Overview of the Collection
Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Washington, D.C.,
osiaref@si.edu
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Graphic Arts
SI Records
Records
1887-1978
5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Record Unit 413
English
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 413, National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Graphic Arts, Records
Historical Note
From 1969 to 1971, the Division of Graphic Arts was part of the Division of Graphic Arts and Photography, which reported to the Department of Applied Arts in the National
Museum of History and Technology (NMHT). When the photography section was separated from the Division in 1972, to become the Division of Photographic History, a Division of
Graphic Arts was re-established in NMHT. The Division of Graphic Arts remained under the Department of Applied Arts until 1977, after which it began reporting to the Department
of Cultural History.
The Curators and staff during these years included Eugene H. Ostroff, Curator, 1966-1971; Peter C. Marzio, Associate Curator, 1971-1975, and Curator, 1976-1978; and Elizabeth
M. Harris, Assistant Curator, 1966-1970, and Associate Curator, 1971- .
Descriptive Entry
These records include Division of Graphic Arts records dating from its establishment, including the work of curators Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Jacob Kainen, and Peter
C. Marzio. Also included are lecture notes and papers of curators Ruel P. Tolman, Kainen, and Marzio; inventory lists of Graphic Arts objects; working outline for The Steam
Engine in the Graphic Arts exhibition; loans and grants files; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and biographical information pertaining to acclaimed painter and etcher
Charles W. Dahlgreen; Do It the Hard Way: Rube Goldberg and Modern Times exhibition records; photographs of exhibitions in the Hall of Graphic Arts; and planning files
for the Hall of News Reporting.
Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Name
Koehler, S. R. (Sylvester Rosa), 1837-1900
Kainen, Jacob
Marzio, Peter C.
Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954
Dahlgreen, Charles W. (Charles William), 1864-1955
Ostroff, Eugene
Harris, Elizabeth M.
Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Hall of Graphic Arts
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of News Reporting
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Division of Graphic Arts and Photography
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Department of Applied Arts
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Photographic History
National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Department of Cultural History
The Steam Engine in the Graphic Arts (Exhibition)
Do It the Hard Way: Rube Goldberg and Modern Times (Exhibition)
Subject
Graphic arts
Museum curators
Museum exhibits
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Black-and-white photographs
Clippings
Manuscripts
Box 1
Box 1 of 6
Correspondence & Memoranda: Peter C. Marzio, 1971-1973 (2 folders)
Box 1 of 6
Correspondence: Hall of News Reporting, 1970-1973
Box 1 of 6
Wright, Hamilton
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Correspondence: American Visual Library, 1971-1973
Box 1 of 6
Progressive Stages of the Hall of News Reporting, 1971-1973
Box 1 of 6
Accessions, 1968 (2 folders)
Box 1 of 6
Grants, 1954-1955
Box 1 of 6
Memoranda: Jacob Kainen, 1952-1960
Box 1 of 6
Memoranda: Jacob Kainen, 1948-1951
Box 1 of 6
Transfer of Specimens, 1957-1965
Box 1 of 6
Loans, 1961-1966
Box 1 of 6
Memoranda: Accessions, 1960-1966
Box 1 of 6
Budget, 1957-1965
Box 1 of 6
Early Correspondence, 1917-1919, 1934
Box 1 of 6
Memoranda: Jacob Kainen, 1951-1959
Box 1 of 6
Science Information Exchange, 1964
Box 1 of 6
Correspondence: Peter Morse, 1967
Box 2
Box 2 of 6
Memoranda: Exhibitions, 1953-1957
Box 2 of 6
Correspondence: Library, 1949-1962
Box 2 of 6
Films, 1955
Box 2 of 6
Loans, 1955-1957
Box 2 of 6
Smithsonian Guide Book, 1956
Box 2 of 6
Correspondence File, 1964-1965
Box 2 of 6
Inventory: Graphic Arts Objects, Exhibition Cases, and Equipment, 1934-1946
Box 2 of 6
Inventory Lists: Graphic Arts Objects, 1949-1950
Box 2 of 6
Personal Information: Peter C. Marzio, 1971-1978
Box 2 of 6
Smithsonian Associates: News Seminar, 1978
Box 2 of 6
Smithsonian Associates: American Democracy History Course, 1971
Box 2 of 6
Taylor, Joshua
Box 2 of 6
Energy Exhibition Proposal, 1978
Box 2 of 6
Human Sciences Committee, 1978
Box 2 of 6
Lectures: Peter C. Marzio, 1975
Box 2 of 6
American Skating Mania Exhibition, 1977-1978
Box 2 of 6
Marzio, Peter C.: American Chromolithography: A Technology for a Democratic Art, 1977
Box 2 of 6
Amon Carter Museum of Art, 1976-1978
Box 2 of 6
Articles and Book Reviews: Peter C. Marzio, 1975-1976
Box 2 of 6
Goldberg Lecture
Box 2 of 6
Cyrus Field Exhibition, 1970
Box 2 of 6
Fulbright Scholarship to Italy, 1973-1975
Box 2 of 6
NMHT Orientation Center, 1968
Box 2 of 6
NMHT Collections, 1972
Box 3
Box 3 of 6
Photographs: NMHT Exhibition Area, undated
Box 3 of 6
Working Outline: The Steam Engine in the Graphic Arts, 1977
Box 3 of 6
Anon Carter Museum of Art, 1971-1977
Box 3 of 6
Correspondence: Peter C. Marzio, 1972-1977
Box 3 of 6
Public Inquiries, 1975-1978
Box 3 of 6
Correspondence: Publishers and Editing, 1972-1976
Box 3 of 6
Manuscripts: Peter C. Marzio, American Chromolithography: A Technology for a Democratic Art, 1977. Chapters 6-8, and bibliography
Box 3 of 6
Correspondence pertaining to Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1947-1966
Box 3 of 6
Advertising for Dahlgreen Catalog, 1946-1947
Box 3 of 6
Copy for Dahlgreen Catalog, 1946
Box 3 of 6
Correspondence: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1948-1955; Includes photographs of Dahlgreen and his wife
Box 3 of 6
Correspondence: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1946-1947
Box 3 of 6
Newspaper Clippings: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1927-1929
Box 3 of 6
Exhibition: Charles W. Dahlgreen, c. 1945-1946
Box 3 of 6
Miscellaneous Information: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1946-1947
Box 3 of 6
Biography: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1945
Box 3 of 6
Press Releases: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1945
Box 3 of 6
Price Lists: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1945-1946
Box 3 of 6
Third Exhibition Photographs: Charles W. Dahlgreen, 1947
Box 3 of 6
Reproductions of Dahlgreen's Paintings and Prints
Box 3 of 6
Portrait of Charles W. Dahlgreen
Box 4
Box 4 of 6
Correspondence: Sylvester Rosa Koehler with Japanese Wood Block and Print Supplier, 1890 (Accession 06-229)
Box 4 of 6
Correspondence: Ruel P. Tolman and Walter G. Holmes, 1920-1921 (Accession 06-229)
Box 4 of 6
Correspondence: Jacob Kainen and Irena Ligorio, 1954-1956 (Accession 06-229)
Box 4 of 6
Correspondence: Sylvester Rosa Koehler, 1887-1888
Box 4 of 6
Kainen, Jacob: The Division of Graphic Arts: A Brief Analysis of its Objectives, 1949-1954
Box 4 of 6
Tolman, Ruel Pardee: Graphic Arts in the United States National Museum, 1922-1924
Box 4 of 6
Photographs: Graphic Arts Exhibits at the Arts and Industries Building, 1904; and the Smithsonian Building, 1912, 1921
Box 4 of 6
History of the Division of Graphic Arts, 1882-1941. Also includes biographical information on Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Box 4 of 6
Photographs: Graphic Arts Exhibits at the Smithsonian Building, 1912, 1940, and 1947
Box 4 of 6
Tolman, Ruel Pardee: Graphic Arts at the Sesquicentennial, 1926
Box 4 of 6
Annual Report for the Division Graphic Arts, 1929
Box 4 of 6
Section of Graphic Arts: Catalog of the Contributions to the Ohio Centennial Exposition, Cincinnati, 1888
Box 4 of 6
Publicity Information for the Division of Graphic Arts, 1916
Box 4 of 6
Photographs: Graphic Arts Exhibits at the Smithsonian Building, c. 1950s. Includes photos of Jacob Kainen
Jacob Kainen in the Graphic Arts Hall in the West Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building stands by a printing press, c. 1960 [Image no. 43950-E or MAH-43950E]
Box 4 of 6
Correspondence: Plans for a Museum of History and Technology, and exhibition space for the Division of Graphic Arts, 1949-1954
Box 4 of 6
Graphic Arts Collections of the United States National Museum, 1920
Box 4 of 6
Dedication of the Museum of History and Technology, 1964
Box 4 of 6
Kainen, Jacob: The United States National Museum's Division of Graphic Arts, 1952
Box 4 of 6
Hall of Graphic Arts Hand Processes: Opening Talk, 1958
Box 4 of 6
Kainen, Jacob: Graphic Arts in the United States National Museum, 1947
Box 4 of 6
Description of the Division of Graphic Arts, 1946
Box 4 of 6
Tolman, Ruel Pardee: Machine Composition of Type as Shown in the United States National Museum, 1923
Box 4 of 6
Cowans Trades Journal, 1925
Box 4 of 6
Carty, Alton B.: Graphic Arts Collections in the United States National Museum, 1925
Box 4 of 6
Exhibition - Do It the Hard Way: Rube Goldberg and Modern Times, 1969-1971: Research notes
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Scripts
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Incoming Loans
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Patents
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Exhibit Designs
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Opening
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Planning
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Maintenance
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Brochure
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Catalog
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Published Material
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Correspondence, general
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Correspondence with Reuben L. Goldberg
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Movies
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Notes
Box 4 of 6
Do It the Hard Way: Photographs
Box 5
Box 5 of 6
Notebook
Box 5 of 6
Winterthur Drawing Books
Box 5 of 6
Chambers
Box 5 of 6
Campbell, Orson
Box 5 of 6
Clinton, Dewith
Box 5 of 6
Connecticut Common School Journal
Box 5 of 6
Cooper, James F.
Box 5 of 6
Coe, Benjamin H.
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Childs, George
Box 5 of 6
Champman, J. G.
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Chambers, W & R
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Chevalier, Michael
Box 5 of 6
Catalog Notes
Box 5 of 6
Canova
Box 5 of 6
Cosmopolitan Art Journal
Box 5 of 6
Chicago Daily Tribune
Box 5 of 6
Couture Thomas
Box 5 of 6
Lucida, Camera
Box 5 of 6
Crayon
Box 5 of 6
The Dial
Box 5 of 6
Abbot, Jacob
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Articles on the Value of Art
Box 5 of 6
American Art Union
Box 5 of 6
American Track Society
Box 5 of 6
Brainerd Genealogy
Box 5 of 6
Bartholomew, William N.
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Bowe, John T.
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Bail, Louis
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Bellamy, Edward
Box 5 of 6
Bowher, Richard
Box 5 of 6
Bibliography (2 folders)
Box 5 of 6
Bryce, James
Box 5 of 6
Briggs, Charles
Box 5 of 6
Barnum, P. T.
Box 5 of 6
History of Brands in America
Box 5 of 6
Kellogg Antiques
Box 5 of 6
Lithographs
Box 5 of 6
Lithos, C. L.
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Lucas, F.
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Lighting
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Larkin, Olwer
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Lanman, Charles
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Lynes, Russel
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Lyceum
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Lester, C. Edwards
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Luber
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Larkin
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Dunlap, William
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Dickens, Charles
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Danish Paintings
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Darley, Felix
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Edwards, Thomas
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Journal of the Franklin Institute
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Fowle, William B.
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Finn, Matthew D.
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Fry, Roger
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Flaxman, John
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French Painting and America
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Franfenstein, John
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Government Documents on Art
Box 5 of 6
Godeys
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Gibson, John
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Greenough, Horatio
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German Painters
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Hopkins, John Henry
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Hayden and Hazlett
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Herbart, Johann
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Marzio, Peter C.: The Artist's Relation to Nature: Hegelian View, 1966
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Hone, Philip
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Hullmandel, Charles J.
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Hamlin, Talbot
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Hawthorn
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Hosmer, Harriet
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Hogarth, Paul
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Hunt, William M.
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Irving, Washington
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Jawes, James Jackson
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Baltimore Monuments
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Putnam's Monthly
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The North American Review
Box 5 of 6
Graham
Box 5 of 6
Gleason
Box 5 of 6
Magazine Notes
Box 5 of 6
Notes for Drawing Manual Section
Box 5 of 6
Newspapers
Box 5 of 6
Art Crusaders
Box 5 of 6
James, Henry
Box 5 of 6
Emerson
Box 5 of 6
Brook Farm
Box 5 of 6
McDermoth, John F.
Box 5 of 6
Bibliography
Box 5 of 6
Mann, Arthur
Box 5 of 6
Thesis Bibliography
Box 5 of 6
Trollope
Box 5 of 6
Tocqueville
Box 5 of 6
Twain, Mark
Box 5 of 6
Travelers
Box 5 of 6
Ticknor, George
Box 5 of 6
Taylor's American Art
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Trumbull
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Fink, Lois
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Mudge, Joseph B.
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Minifie, William
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Mowatt, Anna
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Mott, Frank L.
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Mount, William S.
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Miller, Lillian
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Miscellaneous
Box 5 of 6
Nationalism
Box 5 of 6
Nazarene Movement
Box 5 of 6
Otis, F. N.
Box 5 of 6
Osborn, Laughlin
Box 5 of 6
Drawing Manual Outlines
Box 5 of 6
Outline for Ph.D. Dissertation
Box 5 of 6
Putnam
Box 5 of 6
Peril of Pictures
Box 5 of 6
Adams, Henry
Box 5 of 6
Urban History
Box 5 of 6
Yankee Stonecutters
Box 5 of 6
Winckelmann
Box 5 of 6
Webster, Noah
Box 5 of 6
Wilkes Expedition (2 folders)
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Whitney, Thomas R.
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Winchster, George
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Whitaker, William J.
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Shera
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Smith, H. N.
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Story, William Wetmore
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Saarinen, A. B.
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Santayana, George
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Smith, A.
Box 6
Box 6 of 6
Taylor Research notes
Box 6 of 6
Ticknor
Box 6 of 6
Tappan, Henry P.
Box 6 of 6
Tuckerman, Henry T.
Box 6 of 6
Poinsett
Box 6 of 6
Pestalozzi, Johann H.
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Art and Politics
Box 6 of 6
Porter, Rufus A.
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Purcell, Edward B.
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Putnam, George Palmar
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Peters, Henry T.
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Page, William
Box 6 of 6
Powers, Heram
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Perkins, Charles C.
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Palmer, Erastus Dow
Box 6 of 6
Art and Publishing
Box 6 of 6
Smith, John Rubens
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Ruskin, John
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Reynolds, Joshua
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Ropes, Joseph
Box 6 of 6
Richards, Thomas Addison
Box 6 of 6
Rourke, Constance
Box 6 of 6
Italian and German Artists in Rome
Box 6 of 6
Southern Literary Journal
Box 6 of 6
Schmid, Peter
Box 6 of 6
Schuster, Sigismund
Box 6 of 6
Serio, Anne Marie
Box 6 of 6
Marzio, Peter C.: The Art Crusade in America, 1830-1860, 1967
Box 6 of 6
Educational Materials
Box 6 of 6
National Collection of Fine Arts
Box 6 of 6
Nutting, Benjamin F.
Box 6 of 6
Peterson's Magazine
Box 6 of 6
Pictures and Painters
Box 6 of 6
Panorama of Painters
Box 6 of 6
Peabody
Box 6 of 6
Publishers
Box 6 of 6
Van Wych Brooks