National Park Service History Collection
RG 14
PRELIMINARY INVENTORY
Description: Museum material within the organizational papers organized into six -classifications as follows: K32 - Museum General, K3210 - Museum History, K3215 - Museum Exhibits, K3226 - Museum Reports, K3238 - Museum Handbooks, and K3286 - Museum Training. This is the bulk of museum material other than objects that has existed throughout the history of NPS Museum Services as HFC is the heir for/of the museum functions.
Inclusive Dates: 1895 - (1936-1942, 1949-1970) - present
Location (1987): 22 linear feet in 8 record boxes, 32 document boxes, a half document box, 10 notebooks, and other material in bay 7 ranges A, B, and C of the stack area.
Keywords: American Association of Museums, Artists in the Parks Program, Burns, Ned; Clearinghouse, Collections, Curatorial Services, Eastern Museum Laboratory, Exhibits, Ford's Theatre Museum Laboratory, Interpretation, Lewis, Ralph H.; Models, Museum Cataloguing, Museum Handbooks, Manual for Museums, Museum Techniques, NPS Branch of Museums, NPS Museum Division, NPS Museums, Russell, Carl P.; Traveling Exhibits, USDI Museum, Wayside Exhibits, Western Museum Laboratory.
Accession Numbers: HFCA-0031, HFCA-0111, HFCA-0256, HFCA-0272, HFCA-0866, HFCA-0886 plus others
Catalog Numbers: HFCA0485, HFCA0554, HFCA0687, HFCA0698, HFCA0877 (from Museum Division)
NOTE: See also the finding aids for the following collections:
Ronald F. Lee Papers (RG 1)
Interpretation in the National Park Service (RG 19)
A. Provenance
The majority of the museum papers and material was transferred from the Division of Museums in Accession 111. Photos from the Western Museum Laboratory made up Accession 31 while some Western Museum Laboratory files came from Accession 256. Museum course correspondence made up Accession 277. Ned Burns' draft for the proposed second edition of the Museum Handbook is Accession 272. Two boxes of Traveling Exhibit files came as Accession 866. Accession 882, transferred from Office of Graphics Research, Springfield, Virginia, on June 6. 1985, consists of internal office files generated by the old Western Museum Laboratory, 1968-1970. Other minor additions have been made over the years from various sources. The accession folders give more information.
These papers were generated by National Park Service employees in the Division of Museums, its predecessors and its successors. Some were for use in the parks while others are the internal records of the organization. A few were for outside publications and a few are "outside" publications used by the division for training and reference.
Much of the Western Museum Laboratory material dates from 1935-1942. There also seems to be a lot of material from the 1950's and 1960's. However, since the functions still exist and museums are an important part of every park, material continues to be generated.
B. History
For a history of the Museum function in the NPS, see Museum Curatorship in the National Park Service, 1904-1982 by Ralph Lewis (NPS, 1993).
C. Summary Scope and Contents Notes
Much material is covered by the inventory NPS Museum Function. Included are articles and clippings, biographies, books, booklets, correspondence, dailies, drafts, files, glass slides, handbooks, inventories, manuals, memos, minutes, negatives, notes, notebooks, papers, personnel material, photographs, plans, reports, reprints, slides, talks and speeches, theses, and training material. The material dates from 1895-present (1987) with much from the 1960's. The monthly reports for 1937-1940 and the Dailies and Files from the 1960's are important historically. The Museum Handbook (Manual) material is also significant. The museum function was put on caretaker status during World War II so there is not much from this period. The correspondence series only covers 1958-1966. Most of the reports K3226 cover 1936-1941, although there is one folder 1946 - 8 plus several for 1958-1968. The museum training material is correspondence rather than course material.
D. Dispersal
There are a large number of photos in the separate photo collection that were taken by and for the Western Museum Laboratory. These photos have been transferred to the NPS Historic Photo Collection. Several of the books in the HFC Library came from the Museum Division. Other material has been placed in the park boxes and archives periodical collection as well as some in other categories. The accession folders, especially for Accession 111, give some clue to dispersal.
E. File Folders
Consists of 5 series: 1 - Interior Museum, 2 - Collection Inventories, 3 - Works Progress Administration, 4 - Museum Cataloguing, and 5 - Miscellaneous. There are 3 document boxes, 2 notebooks, slide carousel, and a box of cards. Along with the notebooks and the cards, the Museum General K32 material includes catalogues, collection inventories, glass slides, photos, and reports. There seems to be no particular arrangement while subjects include the USDI Museum, collections, museum products, museum cataloguing, and property. (The material is on the middle shelf of 7A and the first shelf of 7B (1987).)
K32 Series 1 - Interior Museum
This consists of one document box of material mostly photographic including glass slides plus two booklets and other literature. The photographic material is in front, the glass slides at the side, and the booklets and literature in the back of the box. As per the title, it all deals with the USDI Museum in the Interior Building at 18th and C Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. The literature is that put out by the museum while the photos are of parks that could be used in the museum exhibits, exhibit preparation, and the exhibits. (It is all in one document box labeled by Richard Russell, USDI Museum, which is on the middle shelf of 7A (1987).)
48 tinted glass slides ca 1938 showing exhibits - U.S.D.I. Museum National Park Service photographic
National Parks (photos)
Interior Museum Duplicate (large envelope of photos)
Department of Interior Exhibit Preparation (photos, mounted and labeled)
Booklet - Dedicated to Conservation, U.S.D.I., 1936
Booklet - Nature Downtown, U.S.D.I., 1970
Interior Museum Literature
K32 Series 2 - Collection Inventories
Consists of eight items - eight collections. There are descriptions, inventories, papers, and photos. They are in alphabetical order. The subjects include archeology, Indians, Indian art, Indian life, Lincoln, and 19th Century life. The Oldroyd Lincoln Collection and those dealing with the Indians are significant. (It is in a labeled document box located on the middle shelf of 7A (1987).)
Bertrand Collection
Harold Cook Collection - Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Gibson Indian Collection
Hiller's Collection
The Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection - January 1897, revised August 1926
Inventory of Collections Pertaining to the Southwest Archeological Center, revised June 1963
Guide to the David T. Vernon Collection of Native American Art
Photos of Warren Indian Basket Collection - Isle Royale
K32 Series 3 - Works Progress Administration Products from the Western Museum Lab
This consists of 4 items - two products catalogues, a report, and a paper with photos and supporting forms and statistics. They are arranged in reverse chronological order and concern museum supplies produced by workers of the Works Progress Administration at the Western Museum Lab in Berkeley, California. The catalogues are useful in dating museum tools and for museum history. (It is in a document box labeled by Russell and located on shelf underneath Series 2 thus, 7A (1987).)
Documentation in Support of WPA Project Proposal, November 1940
Miscellaneous Products Available to National Parks and Monuments from WML - revised edition January 1939
Miscellaneous Products Available to National Parks and Monuments from WML - April 1938
Final Closing Report Project #7144 WPA - September 1937
K32 Series 4 - Museum Cataloging
Consists of 2 items - a notebook of NPS National Catalog Documents to be used with the computer and a slide carousel with slides illustrating how to keep museum records. (The slides are on the 2nd to bottom shelf of 7A while the notebook is on the first shelf of 7B (1987).)
Notebook - NPS National Catalog Computer Documents
Slide Carousel with Slides - Museum Records
K32 Series 5 - Miscellaneous
This consists of 2 items - a box of emergency storage space cards and a notebook of property cost estimates. (The emergency storage space cards are on the next to 7A while the notebook is kept on the first shelf (1987).)
Emergency Storage Space Cards
Notebook - Property Cost Estimates
K3210 - Museum History
There are a half document box, 19 document boxes, and 9 record boxes under this classification (1987). Most is either the chronological history arranged by former Curator Richard Russell or "files." There is also correspondence, both general and dailies; material on personnel, photos, and historical material on the American Association of Museums. The overall arrangement in the series is in reverse chronological order. The focus of the chronological history seems to be historical exhibit techniques and Mr. Russell labeled most of the chronological history boxes "Exhibit History." The correspondence is with parks and areas as well as with general museum workers. The dailies are the day-to-day record of correspondence generated by the Museum Branch and the various labs. Again, it largely concerns exhibit techniques and museum procedures. Half of the personnel material concerns Dr. Carl P. Russell while the rest concerns Western Museum Lab employees. The files cover many other topics as well as exhibit techniques and museum procedure. They include articles, associations, audiovisual material, conferences and meetings, field orders and memos, parks and areas, personnel, planning, organization, reports, speeches, and training. The photos are of museums, museum activities, and exhibit material. The American Association of Museum material deals with meetings of this organization. (The material is on 7B, C, D, and E with the record boxes on the lower shelves (1987).)
K3210 Series 1 - Chronological History
This series includes 6 document boxes of material (1987). Among the many items are articles, blueprint, booklets, small paperback books, clippings, correspondence, drafts, memos, minutes, notes, papers, reports, reprints, speeches, and talks. It is arranged in reverse chronological order with some consideration for size. The subjects covered include exhibit techniques, museum procedures, and the necessity for museums among others. (This material is on 7B, shelves 1 and 2 (1987). Former Curator Richard Russell did much of the arranging and labeling.
Museum and Exhibit History Before 1938
"The Relation of Field Excursions to the Activities of Local Museums plus Some of the Advantages of an Ecological Organization of a Natural History Museum", Dr. Charles C. Adams, 1910, 1908 reprinted 1926
Contributions of Museums to Outdoor Recreation by Lawrence Vail Coleman, 1928 New York State Museum, 1929
The Public Functions of the Division of Science and State Museum - Charles C. Adams, New York State, 1931
Curtis Geography Models
Booklet - Research and Education in the National Parks, H. Bryant and W. Atwood, Jr., 1936
Revised Price List Costs and Models of Fossil Vertebrate, American Museum of Natural History
Essay on the History of Panoramas and Dioramas, Germain Bapst
Correspondence - Yellowstone re Exhibits and Models, 1895, 1902
Blueprint - Chick-Chatt Exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
Correspondence - Museums in Yosemite National Parks, Chan. J. Hamlin, Francis P. Farquar, 1926
Museums in the National Parks, November 9, 1929
Planning a Park Museum, November 11, 1929
Mesa Verde National Park - Frank Dastler Museum Statement, 1930
Instructions for Erecting a Pyramidal Exhibit Case, 1934, with a blueprint
Memo - January 1935, Museum Planning Procedure
Museum Preparation Memo No. 1, February 15, 1931 - Care and Preservation of Museum Specimens and Collections, A. Hall
Memo - April 1935, The Museum Program in National Parks
Office Order No. 312, December 2, 1935, re the Museum Division
"The Museum and The Historian," George M. Wrong, Museum News, December 1, 1935
"Why Not a Museum for Rocky Mountain National Park?" Roger W. Toll
Desirable Features in Museum Construction, A. Woodward and Louis Schellbach
Some Principles of Installation in History Museum by Arthur C. Parker
Notes on Methods of Preparing Exhibits - Staff, EML
Museum Exhibit Cases - M 31
Memo - Procedure in Planning Museum Exhibits, April 1936
Minutes of Meeting - National and State Parks Section, 31st Annual Meeting AAM, May 1936
Memo for All Field Offices, October 1936, Exhibits and Museums
How Architects Can Contribute to Museum Work, Carl P. Russell, 1936
Museums, Carl P. Russell, 1937
Museums in National Parks, Carl P. Russell, December 15, 1936
Loan and Gift Policy, 1936-37
Miniature Groups or Dioramas, Ned J. Burns, May 1937
The Museum News, Vol. XV, No. 4, June 15, 1937
The Museum News, Vol . XVI, No. 4 , June 15 , 1938
Memo - Naturalist to Superintendent, Southwest Monuments, 1938, Survey, Etc.
Miscellaneous Products Available to National Parks and Monuments from Western Museum Lab., April 1938
Western Museum Conditions, July 1938, Dorr Yeager
Art in Taxidermy, Jonas Brothers, Denver
CCC Project Training Construction of Relief Models
Speech on Exhibits given in Montreal, Canada, Frank K. Buffmire
The Preservation of Cultural Objects in Situ by Ned J. Burns
Nisqually Vista Trailside Exhibit - Mount Rainier
Nisqually Glacier Trailside Exhibit
Museum and Exhibit History 1939-1942
On American Museums by Richard Kraisel, reprint New York State Museum Bulletin, 317, p. 139-174, 1939, translated by Rudolf Puedemann
"Museums and Education" Presidential address, Carl E. Guthe, reprinted from Annual Report, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 1940
Booklet - Training Museum Workers, June 12 to August 3, 1939, University of Iowa Publication New Series No. 1025, January 18, 1939
Booklet - Training Museum Workers, June 10 to August 2, 1940, University of Iowa Publication New Series No. 1097, January 10, 1940
Booklet - Training Museum Workers, June 8 to July 31, 1942, University of Iowa Publication New Series No. 1236, April 11, 1942
Booklet - Museum Training and the War, University of Iowa, November 14, 1942
Paperback book - Geology in the Museum, F. J. North, C. F. Davidson, and W. E. Swinton
Miscellaneous Products Available to National Parks and Monuments from Western Museum Laboratory, revised January 1939
Remarks by Carl P. Russell - Opening of Harry B. Spaulding Hall, Buffalo Museum of Science, January 1939
Memo to All Field Offices, February 1939, Policy, Scope of Museum Exhibits
May-June 1939, Traveling Exhibits, Circulation Pattern
Memo for All Field Offices, November 1939, Record of Museum Development
Museum Personnel in the National Park Service, 1939
Careers in Museum Work, 1939
Museum Technology - Book of Museum Procedures, Vol. I, 1939
Museum Technology - Book of Museum Procedures, Vol. III, 1939
Museum Technology - Book of Museum Cases and Exhibit Appliances, Vol. VI, 1939
Museum Technology - Book of Light as Applied to Museums, Vol. XII, 1939
Region One, Regional Office Letter No. 461, February 1940, Care of Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs on Exhibition in Museums
The History of Dioramas, Ned J. Burns, reprint Museum News, February 1940
Memo - Washington and All Field Offices, March 1940, Museum Policy and Procedures
The Narrative Story of the Park in Relation to the Object - Minutes, Inter-branch meeting, March 1940
Memo for Historical Technicians, April 18, 1940, re Museum Needs
Prospectus - American Folk Culture and Historical Museums, November 6, 1940
Memo for Director, November 11, 1940, re Museum Objects, Morristown National Historical Park
Talk - Ned J. Burns, "Present Status and Current Needs of the Museum Program," November 14, 1940
Talk - Dorr Yeager, "Increasing the Effectiveness of Park Exhibits," November 14, 1940
Talk - Matthew E. Beatty, "The Place of Museums and Exhibits in the Interpretive Program," November 14.1 1940, Park Naturalists' Conference
Museum Memos - Region One
Paper - Practical Aspect of Park Museum Problems in Time of War, Carl P. Russell, May 1942, AAM Meeting
Notes taken at 37th annual meeting, AAM, Carl P. Russell, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1942
Paper - Problems of the Science Museum, Clark Wissler, May 1942, AAM
Notes of Talk - Museum Work as a Field of Professionalism, Dr. Carl E. Guthe, May 1942, AAM meeting
Museum Memos, 1941-1942
Museum and Exhibit History 1943-1959
Booklet - The Museum A Living Book of History., Edward P. Alexander, published for the Detroit Historical Society by Wayne University Press, 1959
Reprint - "Education in Science Museums," Science, June 30, 1943
The Explorer, Autumn 1947, No. 92, "The Travelling Trailside Museum," by Kenneth B. Disher
Fundamental and Adult Education, A Quarterly Bulletin, April 1953, UNESCO, Paris contains article "Park Museums as Community Center" by Ralph H. Lewis, p. 85
Paperback book in French - lst Biennial Conference, ICOM, Paris, June 28 to July 3, 1948
Folder - Museum Forms, 1943
Notes of Meetings - Art Museum Conference, March 24, 1944
Comments of Chief, Museum Division on Check List for Museum Planning by Lyle E. Bennett
Status of Interpretive Development Planning in Southwest National Monument, December 31, 1944 (Caywood)
Notes made at Museum Planning and Construction Conference, November 21-22, 1946, Ned J. Burns
International Council of Museums and National Park Service
Folder labeled - 1948 contains memo and Region One circular
Check List of Museum Planning by Lyle Bennett, SWRO, September 1948
Carolina Tips, Vol. XII, No. 1, January 1949 contains article "Museums" by A. S. Pearse
Twenty-five Years Ago, Carl P. Russell, Yosemite, January 6, 1949
Folder labeled - 1949 contains Region One circulars for 1949
Region One - Photographic Report, Museums, August 1949
Correspondence - Survey of New Museums, August 1950
The Museum in Yosemite National Park, California, Carl P. Russell, French and English, January 1951
Magazine - Museum, Vol. V, No. 2, 1951 - UNESCO, French and English, published Paris
Memo Museum Survey Cards, February 29, 1951
Museums in the National Park System, 1952
Check List for Museum Design and Planning, June 27, 1951
National Park Service Museums, March 1952
Memo - In-Service Training Course in Museum Methods, September 18, 1952
Memo - Review of Museum Prospectuses, September 30, 1952
Draft - Outline for a Museum Prospectus, N. J. Burns, May 29, 1953
Memo - Outline for a Museum Prospectus, July 13, 1953
Memo - Preservation Treatment of Excavated Metals, Jamestown, November 20, 1953
Memo - Seminar on Museum Exhibit Techniques, August 27, 1954
Public Law 127, 84th Congress, July 1, 1955, NPS Museum Management
Folder - Material on Museums contains following:
Carbon - "Museums - Why," Angela Milne, Punch, May 26, 1943
"National Museums," New York Times, July 15
Program - 41st annual meeting, AAM, May 17-18, 1946
51st annual meeting, AAM, June 1-3, 1955
Memo - Reclassification, Chief, Museum Branch, January 1956
Memo - Exhibits construction Worker and Specialist, May 11, 1956
Talk - Streamlined History, Western Museums Conference, Sons of California Pioneers, Carl P. Russell, October 5, 1956
The Museum excerpt from Vol. 25, National Park Service-Administrative Manual, 1956
The Visiting Public and Museums, John B. Cabot, 1956(?)
Talk - A New Look of Western Museums: Mission 66, John W. Jenkins, AASLH, 1957
Supplementary VC Information, John B. Cabot, January 1958
Folder - Museum Branch In-Service Training Course, Museum Lab., Washington, January 13 - February 7, 1958
Memo - Furnishing Plan Historic Structures, February 4, 1958
VC Planning Notes on Discussions Held EODC, November 18-22, 1957 and WODC, February 4-6, 1958
Clearing House for Western Museums Newsletter 219, May 1958, excerpts News About National Parks assembled by Dr. Edwin C. Alberts
Abstract - Standards for Universities and Museums Down Through the Ages, Newell F. Joyner, May 1958
Memo - Letters of Acknowledgment for Museum Gifts, June 17, 1958
Clipping - "European Science Museum by Robert P. Mutthauf, p. 52, Science, Vol. 128, September 5, 1958
Memo - Report of Field Trip to JNEM and Mountain Plains Museum Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 7-11, 1958
Unit Citation Staff of Branch of Museums, NPS, 1957-58
Report - Conference of Regional Museum Curators, February 9-20, 1959
Resume - Cooperation on Museum Development, Ralph H. Lewis, March 19, 1959
Memo - Outdoor Pictorial Interpretation (Exhibit cases), November 9, 1959
Standard Specification Museum Specimen Storage Cabinet
"Site Museums and National Parks," Ralph Lewis, Curator II, December 1959
General - Museum Collections File, 1954-1959 contains General Correspondence, Statement Gift Policy, Draft of handbook
Museum and Exhibit History - 1960-1969
Booklet - Museum Service 1936-1957, Derbyshire (Gt.Britain) Education Committee
Booklet - Museum Service 1960-61, Derbyshire Education Committee (Gt. Britain)
Draft paper - Re-examination of the Museum Phases of Mission 66, Ralph H. Lewis, June 24, 1960
Paper - The Visiting Public and Museums, John B. Cabot, Midwest Museums Conference, October 13, 1960
Museum Exhibits, October 26, 1960
22nd General Administration Training Course, NPS Region II Exhibits, October 31, 1960
Folder on Exhibits Marked - October 1961
Draft memo - Discussion of Exhibit Strengths and Weakness, M. Sagan, September 12, 1961
23rd General Administration Training Course, NPS, Region Three Exhibits, December 11, 1961
Draft memo - Exhibit Planning Procedures, J. W. Jenkins, December 20, 1961
Long Range Plans and Park Museums... by Myron D. Sutton, 1962(?)
U. S. Civil Service Commission Standards, Museum Curator Series, February 1962
Memos - San Cristobal Exhibit Plan, San Juan, February 19 and March 7, 1962
Memo - Regional Clearing House Service for Museum Specimens, June 12, 1962
Preliminary Report - A Pilot Study in the Boston Museum of Science, R. S. Weiss, July 1, 1962
Memo - Comments on Exhibit Planning, November 21, 1962
Museum Display Materials, 1963(?)
Selecting Exhibit Themes for Park and Forest Museum with Background Paper, Ralph H. Lewis, 1963
Methods for Preparation and Exhibition of Insects, Earl Jackson, Custodian, Montezuma Castle, 1963
Clipping - Museum Training in the National Park Service, Ralph H. Lewis" Curator, VI/l, 1963
Clipping - Expositions, Exhibits, Gordon Reekie, Natural History, June-July 1963
Paper - Museum Philosophy and Practice of the National Park Service, Merrill J. Mattes, October 18, 1963, Western History Association
Museum Interpretation of Western History, Session 7, Western History Association Annual Conference, 1963, comments by J. W. Jenkins
Memos from Regional Curator Newell Joyner, August and October 1963
Memos and Enclosures - Procedures for Accountability of Museum Specimens, October 1963
Memo enclosing Museum Questionnaire, October 14, 1963
List - National Park Service Museums, 1964
Exhibit Cost Summary for Visitor Center Projects, 1957-1964, February 18, 1964
Memos - Management Survey of Branch of Museums, Data on same, February 20, 1964
"What is a Museum", Carl H. Jones, Utah State Historical Society, Newsletter, Vol. 14 No. 3, May 1963
Report of Museum Study, March 27, 1964
Report of Museum Study Team, April 20, 1964
Memo - Reorganization of Branch of Museums, July 2, 1964, with following paper: Division of Interpretation and Visitor Services, 1964(?)
Memo - Conference of Regional Museum Curators, July 28, 1964
Memo and Enclosures - Study Material for Regional Museum Curators' Conference, July 29, 1964
Memo and Enclosures - Park Reports (re museum conditions, etc.), September 10, 1964
Memo - Attendance at Regional Curators' Conference, Harpers Ferry, September 13-18, 1964, Nan V. Carson, October 1, 1964
Cost Reduction and Manpower Conservation Program, WML, October 1964
Draft and Final Report - Conference of Regional Museum Curators, September 13-18, 1964, December 1964 and January 1965
Mission 66 Museums in Need of Replacement Comments on Criteria, 1965(?)
Memo - Procedures and Ideas on Outdoor Exhibits, SWR, January 15, 1965
Interpretive Prospectus Status, MWR, MWL, August 1965
Clipping - "New Life for Museums," Barbara Tufty, Science Newsletter, August 21, 1965
1966 Museum Memos, Agreement
Museum Organization, Development, Goals, 1964-66
Reactions - Review of Museum Exhibits, AASLH
Clipping – "When a Museum is a Visitor Center" Roger J. Rogers, 1967
List of National Park Service Museums, 1967
Clipping- NPS Labs by Earl Arnett, Baltimore, The Sun, Friday, November 10, 1967
Museum Waysides Exhibits, 1964-67
Correspondence - Closing Old Mint Building, February 13, 1968
Museum Assistants Group Transactions No. 6, April 1968
Memo - Need to Conserve Division Funds, November 18, 1968
Appraisal of Museum Curatorial Program, NER, NPS, 1969
Draft - March 4, 1969, Division of Museums Staff Study
Proposed Article - Staff - Branch of Exhibit Production, April 5, 1969, F. Phillips and H. Peterson
Memo - Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Museum and Wayside Exhibits, May 2, 1969
Clipping - "Awareness," NPS Interpretive Newsletter, No. 10, May 1969
Museum Quarterly Work Schedule, Brown, July-September 1969
Making the Visitor Center Work, H. Stagner
Museum and Exhibit History - 1971-1979
Reprint from Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1971, Museum by Ralph H. Lewis, 20 p.
Photocopied clipping - NPS Assistance to Museums, Ralph H. Lewis, February 1971, Museum News
Activity Standards Environmental Interpretation and Supporting Activities, July 26, 1971
On the Nature of Glass: Care and Preservation of Historic Objects, 1971, R. Switzer
"Museums for Today," (Incl. JNEM) Architectural Record, July 1972
"Evaluating Visitor Response to Exhibit Content, Randel F. Washburne and J. Alan Wager, Curator, Vol. XV, No. 3, September 1972
Suggestions for Boy Scout Merit Badge in Museum Work, September 1972, R. Lewis
Memo - Repossession of Museum Artifacts by Indian Group, December 1972
Report recommending ... Reorganization ... Facilities... Curatorial Services Activities of Arizona - Archeological Center, NPS by Arizona State Museum, Tucson, March 1, 1973
Memo: Circuit Rider and (Exhibit) Evaluation Report, SER, May 18, 1973
Rap Session - June 29, 1973 and Environmental Concerns for Museum Objects
Report for FY 73 - Branch of Museum Operations, July 16, 1973
Memo - Identification of Outstanding Visitor Center, August 2, 1973
Folder - Exhibit Installation Dates, 1962-1974
Memo - Protection of Objects, June 10, 1974
Memo - Regional Curators' Conference, May 15-17, 1974; July 15, 1976
Memo - Collecting Permit Committee, July 29, 1974
Memos and Resolutions - Conference of Regional Curators at HFC in May 1974
Memo - Growth of Museum Services Division, December 13, 1974
SWR Memo 75-2 - Scientific Collecting in Areas of the SWR, January 14, 1975
Notes - Research and Resource Awareness Conference, March 1975
Curatorial Methods Course Material, October 1975
Memo - Curatorial Ethics, December 16, 1975
Artifacts Management Inventory, 1976
Memo - Program Capability of Branch of Exhibit
Planning and Design, March 19, 1976
Curatorial Operations Evaluation Report, revised April 1976
1977 Annual Report, Museum Services, NPS, HFC
Resolves Cultural Resources Management of Historic Artifacts and Museum Collections, January 1978
Memo - Interpretive Facilities Rehabilitation Program, March 6, 1978
Letter re Collecting Specimens in National Parks, April 19, 1978
Records Center, November 1978
Memo - Proposed Move - Regional Museum Vault (NCR), November 15, 1978
NPS Clearinghouse Draft, November 24, 1978
Memo - NPS Regional Curators' Meeting (held December 7, 1978 at HFC)
Memo - New Accession Folder, December 21, 1978
Report of Committee E Archeological and Anthropological Collections, December 1978
Memo - Briefing Statement on Western Region Curatorial Needs, January 3, 1979
Draft Memo - NPS Natural History Collections, January 30, 1979
"Cultural Resource Management: The Role of Museums in Cultural Resource Management. Andrew L. Christensen, American Antiquity, Vol. 44, No. 1, 1979
The Furnishing Process Division of Reference Services Furnishing Team, Harpers Ferry Center, March 1979
Aids for Classifying Objects, October 1979
Book Review - Manual for Museums, Ralph Lewis, 1976, Museum Journal, Vol. 79, No. 3, December 1979
Standard Specification for Museum Trays
Scope of Collection Statement Contents, Preparation, Relation to Collecting Policy
"An Unsuspected Danger in Display, W. A. Oddy
Museum and Exhibit History - 1980-
North Atlantic Regional Curatorial Paper, January 1980, U-V Filtering Materials
Memo: Study Collections Policy and Management, January 16, 1980
Legislation - Museum Services Amendment of 1980
Memo - Curatorial Issues, State of NPS Museums, June 3, 1980
Preserving the Past: An Introduction to the Division of Museum Services, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center, July 1980
Memo: Recommendations from Regional Chiefs of Interpretation (reaction to) May 21, 1980
Memo - Funding for Curatorial and Conservation Projects, June 3, 1981
Memo - Proposed Amendment to Museum Properties Management Act, June 8, 1981
Title page bootleg edition of NPS Manual for Museums, R. Lewis
Funding-Sources for Curatorial Operations and Collections Care, Revised January 1982
"Artifacts Under Pressure: Effects of Halon Gas Release in a Collection," Gloria Fenner, Curator, 25/2, 1982
"Curatorial Services Expanded," Courier, December 1982
A Digest of Curatorial Policy, February 1983
"Collection Management Planning in Parks," Ann Hitchcock, Trends, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1983
Memo - Upgrading Museum Collection Accountability Programs, March 3, 1983
Possible Draft Museum Handbook, April 1983
HFC Workshop: Exhibits and Conservation, STMA, June 1, 1983
Memo - Object Conservation, August 15, 1983
Memo and Draft - "Curatorial Strategy from 1984-1990, March 13, 1984
Memo - National Catalog Steering Committee Meeting (future), April 19, 1984
AAM 1984 Annual Meeting - Report on the Organizational Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Park Museums and Historic Sites, June 10, 1984
Application Form - International Partnerships Among Museums, July 1984
NPS Museum Cataloging System
Memo - Combining Historic Furnishings Report and Plan, January 22, 1985
Memo - Call for Completion of Scope of Collections Statements, Reply due: December 30, 1985, March 1, 1985
Draft Report and Response - Audit of Museum Collection Management in the NPS, July, October 1985
"National Treasures are Missing," Jack Anderson, Washington Post
Memo and Report - USDI Inspector General Audit of Museum Collection Management, NPS, November 1985, January 1986
Letter - Ad Hoc Committee on Park Museums and Historic Sites, American Association of Museums, May 8, 1986
Memo - Automation of the National Catalog, May 15, 1986
Memo - Updated National Catalog Record Submission Procedures, May 27, 1986
Ad Hoc Regional Curators' meeting, HFC, June 2, 1986
Monthly Report - Chief Conservator, Division of Conservation for May 1986
Memo - Using Practical Historic Furnishings as an Interpretive Medium, November 21, 1986
Draft - NPS Plan for Museum Collections Management, February 1987
A Quick Introduction to Collections for Managers, Thomas G. Vaughn
Fact Sheet - Automated National Catalog System
K3210 Series 2 - Correspondence
This series contains two document boxes and three record boxes of letters. There are two subseries: 2.1 - General and 2.2 - Dailies. General contains some incoming as well as outgoing correspondence. Dailies consists of copies of the daily outgoing correspondence. It is with parks and areas as well as between museum workers. Most is about museum procedures and exhibit techniques, ideas, and concerns. (The material is on 7B shelves, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (1987).)
2.1 General
Museum Lab., General - 1959-1962
Laboratory General (Correspondence), October 1, 1959 to December 29, 1959
Museum Lab. General Files (Correspondence), January 1961 to December 1961
Unlabeled Correspondence Files, January 1962 to October 1962
WML, General Correspondence, contains 3 files:
August 1955 to December 1959
January 1960 to December 1964
January 1965 to May May 1966
Dailies, September 1, 1960-October 31, 1960
Dailies, November 1, 1960-December 31, 1960
Dailies, January 1961-March 31, 1961
Dailies, April 1961, June 30, 1961
Dailies, Branch of Museums, January 2, 1962- March 30, 1962
Dailies, Branch of Museums, July 1961- December 1961
Dailies, November 1959-December 31, 1959
Dailies, November 1, 1960-December 31, 1960
Dailies, Branch of Museums, April 2, 1962- July 31, 1962
Branch of Museums, Dailies, August 1962- December 31, 1962
Branch of Museums, Dailies, January 2, 1962- April 30, 1963
Branch of Museums, Dailies, May 1, 1963- July 31, 1963
Branch of Museums, Dailies, August 1, 1963- October 31, 1963
Branch of Museums, Dailies, November 1, 1963- December 31, 1963
Branch of Museums, Dailies, January 2, 1964- July 2, 1964
Branch of Museum Operations, Dailies, May 1965-November 30, 1965
Branch of Museums Operations, Dailies, December 1965-February 1966
Branch of Museum Operations, Dailies, March 1966-December 30, 1966
Western Museum Lab Dailies, January 1, 1967 - May 1968
Harpers Ferry Museum Support Facility, Dailies, June 27 , 1968-March 1970
Division of Museums, Dailies, March 1970- December 1975
Division of Exhibits, Dailies, January 1, 1976- September 30, 1980
This series contains two document boxes of material: one regarding Western Museum Lab personnel, and the other on Dr. Carl P. Russell. The Western Museum Lab material includes cards, drafts, employee lists, files, forms, and photos. The material on Dr. Russell is envelopes of research material gathered for a thesis plus the resulting thesis. (It is on 7B shelves 4 and 5 (1987)).
Western Museum Lab Personnel
Draft Handout, WML, December 9, 1964
Employee Record Card(s), WML
Folder - Unit Award For and Employees, Museum Lab. January 1957-October 1958
Request(s) for Personnel Action, WML, 1960-1964
Folder - Federal Art Projects, NPS, 1930's List of Personnel
Photos and Negatives in Marked Envelopes
WML, Personnel Files, January 1960-63
WML, Position Description Review Form 10-146, 1961
Carl Russell and NPS Museums - Nancy Summers' Thesis
Thesis - Carl P. Russell and the National Park Museums, Nancy Summers, March 1981
Envelope of Research Material Marked Yellowstone
Envelope of Research Material Marked Miscellaneous
Published Photos in Envelope Marked Photos for Reproduction
Envelope of Research Material Marked Biographical
Envelope of Research Material Marked 1935
Envelope of Research Material with Notes on Envelope
K3210 Series 4 - Files
This series contains a half document box, four document boxes, and five record boxes of files. Items include articles, field orders and memos, plans, reports, and speeches. The topics cover associations, audiovisual equipment and techniques, conferences and meetings, exhibit techniques, museum activities, museum procedures, parks and area, personnel, and organizations. (It is on 7B, shelves 5 and 6; and 7C, shelves 5 and 6 (1987)).
Unlabeled Box - Museum Files (C. P. Russell Files)
Museum Exhibit Planning
Project Construction Program - General
Jackson, William Henry
Castillo de San Marcos, 1937-41
Federal Hall, 1940-50
Fort Pulaski
Fort Raleigh, 1942
Fort Stanwix, 1937
Fredericksburg, 1936-41
George Washington Birthplace, 1936-41
Gettysburg, 1936
Glacier, 1936-39, Museums
Grand Canyon, 1935-53
Grand Teton, 1936-42
Great Smoky Mountains, 1936-47
Hot Springs, 1937
Interior Department Museum, 1937
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 1942-47
Kennesaw Mountain, 1939-40
Olympic, 1943
Petersburg, 1936-37
Sitka, 1942-43, Sheldon Jackson Museum
Vicksburg, 1937
Branch of Museums - General Files (document box and 1/2 document box)
Audiovisual File Correspondence Newsletter
Preservation and Rehabilitation (General)
Preservation and Rehabilitation Study
Temporary and Traveling Exhibits
Trailside Exhibits (General)
Museum Records
Humidity Analysis
Exhibits and Museum Philosophy
Exhibit Techniques
Museum and Exhibit Activities - Midwest
Museum and Exhibit Activities - Western
Museum and Exhibit Activities - Southwest
Restoration and Preservation Specialists
Training In-Service
Training In-Service at WML
Model Makers
Classification (WML)
AAM Meeting, St. Louis, May 1964
Exhibit Costs, WML Projects
Exhibit Costs
Exhibits - In-Existing-Buildings Program
Museum and Exhibit Activities (General), 1965
Museum and Exhibit Activities (General), 1963, 1964
Preservation and Rehabilitation (General), March 17 , 1961 to June 30 , 1965
Meetings
Conferences
Reports
Personnel folders for the following:
Awards
Attendance at Meetings and General Travel
Correspondence, June 1964-June 1970
Travel and Transportation (Herbert Martin)
Travel and Transportation (Joseph H. Rockwell)
Travel and Transportation (John A. Segeren)
Travel and Transportation (Raymond S. Price, Jr.)
General, Training Correspondence, 1960-1965
Outline for Museum Exhibit Plan (1956)
Promotions
Qualification Standards Exhibit Specialist GS-1010 (1960-62)
Employee Training Records, 1958-1959
Personnel Correspondence, EML, January 1960 -December 1960
Personnel Correspondence, EML, December 16, 1953 - December 29, 1959
Personnel Correspondence, EML, January 1961 - December 1961
Requests for Personnel Action, EML, 1960-66
Cooperation (Federal, State, and Local)
Correspondence and Projects File
Interpretation, General Correspondence
Midwest Region
Southeast Region
National Capital Region
Interpretation: Park Museum, Visitor Center, Waysides, General
Southeast Region
Interpretation, Exhibits in Existing Building Program and Construction Programs
Northeast Region
Southwest Region
Western Region '
Branch of Museum General Files - Accession No. 111 (Record Box 3)
Hillers Transparencies
Collections Miscellaneous
Memorials
Travel
EIEB/B&U [EIEB Program/Building and Utilities Program]
Miscellaneous
Speeches
Circulars
Mather and Albright Centers
1965 Museum Methods Training Course
1964 Museum Methods Training Course
1963 Museum Methods Training Course
1959 Museum Methods Training Course
1958 Museum Methods Training Class
1957 Museum Methods Training Course
1953 Museum Methods Training Course
1952 Museum Methods Training Course - Fourth 1951 Museum Methods Training Course - Third Co
1949 Museum Methods Training Course - Second C
1949 Museum Methods Training Course - First Co
Drawings of Museum Cases
Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources (1941-1962)
Museum Manual (Cases)
Museum Cases (Old WML)
Museum Survey (1939-41)
Museum Plans
Park Service Museums, General
Employee Work Report; Visual Arts, Graphics, and Related Services, FY 1964
Region Two Construction and Preservation Programs, October 1949-June 1952
Region Four Construction and Preservation Programs, December 1949-September 1952
Region Three Construction and Preservation Programs, July 1950-June 1952
American Association of Museums
Western History Association
Western Museums League
Reports - Situation
Commendations and Complaints (Permanent File)
Conferences and Meetings - General
Inspections, Investigations, and Studies
Visits
WML Instructional Memorandums
American Association of Museums, John W. Jenkins, participation
Cost Reduction and Manpower Conservation Report
Employee Welfare and Activities
National Defense Activities
Files Management
Health and Safety
Accident, Injuries, Death
Accidents, Injuries - Geoffry J. Brown
Accidents - Carey, Herbert C.
Accidents - Garcia
Accident Reports and Related Papers - Richard M. Howard
Accidents - Morishige
Accidents - Segeren
Accidents - Younkin
Office and Storage Space Permanent Transfer to FRC when lab has moved
Office and Storage Space
Special Events
Delegations of Authority
Construction Programs, Correspondence, July 1, 1966 to November 1967
Mount McKinley
Organization, WML
Construction Programs, Correspondence, May 1963 - June 30, 1966
Annual Report to Chief, Branch of Museum Development FY 1963
Buildings, Visitor Centers
Contracts
Audiovisual and Motion Pictures, April 1967- August 1967
Audiovisual and Motion Pictures, through March 1967
Cooperation by WML with Other Agencies and individual Foreign Countries
Architectural and Interpretive Planning
WML Staff Meeting Minutes
Cooperative Agreements with Federal, State, and Local Agencies
Interpretive Activities
Special Articles Prepared by Service Personnel
Publications, Service
Signs, Markers, Memorials
Automatic Data Processing
Planning Program and Master Plans
Interpretive Conferences
F. 0. Memoranda, 1967
F. 0. Memoranda, 1966
F. 0. Memoranda, 1964-65
F. 0. Memoranda, 1962-63
F. 0. Memoranda, 1958-61
F. O.'s, 1957
F. O.'s, 1963-1956 including Interpretation
Wildlife
Plant Life including Names
Recreation Studies, Resources, Etc.
Handbook, WML, January 1965
Organization Service, February 8. 1963 December 31, 1964
Organization Service, April 1, 1965 - February 9, 1966
WML organization Chart
Organization - WASO
Archeological and Historical Structures
Reports
Proposed Areas
Portable Exhibit Areas
Planning Visitor Center
Correspondence - Personal
Preservation of Natural Beauty, General
Museum (and Other) Cartoons
Accession HFCA-0882 (record box)
Folders
A-40 Conferences and Meetings (attendance at)
A-80 Space for Administrative Use (San Francisco)
A-80 Space for Administrative Use (Harpers Ferry)
A5639 Memoranda by Division of Museums
A8219 Tours, Group Visitations, Etc., 1966-1969
A8219 International Museum Week, April 1968
A8227 Special Projects, Summer in the Parks, 1968, 1969
D-18 Planning - Issue Paper, 1970 Important!
D-18 Planning - General
D-18 Planning - Goals
D-18 Planning - Work Expenditures Exceeding Production (WEEP)
D-18 Planning - FY 1971 Program
D-18 Planning - FY 1970 Program
D-18 Planning - FY 1969 Program
D-26 Reports, 1968-1970
D-2615 Reports, Monthly, Harpers Ferry Support Group, 1968-1970
D-2615 Western Lab and Support Group Museum and Exhibit Activities, 1957-1969
D-2615 General Correspondence, October 1969 - February 1970
D-2615 General Correspondence, 1967-September 1969
D-2621 Reports Annual, 1949-1968
D-66 Waysides
File marked K54 - Special Articles by Service Personnel, including articles, speeches, memos
Expanding folder marked H-14 History, Museum Division, Miscellaneous Items contains articles, and reports, internal memos, internal directories, stationery, guestbook sheets (filled out), reports, rganizational charts, activity summaries, etc., mostly 1967-72
K3210 Series 5 – Photos [TRANSFERRED TO NPS HISTORIC PHOTO COLLECTION]
There are 5 document boxes of photos, about one third of which are mounted, one quarter with negatives, and one twelfth on cards. One report has been left with the photos. Museums, exterior and interior, along with visitor centers are the subject of the photos in two boxes while the rest depict various museum activities as conservation, exhibit construction, preparation, museum cataloging, and record keeping.
ECW Museum Lab - Contains 140 mounted (on cardboard) labeled photos of activities
Photos - All Labs - Museum Lab Activities - Approximately 36 envelopes of photos with some negatives, 6 8xlO photos, file folder of photos marked Modeling and Facsimiles, report folder photos of Ford's Theatre Lab, 21 8xlO photos HFC, black ring binder of 8xlO photos with captions Bicentennial in plastic.
Museum Activities Photos - 26 photos of American Indians, approximately 85 photos of drawings used in exhibits, 32 photos of people working on exhibits, approximately 120 envelopes of photos with negatives of CCC museum activities
Museum Interiors Photos - 42 index cards of photos, 11 envelopes of photos, 12 loose 5x7 photos, 46 8xlO photos, 58 cardboard mounted WML photos, folder Manassas, report photographic exhibits in the Yosemite Museums, 1961. Folder - Museum buildings interiors, folder miscellaneous exhibits, mailing envelopes interior museum duplicates
Photos - Museums and Visitor Centers - Approximately 4 loose photos, about 120 index cards of photos and 62 WML cardboard mounted photos.
K3210 Series 6 - American Association for Museums
This series contains one document box of addresses, correspondence, notes, papers, programs, and a draft manual outline relating to this organization. (The material is also on 7C, shelf 1 (1987).)
5 papers on Museum Exhibits, 67 meeting AAM, June 1967
Program, 20th Annual Meeting, Northeast Museums Conference, October 5-8, 1966
Correspondence File on AAM (NPS Museum Division), January 1960-June 1964
Notes and Papers from AAM Meetings, May 1960 - October 1963
AAM Correspondence (NPS Museum Division) November 1953- December 1959
Packet - AAM 54th Annual Meeting, June 3-6, 1959
Draft for Outline of Manual for Museum Register, 1963, non-NPS
Address List - AAM Convention, June 18, 1953
K3215 - Museum Exhibits
K3215, the classification for museum exhibits, is not at this time (1987) divided into series. There are 4 notebooks, 4 document boxes, and a record box under K3215. Correspondence and memos, files, forms, news releases and clippings, negatives, photos, plans, and reports make up the material. The folders are arranged according to subject as well as in chronological order. One notebook and one document box concern exhibits for parks and their installation while the rest, the bulk, concerns traveling exhibits. (The material is on the 2nd shelf in 7C (1987).)
Exhibit Planning and Design Guidelines, Branch of Exhibit Planning and Design, HFC, March 1979
Exhibit Planning and Design Guidelines, branch of Exhibit Planning and Design, HFC, June 1980 (supersedes the Guidelines dated March 1979)
Notes on Exhibit Progress
Status of Interpretive Prospectuses (Plans) HFC, March 31, 1977
List of Furnishing Plans in Library, HFC, March 2, 1977
Museums ONPS Program, FY 1974
National Parks and Landmarks, January 1, 1966 with installation dates of exhibits
Notebook - Photos and descriptions of exhibits made in NPS Museum Lab, 1936
Traveling Exhibits
Article - "Recent Developments in Mobile Units," Museum, Vol. V, No. 3, 1952
Bulletin - Education de base bulletin trimestriel, Vol. II, No. 4, October 1950, UNESCO containing article on traveling exhibits by Kenneth B. Disher, all in French
Expanding folder marked Traveling Exhibits containing mainly memoranda 1952-1959, 1960-61, some photos
Expanding folder marked T. E. History, negatives of exhibits prior to our real program, envelopes of prints as well as negatives
Traveling Exhibits - report on all
Spanish Architecture
Spanish Architecture (document box)
Spanish Architecture - label copy and script copy
Spanish Architecture - Loan - 1974
Spanish Architecture Publicity
Spanish Architecture, Springfield Reference File
Spanish Architecture - General Correspondence
Spanish Architecture - Pictures of the exhibit for publicity use
Accession 866 - Traveling Exhibit Historical Files (record box)
Inventory of Pictures, lists and polaroid shots
T. E. Files, General Information
T. E. Historical Information Files (Keep)
D-6215 Traveling Exhibits through December 31, 1970
D-6215 Traveling Exhibits, January 1971
Exhibit Loans
T. E. Centennial Exhibits
Centennial Exhibits, Springfield Reference File, T. E.
Woody Williams, 1977
T. E. Audiovisual Units, Correspondence
T. E. AV exhibits background data, Springfield Files
Audiovisual exhibit, photographs
Bertrand Conservation Laboratory
T. E. Nantucket Architecture
T. E. Nantucket Architecture, Springfield File
T. E. Nantucket Architecture, some pictures pertaining to
T. E. San Juan, 1971
Audio chair exhibit
Mini-Art Park Background data, Springfield
T. E. Mini-Artists in the Park
May 3rd Cocktail Party
K1823 Mini-Art, 1977, 1980
Reg. Off Lobby Exhibit
Horace Albright Training Center
P. 0. Portable Traveling Exhibit, 1974
Cooper-Hewitt Museum Exhibit
Peace Corps Program
Bicentennial Traveling Exhibits, '75-'76
Carl Sandburg - P. 0. and Correspondence
Carl Sandburg - Photos
Carl Sandburg Traveling Exhibit
Press Releases and Clippings, Carl Sandburg (exhibit)
Artists in the Parks (document box)
Artists in the Parks, FY72
Paintings
Artists Biographies
Artists in the Parks, 1966-68
Artists in the Parks, 1969-
Artists in the Parks Collection (inventory)
Artists in Parks, 66-69 - Photo material used to prepare catalog
T. E. Artists in the Parks - background file, Springfield
NY501 - "Artists in the Parks, 1966-69"
K3226 - Museum Reports
The classification for museum reports K3226 has been divided into series: 1 for the two document boxes dealing with the division as a whole and 2 for the box from the Western Museum Lab. These reports are illustrated by mounted photos of the various museum activities discussed by the report. The Western Museum Lab reports are reflected in as well as incorporated by the reports of the whole division. The reports date from 1936 to 1968. Presumably those from 1969 to the present are still part of the files of the
various HFC divisions. The reports in the collection do not include those from the World War II years nor those from 1949 to 1953. Thus, there is good representation from 1936 to 1942, and 1954 to 1968. The reports are in rough chronological order. (They are on the third shelf of range 7C (1987).)
K3226 Series 1 - Museum Division
Museum Reports
Monthly Report, Museum Division, 1936-9
Report of the Morristown Field Lab for Month Ending December 31, 1936
Museum Division Report for January 1937
Museum Division Report for February 1937
Museum Division Report for March 1937
Museum Division Report for April 1937
Museum Division Report for April and May 1937
Museum Division Report for June 1937
Museum Division Report for July 1937
Report - Model Lab, Fort Hunt, Virginia, Museum Division, August 1937-May 1938
Monthly Report - Museum Division, August, September, October 1937 (handwritten)
Ford's Theatre Lab Report for March 1938
Report of the Museum Division, Washington Office, March 1938
June Report, 1938 - Model List, Fort Hunt, Virginia, Museum Division
Museum Division Report for July 1938
Museum Division Report for August 1938
Museum Division Report for September 1938
Museum Division Report for October and November 1938
Museum Division, January and February 1939
Museum Division, March and April 1939
Museum Division, May and June 1939
Museum Division, August and September 1939
Monthly Reports - Museum Division
Folder - Reports, Division from January 1940
Carbon copy with pictures, Annual Report, WML, NPS, FY 1939
Monthly Report of the Museum Division, Branch of Research and Interpretation, December 1940
Report of Ford's Theatre Lab and WML for December 1940
Report of Ford's Theatre Lab and WML for November 1940
Report of Ford's Theatre Lab and WML for October 1940
Report of Ford's Theatre Lab and WML for September 1940
Report of Ford's Theatre Lab and WML for August 1940
Report of Ford Is Theatre Lab and WML for June and July 1940
Folder - Museum Division Monthly Reports, 1941-42
Unlabeled Folder of Monthly Reports, Museum Division covering December 1946- September 1948 with some gaps plus mounted photos
Monthly Report, Museum Branch, January 1954 - December 1959
Monthly Reports, Museum Lab, January 1960, 1961; March 1963- September 1963
Monthly Reports, July 1964-March 1966
Report to Museum Branch, April 27, 1957- May 15, 1959, Vol. 1, Permanent
Monthly Report of WML to Division of Interpretive Services, May 1958-December 1961, Vol. 2, Permanent
Monthly Report to Chief, Branch of Museum Development, January 1, 1962-December 1966, Vol. 3, Permanent
Monthly Report to Chief, Branch of Museum Development, January 1967-May 1968,
Vol. 4, Permanent
K3226 Series 2 - Western Museum Laboratory
Western Museum Lab Reports
Expanding folder of Reports, 1937
Expanding folder of Reports, 1938
Expanding folder of Reports, 1939
Expanding folder of Reports, 1941
Job Register, Western Museum Lab, 1958-1968
Mounted labeled photos from Report Examples of
Museum Preparation Work Being Done in WML, Berkeley, California, Field Division
of Education
Amendments - Museum Records Handbook, April 1966 and May 1967
Yellow typewritten draft - November 18, 1966, Museum Handbook
Field folder - Museum Records Handbook Amendments and Releases
Photography Museum Handbook, Part I, Collections, July 1967
NPS Museum Handbook, Part II, Museum Records, November 1966
Museum Manual, Ned Burns' Draft of 2nd Edition, late 1940's
File folder labeled - Introduction, interspersed, typed and handwritten
2 file folders labeled 4 (Chapter IV) interspersed, type and handwritten
File folder labeled 7 (Chapter VII) interspersed, typed and handwritten
Unlabeled folder - Carbons and yellow types, Chapters II, IV, VII, X
Unlabeled folder of Galley, also note cards
Notebook - Furnished Historic Structure Museum Handbook, January 1968
Notebook - Exhibit Art Containing Photos Mounted on Notebook Paper with Handwritten Identification
NPS Museum Handbook, 1968
Hardbound book - Manuals for Museums, Ralph H. Lewis, 1976, GPO
Hardbound book - Field Manual for Museums, Ned J. Burns, GPO, 2 copies
K3238 Series 3 - Publication Material
Original typescript, slides, negatives, mounted photographs, other photos, and galley for Manual for Museums, Ralph H. Lewis, 1976, GPO - Museum Catalog No. 877
K3286 - Museum Training
K3286 is the classification within museum for training. There is one document box of correspondence about the Museum Methods Training Courses held in the early 1960's. (It is on the 3rd shelf of 7C (1987).)
Museum Methods Training
File Folder, 1962 - Museum Methods Training Course
File Folder, 1961 - Museum Methods Training Course
File Folder, 1960 - Museum Methods Training Course
File Folder - Museum Methods Training Course Files, 1960