Guide to the NPS Museum Management Collection

This finding aid describes the National Park Service (NPS) Museum Management Collection, part of the NPS History Collection. To search this guide for names, places, key words, or phrases enter Ctrl F on your keyboard (command key + F key on a Mac). Request an in-person research appointment or get more information by contacting the archivist.

Collection Overview

Collection Number: HFCA 1645 (Series V.D)
Creator: National Park Service
Title: National Park Service Museum Management Collection
Dates: 1895-2007 (bulk dates: 1930-2004)
Volume of Collection: 26.8 LF
Language of Materials: English

Digitized copies: Most of this collection has not been digitized. Western Museum Laborator

Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open to research use.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: See the NPS general copyright & restrictions information.
Provenance: This collection was assembled by former NPS History Collection staff from numerous accessions received from the NPS Washington Office, regional offices, Harpers Ferry Center, and materials found in the NPS History Collection.
Processing Note: This collection was processed by Colleen Williams of History Associated, Inc. in 2012. The finding aid was updated for the internet by Nancy Russell in November 2025.

Rights Statements for Archival Description: This guide is in the public domain.
Preferred Citation: National Park Service Museum, Archives, and Library Collection, NPS History Collection (HFCA 1645)
Location of Repository: NPS History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center, PO Box 50, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Related Materials:

• NPS Historic Photograph Collection, NPS History Collection (HFCA 1607)
• NPS Oral History Collection, NPS History Collection (HFCA 1817)
• Assembled Historic Records of the National Park Service, NPS History Collection (HFCA 1645)
• Ned Burns’ Working Files, NPS History Collection (HFCA-00613)
• Ralph Lewis’ Working Files, NPS History Collection (HFCA-01112)
• Records of the National Park Service (RG79), National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative History Note

Early Museum Development (1904-1930)
The earliest National Park Service (NPS) museums were not established by an act of Congress or a central authority. They grew organically from their contexts in parks. The first museums were rudimentary: an arboretum in Yosemite (1904), a table of artifacts at Casa Grande (1905), and a museum in a tent at Sequoia (1924). One of the world's largest museum systems has grown from these early beginnings. The strong contextual connection with place remains a hallmark of park museums and collections.

Early museum exhibits were part of the campaign to build public support for the national park idea. As a feature of the Fourth National Park Conference in January 1917 NPS Director Stephen T. Mather arranged a special exhibition at the National Museum. That same year he launched an experimental travelling exhibition intended for display in libraries.

On May 13, 1918, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane sent Mather a letter stating, “The educational, as well as the recreational, use of the national parks should be encouraged in every practicable way…Museums containing specimens of wild flowers, shrubs, and trees and mounted animals, birds, and fish native to the parks, and other exhibits of this character will be established as authorized.” Mesa Verde National Park converted a ranger station into a museum, exhibiting prehistoric artifacts and panoramic photographs of the site and Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain national parks made natural history specimens available for public viewing.

In 1919 Mather established a National Parks Educational Committee to help promote museums in national parks. By 1920 he called for establishment of museums in every park, writing in his annual report, “One of the most important matters to receive earnest consideration is the early establishment of adequate museums in every one of our parks in which comprehensive exhibits of the flora and fauna, and perhaps the minerals of the region, can be placed.”

The American Association of Museums (AAM) established Committee on Museums in National Parks to promote museums in national parks in 1923. The AAM, based on the work of its committee, secured a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial to build and equip a model park museum in Yosemite. Designed by Herbert Maier, the museum opened to the public in 1926, with exhibits on natural history, ethnology, and park history. The ground floor was a fire-resistant concrete box with an exterior of rough granite masonry; the second floor was of frame construction. The building housed collections storage, exhibits, a library, and workspace. It set a standard for NPS museum size, scope, location, interpretive function, and exhibit quality.

Yellowstone opened a branch museum at Old Faithful in 1928, with support from AAM and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. It was also built by Maier. This Yellowstone model for museums envisioned a primary museum at headquarters, with satellite or trailside museums at strategic points, such as Old Faithful.

Field Division of Education (1924-1934)
Beginning in 1924 two ideas on the management of the NPS museum program underlay its continuing growth. Chief Naturalist Ansel Hall saw himself as the leader in park museum work and his Educational Division as its natural center. Others concluded that the museum program needed to be centered at the Service's Washington headquarters where authority for policy making and budgeting rested.

In 1929 the NPS established a centralized Field Education Division at the University of California, Berkeley, and Russell became field naturalist and the “first staff museum expert” for NPS. Russell visited parks to advise them on development of museums while also completing exhibit work at the Berkeley laboratories.

In 1930 Grand Canyon National Park opened the Yavapai Point Museum as a model museum that included an observation station. With support from the AAM and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, John C. Merriam, the president of the Carnegie Institution, developed the museum. He created a museum where the canyon was the exhibit and the museum housed viewing instruments, labels, and guided interpretation. The model was so successful that a generation later it was deemed a classic example of interpretive planning in parks.

By this time many national parks had discovered that exhibiting specimens gave them a powerful medium for serving the educational objectives the NPS was beginning to formulate. Yellowstone opened branch museums at Norris Geyser Basin and Madison Junction in 1930 and the Fishing Bridge Museum in 1931. The latter marked the end of the NPS-AAM joint project to develop model park museums in Yellowstone.

In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved transfer of War Department monuments and parks to the NPS. That same year the NPS created exhibits on national parks and monuments for the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. From 1933 to 1937 the Public Works Administration (PWA) became the primary source of funding for NPS museums, constructing new museum buildings at more than a dozen parks.

In 1934 the NPS adopted a standard museum development plan, closely linked with the evolving park master plan concept, which would guide the incorporation of museum functions and facilities into a park’s total plan and operations.

Museum Division (1935-1946)
In 1935 Congress passed the Historic Sites Act, authorizing NPS to preserve and maintain historic properties, and to establish and maintain museums. The Act directed the NPS to “restore, reconstruct, rehabilitate, preserve, and maintain historic or prehistoric sites, buildings, objects, and properties of national historical or archaeological significance and…establish and maintain museums in connection therewith.”

Also in 1935, the NPS established a central exhibit preparatory facility in Lafayette Hall at Morristown National Historical Park to support museum projects in the East and a Museum Division, Branch of Research and Education, to serve all national parks. Carl Russell became chief of the Museum Division and chaired a committee to plan and develop the Department of the Interior Museum. That same year the NPS hired its first park curators. The first employee with title of curator was John A. Sachse, who was assigned to Fort McHenry. In 1940 Morristown National Historical Park hired Paul Hudson to fill the first civil service position for a park museum curator.

In 1936 the NPS strengthened its central oversight and services for park museums. Ned Burns took over from Carl Russell in leading the Eastern Museum Division when he became chief of the Wildlife Division (first in an acting capacity and then permanently in 1939). Burns moved the exhibit laboratory from Morristown to the top floors of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.

The centralized laboratories planned and installed exhibits in park museums. A new policy moved NPS museum exhibits away from “shelf upon shelf of unrelated objects” and toward the use of illustrations, graphics, maps, and “whenever possible complementary objects.” In 1938 Colonial National Historical Park erected a museum at Jamestown that included an archeological laboratory, collections storage, two small exhibit rooms to orient visitors to the site, and windows allowing the public to view the storage room and activities in the laboratory. The “visible” storage and laboratory exhibit must have been one of the earliest such examples in the country.

A NPS survey documented 114 museums in national parks in 1939 (up from 36 in 1935), with aggregate area larger than that of National Museum in Washington, DC, and 4.2 million visitors in 1939 (outnumbering two of the three largest museums in the United States).

In 1941 Burns coordinated the compilation of policy and procedures in a manual for park museums. Field Manual for Museums established standards for accessioning, cataloging, storage, house museums, and use of the museum and objects in interpretive programs.

Anticipating potential involvement of the United States in World War II, the Museum Division drafted a manual on protecting cultural resources against hazards of war. It also began an inventory of its most important and irreplaceable museum objects and worked with representatives from the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and National Archives to develop plans for protecting national museum treasures. Museums at several parks are ordered to pack selected museum objects and specimens for wartime evacuation. The NPS resisted pressure to submit bronze cannon, statues, and tablets in the parks for use as scrap metal.

During the war Museum collections languished, and exhibits deteriorated in the absence of adequate maintenance. The Eastern Museum Laboratory (EML) at Ford’s Theatre closed during the war but reopened in 1946.

Museum Branch (1947-1964)
A museum methods course for employees was developed in 1949. It was offered most years through the mid-1990s.

In 1950, for the first time since World War II, Congress appropriated funds to build park museums. In 1952 the NPS established the first archeological center at Gila Pueblo in Globe, Arizona, to provide ruins stabilization in the Southwest and museum management support. Archeological centers, and more recently museum services centers, played a critical role in caring for park collections. The Southeast Archeological Center (Tallahassee, Florida) has its origins at Ocmulgee in 1966; the Midwest Archeological Center (Lincoln, Nebraska), National Capital Region Museum Resource Center, and Northeast Museum Services Center provide similar functions.

In 1954 Ralph Lewis succeeded Ned Burns as chief of the Museum Branch (formerly the Museum Division). The next year Congress passed the Museum Act giving NPS additional museum management authorities. The Act authorizes donations, bequests, exchanges, and loans, augmenting the Historic Sites Act of 1935 in codifying the NPS museum functions.

From 1956 to 1966 the Mission 66 Program funded the planning and development of approximately 100 new park museums. The program was designed to avert a crisis caused by a rapid increase in numbers of visitors and a lack of facilities and services. Planners wanted to convey the concept that the museum facility was more than a museum. It was to be called a “visitor center” and include a lobby, information desk, maps, schedules, self-service orientation, and an auditorium to accommodate audiovisual presentations, in addition to a museum.

In 1957 the NPS issued a Museum Records Handbook to address the problem of seriously inadequate museum records in parks. About 1968 it was renamed the National Park Service Museum Handbook. The Western Museum Laboratories (WML) and Eastern Museum Laboratory (EML) became part of the Museum Branch in 1964.

Branches of Museum Development and Museum Operations (1964-1967)
In 1964 NPS Director George B. Hartzog Jr. reorganized the Museum Branch into two units: the Branch of Museum Development (exhibits, interpretive planning) and the Branch of Museum Operations (curation). Harold Peterson, chief curator for the Branch of Museum Operations, became acting chief of the Branch of Museum Development.

The Branch of Museum Operations had a limited role in two aspects of the exhibit program. While the exhibit planners in the Branch of Museum Development decided what objects they wanted to display, curators in Museum Operations still had responsibility for acquiring and authenticating them. These curators also systematically recorded both the transactions and the objects. Acquisition and authentication became Harold Peterson's primary duties as chief curator.

Division of Museums (1967-1973)
In 1967 the Branch of Museum Development became the Museum Division within the reorganized NPS Interpretation directorate. The Branch of Museum Operations retained its previous name and scope. In 1968 Museum Operations released Museum Handbook Part IV: Exhibit Maintenance and Replacement and began preparing individualized exhibit maintenance guides for all new exhibit installations.

In 1968 the NPS created the Harper’s Ferry Center (HFC) in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, to coordinate exhibits, publications, and audiovisual programs. That facility opened in 1970. In 1969 a one-week “Curatorial Methods” class was offered for the first time, funded by the NPS Mather Training Center, replacing the “Museum Methods” course that was discontinued in 1964.

In 1970 the Museum Division moved to the newly constructed HFC building. The WML facility at the San Francisco Mint closed and the staff were moved to HFC. Ralph Lewis retired as chief of the Branch of Museum Operations in 1971.

Museum Services Division (1973-1982)
In 1973 the Branch of Museum Operations was reorganized as the Museum Services Division at Harpers Ferry Center. Arthur C. Allen was appointed chief in 1974. Allen served in that role until 1982. In 1975 the Museum Services Division issued the first set of Conserve O Grams to address the need for detailed technical guidance on caring for collections. That same year the Museum Services Division prepared the first collection management plan.

Ralph Lewis, who served as chief of the Museum Branch (1954-1964) and chief of the Branch of Museum Operations (1964-1971), revised and published the NPS Museum Handbook under the title Manual for Museums in 1976. That same year a new Supply and Equipment Program began to serve park procurement needs for specialized museum supplies and equipment, such as acid-free paper and specimen storage cabinets.

In 1977 the NPS established National Catalog vault by retooling a 1950s bomb shelter to serve as a central repository for park catalog records. The National Catalog maintains archival copies of park museum catalog records and maintains basic quality control on park paper (and now electronic) records.

Curatorial Services Division (1980-2000)
At a Servicewide curators’ conference held at the Mather Training Center in 1978 attendees called for establishment of chief curator and regional curator positions. The position of chief curator was established and filled in response to a House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs study and recommendations on NPS cultural resources management. Ann Hitchcock was hired as chief curator in 1980.

Resistance from Marc Sagan, manager of HFC, delayed Hitchcock’s new Curatorial Services Division in WASO from taking over staff and museum operations responsibilities from the Museum Services Division of HFC until 1982. The National Catalog, museum handbooks and Conserve O Gram series, Supply and Equipment Program, and museum planning functions transferred to WASO. The Museum Operations Division, conservation services, and the NPS History Collection remained at HFC.

Under Hitchcock, the NPS professionalized its collection management policies and practices, with an emphasis on accountability. In 1983 the NPS initiated annual reports for collections. The Collections Management Report (CMR) enables NPS to summarize and track acquisitions, cataloging and the cataloging backlog, deaccessions, loans, and uses of collections for exhibition and research. The data are used to measure achievements under the NPS strategic plan. The first reports were compiled manually.

The NPS revised its cataloging system in 1984 to better accommodate natural history specimens, adding data fields to the catalog record, and refining the accessions process. These new procedures were provided to the field in the revised Museum Handbook, Part II, Museum Records, which restored the loose-leaf format introduced in 1957.

In the 1980s, the NPS began annual assessments of the status of cataloging and preservation and protection conditions in exhibits and storage areas in parks. The backlog of collections to be cataloged was far greater than previously assumed. In 1986 the NPS initiated a self-evaluation checklist on museum collections preservation and protection. The NPS Checklist for Preservation and Protection of Museum Collections (MCPPP) enabled park, regional, and Servicewide assessments of exhibit and storage conditions. The data are used to measure achievements under the NPS strategic plan. At the request of Congress, in 1987 Chief Curator Ann Hitchcock prepared a Servicewide plan and cost estimate for improving the situation. Congress responded by appropriating funds beginning in 1990 to address the cataloging backlog and improve preservation and protection conditions.

The NPS automated the revised 1984 cataloging system in 1988, calling it the Automated National Catalog System (ANCS). It made the program available to non-NPS museums at the cost of duplication and many small to mid-size museums adopted it as a low cost alternative to meet their needs. Automation and increased funding from Congress rapidly accelerated cataloging so that by 1989 park staffs cataloged more items than had been cataloged in the previous 85 years.

In 1993 Ralph Lewis, working for the NPS as a collaborator, authored Museum Curatorship in the National Park Service, 1904-1982, providing an administrative history for the NPS museum program. In 1996 Congress amended the Museum Act to expand deaccessioning authorities of the NPS, by adding transfer, conveyance, and destruction. The NPS issued a new chapter of the Museum Handbook to provide detailed guidance on deaccessioning procedures, often a controversial process within museum communities. That same year the regional curators, chief curator, and representatives from centers form a council to serve as an advisory group to the associate director for cultural resources, in headquarters. This new Museum Management Program Council formalized a long-standing ad hoc function.

Two years later ANCS migrated to a commercial off-the-shelf product customized for NPS that automated most of the record-keeping functions. The new system, called ANCS+, supported not only cataloging, but also annual reporting of collections statistics, completion of a checklist on preservation and protection conditions, annual inventories, loans, deaccessions, conservation records, and housekeeping schedules.

In 1999 the NPS initiated a program to copy cellulose nitrate film holdings in park collections, reducing the fire risks in storage areas and preserving the content of the deteriorating photographs. The NPS Exhibit Conservation Guidelines CD-ROM was also issued that year.

Museum Management Program (2000-present)
In 2000 the Curatorial Services Division became the Museum Management Program (MMP), although at times it was also known as the Park Museum Management Program (PMMP). With the advent of the Internet, websites featuring park collections developed in the 1990s and the NPS Web Catalog, launched in 2002, allowed parks to post collections data on the Web. The MMP initiated the Teaching with Museum Collections program and NPS collection-based lesson plans to promote object-based learning in 2004. That same year the NPS signed an agreement with the American Type Culture Collection to care for microorganisms in park collections.In 2004, a century after the first museum was created at Yosemite, NPS museum collections included over 109 million items from over 350 park units. The collections encompass 32.4 million archeological, 3.5 million historical, 1.9 million biological, 355,000 paleontological, 77,000 geological, and 28,000 ethnological objects and specimens, and 71.6 million archival and manuscript items. Over 700 employees had museum management duties, including over 280 permanent employees serving as curators, archivists, museum specialists, and museum and archival technicians.

Hitchcock remained head of the MMP until about 2007. She retained the chief curator position for another couple of years but then became a special assistant in the natural science directorate, working on natural history collection issues, national repository agreements for collections, and emergency response. Subsequent chief curators include Ronald Wilson, John Roberts, Stephanie Stephens, and Mary Troy.

Sources:

https://www.nps.gov/museum/centennial/about.htmlhttps://archive.org/details/musuemcuratorshi00lewi

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Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and memos, meeting and conference materials, publications, reports, catalog records, inventories, and news clippings documenting museum management activities. Materials highlight the history of the program and administrative activities as well as exhibits created by the division. Copies of museum policies, Museum Handbook chapters, Conserve O Gram publications, and early training course materials are included. Of note are documents related to the Eastern and Western Museum Laboratories, as well as early program activities from the 1930s. Western Museum Laboratory files document the creation of the iconic park poster series created in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Files related to exhibition development for individual parks, as well as travelling exhibits, are present

Arrangement

Organized into five series, as follows:
Series I: Administrative Files, 1934-2003
Series II: Regional Offices Files, 1932-2000
Series III: Museum Collections Documentation, ca. 1926-2001 (bulk dates: 1950-1990)
Series IV: Exhibit Files, 1895-1996 (bulk dates: 1930-1996)
Series V: Reference Files, 1928-2004 (bulk dates: 1960-1990)

Series I: Administrative Files, 1934-2003

Extent of the series: 10.5 LF

Scope and Content Note

Files, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, clippings, training material, and reports related to NPS museum management programs, policies, and practices. Central files alpha-numeric codes are A (Administration), D (Development and Maintenance); F (Fiscal), H (History and Archeology), K (Interpretation and Information), L (Lands), S (Supplies, Procurement and Property).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Container List

BOX 01
Folder 01: Cartoons, undated
Folder 02: Cases, 1955-1963
Folder 03: Central Files A22: American Association of Museums, 1957-1960
Folder 04: Central Files A22: American Association of Museums – John W. Jenkins Participation, 1962 -1963
Folder 05: Central Files A22: Associations, General, 1963
Folder 06: Central Files A22: Western History Association, 1963
Folder 07: Central Files A22: Western Museums League, 1958-1963
Folder 08: Central Files A2623: Reports, Situation, 1964-1967
Folder 09: Central Files A34: Commendations and Complaints, 1963-1964
Folder 10: Central Files A40: Conferences and Meetings, General, 1962
Folder 11: Central Files A40: Interpretive Conferences, 1958-1967
Folder 12: Central Files A40: Western Museum Laboratory Staff Meeting Minutes, 1958-1962
Folder 13: Central Files A44: Cooperative Agreements with Federal, State, and Local Agencies, 1961-1962
Folder 14: Central Files A54: Inspections, Investigations, and Studies, 1964
Folder 15: Central Files A5623: Field Office’s 1953-1956, including Interpretation, 1953-1956
Folder 16: Central Files A5623: Field Office’s, 1957
Folder 17: Central Files A5623: Field Office Memoranda, 1958-1961
Folder 18: Central Files A5623: Field Office Memoranda, 1962-1963
Folder 19: Central Files A5623: Field Office Memoranda, 1964-1965
Folder 20: Central Files A5623: Field Office Memoranda, 1966
Folder 21: Central Files A5623: Field Office Memoranda, 1967
Folder 22: Central Files A5639: Western Museum Laboratory Instructional Memorandums, 1960-1968
Folder 23: Central Files A60: Visits (Government Personnel, Foreign Persons, Other), 1967

BOX 02
Folder 01: Central Files A64: Organization Service, Vol. 1, 1963-1964
Folder 02: Central Files A64: Organization Service, Vol. 2, 1965-1966
Folder 03: Central Files A64: Organization (WASO), 1964
Folder 04: Central Files A6435: Organization (Western Museum Laboratory), 1957-1961
Folder 05: Central Files A6435: Organization Chart, 1960-1966
Folder 06: Central Files A70: National Defense Activities, undated
Folder 07: Central Files A7215: Automatic Data Processing, 1965
Folder 08: Central Files A7221: Files Management, 1965-1967
Folder 09: Central Files A7615: Health and Safety, 1964-1967
Folder 10: Central Files A7623: Accidents, Injuries, Death, 1965-1967
Folder 11: Central Files A8027: Office and Storage Space, 1956-1968
Folder 12: Central Files A82: Special Events, 1960-1967
Folder 13: Central Files A96: Delegations of Authority, 1958-1964
Folder 14: Central Files D18: Planning Program and Master Plans, 1967-1968
Folder 15: Central Files D22: Construction Programs Correspondence, 1963-1966 Folder 16: Central Files D2621: Annual Report to Chief, Branch of Museum Development, FY 1963, 1963-1967
Folder 17: Central Files D34: Buildings – Visitor Centers, 1960-1963
Folder 18: Central Files D52: Contracts, 1963-1967
Folder 19: Central Files D6215: Audiovisual and Motion Pictures, 1962-1967
Folder 20: Central Files D6215: Cooperation by Western Museum Laboratory with Foreign Agencies and Individuals, 1959-1968
Folder 21: Central Files D6215: Architectural and Interpretive Planning, 1964-1967 Folder 22: Central Files D66: Signs, Markers, and Memorials, 1965-1967
Folder 23: Central Files F2623: Cost Reduction and Manpower Conservation Report, 1964-1965
Folder 24: Central Files H30: Archeological and Historical Structures, 1958-1962

BOX 03
Folder 01: Central Files K18: Interpretive Activities, 1967
Folder 02: Central Files K38: Publications, Service, 1964-1968
Folder 03: Central Files K54: Special Articles Prepared by Service Personnel, 1960-1965
Folder 04: Central Files L34: Recreation Studies, Resources, etc., 1963
Folder 05: Central Files S56: Portable Exhibits Units, 1957-1962
Folder 06: Conferences: American Association of Museums 48th Annual Meeting, 1953
Folder 07: Conferences: American Association of Museums 54th Annual Meeting, 1959
Folder 08: Conferences: American Association of Museums 55th Annual Meeting, 1960
Folder 09: Conferences: American Association of Museums 56th Annual Meeting, 1961
Folder 10: Conferences: American Association of Museums 57th Annual Meeting, 1962
Folder 11: Conferences: American Association of Museums 58th Annual Meeting, 1963
Folder 12: Conferences: American Association of Museums 59th Annual Meeting, 1964
Folder 13: Conferences: American Association of Museums 62nd Annual Meeting, 1967
Folder 14: Conferences: American Association of Museums Correspondence, 1953-1967
Folder 15: Conferences: American Association of Museums Memo, 1981
Folder 16: Conferences: American Association of Museums Newsletter “The Museum News,” 1937

BOX 04
Folder 01: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1958
Folder 02: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1964-1965 Folder 03: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1966
Folder 04: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1967
Folder 05: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1968
Folder 06: Conferences: American Association of Museums Reports, 1969
Folder 07: Conferences: American Institute of Park Executives, 1963
Folder 08: Conferences: Izaak Walton League of America, 1962
Folder 09: Conferences: Northeast Museums, 1959-1970
Folder 10: Conferences: Ranger and Interpreters, 1958
Folder 11: Conferences: Ranger and Interpreters, 1959-1966
Folder 12: Conferences: Regional Chiefs, 1956-1960
Folder 13: Conferences: Regional Chiefs, 1961-1962
Folder 14: Conferences: Regional Chiefs, 1963-1964
Folder 15: Conferences: Western Museums League, 1963
Folder 16: Conferences: UNESCO, 1952-1953 [1 of 2]
Folder 17: Conferences: UNESCO, 1952-1953 [2 of 2]

BOX 05
Folder 01: Correspondence and Memos: Attendance at Meetings, 1957-1966
Folder 02: Correspondence and Memos: Branch of Museums, 1963
Folder 03: Correspondence and Memos: Branch of Museums, 1964-1966
Folder 04: Correspondence and Memos: Circulars, 1959-1961
Folder 05: Correspondence and Memos: Circulars, 1962-1966
Folder 06: Correspondence and Memos: Cooperation Activities, 1959
Folder 07: Correspondence and Memos: Cooperation Activities, 1960-1963
Folder 08: Correspondence and Memos: Cooperation Activities, 1964-1966
Folder 09: Correspondence and Memos: Curatorial Policies, 1967
Folder 10: Correspondence and Memos: Development/Study Package Proposals, 1976
Folder 11: Correspondence and Memos: Exhibits: General, 1957-1964
Folder 12: Correspondence and Memos: Exhibits Techniques, 1959-1965
Folder 13: Correspondence and Memos: Flower Fund, 1966-1970
Folder 14: Correspondence and Memos: Fort Ticonderoga, 1954-1957
Folder 15: Correspondence and Memos: Humidity Analysis, 1963-1968
Folder 16: Correspondence and Memos: Interior Museum, 1962-1963
Folder 17: Correspondence and Memos: Interpretation, 1963-1966
Folder 18: Correspondence and Memos: James Madison Memorial Commission, 1965-1966
Folder 19: Correspondence and Memos: Long-Range Guidelines, 1963-1964
Folder 20: Correspondence and Memos: Memorials, 1963-1965
Folder 21: Correspondence and Memos: Model Makers, 1961-1968
Folder 22: Correspondence and Memos: Museum Collections Handbook, 1963-1964

BOX 06
Folder 01: Correspondence and Memos: Museum and Exhibit Activities: Midwest, 1963-1967
Folder 02: Correspondence and Memos: Museum and Exhibit Activities: Southwest, 1962-1968
Folder 03: Correspondence and Memos: Museum and Exhibit Activities: Western, 1963-1967
Folder 04: Correspondence and Memos: Museum and Exhibits Philosophy, 1956-1966 Folder 05: Correspondence and Memos: National Portrait Gallery, 1963-1964
Folder 06: Correspondence and Memos: Painted Buffalo Hide, 1994
Folder 07: Correspondence and Memos: Preservation and Rehabilitation Study, 1967 Folder 08: Correspondence and Memos: Preservation and Rehabilitation: General, 1965-1985
Folder 09: Correspondence and Memos: Programs, 1956-1993
Folder 10: Correspondence and Memos: Reorganization of Museums, 1964-1969 Folder 11: Correspondence and Memos: Restoration and Preservation Specialists, 1961-1965
Folder 12: Correspondence and Memos: Smithsonian: Cooperation w/ NPS on Objects of Interest, 1962
Folder 13: Correspondence and Memos: UNESCO, 1960-1965
Folder 14: Correspondence and Memos: Yosemite National Park, 1944-1952
Folder 15: Correspondence and Memos: General, 1957-1993
Folder 16: Dailies: November-December 1959
Folder 17: Dailies: September-October 1960
Folder 18: Dailies: November 1960
Folder 19: Dailies: December 1960
Folder 20: Dailies: January-February 1961
Folder 21: Dailies: March 1961

BOX 07
Folder 01: Dailies: April 1961
Folder 02: Dailies: May 1961
Folder 03: Dailies: June 1961
Folder 04: Dailies: July 1961
Folder 05: Dailies: August 1961
Folder 06: Dailies: September-October 1961
Folder 07: Dailies: November-December 1961
Folder 08: Dailies: January 1962
Folder 09: Dailies: February 1962
Folder 10: Dailies: March 1962
Folder 11: Dailies: April 1962

BOX 08
Folder 01: Dailies: May 1962
Folder 02: Dailies: June 1962
Folder 03: Dailies: July 1962
Folder 04: Dailies: August 1962
Folder 05: Dailies: September 1962
Folder 06: Dailies: October 1962
Folder 07: Dailies: November 1962
Folder 08: Dailies: December 1962
Folder 09: Dailies: January-February 1963
Folder 10: Dailies: March 1963
Folder 11: Dailies: April 1963

BOX 09
Folder 01: Dailies: May 1963
Folder 02: Dailies: June 1963
Folder 03: Dailies: July 1963
Folder 04: Dailies: August 1963
Folder 05: Dailies: September 1963
Folder 06: Dailies: October 1963
Folder 07: Dailies: November 1963
Folder 08: Dailies: December 1963
Folder 09: Dailies: January 1964
Folder 10: Dailies: February 1964
Folder 11: Dailies: March 1964

BOX 10
Folder 01: Dailies: April 1964
Folder 02: Dailies: May 1964
Folder 03: Dailies: June 1964
Folder 04: Dailies: July-September 1964
Folder 05: Dailies: October-December 1964
Folder 06: Dailies: January-March 1965
Folder 07: Dailies: April 1965
Folder 08: Dailies: May-June 1965
Folder 09: Dailies: July-August 1965
Folder 10: Dailies: September-October 1965
Folder 11: Dailies: December 1965

BOX 11
Folder 01: Dailies: January 1966
Folder 02: Dailies: February-March 1966
Folder 03: Dailies: April-June 1966
Folder 04: Dailies: July-August 1966
Folder 05: Dailies: September-October 1966
Folder 06: Dailies: November-December 1966
Folder 07: Dailies: January-February 1967
Folder 08: Dailies: March-April 1967
Folder 09: Dailies: May-June 1967
Folder 10: Dailies: July-September 1967
Folder 11: Dailies: October-December 1967
Folder 12: Dailies: January-February 1968
Folder 13: Dailies: March-May 1968

BOX 12
Folder 01: Dailies: June-December 1968
Folder 02: Dailies: January-June 1969
Folder 03: Dailies: July-December 1969
Folder 04: Dailies: January-April 1970
Folder 05: Dailies: May-June 1970
Folder 06: Dailies: July 1970
Folder 07: Dailies: August 1970
Folder 08: Dailies: September 1970
Folder 09: Dailies: October 1970
Folder 10: Dailies: November 1970

BOX 13
Folder 01: Dailies: December 1970
Folder 02: Dailies: January 1971
Folder 03: Dailies: February 1971
Folder 04: Dailies: March 1971
Folder 05: Dailies: April 1971
Folder 06: Dailies: May 1971
Folder 07: Dailies: June 1971
Folder 08: Dailies: July 1971
Folder 09: Dailies: August 1971
Folder 10: Dailies: September-October 1971
Folder 11: Dailies: November-December 1971

BOX 14
Folder 01: Dailies: January 1972
Folder 02: Dailies: February 1972
Folder 03: Dailies: March 1972
Folder 04: Dailies: April 1972
Folder 05: Dailies: May 1972
Folder 06: Dailies: June 1972
Folder 07: Dailies: July 1972
Folder 08: Dailies: August-September 1972
Folder 09: Dailies: October 1972
Folder 10: Dailies: November 1972
Folder 11: Dailies: December 1972
Folder 12: Dailies: January 1973

BOX 15
Folder 01: Dailies: February 1973
Folder 02: Dailies: March 1973
Folder 03: Dailies: April 1973
Folder 04: Dailies: May 1973
Folder 05: Dailies: June 1973
Folder 06: Dailies: July 1973
Folder 07: Dailies: August 1973
Folder 08: Dailies: September 1973
Folder 09: Dailies: October 1973

BOX 16
Folder 01: Dailies: November 1973
Folder 02: Dailies: December 1973
Folder 03: Dailies: January 1974
Folder 04: Dailies: February-April 1974
Folder 05: Dailies: May-August 1974
Folder 06: Dailies: September-December 1974
Folder 07: Dailies: January-March 1975
Folder 08: Dailies: April-July 1975
Folder 09: Dailies: August-October 1975
Folder 10: Dailies: November-December 1975
Folder 11: Dailies: January-February 1976

BOX 17
Folder 01: Dailies: March-May 1976
Folder 02: Dailies: June-August 1976
Folder 03: Dailies: September-December 1976
Folder 04: Dailies: January-March 1977
Folder 05: Dailies: April-July 1977
Folder 06: Dailies: August-October 1977
Folder 07: Dailies: November-December 1977
Folder 08: Dailies: January-April 1978
Folder 09: Dailies: May-July 1978
Folder 10: Dailies: August-October 1978
Folder 11: Dailies: November-December 1978

BOX 18
Folder 01: Dailies: January-March 1979
Folder 02: Dailies: April-June 1979
Folder 03: Dailies: July-September 1979
Folder 04: Dailies: October-December 1979
Folder 05: Dailies: January-March 1980
Folder 06: Dailies: April-May 1980
Folder 07: Dailies: June-July 1980
Folder 08: Dailies: August-September 1980
Folder 09: Directories 1962-1968
Folder 10: Directories 1969-1971
Folder 11: Directories 1995

BOX 19
Folder 01: Meetings – Curatorial Strategy Meeting, 1993
Folder 02: Meetings – Management Improvement Committee, 1957-1960
Folder 03: Meetings – Museum Management Council, 1997-1999
Folder 04: Meetings – National Catalog Steering Committee, 1992-1993
Folder 05: Meetings – Regional Archeologists Meeting, 1960
Folder 06: Meetings – Rome Center, 1959
Folder 07: News Releases, 1972-2003
Folder 08: Newsletter, 1996
Folder 09: Policies, Museum, 1934-1939
Folder 10: Policies, Museum, 1940
Folder 11: Policies, Museum, 1941-1946
Folder 12: Policies, Museum, 1954-1955
Folder 13: Programs: Audio-Visual Installation, 1954-1956
Folder 14: Programs: Audio-Visual Installation, 1957-1962
Folder 15: Programs: Audio-Visual Installation, 1963-1966
Folder 16: Programs: Exhibits-in-Existing Buildings: FY 1965-FY 1966, 1965-1966 Folder 17: Programs: Exhibits-in-Existing Buildings: FY 1967-FY 1968, 1966-1967 Folder 18: Programs: Maintenance and Rehabilitation, undated

BOX 20
Folder 01: Reports: Archeology Program: FY 1965 Annual Report, 1966
Folder 02: Reports: Audits, 1956-1958
Folder 03: Reports: Cultural Resources Challenge, 2000
Folder 04: Reports: Cultural Sites Inventory Management Database, 1985
Folder 05: Reports: Exhibit Conditions Forms, undated
Folder 06: Reports: Exhibits and Visitor Centers, 1959-1960
Folder 07: Reports: Museum Division, December 1936
Folder 08: Reports: Museum Division, January 1937
Folder 09: Reports: Museum Division, February 1937
Folder 10: Reports: Museum Division, March 1937
Folder 11: Reports: Museum Division, April-May 1937
Folder 12: Reports: Museum Division, July 1937
Folder 13: Reports: Museum Division, August-November 1937
Folder 14: Reports: Museum Division, January-December 1938
Folder 15: Reports: Museum Division, January-February 1939

BOX 21
Folder 01: Reports: Museum Division, March-June 1939
Folder 02: Reports: Museum Division, July-December 1939
Folder 03: Reports: Museum Division, January-May 1940
Folder 04: Reports: Museum Division, June-October 1940
Folder 05: Reports: Museum Division, November-December 1940
Folder 06: Reports: Museum Division, January-December 1941
Folder 07: Reports: Museum Division, January 1942-January 1943
Folder 08: Reports: Museum Division, April 1946-September 1948
Folder 09: Reports: Museum Division, October 1950-December 1959
Folder 10: Reports: Museum Division, January 1960-December 1963

BOX 22
Folder 01: Reports: Museum Division January 1964-December 1968
Folder 02: Reports: Museum Division, Annual Report, 1938-1942
Folder 03: Reports: Museum Division: Activities, 1969
Folder 04: Reports: Museum Division: Field Laboratory, 1936
Folder 05: Reports: Museum Exhibit Plan, 1955-1956
Folder 06: Reports: Research, 1959-1963
Folder 07: Reports: Research, 1964
Folder 08: Reports: Research, 1965-1966
Folder 09: Reports: Secretary’s State Book, 1960-1964
Folder 10: Reports: Status of Programs and Progress of Goals, 1964-1966
Folder 11: Reports: Task Force Draft, 1973
Folder 12: Reports: Visit to Western Museum Laboratory, 1967
Folder 13: Speeches, 1959-1965
Folder 14: Training: Correspondence, 1960-1965
Folder 15: Training: In-Service: Memos, 1961-1968
Folder 16: Training: In-Service: Program Participation, 1959-1967
Folder 17: Training: In-Service: Training Course Materials, 1948-1951
Folder 18: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1949

BOX 23
Folder 01: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1951-1953
Folder 02: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1957 [1 of 2]
Folder 03: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1957 [2 of 2]
Folder 04: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1958
Folder 05: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1959
Folder 06: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1960 [1 of 2]
Folder 07: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1960 [2 of 2]
Folder 08: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1961
Folder 09: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1962

BOX 24
Folder 01: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1963 [1 of 2]
Folder 02: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1963 [2 of 2]
Folder 03: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1964 [1 of 2]
Folder 04: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1964 [2 of 2]
Folder 05: Training: Museum Methods Training Course, 1965, 1981
Folder 06: Training: Museum Methods Training Course: Class Photographs, 1949-1964
Folder 07: Training: Training Centers: Horace Albright Training Center, 1963-1965 Folder 08: Training: Training Centers: Stephen Mather Training Center, 1961-1966 [1 of 2]
Folder 09: Training: Training Centers: Stephen Mather Training Center, 1961-1966 [2 of 2]

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Series II: Regional Office Files, 1932-2000

Extent of the series: 4.0 LF

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, clippings, project files, and reference material. Files related to the NPS Eastern and Western Museum Laboratories are of note.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by regional office or laboratory name, and thereunder alphabetically by topic.

Container List

BOX 01
Folder 01: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Clippings: Louisiana Old Courthouse Centennial, 1945
Folder 02: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1936-1964 Folder 03: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1941-1962
Folder 04: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Museum Cases, undated
Folder 05: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Museum Cases: Drawings, 1932
Folder 06: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Museum Cases: Drawings (7999.1-7999.26), 1939
Folder 07: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Museum Cases: Drawings, undated
Folder 08: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Museum Survey, 1939-1941
Folder 09: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Plans, 1936-1939
Folder 10: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Project Construction Proposals Handbook, 1965
Folder 11: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings Program and Construction Programs, 1964 [1 of 2]
Folder 12: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings Program and Construction Programs, 1964 [2 of 2]
Folder 13: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings Program and Construction Programs, 1965-1966 [1 of 2]
Folder 14: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings Program and Construction Programs, 1965-1966 [2 of 2]
Folder 15: Eastern Museum Laboratory: Reports, 1937-1967

BOX 02
Folder 01: Midwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1952-1959
Folder 02: Midwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1962
Folder 03: Midwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1963-1966
Folder 04: Midwest Region Office: Programs: Construction and Preservation, 1949-1952
Folder 05: National Capital Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1959-1966 Folder 06: National Capital Region Office: Department of the Interior Museum, 1936-1979
Folder 07: North Atlantic Region Office: Strategic Plan, 1993
Folder 08: Northeast Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1966
Folder 09: Northeast Region Office: Reports: Status of Museums, 1962-1966
Folder 10: Southeast Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1952-1959
Folder 11: Southeast Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1962
Folder 12: Southeast Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1963-1966
Folder 13: Southeast Region Office: Meeting Minutes, 1969
Folder 14: Southeast Region Office: Programs: Construction and Preservation, 1952 Folder 15: Southeast Region Office: Reports: Annual, 1990
Folder 16: Southeast Region Office: Reports: Status of Museums, 1959-1966

BOX 03
Folder 01: Southwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1952-1959
Folder 02: Southwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1961
Folder 03: Southwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1962-1966
Folder 04: Southwest Region Office: Correspondence and Memos: Southwestern National Monuments, 1952
Folder 05: Southwest Region Office: Programs: Construction and Preservation, 1950-1952
Folder 06: Southwest Region Office: Programs: Management Training, 1984
Folder 07: Southwest Region Office: Reports: End-of-the-Year, 1984
Folder 08: Western Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1952-1958
Folder 09: Western Region Office: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1966
Folder 10: Western Museum Laboratory: Activities: Museum and Exhibit, 1963-1964 Folder 11: Western Museum Laboratory: Activities: Museum and Exhibit, 1965-1967 Folder 12: Western Museum Laboratory: Activities: Western Lab and Support, 1957-1969
Folder 13: Western Museum Laboratory: Commendations, 1967-1969
Folder 14: Western Museum Laboratory: Conferences: American Association of Museums [in St. Louis], 1963-1964
Folder 15: Western Museum Laboratory: Conservation, 1969

BOX 04
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1956-1957 Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, January-March 1958
Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, April-June 1958
Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, July-September 1958
Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, October-December 1958
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1959-1960 Folder 07: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1961-1962 Folder 08: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1963

BOX 05
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1964-1966 Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, 1967-1968 Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, January-August 1969
Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Correspondence and Memos, September 1970-February 1970
Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Exhibits Costs, 1960-1967
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Exhibits Inventory, ca. 1968
Folder 07: Western Museum Laboratory: Job Register, undated
Folder 08: Western Museum Laboratory: Meetings, Attendance at, 1973-1977
Folder 09: Western Museum Laboratory: Personnel: Correspondence, 1956-1959 Folder 10: Western Museum Laboratory: Personnel: Correspondence, 1960-1961 Folder 11: Western Museum Laboratory: Personnel: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Folder 12: Western Museum Laboratory: Personnel: List of Western Museum Laboratory Employees, 1958-1969
Folder 13: Western Museum Laboratory: Personnel: Position Descriptions, 1957-1964
BOX 06
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Correspondence and Memos, 1966-1969
Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Goals, 1966-1970
Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Issue Paper, 1969-1970
Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Program, FY 1969, 1968-1969 Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Program, FY 1970, 1969
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Program, FY 1971, 1970
Folder 07: Western Museum Laboratory: Planning: Work Expenditures, 1965-1969 Folder 08: Western Museum Laboratory: Programs: Construction and Preservation, 1949-1952
Folder 09: Western Museum Laboratory: Programs: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings, 1962-1966
Folder 10: Western Museum Laboratory: Programs: International Museum Week, 1968
BOX 07
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Programs: Preservation and Rehabilitation, 1961-1965
Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Projects: Summer in the Parks, 1968-1970 Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Projects: Works Project Administration Project Proposal, 1940
Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Projects: Works Project Administration Project no. 7144, Final Closing Report, 1937
Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Annual, 1949-1968
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Completion Reports, ARCH thru JOTR, 1962-1967
Folder 07: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Completion Reports, LAME thru ZION, 1962-1967
Folder 08: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Completion Reports Correspondence, 1959-1961
Folder 09: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Exhibits, 1964-1968
Folder 10: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Miscellaneous Products Available, 1938

BOX 08
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Miscellaneous Products Available, 1939 [1 of 2]
Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Miscellaneous Products Available, 1939 [2 of 2]
Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, August-October 1937 Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, February-May 1938
Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, December 1938
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, July 1939
Folder 07: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, October-December 1939 Folder 08: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, January-May 1941
Folder 09: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, 1960-1965
Folder 10: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Monthly, 1966-1969

BOX 09
Folder 01: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Museum Conditions, 1938
Folder 02: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports: Museum Preparation Work, undated
Folder 03: Western Museum Laboratory: Reports, Trips, 1967-1970
Folder 04: Western Museum Laboratory: Space for Administrative Use, 1968-1969 Folder 05: Western Museum Laboratory: Tours and Visitations, 1966-1969
Folder 06: Western Museum Laboratory: Waysides and Other Signs, 1966-1970 Folder 07: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, 1957-1958
Folder 08: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, January-March 1959
Folder 09: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, April-May 1959 Folder 10: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, June-August 1959 Folder 11: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, September-December 1959
Folder 12: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, January-June 1960 Folder 13: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, July-December 1960
Folder 14: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, January-June 1961 Folder 15: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, July-December 1961

BOX 10
Folder 01: Multiple Region Offices: Correspondence and Memos, January-October 1962
Folder 02: Multiple Region Offices: Meeting of Regional Directors, 1958
Folder 03: Multiple Region Offices: Museums of the NPS, 1963
Folder 04: Multiple Region Offices: Position Descriptions, 1950-1964
Folder 05: Multiple Region Offices: Programs: Exhibits-In-Existing Buildings Program and Construction Program, 1962-1963
Folder 06: Multiple Region Offices: Reports: Status Reports, 1977; 2000

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Series III: Museum Collections Documentation, ca. 1926-2001 (bulk dates: 1950-1990)

Extent of the series: 0.8 LF

Scope and Content Note

Records documenting the museum collection activities of the NPS, including catalog records, inventories, loan agreements, and reports. Reports related to the recovery of the Steamship Bertrand, a US Fish and Wildlife Service collection, are of note.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject or topic.

Container List

BOX 01
Folder 01: Catalog Records: Emergency Storage Space Cards, 1951
Folder 02: Catalog Records: Museum Catalog Records, 1982-1989
Folder 03: Catalog Records: Object Catalog Records, undated
Folder 04: Correspondence and Memos, 1960-1971
Folder 05: Inventories: Bertrand Collection, 1972-1976
Folder 06: Inventories: Cook Collection, ca. 1973
Folder 07: Inventories: Exhibit Development and Graphic Research Files, 2001
Folder 08: Inventories: Gibson Indian Collection, 1936-1942
Folder 09: Inventories: Hillers Collection, 1940-1950
Folder 10: Inventories: List of Artillery Tubes at Ford’s Theater and Manassas NMP, 1961
Folder 11: Inventories: McNulty Collection, 1949-1950
Folder 12: Inventories: Old Transparencies, 1969
Folder 13: Inventories: Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, ca. 1926
Folder 14: Inventories: Southwest Archeological Center Collections, 1963
Folder 15: Inventories: Southwest Archeological Center Collections, 1963
Folder 16: Inventories: Valley Forge Historical Society: Items Stolen, 1968
Folder 17: Inventories: Vernon Collection of Native American Art, ca. 1975
Folder 18: Inventories: Warren Indian Basket Collection, 1976-1977
Folder 19: Inventory of Property Forms, 1970-1971
Folder 20: List of Inventories of Exhibits in Parks, undated
Folder 21: Loan Agreements: Incoming Loan Forms, 1990
Folder 22: Loan Agreements: Memos, 1962-1963; 1993
Folder 23: Loan Agreement: Smithsonian, Roger White, 1989
Folder 24: Photographic Field Notes, 1936 Folder 25: Plans: NPS Plan for Museum Collections Management, 1994

BOX 02
Folder 01: Reports: Bertrand Reports, Vol. I, 1977-1979
Folder 02: Reports: Bertrand Reports, Vol. II, 1977-1979
Folder 03: Reports: Bertrand Reports, Vol. III, 1977-1979
Folder 04: Reports: Bertrand Reports, Vol. IV, 1977-1979
Folder 05: Reports: Office of [HFC] Art Resources Management: Project Status Report, 1996
Folder 06: Reports: Property Transactions, undated
Folder 07: Reports: Study Collections and Checklists, ca. 1960
Folder 08: Reproduction Ordered Lists, 1957-1966 Folder 09: Requisitions, 1964-1966

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Series IV: Exhibit Files, 1895-1996 (bulk dates: 1930-1996)

Extent of the series: 8.5 LF

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, cost estimates, reports, clippings, photographs, meeting agendas and minutes, planning documents, and research files about Servicewide exhibitions and related activities. Files related to exhibition development for individual parks, as well as travelling exhibits, are present.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Container List

BOX 01
Folder 01: Administrative: Correspondence and Memos, 1936-1970
Folder 02: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Black Canyon of the Gunnison, 1963-1964 Folder 03: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Capitol Gorge: Waysides, undated
Folder 04: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Capitol Reef, 1965
Folder 05: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Colorado, undated
Folder 06: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Gila Cliff Dwellings, undated
Folder 07: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Glacier: St. Mary, undated
Folder 08: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Lake Mead: Boulder Beach, undated
Folder 09: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Natural Bridge, undated
Folder 10: Administrative: Cost Estimates: Sequoia/Kings Canyon: Lodge pole, undated
Folder 11: Administrative: Exhibit Costs and List of Contractors Ledger, 1959-1965 Folder 12: Administrative: Exhibits Inventories, 1969-1970
Folder 13: Administrative: Inventory Catalog Cards, undated
Folder 14: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Goals, 1965
Folder 15: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Museum Inspections, 1964-1968
Folder 16: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Operating Procedures, 1966-1968
Folder 17: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Preservation Projects, 1963-1967
Folder 18: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects Completed for FY 1969, 1968-1969

BOX 02
Folder 01: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects for FY 1966, 1965-1966
Folder 02: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects for FY 1967, 1966 Folder 03: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects for FY 1968, 1967-1968
Folder 04: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects for FY 1969, 1968-1969
Folder 05: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Projects for FY 1970, 1969-1970
Folder 06: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Midwest Region for FY 1965-FY 1972, 1964-1972
Folder 07: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: National Capital Region for FY 1965-FY 1970, 1964-1969
Folder 08: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Northeast Region for FY 1965-FY 1972, 1964-1972

BOX 03
Folder 01: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Pacific Northwest Region for FY 1972, 1971-1972
Folder 02: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Southeast Region for FY 1965-FY 1972, 1964-1972
Folder 03: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Southwest Region for FY 1965-FY 1972, 1964-1972
Folder 04: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Western Region for FY 1965-FY 1972, 1964-1972
Folder 05: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Offices: Western Museum Laboratory for FY 1965-FY 1968, 1964-1968
Folder 06: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Requests for FY 1969, 1968-1969
Folder 07: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Regional Requests for FY 1970, 1969
Folder 08: Administrative: Exhibit Rehabilitation Program: Reports, 1967-1972
Folder 09: Administrative: Memorandum of Agreement, 1966
Folder 10: Administrative: Planning: Approval of Interpretive Prospectus and Exhibit Plans, 1958-1960
Folder 11: Administrative: Planning: Exhibit Plan Approval Sheets, 1959-1963
Folder 12: Administrative: Planning: Exhibit Planning and Design Guidelines, 1979 Folder 13: Administrative: Planning: Exhibit Planning and Design Guidelines, 1980 Folder 14: Administrative: Planning: Final Exhibit Plan for Director’s Corridor, 1995

BOX 04
Folder 01: Administrative: Planning: Museum Exhibit Planning, 1945-1964
Folder 02: Administrative: Planning: Regional Offices: Midwest Region, 1972
Folder 03: Administrative: Planning: Regional Offices: Northeast Region, 1972
Folder 04: Administrative: Planning: Regional Offices: Southeast Region, 1972
Folder 05: Administrative: Planning: Regional Offices: Southwest Region, 1972
Folder 06: Administrative: Planning: Regional Offices: Western Region, 1972
Folder 07: Administrative: Project Costs and Estimates, 1961-1964
Folder 08: Administrative: Project Construction Program, 1942-1947
Folder 09: Administrative: Publications: The Museum News, 1937-1938
Folder 10: Exhibits: Acadia NP: Nature Walks, undated
Folder 11: Exhibits: Albright Training Center Exhibits, 1979
Folder 12: Exhibits: Cape Cod NS: Vegetation of Cape Cod, undated
Folder 13: Exhibits: Castillo de San Marcos, 1941
Folder 14: Exhibits: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), undated
Folder 15: Exhibits: Department of the Interior: Historic Furnishings on Display in the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, undated
Folder 16: Exhibits: Federal Hall Exhibits, 1940-1950
Folder 17: Exhibits: Fort Pulaski Exhibits, 1936-1948
Folder 18: Exhibits: Fort Raleigh Exhibits, 1942
Folder 19: Exhibits: Fort Stanwix Exhibits, 1937
Folder 20: Exhibits: Fort Sumter: The Fort Sumter Flags Documentation and Authentication, 1981

BOX 05
Folder 01: Exhibits: Fort Sumter: The Fort Sumter Flags Documentation and Authentication, 1981
Folder 02: Exhibits: Fort Sumter: Microscopical Analysis of the Fort Sumter Flags, 1982
Folder 03: Exhibits: Fort Sumter: Technical Study of the Flags of Fort Sumter, 1982 Folder 04: Exhibits: Fredericksburg Exhibits, 1936-1941
Folder 05: Exhibits: George Washington Birthplace Exhibits, 1936-1941
Folder 06: Exhibits: Gettysburg: Field Artillery on the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1957 Folder 07: Exhibits: Gettysburg Exhibits, 1936
Folder 08: Exhibits: Glacier NP: Mission 66 Exhibit for the Governor’s Conference, 1960
Folder 09: Exhibits: Glacier NP Exhibits, 1937-1943
Folder 10: Exhibits: Grand Canyon NP Exhibits, 1935-1953
Folder 11: Exhibits: Grand Portage: Grand Hall, 1970
Folder 12: Exhibits: Grand Teton NP Exhibits, 1938-1940
Folder 13: Exhibits: Great Smoky Mountains Exhibits, 1935-1947

BOX 06
Folder 01: Exhibits: Harpers Ferry Center Exhibits, 1973-1974
Folder 02: Exhibits: Hot Springs Exhibits, 1937
Folder 03: Exhibits: Independence NHP: 18th Century Furniture, 1952
Folder 04: Exhibits: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Exhibits, 1942-1947 Folder 05: Exhibits: Kennesaw Mountain NBP Exhibits, 1939-1940
Folder 06: Exhibits: Olympic NP Exhibits, 1943
Folder 07: Exhibits: Petersburg NMP: Crater Battlefield, 1937
Folder 08: Exhibits: Richmond NBP: Exhibit Plans, 1958
Folder 09: Exhibits: Rocky Mountain NP: Alpine Visitor Center Exhibit Plan, 1962-1966 Folder 10: Exhibits: Rocky Mountain NP: Development Outline for Museum Program, 1934
Folder 11: Exhibits: Rocky Mountain NP: Preliminary Exhibit Plan for the Fall River Pass Museum, 1936
Folder 12: Exhibits: Rocky Mountain NP: Proposed Exhibits for Moraine Park Museum, 1934
Folder 13: Exhibits: Salem Maritime: Hawthorne, ca. 1965
Folder 14: Exhibits: Scotts Bluff NM Exhibits, 1937-1938
Folder 15: Exhibits: Sitka NM: Sheldon Jackson Museum, 1942-1943
Folder 16: Exhibits: Veiled Prophets Fair in St. Louis, 1988
Folder 17: Exhibits: Vicksburg NMP Exhibit Plan, ca. 1935
Folder 18: Exhibits: Vicksburg NMP: Objects for Interior Department Exhibit, 1937 Folder 19: Exhibits: William Henry Jackson, 1935-1943

BOX 07
Folder 01: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1952-1959 Folder 02: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1960-1967 Folder 03: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1968-1971 Folder 04: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1972-1978 Folder 05: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1979-1984 Folder 06: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Correspondence, 1985-1996 Folder 07: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Exhibit Loans, 1960-1976

BOX 08
Folder 01: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Information Packet, undated Folder 02: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Negatives of Old Exhibits, undated
Folder 03: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Planning Notes, 1953-1985 Folder 04: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Press Kit Notebooks Memo, 1987
Folder 05: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Procurement of Supplies and Equipment, 1969-1990
Folder 06: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Reference: Bonnie Sherk, 1970-1987
Folder 07: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Reference: Publications, 1950-1983
Folder 08: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Schedules, 1970-1988
Folder 09: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Administrative: Shipment of Exhibits, 1968-1972
Folder 10: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Artists-in-the-Parks: Background Information, 1987
Folder 11: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Artists-in-the-Parks: Correspondence, 1983-1988
Folder 12: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Artists-in-the-Parks: Planning Documents, 1969-1977
Folder 13: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Artists-in-the-Parks: Press Kit, 1979-1985 Folder 14: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Artists-in-the-Parks: Report, 1973
Folder 15: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Audiovisual Exhibits: Correspondence, 1970-1974

BOX 09
Folder 01: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Audiovisual Exhibits: Photographs, ca. 1970 Folder 02: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Audiovisual Exhibits: Report, 1973
Folder 03: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Audiovisual Exhibits: Set-Up Manual, ca. 1970 Folder 04: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Bicentennial Exhibits: Correspondence, 1974-1976
Folder 05: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Background Information, 1971-1973
Folder 06: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Correspondence, 1971-1974 [1 of 2]
Folder 07: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Correspondence, 1971-1974 [2 of 2]
Folder 08: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Photographs, ca. 1972 Folder 09: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Program, ca. 1972 Folder 10: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Carl Sandburg Exhibit: Exhibit Floor Plan, ca. 1972
Folder 11: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Centennial Exhibits, 1973-1974
Folder 12: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Charles Harper Exhibit: Press Kit, 1982-1987 Folder 13: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s Urban Open Spaces, 1978-1979
Folder 14: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Edward Bierly Exhibit: Press Kit, 1985
Folder 15: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Four-Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of Founding of San Juan, 1970-1971
Folder 16: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Homes of the Presidents: Press Kit, 1985 Folder 17: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Images of Liberty: Press Kit, undated
Folder 18: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Indian Pride on the Move, undated
Folder 19: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Milton Goldstein Exhibit: Press Kit, 1979

BOX 10
Folder 01: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Mini Artists-in-the-Parks, 1972-1981
Folder 02: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Nantucket Architecture, 1966-1974
Folder 03: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Niches: Press Kit, 1981
Folder 04: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Sigurd Olson, 1986-1987
Folder 05: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Captions, undated Folder 06: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Clippings, 1972-1973 Folder 07: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Correspondence, 1971-1979
Folder 08: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Curatorial Support and Plan, 1971
Folder 09: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Exhibit Panels, ca. 1974

BOX 11
Folder 01: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Loan Agreements, 1972-1979
Folder 02: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Panel Design Drawing, undated
Folder 03: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Photographs, 1972 Folder 04: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Report, 1973
Folder 05: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Spanish Architecture: Schedules, 1972-1978 Folder 06: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Trailside Exhibits, 1958-1966
Folder 07: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Walt Kuhn, 1989
Folder 08: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Clippings, 1970
Folder 09: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Correspondence, 1970-1979
Folder 10: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Loan Agreements, 1972-1974
Folder 11: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Planning Documents, 1970
Folder 12: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Photographs, 1963-1972
Folder 13: Exhibits: Travelling Exhibits: Woody Williams Exhibit: Report, 1973
Folder 14: History Files: Yellowstone Exhibits and Models, 1895-1902
Folder 15: History Files: Chick-Chatt Exhibit at Louisiana Purchase Expo, 1904
Folder 16: History Files: Museum Exhibit Cases, 1916
Folder 17: History Files: Museums in Yosemite, 1926
Folder 18: History Files: Presentation Papers re: Museums in the NPS, November 1929 Folder 19: History Files: Mesa Verde Museum Statement, 1930
Folder 20: History Files: Instructions for Erecting a Pyramidal Case, 1934
Folder 21: History Files: Museum Planning Procedure, January 1935
Folder 22: History Files: Care and Preservation of Museum Specimens and Collections, February 1935
Folder 23: History Files: The Museum Program in National Parks Memo, April 1935 Folder 24: History Files: The Museum and the Historian from Museum News, December 1, 1935
Folder 25: History Files: Office Order no. 312 re: Museum Division, December 2, 1935 Folder 26: History Files: Article: “Why Not a Museum for Rocky Mountain National Park?”, ca. 1935
Folder 27: History Files: Desirable Features in Museum Construction, ca. 1935
Folder 28: History Files: Some Principles of Installation in History Museums, ca. 1935 Folder 29: History Files: Methods for Preparing Exhibits, ca. 1935
Folder 30: History Files: Planning Museum Exhibits Procedure, April 4, 1936
Folder 31: History Files: Interpreting the Vicksburg Story, April 1936
Folder 32: History Files: Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums, National and State Parks Section Minutes, May 1936
Folder 33: History Files: Memo to All Field Officers re: Revising Exhibits, October 1936 Folder 34: History Files: Presentation: Museums in National Parks, December 1936 Folder 35: History Files: Statement Describing Place and Function of Museums in the NPS, 1936
Folder 36: History Files: How Architects Can Contribute to Museum Work, 1936 Folder 37: History Files: Loan and Gift Policy, 1936-1937
Folder 38: History Files: Miniature Groups or Dioramas, May 1937
Folder 39: History Files: Requests of Museum Exhibits, June 1937
Folder 40: History Files: Nisqually Trailside Exhibits, 1937
Folder 41: History Files: Interior Secretary Ickes Memo re: Museums in Parks, March 1938
Folder 42: History Files: Proposal to Fill Position of Chief of the Museum Division, June 1938
Folder 43: History Files: Survey of Holdings at Southwestern Monuments, July 1938 Folder 44: History Files: Frank Buffmire Speech Given in Montreal, ca. 1938
Folder 45: History Files: Preservation of Cultural Objects in Situ, ca. 1938
Folder 46: History Files: Remarks by Carl P. Russell at Opening of Harry B. Spaulding Hall of Conservation at Buffalo Museum of Science, January 10, 1939
Folder 47: History Files: Methods for Preparation and Exhibition of Insects, January 1939
Folder 48: History Files: Scope of Museum Exhibits Policy, February 1939
Folder 49: History Files: Travelling Exhibits, April-June 1939
Folder 50: History Files: Development of Museum Division, November 1939
Folder 51: History Files: Museum Personnel in the NPS, 1939
Folder 52: History Files: Museum Survey, 1939-1940

BOX 12
Folder 01: History Files: Position and Duties of Dorr G. Yeager, February 7, 1940 Folder 02: History Files: The History of Dioramas, reprint from The Museum News, February 15, 1940
Folder 03: History Files: Care of Manuscripts, Documents and Photographs on Exhibit in Museums, February 1940
Folder 04: History Files: Museum Policy and Procedures, March 13, 1940
Folder 05: History Files: Minutes of the Inter-Branch Meeting, March 14, 1940
Folder 06: History Files: Museum Needs of Historical Technicians, April 1940
Folder 07: History Files: Prospectus for Field American Folk Culture and Historical Museums, November 6, 1940
Folder 08: History Files: Museum Objects at Morristown NHP, November 11, 1940 Folder 09: History Files: Presentation: Increasing the Effectiveness of Park Exhibits, November 14, 1940
Folder 10: History Files: Presentation: The Place of Museums and Exhibits in the Interpretation Program, November 14, 1940
Folder 11: History Files: Presentation: Present Status and Current Needs of the Museum Program, November 14, 1940
Folder 12: History Files: Donation of Gifts, January 1941
Folder 13: History Files: Remarks at Historians’ Conference re: General Policies Related to Museums, May 1941
Folder 14: History Files: Recommendation of Survey of Most Valuable Objects, June 1941
Folder 15: History Files: Packing Methods, February 1942
Folder 16: History Files: Presentations from the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums, May 1942
Folder 17: History Files: Project Construction Programs, September 1942
Folder 18: History Files: British Viewpoint of Museums, May 1943
Folder 19: History Files: Request of Examples of Forms from the Museum of the City of New York, September 1943
Folder 20: History Files: Art Museum Conference Meeting Notes, March 1944
Folder 21: History Files: Comments on Museum Planning Checklist, September 1944 Folder 22: History Files: Status of Interpretive Development Planning in the Southwestern National Monuments, December 1944
Folder 23: History Files: Forty-First Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums Program, May 1946
Folder 24: History Files: Museum Planning and Construction Conference Notes, November 1946
Folder 25: History Files: Committee on National Parks, National Forests, Nature Preserves and Trailside Museums, 1947
Folder 26: History Files: Southwest Region Office Checklist for Museum Planning, September 1948
Folder 27: History Files: Policy for Submitting Museum Prospectuses, November 1948 Folder 28: History Files: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Yosemite Museum, January 6, 1949
Folder 29: History Files: Region One Photographic Report, August 1949
Folder 30: History Files: Aluminum Outdoor Exhibit Cases, November 1949
Folder 31: History Files: Region One Circulars, 1949
Folder 32: History Files: Survey of New Museums, August 1950
Folder 33: History Files: “Yosemite Museum Program: An Example of National Park Museums Work in America,” January 1961
Folder 34: History Files: Museum Survey Cards, February 1951
Folder 35: History Files: Checklist for Museum Design and Planning, June 1951
Folder 36: History Files: Clipping: “National Museums,” from NY Times, July 1951 Folder 37: History Files: Use of Acid-Type Rust Removers Containing Iodine in Museum Field Work, October 1951
Folder 38: History Files: NPS Museums, March 1952
Folder 39: History Files: In-Service Training Course in Museum Methods, September 18, 1952
Folder 40: History Files: Review of Museum Prospectus, September 30, 1952
Folder 41: History Files: List of Museums in the NPS, 1952
Folder 42: History Files: Draft Outline for Museum Prospectus, May-July 1953
Folder 43: History Files: Preservation Treatment of Excavated Jamestown Metals, November 1953
Folder 44: History Files: Seminar on Museum Exhibit Techniques, August 1954
Folder 45: History Files: Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums Program, June 1955
Folder 46: History Files: Public Law 127, 84th Congress: NPS Museum Management, July 1955
47: History Files: Reclassification of Chief of Museum Branch, January 1956
Folder 48: History Files: Exhibits Construction worker and Specialist, May 1956
Folder 49: History Files: Presentation: Streamlined History, Western Museums Conference, October 1956
Folder 50: History Files: NPS Administrative Manual: Information and Interpretation in the Field, 1956
Folder 51: History Files: Typewriter Ribbons, 1956-1992
Folder 52: History Files: The Visiting Public and Museums, ca. 1956
Folder 53: History Files: A New Look at Western Museums: Mission 66, 1957
Folder 54: History Files: Visitor Center Planning, 1957-1958
Folder 55: History Files: Supplementary Visitor Center Information, January 1958 Folder 56: History Files: In-Service Training Course, January-February 1958
Folder 57: History Files: Furnishing Plan, Historic Structures, February 1958
Folder 58: History Files: Newsletter: Clearing House for Western Museums, May 1958 Folder 59: History Files: Standards for Universities and Museums, May 1958
Folder 60: History Files: Letters of Acknowledgement for Museum Gifts, June 1958 Folder 61: History Files: European Science Museums, September 1958
Folder 62: History Files: Visitor Comments re: Quality of Exhibits, September 1958 Folder 63: History Files: Report of Trip to Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, October 15, 1958
Folder 64: History Files: Unit Citation for Excellence of Service in the Visitor Center Program of Mission 66, October 1958

BOX 13
Folder 01: History Files: Report of Conference of Regional Museum Curators, February 1959
Folder 02: History Files: Cooperation on Museum Development, March 1959
Folder 03: History Files: Outdoor Pictorial Interpretation, November 1959
Folder 04: History Files: Museum Specimen Storage Cabinets, ca. 1959
Folder 05: History Files: Re-examination of Museum Phases of Mission 66, June 1960 Folder 06: History Files: Fallen Leaf Lake, July 1960
Folder 07: History Files: Visiting Public and Museums, October 13, 1960
Folder 08: History Files: Museum Exhibits, October 26, 1960
Folder 09: History Files: Twenty-Second General Administrative Training Course, Region Two, Exhibits, October 31, 1960
Folder 10: History Files: Visitor Center Exhibits, June 1961
Folder 11: History Files: Protection of Museum Objects from Fading, August 1961 Folder 12: History Files: Exhibits Strengths and Weaknesses, September 1961
Folder 13: History Files: NPS Museums History Memos, October 1961
Folder 14: History Files: Twenty-Third General Administrative Training Course, Region Three, Exhibits, December 11, 1961
Folder 15: History Files: Exhibit Planning Procedures, December 20, 1961
Folder 16: History Files: U.S. Civil Service Commission Position Classification Standards, February 1962
Folder 17: History Files: San Christobal Exhibit, February-March 1962
Folder 18: History Files: Regional Clearing House Services for Museum Specimens Amendment, June 1962
Folder 19: History Files: Preliminary Report: A Pilot Study in the Boston Museum of Science, July 1962
Folder 20: History Files: Comments on Exhibit Planning, November 1962
Folder 21: History Files: Exhibit Installation Dates, 1962-1974
Folder 22: History Files: Long-Range Plans and Park Museums in the NPS, ca. 1962 Folder 23: History Files: Expositions, Exhibits, and Today’s Museum, June 1963
Folder 24: History Files: Memos from Regional Curator, Newell F. Joyner, August-October 1963
Folder 25: History Files: Museum Questionnaire, October 14, 1963
Folder 26: History Files: Museum Philosophy and Practice of the NPS, October 18, 1963
Folder 27: History Files: Procedures for Accountability of Museum Specimens, October 22, 1963
Folder 28: History Files: Museum Interpretation of Western History, October 1963 Folder 29: History Files: Museum Training in the NPS, 1963
Folder 30: History Files: Selecting Exhibit Themes for Park and Forest Museums, a Background Paper, 1963
Folder 31: History Files: Museum Display Materials, ca. 1963
Folder 32: History Files: Exhibit Cost Summary for Visitor Center Projects, February 18, 1964
Folder 33: History Files: Management Survey and Data on Branch Museums, February 20, 1964
Folder 34: History Files: Report of Museum Study Team, March-April 1964
Folder 35: History Files: Museums in Archeological Areas, April-July 1964
Folder 36: History Files: “What is a Museum?” by Carl H. James, May 1964
Folder 37: History Files: Reorganization of Branch Museums, July 2, 1964
Folder 38: History Files: Regional Museum Curators Conference Notes, July-October 1964
Folder 39: History Files: Regional Museum Curators Conference Report, September 1964-September 1965
Folder 40: History Files: Regional Museum Curators Conference Attendance, October 1964
Folder 41: History Files: Museum Specimens in Need of Preservation Treatment, October 1964
Folder 42: History Files: Cost Reduction and Manpower Conservation Program, 1964 Folder 43: History Files: List of NPS Museums, 1964
Folder 44: History Files: Museum Organization, Development, and Goals, 1964-1966 Folder 45: History Files: Museum Wayside Exhibits, 1964-1967
Folder 46: History Files: Procedures and Ideas on Outdoor Exhibits, January 1965 Folder 47: History Files: Preservation of Specimens, April 1965
Folder 48: History Files: New Life for Museums, August 21, 1965
Folder 49: History Files: Interpretive Prospectus Status, August 1965
Folder 50: History Files: Mission 66 Museums in Need of Replacement, ca. 1965

BOX 14
Folder 01: History Files: Permit Procedures, January 1966
Folder 02: History Files: Memorandum of Agreement, March 1966
Folder 03: History Files: Unauthorized Changes in Completed Visitor Center and Trailside Exhibits, July 1966
Folder 04: History Files: Reactions to a Proposal for a Review of Museum Exhibits, ca. 1966
Folder 05: History Files: List of NPS Museums, May 1967
Folder 06: History Files: Clipping from Baltimore Sun: “Making History Live for Today’s Americans,” November 1967
Folder 07: History Files: When a Museum is a Visitor Center, 1967
Folder 08: History Files: Closing Old Mint Building, February 1968
Folder 09: History Files: Museum Assistant’s Group Transactions, no. 6, April 1968 Folder 10: History Files: Need to Conserve Division Funds, November 1968
Folder 11: History Files: Staff Study, March 1969
Folder 12: History Files: Staff Branch of Exhibit Production, April 1969
Folder 13: History Files: Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Museum and Wayside Exhibits, May 9, 1969
Folder 14: History Files: NPS Interpretative Newsletter: “Awareness,” May 1969
Folder 15: History Files: Appraisal of the Museum Curatorial Program, Northeast Region, 1969
Folder 16: History Files: Museum Quarterly Work Schedule, 1969
Folder 17: History Files: Making the Visitor Center Work, ca. 1969
Folder 18: History Files: NPS Assistance to Museums, February 1971
Folder 19: History Files: Activity Standards: Environmental Interpretation and Supporting Activities, July 1971
Folder 20: History Files: “Museum” reprinted from Encyclopedia Britannica, 1971 Folder 21: History Files: Care and Preservation of Historic Objects, ca. 1971
Folder 22: History Files: Museums for Today, July 1972
Folder 23: History Files: Suggestion for Boy Scout Merit Badge in Museum Work, September 1, 1972
Folder 24: History Files: Evaluating Visitor Response to Exhibit Content, September 1972
Folder 25: History Files: Repossession of Museum Artifacts by Indian Groups, December 1972
Folder 26: History Files: Report Recommending a Course of Action Concerning the Reorganization and Securing of Laboratory and Storage Facilities, March 1973
Folder 27: History Files: Circuit Rider and Evaluation Report, May 1973
Folder 28: History Files: Rap Session #13, June 1973
Folder 29: History Files: Report for FY 1973, Branch of Museums Operations, July 1973
Folder 30: History Files: Identification of Outstanding Visitor Centers, August 1973 Folder 31: History Files: Scope of Collection Statement, November 1973
Folder 32: History Files: Protection of Objects, June 1974
Folder 33: History Files: Regional Curators Conference, July 1974
Folder 34: History Files: Collecting Permit Committee, July 1974
Folder 35: History Files: Museum Collections Resolutions, August 1974
Folder 36: History Files: Response to Managers Meeting, December 1974
Folder 37: History Files: Scientific Collecting Areas of the Southwestern Region, January 1975
Folder 38: History Files: Research and Resource Awareness Conferences Notes, March 1975
Folder 39: History Files: Curatorial Methods Course Material, October 1975
Folder 40: History Files: Curatorial Ethics, December 1975
Folder 41: History Files: Program Capability of Branch of Exhibit Planning and Design, March 1976
Folder 42: History Files: Curatorial Operations Evaluation Report, April 1976
Folder 43: History Files: Artifacts Management Inventory, 1976
Folder 44: History Files: Curatorial Methods Course and Curatorial Material, 1977 Folder 45: History Files: Cultural Resources Management of Historical Artifacts and Museum Collections, January 1978
Folder 46: History Files: Interpretive Facilities Rehabilitation Program, March 1978 Folder 47: History Files: Collecting Specimens in NPS, April 1978
Folder 48: History Files: Record Center, September-November 1978
Folder 49: History Files: Proposed Move of Regional Museum Vault, November 15, 1978
Folder 50: History Files: NPS Clearinghouse, Draft, November 24, 1978
Folder 51: History Files: NPS Regional Curators Meeting, December 7, 1978
Folder 52: History Files: New Accession Folder, December 21, 1978
Folder 53: History Files: Report of Committee “E”: Archeological and Anthropological Collections, December 1978
Folder 54: History Files: Briefing Statement on Western Curatorial Needs, January 3, 1979
Folder 55: History Files: NPS Natural History Collections, January 30, 1979
Folder 56: History Files: Role of Museums in Cultural Resources Management, January 1979
Folder 57: History Files: The Furnishing Process, March 1979
Folder 58: History Files: Aids for Classifying Objects, October 1979
Folder 59: History Files: Book Review of Manual for Museums, December 1979
Folder 60: History Files: An Unsuspected Danger in Display, ca. 1979
Folder 61: History Files: Collecting Policy and Scope of Collection Statement, ca. 1979 Folder 62: History Files: Standard Specifications for Specimen Trays, ca. 1979

BOX 15
Folder 01: History Files: Study Collections Policy and Management, January 16, 1980 Folder 02: History Files: North Atlantic Region Curatorial Papers, January 17, 1980 Folder 03: History Files: Proposed Legislation to Extend Museum Services Act for Two Years, February 1980
Folder 04: History Files: Curatorial Issues in Museums, June 1980
Folder 05: History Files: “Preserving the Past: An Introduction to Museum Services,” July 1980
Folder 06: History Files: Recommendations from Regional Chiefs of Interpretation, May 1981
Folder 07: History Files: Cultural Resources Preservation Fund, June 3, 1981
Folder 08: History Files: Proposed Amendment to the Museum Properties Management Act, June 8, 1981
Folder 09: History Files: Funding Sources for Curatorial Operations and Collections Care, January 1982
Folder 10: History Files: “Bootleg” Version of the Title Page of the Handbook of Museum Technology, 1982
Folder 11: History Files: Effects of Halon Gas Release in a Collection, 1982
Folder 12: History Files: A Digest of Curatorial Policy, February 1983
Folder 13: History Files: Upgrading Museum Collection Accountability Programs, March 1983
Folder 14: History Files: Draft of Museum Handbook, April 1983
Folder 15: History Files: Exhibits and Conservation Workshop, June 1983
Folder 16: History Files: Object Conservation, August 1983
Folder 17: History Files: Collection Management Planning in Parks, 1983
Folder 18: History Files: Curatorial Strategy for 1984-1990 Memo, March 1984
Folder 19: History Files: National Catalog Steering Committee Meeting, April 1984 Folder 20: History Files: Report of American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, June 1984
Folder 21: History Files: Application Form for International Partnerships among Museums, 1984
Folder 22: History Files: NPS Museum Cataloging System, 1984
Folder 23: History Files: Combining Project Types, January 1985
Folder 24: History Files: Call for Completion of Scope of Collection Statements, March 1985
Folder 25: History Files: Report and Response of Audit of Museum Collection Management, July-October 1985
Folder 26: History Files: Natural History Collections Committee, September 1985 Folder 27: History Files: Audit of Museum Collection Management Report, January 1986
Folder 28: History Files: Ad Hoc Committee on Park Museums and Historic Sites, May 8, 1986
Folder 29: History Files: Automation of the National Catalog, May 15, 1986
Folder 30: History Files: Updated National Catalog Record Submission Procedures, May 27, 1986
Folder 31: History Files: Ad Hoc Regional Curators Meeting, June 2, 1986
Folder 32: History Files: Monthly Report of Chief Conservator of the Division of Conservation, June 11, 1986
Folder 33: History Files: Automated National Catalog System (ANCS) Fact Sheet, September 1986
Folder 34: History Files: Using Partial Historic Furnishings as an Interpretative Medium, November 1986
Folder 35: History Files: Article form the Washington Post: “National Treasures Are Missing,” January 1987
Folder 36: History Files: NPS Plan for Museum Collections Management Draft, February 1987
Folder 37: History Files: Curation of Federally Owned and Administered Archeological Collections Proposed Rule (from the Federal Register), August 1987
Folder 38: History Files: Newsletter: “Clearinghouse Classifieds,” December 1987 Folder 39: History Files: Quick Introduction to Collections for Managers, ca. 1987 Folder 40: History Files: NPS Work on the Bertrand, July 1988
Folder 41: Reference Files: History of the Museum Division, 1964-1967
Folder 42: Reference Files: Setting Up Temporary Exhibits, undated

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Series V: Reference Files, 1928-2004 (bulk dates: 1960-1990)

Extent of the series: 3.0 LF

Scope and Content Note

NPS manuals and publications, including Manual for Museums, Museum Handbooks, and the Conserve O Gram series used by personnel for museum management reference purposes. Correspondence, clippings, manuals, newsletters, and reports are also included. Dwight Pitcaithley’s files on reconstructions in the NPS are present.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Container List

BOX 01
Folder 01: Articles: “NPS Museums: A Brief History,” 2004
Folder 02: Biography on Ansel Hall, ca. 1996
Folder 03: Clippings: Personnel, 1969-1976
Folder 04: Clippings: Museums and Exhibits, 1967-1970
Folder 05: Correspondence re: Automated National Catalog System (ANCS), 1990 Folder 06: Departmental Manual: NPS Interpretation, 1968
Folder 07: Guideline for Cultural Resources, 1974
Folder 08: Lists: Historic House Museums in the NPS, 1965
Folder 09: Manuals: Automated National Catalog System (ANCS), 1985
Folder 10: Manuals: Furnished Historic Structure Museums Handbook, 1968-1969 Folder 11: Manuals: Manual for Museums, 1976 [book]
Folder 12: Manuals: Museum Technology: Book of Museum Proceedings, vol. I, 1939 Folder 13: Manuals: Museum Technology: Book of Museum Proceedings, vol. II, 1939

BOX 02
Folder 01: Manuals: Museum Technology: Book of Museum Proceedings, vol. III, 1939 Folder 02: Manuals: Museum Technology: Book of Museum Cases and Exhibit Appliances, vol. VI, 1939
Folder 03: Manuals: Museum Technology: Book of Light, vol. VII, 1939
Folder 04: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Introduction thru Chapter 3, ca. 1946
Folder 05: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Chapter 4, ca. 1946 [1 of 2]
Folder 06: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Chapter 4, ca. 1946 [2 of 2]
Folder 07: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Chapter 7, ca. 1946

BOX 03
Folder 01: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Chapters 9-10, ca. 1946
Folder 02: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Burn’s Notes, ca. 1946
Folder 03: Manuals: Museum Manual, 2nd ed. (Draft by Ned Burns), Edits on Museum Planning Section, ca. 1946
Folder 04: Manuals: National Catalog System, ca. 1978
Folder 05: Manuals: NPS Field Manual for Museums, ca. 1940 [book]
Folder 06: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook (Draft), Part I, Chapters 1-4, 1966
Folder 07: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook (Draft), Part I, Chapters 5-6; Appendices, 1966
Folder 08: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part I, 1967
Folder 09: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, 1967

BOX 04
Folder 01: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part I, 1967
Folder 02: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, 1967
Folder 03: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Introduction, 1969
Folder 04: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part I, 1969
Folder 05: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, 1969
Folder 06: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part III, 1969
Folder 07: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part IV, 1969
Folder 08: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, Chapter 1-6, 1984
Folder 09: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, Appendices, 1984

BOX 05
Folder 01: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Chapter 9; Appendices E and G, 1990 Folder 02: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Amendment #1, 1959-1968
Folder 03: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Amendment #2, 1961-1969
Folder 04: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Amendment #3, 1962
Folder 05: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Amendment #4, 1966
Folder 06: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Amendment #5, 1967
Folder 07: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Release #1, 1957-1967
Folder 08: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Release #2, 1959-1968
Folder 09: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Release #3, 1960-1969
Folder 10: Manuals: NPS Museum Handbook, Release #4, 1961
Folder 11: Manuals: NPS Museum Records Handbook, 1959
Folder 12: Manuals: Preserving the Past: An Introduction to Museum Services, 1980 Folder 13: Manuals: Tools of the Trade, 1990
Folder 14: Manuals: Tools of the Trade, 1996
Folder 15: Manuals: Western Museum Laboratory Handbook, 1965
Folder 16: Newsletters: Museum and Education Series, 1934-1935
Folder 17: Newsletters: Museum News, March 1970
Folder 18: Newsletters: Preservation Tech Notes, 1984
Folder 19: Newspaper: Federal Times, April 30, 1969
Folder 20: Outline: Cultural Resources Management Guideline, undated
Folder 21: Outline: Tentative Outline for Museum Collections Handbook, 1963
Folder 22: Pitcaithley Historic Reconstruction Index, 1989, undated
Folder 23: Publications: Army Digest, December 1969
Folder 24: Publications: Conserve O Gram, 1985
Folder 25: Publications: Conserve O Gram, 2000
Folder 26: Publications: Contributions of Museums to Outdoor Recreation, 1928

BOX 06
Folder 01: Publications: Curatorial Publications and Training Available to the Museum Profession, 1992-1993
Folder 02: Publications: Fundamental and Adult Education (Quarterly Bulletin), April 1953
Folder 03: Publications: Museum (Quarterly Review by UNESCO), 1951
Folder 04: Publications: Museum Studies Programs in the U.S. and Abroad, 1976 Folder 05: Publications: Museums and Education, 1940
Folder 06: Publications: NPS in the Northeast: A Cultural Resources Management Bibliography, 1984
Folder 07: Publications: NPS Natural History Collections Brochure, undated
Folder 08: Publications: On American Museums (by SUNY Albany), 1939
Folder 09: Publications: Research and Education in the National Parks, 1936
Folder 10: Publications: Site Museums and National Parks, 1959
Folder 11: Publications: University of Iowa Training Catalogs, 1939-1943
Folder 12: Reports: Assigning Archeological and Ethnological Exhibits to Museums of the Parks, 1934
Folder 13: Reports: Museum Education Roundtable Seminar with William J. Tramposch, undated
Folder 14: Reports: Recreation Use and Preservation, 1970
Folder 15: Reports: Southwestern Monuments Special Report, no. 24: Anthropology and the Museum, 1938
Folder 16: Research Material: Public Use of Underwater Sources: Clippings, 1965-1968
Folder 17: Research Material: Public Use of Underwater Sources: Correspondence and Memos, 1965-1967
Folder 18: Slideshow: Museum Records: An Introduction to Accessioning and Cataloging Procedures of the NPS, 1980
Folder 19: Special Articles by Service Personnel, 1969-1972
Folder 20: Statutes and Statistics of NPS Museum, 1992

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