1974

  • Education - Holiday Celebrations, FY 1982-1987

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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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