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Exhibition Records, circa 1979-1990, and undatedFinding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives

Table of Contents

Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 1Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 1Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 3

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Collection Overview

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected]

Title: Exhibition Records

Identifier: Accession 00-001

Date: circa 1979-1990, and undated

Extent: 23.69 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)

Creator:: National Museum of American History. Department of the History ofScience and Technology

Language: English

Administrative Information

Prefered CitationSmithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 00-001, National Museum of American History.Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records that document the planning, development, and installation ofInformation Age: People, Information, and Technology, a major exhibition at the National Museum ofAmerican History (NMAH), which traces the evolution of information-processing and communicationstechnologies from the 1830s to the present. The exhibition opened on May 9, 1990. The bulk of therecords include the correspondence, memoranda, and research files of two NMAH staff members involvedin the project: Jon B. Eklund, Assistant Curator, 1968-1969, Associate Curator, 1970-1982, and Curator,1983-1994; and David K. Allison, Curator, 1987-1994; as well as files of Marie Mattson, Special Assistantto the Secretary, 1989-1990. Records also include graphic notebooks of photographic prints or photostaticcopies of all the artifacts and graphics that appeared in the exhibition; installation photographs and slides;and exhibition blueprints.

Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects:

Information scienceMuseum exhibitsScience -- HistoryTechnology -- History


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Types of Materials:

Architectural drawingsAudiotapesBlack-and-white photographsBrochuresClippingsDrawingsExhibition catalogsFloor plansManuscripts

Names:

Allison, David K., 1950-Eklund, Jon B.Information Age: People, Information and Technology (Exhibition) (1990-2006: Washington, D.C.)Mattson, Marie


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Container Listing

Box 1

Jon B. Eklund's Records

Box 1 of 24 9/25/1987 - Paul Edwards, University of California, Santa Cruz , "ClosedWorlds ... 11 MS

Box 1 of 24 10/1987 - Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia, "The Social Construction ofthe PC: Why the PC Revolution was no Revolution" (SCOT, Levy, Turkle)

Box 1 of 24 Miscellaneous stills and artifacts: Early calculators, Government Dataprocessing, Jeff Sturchio [of Bell Labs] to David Allison: Bell Labs' role ininnovation

Box 1 of 24 6/1984 - Stevens Institute of Technology: Every student has a computer

Box 1 of 24 1979 - Don Ihde, Techne & Praxis: Ch 5. The Existential import of computertechnology

Box 1 of 24 Cathart and Gumpert: "The person-computer interaction" from Information &Behavior, Ruben ed.

Box 1 of 24 Kobayashi, "Computers and Communication"

Box 1 of 24 Magda Cordell McHale, Facts & Trends: The Changing InformationEnvironment: An Information Chartbook

Box 1 of 24 1982 - Fortune & Business Week, etc. on power of future computer

Box 1 of 24 11/1985 - High Technology Magazine "Microls at work"

Box 1 of 24 10/1985 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SpectrumMagazine "Inside the PARC: the information architects"

Box 1 of 24 1988 - Computer and Information Security Conference

Box 1 of 24 1982 - Fortune Magazine: series on "Thinking Machines"

Box 1 of 24 7/18/1988 - Newsweek: Iranian Jetliner shot down. (see Finn's idea in"Memos to 1985")

Box 1 of 24 1988 - Information Industry Association: prospectus


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Box 1 of 24 4/16/1984 - Time Magazine: "Software: the Wizard Inside the Machine"

Box 1 of 24 6/11/1984 - Information World Magazine: Alan Kay

Box 1 of 24 1987 - Kirsch and Kirsch: "Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognitions" (AI'understanding' art)

Box 1 of 24 Office Automation technology

Box 1 of 24 5/1983 - Paul Trachtman, "Mircroprocessors of the 3rd world" [AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meetings]

Box 1 of 24 1987 - William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal ReserveRuns the County

Box 1 of 24 Office of Technology Assessment "Intellectual Property Rights in an age ofelectronics and information

Box 1 of 24 12/28/1987 - Rogow and Bernstien to Allison: Transmitted: Set ofapproximately 250 unbound photocopies, pictorial research, 3-hole punchedand divided into general sections.

Box 1 of 24 1/17/1987 - Los Angeles Times, Part VI: Cyberpunk Phenomenon

Box 1 of 24 11/27/1988 - Rogow & Bernstein to Allison "re epidemiology and dangers ofinformation"

Box 1 of 24 Making Data crunching personal: Huntington's patients who learn of geneticdisease become suicidal CBS new broadcast transcripts on microfilmcatalog.

Box 1 of 24 1978 - Fortune Magazine:"The Computer Stores have arrived"

Box 1 of 24 2/1984 - Robert a Vitro, "Managing International Development" journal: "TheInformation Engine" "The information sector can propel development"

Box 1 of 24 Miscellaneous technical imagery in advertising: IBM products

Box 1 of 24 Miscellaneous New York Time clips: computers in politics, computer "loveletters"

Box 1 of 24 Computer animation

Box 1 of 24 Superconductors


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Box 1 of 24 Computers and financial markets

Box 1 of 24 4/1987 - Technology Review Magazine, "Computers in the classroom', aboutSeymour Paper

Box 1 of 24 1/1986 - Technology Review Magazine, the Dreyfus brothers,, "WhyComputers may never think like people"

Box 1 of 24 Eklund to Allison: 1980 US census on CD ROM

Box 1 of 24 10/23/1987 IBM Canada to Allison: IBM system to "age" missing children

Box 1 of 24 Japan-bashing

Box 1 of 24 1987 - Machine Mediated Learning (journal vol. 2 #1-2) "This issue exploreshow computers can improve the ways in which undergraduates in variousdisciplines 'design.'" - Writing, science, genetics, algorithms, art

Box 1 of 24 5/1988 Smithsonian Magazine TV phone ad

Box 1 of 24 Life Magazine: "In Tiny Devices a Revolution" (3/10/1961)

Box 1 of 24 12/6-23/1988 Doonesbury strips showing computer shopping hazards

Box 1 of 24 Miscellaneous electronics advertisements

Box 1 of 24 Csikszemtmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton, The Meaning of Things: DomesticSymbols and the Self: "TV" written: "David: a little 'social perspective' for youon TV-Jackie [McGage]"

Box 1 of 24 Speed of Time

Box 1 of 24 6/1982 - Boston Review, Daniel Dennett "Notes on Prosthetic Imagination"

Box 1 of 24 1980 - Gassman, ed., Information, Computer and communication policies forthe 80's. North-Holland Publishing Co.

Box 1 of 24 5/1987 - US Information Agency World magazine "Information USA to Openin Moscow"

Box 1 of 24 9/3/1980 - Chartrane, et al, "Computer graphics: applications andtechnology"

Box 1 of 24 Congressional Research Office


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Box 1 of 24 Overviews

Box 1 of 24 MS's by Howard M. Bloom, National Bureau of Standards, Factoryautomation systems division chief (about factory automation in US)

Box 1 of 24 Allison to EDS re auto assembly segment

Box 1 of 24 Kennedy Nixon Debates

Box 1 of 24 3/22/1988 - Keith Meldner: comments on Information Exhibition presentationof 3/7/1988

Box 1 of 24 Richard Nixon essays on the debates (c. 1968-1970)

Box 1 of 24 Role of UNIVAC and the census (c. 1968)

Box 1 of 24 Unsigned script 1st page: "Information Age Beginnings [Morse]: "The firsttelegraph line -;" was this a revolution"

Box 1 of 24 Newsletter

Box 1 of 24 6/13/1989 - Invite to "preliminary exhibition review"

Box 1 of 24 Miscellaneous undated newsletter copy, design drawings of mannequins, etc.

Box 1 of 24 4/3/1989 - Unsigned Information Age "Levels of exhibition experience" (typesof interaction expected for the visitor. Both social and technical levelsintended to be addressed)

Box 1 of 24 12/29/1988 - Information Age Status of Exhibit Sections (division of labor,progress report)

Box 1 of 24 11/9/1989 - Draft Script Sections

Box 1 of 24 11/17/1989 - Script, incl. graphics, objects, and labels

Box 1 of 24 Legal-length plan views and elevations of logotypes undated object list

Box 1 of 24 4/11/1990 - Final Script Sections (comments and credits for donations, etc.)

Box 1 of 24 Forty Film Ideas


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Box 1 of 24 4/21/1989 - "Visions and Realities: a preliminary treatment for film" JonathanCompany, California

Box 1 of 24 Script fragment, including feminization of office work typography for text rails

Box 1 of 24 10/27/1989 - Radio script fragment (edited in pencil])

Box 1 of 24 1/21/1988 - Press packet from Doron D. Swade, head of Modern Technology,The Science Museum, South Kensington, to Finn: regarding The ScienceMuseum's "Information Age Project."

Box 1 of 24 1974 - James L. Adams, Conceptual Block Busting, the Portable Stanford

Box 1 of 24 4/29/1988 - "A Software Script by Martin Campbell Kelly" (with Eklund covermemo)

Box 1 of 24 Object list, undated

Box 1 of 24 6/3/1987 - "Agenda: info rev. group meeting" (includes Rogow and Berstienitem)

Box 1 of 24 5/23/1987 - Paul Ceruzzi (National Air and Space Museum Curator ofComputers) to Information Revolution Group regarding guidelines forinteractives in the gallery

Box 2

Box 2 of 24 "FYI: The emerging info age 4.7 Information systems 1946? 60" [messages:social and technical factors]

Box 2 of 24 3/1988 Script outline

Box 2 of 24 9/21/1988 Storyline

Box 2 of 24 Mike Williams' Script for section 2.5 information processing technology beforedigital computer, calculators, sorters, etc.

Box 2 of 24 7/20/1988 - 3.5 the ENIAC walkway 1890 census questions

Box 2 of 24 Script for artifact portion of section 4 [Williams], undated

Box 2 of 24 10/22/1987 Eklund "Postwar Technology Core Draft" [messages are "crucial"]

Box 2 of 24 9/6/1988 Storyline


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Box 2 of 24 [Hilke?] "What should the visitor say after leaving the exhibition?" undated/unsigned

Box 2 of 24 7/27/1988 Hilke: "Thoughts on convergence of communication andprocessing streams"

Box 2 of 24 "Social themes for Information age: Visions and realities," undated

Box 2 of 24 7/14/1989 Interactive Inventory

Box 2 of 24 12/1988 Storyline: "Information Age: People, Information, and Technology"

Box 2 of 24 6/1988 Script outline [includes We are the world section]

Box 2 of 24 3/1988 Script outline

Box 2 of 24 4/21 Handwritten on typescript Bijou Theater Outline, unsigned

Box 2 of 24 Draft section 4. Needs revision by Jon.

Box 2 of 24 Information Age Newsletter, final copy

Box 2 of 24 3/3/87 Allison to team on Part II of exhibits

Box 2 of 24 1/21/1987 Time node 1--Information before the computer [approx. 1858]

Box 2 of 24 1/11/1988 Script outline

Box 2 of 24 11/22/89 draft script sections, edited in pencil

Box 2 of 24 "Master" [Finn?] Instantaneous communication telephone, undated

Box 2 of 24 "Visitor's experience in 'online: the Information Age in America' summaryoutline," undated

Box 2 of 24 12/2/1987 Finn: "Online" Part 1 period settings

Box 2 of 24 12/4/1987 Eklund: Postwar Technology core update

Box 2 of 24 8/1988 Draft script

Box 2 of 24 4/6/1988 Draft Introduction film text


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Box 2 of 24 11/12/1988 Script Fragments

Box 2 of 24 Comments on Information Age script sections 103, 1990

Box 2 of 24 SAGE system images and documents from Air Force

Box 2 of 24 Letters to Pentagon from Louis Hutchins, Div. Computers, Information, andSociety, NMAH re use of video clip from vintage film for use with SAGEcommand center model [from IBM]

Box 2 of 24 Color prints of SAGE command center model

Box 2 of 24 Naval research: "Programming Whirlwind I" (6/11/1965)

Box 2 of 24 7/1985 Annals of the History of Computing, vol 17 #3 on SAGE

Box 2 of 24 8/28/1988 Jackie McGlade to Allison re Kennedy-Nixon Debate [Washburnreprint, "The Great Autumnal Madness" Quarterly Journal of Speech]

Box 2 of 24 Newsreel Construction (12/1963)

Box 2 of 24 NMAH's archival holdings on 1940 NYC World's Fair undated unsigned"The Middletons explore the Information Age: an idealized family experience(February 1991) [fictive date]

Box 2 of 24 World's Fair 1940 background

Box 2 of 24 New York Street Scene

Box 2 of 24 Archival background. photos showing actual street scene, including actualAutoLux movie theater.

Box 2 of 24 Eckert Interview

Box 2 of 24 ENIAC materials, SI video History Program - Setting up the interview,transcript

Box 2 of 24 Original ENIAC brochure from University of Pennsylvania

Box 2 of 24 Theodore White: The Making of the President: "The TV debates" (1960)

Box 2 of 24 Datamation Mag. "Analyzing election computing 1960" (1/1961)


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Box 2 of 24 "Election data processing for the political executive" Republican NationalCommittee, undated

Box 2 of 24 "Notes on Electronic Politics," undated

Box 2 of 24 Miscellaneous reprints on computers and political outcome[contemporaneous analysis], (c. 1965-1975)

Box 2 of 24 10/24/1988 Time Magazine comparing 60's & 80's presidential races

Box 2 of 24 9/23/1988 Michael O'Malley: "Polls, computers, and TV in 1960"

Box 2 of 24 Life Magazine "The Machines are Taking Over" (3/3/1961)

Box 2 of 24 Ken Olson Interview

Box 2 of 24 163 pp transcript, undated

Box 2 of 24 2 Polaroids showing TX-0 computer and Whirlwind core

Box 2 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence surrounding Digital Equipment Corporation's(DEC) donation of PDP class computers.

Box 2 of 24 9/12/1988 Information Week Mag: "Olson on DEC"

Box 2 of 24 DEC Historical Collection event: Eichhorn and Olson speeches, undated

Box 3

Box 3 of 24 Network TV

Box 3 of 24 Various reprints

Box 3 of 24 VDT brochures: health hazards, etc.

Box 3 of 24 Prodigy on-line service press kit

Box 3 of 24 Interactive Prototypes [bar coder hardware information]

Box 3 of 24 Showscan Replies [queries to sites with Showscan; exhibition projectionsystem installed]

Box 3 of 24 Showscan press kit


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Box 3 of 24 Allison portrait proof sheet

Box 3 of 24 Computer World xerox copies

Box 3 of 24 Computer World originals [Black and White prints of IBM, Boston ComputerMuseum]

Box 3 of 24 IBM materials, including films

Box 3 of 24 12/l/1988 Marie M. to Claudine Close [budget is tight]

Box 3 of 24 Script Sections

Box 3 of 24 4.2 Elec.

Box 3 of 24 AV Plan

Box 3 of 24 Software History

Box 3 of 24 PC Messages

Box 3 of 24 Statistical Data

Box 3 of 24 Misc IA Memos

Box 3 of 24 IR Ideas

Box 3 of 24 Part IV - Online

Box 3 of 24 Claudine

Box 3 of 24 Memo, JE to DD, 1/6/1990, re script

Box 3 of 24 Memo, A. Molella to dist., 12/28/1989, re revised script

Box 3 of 24 Script

Box 3 of 24 IC's (including graphics)

Box 3 of 24 Software

Box 3 of 24 4.6.2 PC Phil.


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Box 3 of 24 Computers in Business

Box 3 of 24 Business of Computers

Box 3 of 24 IA 4/1988

Box 3 of 24 MNW - Memory

Box 3 of 24 Information Age Outlines: DKA

Box 3 of 24 Tel & Computers

Box 3 of 24 IA Movie

Box 3 of 24 Script - BF

Box 3 of 24 "Storylines"

Box 3 of 24 Latest Script

Box 3 of 24 Miscellaneous Script

Box 3 of 24 Loose - Working drafts, etc.

Box 3 of 24 Script - BF

Box 3 of 24 Script

Box 3 of 24 Post-War Socio-Tech Core

Box 3 of 24 Misc. loose memos; Personal Computing, October 1989; miscellaneousmemos; "A Software Script" by Martin Campbell-Kelly, 4/29/1988

Box 3 of 24 Postwar Tech Core Background

Box 3 of 24 Postwar Tech Core update, etc., 12/4/1987

Box 3 of 24 Miscellaneous loose memos

Box 3 of 24 Information Revolution (IR) Drafts I

Box 4


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Box 4 of 24 IR Drafts II

Box 4 of 24 IR Versions

Box 4 of 24 Information Age (IA) Facts

Box 4 of 24 IA Invitations

Box 4 of 24 IA Files

Box 4 of 24 IA Script

Box 4 of 24 4.6.2 - Messages

Box 4 of 24 II: Section 1



Box 4 of 24 Software Section

Box 4 of 24 Plan of IA exhibit

Box 4 of 24 IA Script

Box 4 of 24 IA Problems

Box 4 of 24 IA Install

Box 4 of 24 IBM 650

Box 4 of 24 Data Ads Computers

Box 4 of 24 IEEE PDP-8

Box 4 of 24 Alto History

Box 4 of 24 Artifact Forms

Box 4 of 24 OCLC

Box 4 of 24 The Information Revolution: An Exhibition Proposal, NMAH, 1985


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Box 4 of 24 Polaroids, prints, and slides. Some have been removed from other files (asmarked).

Box 4 of 24 Polaroids: most undated, some dated.

Box 4 of 24 Models of design, Part II layout from plan drawings (March 1989), streetscene, movie theater "Autolux"

Box 4 of 24 Objects In Situ/ site ambience: auto assembly robot, vintage radio shop withsigns, early PC's, IBM calculators, tabulating machines

Box 4 of 24 Other exhibit spaces (Where - L Period setups elsewhere SAGE commandcenter model Front Carousel in progress)

Box 4 of 24 Sample layout of "panel 311" (computer memorabilia)

Box 4 of 24 "Bill Anderson Studio Examples" including Ewoks tree scene posters.

Box 4 of 24 Slides: Blueprints, models of show, computers.

Box 4 of 24 Computers, mushroom cloud, "Privacy in America" book cover, MadMagazine UPC cover, Telstar, Radio mannequins preliminary sketch

Box 4 of 24 Blueprints, mannequin sketches, computers, graphic output from computers

Box 4 of 24 David's slides from Japan: gardens, etc.

Box 4 of 24 Cassette Tape: "Gordon Move of Intel re microprocessor," one 30-minuteside

Box 4 of 24 Proposal Copies; IBM Proposal: Additional Copies; Proposal (General) &Appendices (Masters); Proposal & Appendices (prospective Donors): Copies;and Scope Memo & Outline: Masters.

Box 4 of 24 Proposal; Proposal Copies: June 20, 1985 version; Proposal: Original:June 20, 1985; Chart: Original & Copies; IBM Proposal: Masters; Proposal:Original & Copies, November 9, 1984; IBM Proposal, I; IBM Proposal, II;IBM: Alternate Proposals; IBM Proposal, III; IBM Proposal, IV; IBM ProposalVersions: Ideas; and IBM Axioms

Box 5

Box 5 of 24 Prospectus/Working Script; Information Revolution: Structure Chart;Prospectus, Version 4: Master; Prospectus, June 30 Version; Prospectus,


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Version 4; Prospectus, Version 1: Master & Copies; Information RevolutionExhibit Outline

Box 5 of 24 The Information Revolution; IBM: Travel; Computer Project Historian;Contracts; Administrative: General; IBM: Correspondence; IBM:Organization; IBM: To do; IBM: Miscellaneous; I. B. Cohen; Marie Makurath;DP Industry Leaders; Outside Suggestions; Resources; IBM: Meeting Notes;IBM: Tentative Script; Loans & Registration; Media & Public Affairs; IBMExhibit: Schedule; Designs

Box 5 of 24 Brochure; Photos Returned from NCC - Subject: Computers; Memos, etc.,re: Brochure; IBM: Work Plan Schedule; Brochure, Version 4, August 23,1985; Brochure, Version 4: Copies; Brochure, Version 3; Brochure, Version3: Originals; Brochure, Version 2: Copies; Brochure; Version 2: Original &Original Cover sheet; Brochure Review; IBM Brochure, July 3, 1985; Version;IBM Brochure

Box 5 of 24 Pamphlets and Brochures

Box 5 of 24 "Seminars," May 16, 1986 and June 27, 1986; May 16 Conference: Ex PostFacto Papers; Seminar: June 27; Dennett, Daniel; Linden, Eugene; Lucky,Robert; Weizenbaum, Joseph; York, Carl

Box 5 of 24 Script: FYI: EIA

Box 6

Marie Mattson's Records

Box 6 of 24 Mattson, Marie: Education and Computer Background Information

Box 6 of 24 Japan: The trip and after NEC PR mat's

Box 6 of 24 ICOT packet

Box 6 of 24 6/8/1988 Marie Mattson for the record: Japan Trip report: toured Nissan,Tokyo National Museum, National Science Museum, ICOT, Tokyo Electric,EDS Japan, Preservation Hall of research instruments.

Box 6 of 24 5/19/1988 Robert McC Adams for the record: Japan Trip

Box 6 of 24 Nissan's Public relations materials

Box 6 of 24 List of Participants at Tokyo Museum presentation


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Box 6 of 24 4/28/1988 Robert McC Adams :"Science, Technology, and 'Progress:Reflections on the historical relationship."

Box 6 of 24 5/18/1988 Marie Mattson: "Techniques for exhibiting the Information Age atthe Smithsonian

Box 6 of 24 Typescript Arthur P. Molella: "Nationalism, Technology and TechnologyMusuems," undated

Box 6 of 24 5/6/1988 Marie Mattson to Henry Leonard, GM: arrainging tour of SIdelegation in GM's plant in Japan

Box 6 of 24 Preservation Hall Of research instruments brochure mechanical Engineering

Box 6 of 24 Laboratory brochure A Guide to the National Science Museum misc.correspondence

Box 6 of 24 Japan: First File

Box 6 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence arranging trips 3/1983 Datamation Magazine"Computing at Tokyo University"

Box 6 of 24 Correspondence rationalizing cross cultural perspectives/contributions toinformation technology in justifying conference in Japan

Box 6 of 24 Japan Trip 5/13-23/1988 [Allison, Molella, Mattson] expenditures, etc

Box 6 of 24 Computer Museum Information and other related exhibits

Box 6 of 24 2/2/1987 unsigned Discussion on cooperation with computer museum [draftmemo of understanding]

Box 6 of 24 4/1987 Travel & Leisure Magazine "Signing on at the computer musuem"

Box 6 of 24 3/18/1987 Boston Globe Business page "Computer musuem Hurting"

Box 6 of 24 Spring 1986 The Computer Museum Report, vol. 15

Box 6 of 24 2/4/1987 Allison to Gwen Bell of computer museum: draft memo ofunderstanding for areas of cooperation

Box 6 of 24 1987 Exhibit prospectus: The Age of Intelligent Machines Computer Museumbrochure Eklund notebook, small brown cover, undated


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Box 6 of 24 Eklund notes on brown paper "Notes from visit to computer museum (thingswe should avoid!) Files, please, JE" [to Mattson], undated

Box 6 of 24 10/1985 Computerworld Magazine "A walk through the computer musuemwith Gordon Bell

Box 6 of 24 5/28/1984 Ray Hutt to Molella Comments on trip to Franklin Institute [withFinn and Eklund 5/25/1984]

Box 6 of 24 6/4/1984 Finn to Doug Evelyn thru Molella: Computers at Franklin Institute[they are both impressed, but not quick to imitate]

Box 6 of 24 Eklund notes on Chicago Musuem of Science & Industry computer exhibit

Box 6 of 24 Eklund: Souveneir semiconductor samples from Scince Museum, London.Undated.

Box 6 of 24 Winter 1987/1988 The computer museum report

Box 6 of 24 FYI exhibit sections packet

Box 6 of 24 Exhibit sections: FYI: The emerging information age (1 page summary)

Box 6 of 24 Originals

Box 6 of 24 Communications artifacts in the collections of the NMAH fact sheet

Box 6 of 24 10/1986 Smithsonian Magazine McC Adams:"The Information Revolutionwill probe such complex, unresolved questions as the boundaries of "life andconsciousness"

Box 6 of 24 "Connected:the emerging information age" [profiles of project team]

Box 6 of 24 5/12/1988 Information age Update Session

Box 6 of 24 Miscellaneous Memoranda

Box 6 of 24 3/10/1988 Allison to project group: exhibition level [progress report,deadlines, reminder of Hilke's importance etc.].

Box 6 of 24 1/9/1988 Mattson to dist. Invite for "FYI review"

Box 6 of 24 1/29/1987 Mattson to Paul Johnson [video about show ready]


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Box 6 of 24 M from Jon [Eklund] to me, me to Jon [Mattson, now Makurath]

Box 6 of 24 Memos, mostly on mundane internal affairs

Box 6 of 24 2/l/1987 Allison to Eklund [asks E. to take over accession and deaccession ofdigital computers for duration of show]

Box 6 of 24 10/23/1987 Makurath to Eklund [concerning change in Eklund's status fromproject manager to special exhibit projects manager]

Box 6 of 24 1987 Eklund to Molella: Staffing needs for the Division of Computers,Information, and Society

Box 6 of 24 1987 Makurath to Eklund: [fundraising success] remainder are aboutfundraising as well]

Box 6 of 24 Collections correspondence and contacts

Box 6 of 24 Unlabeled Folder: Eklund?

Box 6 of 24 10/26/1987 Discussion with Claudine Close and Jeff Howard Folder:Professional Associations

Box 6 of 24 11/l/1985 Nanni, of Information Industry Association to Robert McC Adams[endorsing information rev. show]

Box 6 of 24 3/3/1986 Armed Forces communications and electronics associationprospectus

Box 6 of 24 1986 Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Assoc to Cerozzi [Airand Space]

Box 6 of 24 Design Considerations

Box 6 of 24 1/29/1988 Carrigan: Bid Letter to open bids for design of Info age

Box 6 of 24 9/23/1986 Michael Sand Inc to Makurath: The Information Revolution, newhands-on exhibits [credential package for Sand's firm interior architecturaldesign, some exhibits]

Box 6 of 24 4/11/1985 Rogow & Bernstein to Roger Kennedy: [R&B's exhibit background]

Box 6 of 24 National Computer Conference (NCC), 1987


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Box 6 of 24 6/17/1987 Mattson talk outline/overheads (no MS): "Incorporating theTechnology" [using computer interactives in an exhibit about computers]

Box 6 of 24 NCC 187 preview program

Box 6 of 24 Mattson talk abstract

Box 6 of 24 National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA)

Box 6 of 24 March 1987 conference registration materials

Box 6 of 24 1989 registration brochure

Box 6 of 24 ADAPSO

Box 6 of 24 The computer software industries association

Box 6 of 24 1986 annual report: "Fulfilling the promises of the information age

Box 6 of 24 1988 newsletters [to Mattson]

Box 6 of 24 1986 Economic report

Box 6 of 24 Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) Conference

Box 6 of 24 1988 Information Industry Association Annual Convention and Exhibitionparticipation

Box 6 of 24 August 1988 Information Times magazine [AIIM publication] "SmithsonianExhibit to focus on Information Age"

Box 6 of 24 Press kit

Box 6 of 24 4/1987 Inform Magazine [AIIM publication]

Box 6 of 24 4/1987 AIIM show

Box 6 of 24 2/1987 Information Management

Box 6 of 24 File Net press kit

Box 6 of 24 5/1987 Information Management


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Box 6 of 24 6/1987 Information management

Box 6 of 24 Press Kit

Box 6 of 24 7/14/1987 AIIM to Allison

Box 6 of 24 Mailing list of AIIM board of directors

Box 6 of 24 ASTC

Box 6 of 24 4/8/1987 from Makurath

Box 6 of 24 List of ASTC attendees and their institutions at Information Revolutionsession (any further involvement?)

Box 6 of 24 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

Box 6 of 24 8/1989 IFIP congress 1989; 11th World Computer Congress

Box 6 of 24 9/1986 IFIP congress 1986; "Informatics-A New Awareness"

Box 6 of 24 1986 IFIP prospectus and pubs misc. promo mat'l

Box 6 of 24 1986 program [attended by Molella, Eklund, Makurath]

Box 6 of 24 London, etc.

Box 6 of 24 1986 R. M., Aiken, "Micropower: The use of computers in pre-collegeeducation" in Information Processing, 86 (Elsevier) IPIF

Box 6 of 24 1986 program [preliminary and final]

Box 6 of 24 "Information Revolution" video

Box 6 of 24 Contracts and correspondence for the production of promo video by PeterVogt

Box 6 of 24 2/18/1987 Eklund to Kennedy [recommending Vogt in creating interactives(what are interactives at this point? cross-check)]

Box 6 of 24 1985 SI "Information Revolution" Exhibit prospectus [glossy]


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Box 6 of 24 1/7/1987 Makurath to Robert McC Adams and Kennedy: Video script/interview protocol [written to create impression that McC Adams andKennedy are guiding forces presenting their vision of the show]

Box 6 of 24 "The Information Revolution" - Script for the video

Box 6 of 24 Vogt : "The Information Revolution" Structural OutlineVogt brochure, 1987

Box 6 of 24 2/18/1987 Shot sheet transcript from Kennedy-McC Adams shoot for video

Box 6 of 24 Artifacts

Box 6 of 24 Rough contents of the great metallic photographic storage scainet in NMAH5206

Box 6 of 24 10/14/1986 Eklund, Finn, Mertzbach, Williams to Collections Committee:Acquisition of a collection of hand held electronic calculators [justification ofwhy museum should have them, etc.]

Box 6 of 24 References (e.g., Book titles)

Box 6 of 24 Paper scrap: Dennet (Mind's Eye), Papert (Mindstorms), Turkle (Second self)

Box 6 of 24 Mimeo "Computer literacy bookshop"

Box 6 of 24 Library of Congress headings (computer and information systems)

Box 6 of 24 American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS)

Box 6 of 24 1988 ASIS conference prospectus

Box 6 of 24 1986 memos about receptions, posters, etc. at conference for InformationRevolution

Box 6 of 24 AFIPS brochures

Box 6 of 24 1/1986 AFIPS "Washington Report" includes writeup on InformationRevolution

Box 6 of 24 11/1985 AFIPS Federal and State legislative update

Box 6 of 24 ASIS

Box 6 of 24 10/1988 ASIS meeting prospectus


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Box 6 of 24 8/22/1988 Mattson, Allison: Promotion for information age for ASIS

Box 6 of 24 6/1988 ASIS Bulletin. Includes Information rev, article by Mattson

Box 6 of 24 5/10/1987 McC Adams: ASIS keynote address: "Information Technology andthe transformation of out time" (Transcript)

Box 6 of 24 10/1987 ASIS conference program: "Information: The Transformation ofSociety" [50th annual conference]

Box 6 of 24 1986 ASIS handbook and directory

Box 6 of 24 8/10/1987 Mattson to Robert McC. Adams [coaching on plugs for show inspeech to ASIS]

Box 6 of 24 11/13/1986 Kennedy McC Adams [NMAH will provide speech if he goes togive it]

Box 6 of 24 Memoranda indicating early SI involvement in helping to plan ASISconference, especially Advisory Committee participation

Box 6 of 24 Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA)

Box 6 of 24 Correspondence related to fundraising, etc.

Box 6 of 24 Contacts/Contract re: Temp Work Assignments

Box 6 of 24 Letters of inquiry, etc., of folk interested in working on Information Ageproject, mostly intern-level

Box 6 of 24 12/28/1985 David Shayt, Division of Engineering and Industry to EarlVia [concerning operation of an old NIC drill. Eklund wants it possibly forInformation Age.

Box 6 of 24 10/29/1985 The Burdick Group to Eklund: Interactive exhibit prospectus

Box 6 of 24 12/12/1985 Gary O. Larson to Carrigan: computer music (What other follow-ups were done with this other than the keyboard display seen on the floor?)

Box 6 of 24 Contacts/Full employment re: Information Age

Box 6 of 24 Applicants


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Box 6 of 24 2/21/1986 Eklund to Sherry Turkle, MIT: Setting up time to meet, enthusiasmfor T's work

Box 6 of 24 Education Topics

Box 6 of 24 Prospectus for Education and Computing: The International Journal

Box 6 of 24 Possible Spin-offs

Box 6 of 24 Traveling show

Box 6 of 24 Computer Art Show

Box 6 of 24 Thoughts

Box 6 of 24 1941 John Anderson Miller: Fares Please! From horse-cars to streamliners

Box 6 of 24 "Draft Proposal to support the Smithsonian in developing an Information andSociety Exposition," undated

Box 6 of 24 Written page unsigned undated: "Computers &.... Media, Design, Medicine,etc.

Box 6 of 24 Hyatt Stationery "Bit By Bit" chronology of calculating equipment, undated

Box 6 of 24 5/12/1986 Invite to conference on supercomputing

Box 6 of 24 Comments on Content (from other than team members)

Box 6 of 24 1/7/1985 Chris Evans (research scholar in 'precision manufacturing,' NationalBureau of Standards) to David Shayt): The information revolution [based onprospectus]

Box 6 of 24 11/29 I Bernard Cohen to Molella: Plans for Advisory Board and choosingmembers thereof.

Box 6 of 24 11/8/1985 Withuhn to Makurath: Online access to interactives via modemfrom remote sites

Box 6 of 24 Computer Information re: Information Revolution

Box 6 of 24 Information Revolution: Thank you and Acceptance Letters

Box 6 of 24 Relevant Articles: but not about Information Revolution


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Box 6 of 24 Clips on computers, AI, US competitive decline, ENIAC MS

Box 6 of 24 History of memory devices, factory automation

Box 6 of 24 10/14/1985 USA Today Money page: Mertzbach profile

Box 6 of 24 Technology Center of silicon valley prospectus, undated

Box 6 of 24 Volunteers

Box 6 of 24 Applicants with background in computers, including military

Box 6 of 24 Mailings/Contacts

Box 6 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence to outside NMAH people

Box 6 of 24 3/17/1986 Eklund to Joseph Wiezenbaum of MIT [admires his work, wantsfurther perspective on exhibit as it develops]

Box 6 of 24 "Thought" contribution to show

Box 6 of 24 12/12/1986 From Shayt to Eklund: Collection related thoughts on your recentpresentation [recommending various Numerical Control machine tools forInformation Revolution]

Box 6 of 24 University Relation Information

Box 6 of 24 Center for instructional development and evaluation: The University ofMaryland, brochure; innovative solutions to your educational challenge

Box 7

Box 7 of 24 Educational Thoughts (Hilke, et al)

Box 7 of 24 1986 DD Hilke "Museums as resources for family learning: turning thequestion around" presented to the 1986 MAAM conference

Box 7 of 24 10/1986 DD Hilke "Do I want a computer in my exhibit hall? Assessing theimpact of interactive computer software on visitor's museum experience/preliminary findings "The laser at 25" evaluation study

Box 7 of 24 MS DD Hilke and John D. Balling: "The family as a learning system: anobservational study of Families in Museums" undated


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Box 7 of 24 7/25/1985 DD Hilke Families in Museums: an overview" address to thefamilies in museums workshop, SI Office of Museum Programs

Box 7 of 24 2/20/1987 Hilke to Information Revolution: Let the medium match themessage [thoughts on the development process]

Box 7 of 24 6/1987 Hilke, Elizabeth Hennings, Myriam Springuel: "The impact ofinteractive

Box 7 of 24 Computer software on visitor's exhibition experiences: A case study" [pre-pubMS for laser stuff]

Box 7 of 24 "When educators complain about exhibit design," undated

Box 7 of 24 "Eduction at NMAH: some basic assumptions and rules of thumb," undated

Box 7 of 24 "Visitor Overview," undated

Box 7 of 24 SI/MIT Athena

Box 7 of 24 WETA - "SI World"

Box 7 of 24 11/12/1987 Michele Bertrand, WETA [D.C.] to Jackie McGlade [proposal todo segment on Information Revolution for program episode "From Cuneiformto Computer." Attached is the "Proposal for Underwriting" for the "SI World"series.

Box 7 of 24 Television Projects

Box 7 of 24 7/17/1987 Mattson to Kennedy [Doing a full-length show on InformationReview with Peter Vogt (nothing else in file, so unlikely much came of it)]

Box 7 of 24 Audio Cassette tapes

Box 7 of 24 3/16/1988 Peter Vogt on Bijou film [90 min tape. conversation with JeffBernstein about goals for "audience experience" in creating the newsreelfootage]

Box 7 of 24 6 tapes 11911 Emergency calls - Originals

Box 7 of 24 2 tapes 11911 Audio master 1 of 2, 2 of 2

Box 7 of 24 1 tape "rough edit 91111

Box 7 of 24 4 snapshots of telephone switcher transferred to photos box


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Box 7 of 24 11/25/1987 Lubar to Pam [Rogow?]: [pictures of offices and references for"clerical ed.11.]

Box 7 of 24 Also excerpt from Samuel Cohn, "The process of occupational sex-typing"

Box 7 of 24 undated computer-generated graphs of phone co.'s, etc.

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous reprints of contemporary technical literature on officemachines, etc., c. 1900-1920

Box 7 of 24 6/8/1959 US post office "Mail by missile" press release

Box 7 of 24 4/23/1987 Merzbach to Seeger: airline "Reservisor" reservation automationsystem references

Box 7 of 24 3/15/1988 unsigned "Exhibit Item Forms" listing computer equipmentcurrently on display at NMAH - UNIVAC, whirlwind, etc.

Box 7 of 24 Reprint: Robert William Fogel: "Railroads and American Economic Growth:Essays in Econometric History" (typescript note: railroad not the soleinstigator of US economic development)

Box 7 of 24 Spring 1986 Cathcart and Gumpert "I am a Camera: The Mediated Self"Communication Quarterly vol 34, no. 2 "This paper argues that an individualsself image is in large part media dependent."

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous reprints on early history of development of TV hardware

Box 7 of 24 1900 "The history and growth of the US census prepared for the SenateCommittee on the census," Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor.

Box 7 of 24 4/1988 Lubar to Allison: "Preliminary labels for "Information Processingand the Rise of Modern Business," nee "Pre-War Processing"" [change inapproach from before undated corporate archive list - More comprehensivethan above; dotmatrix printout. Begins with "A. G. Edwards and Sons"]

Box 7 of 24 12/1985 Priscilla Murolo, American Studies, Yale, "Gender, Skill, & theRationalization of clerical work: The Aetna Life Insurance Company in the1920's" (American History Association meeting)

Box 7 of 24 11/24/1987 Lubar and Carlene Stephens to Allison and Rogow: 1914 Officeperiod room" [dramatizing a moment]

Box 7 of 24 Office equipment (c. 1890-1920)


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Box 7 of 24 Commissioner of labor

Box 7 of 24 1890 sample census form

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous radio history reprints

Box 7 of 24 List of corporate archival contacts, undated. "Search for Order""

Box 7 of 24 Folder 2.6-2.7

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous handwritten notes

Box 7 of 24 11/14/1988 unsigned [Lubar?] "Draft outline of sections 2.7 and 2.7

Box 7 of 24 Information Revolution exhibit - Undated, unsigned note from 11/7 meeting:subsections 2.6 and 2.7: What is information processing?"

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous images of Babbage equipment, sorting desks

Box 7 of 24 Print of Hollerith tabulator in use 1890

Box 7 of 24 Information on Solomon G. Brown [Brown was assistant to Joseph Henry andSFB Morse]

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous Biographical information, photos, historical letters, pamphlets,essays on Black American scientists

Box 7 of 24 Social Environment

Box 7 of 24 "FYI Social environments: Propose exhibit format, undated

Box 7 of 24 Yellow legal page: Ideas for people to represent periods, undated

Box 7 of 24 Written page "Black Male Adolescent" - Possible sources of info on blacksand communications, undated

Box 7 of 24 Typescript: "Social vignettes"

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous written notes

Box 7 of 24 Reprints from American Headlines Year by Year, Calvin Linton, ed, years1874-1876


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Box 7 of 24 1983 Arthur Schlesenger ed, Almanac of American History: Forging a Nation1866-1900

Box 7 of 24 5/1988 Life Magazine recap of all Life covers

Box 7 of 24 General Background

Box 7 of 24 World War I propaganda poster reprints

Box 7 of 24 Bibilography for Personal vignettes female

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous images of women in offices

Box 7 of 24 Excerpt, "Away from the Factories" [women in clerical work]

Box 7 of 24 Excerpt, "Six Decades of Change" [women in sales, telephone operators]

Box 7 of 24 Time line of periods in information revolution, undated

Box 7 of 24 4/l/1987 Finn & Merzbach: Comments on period settings [what to emphasizein each period]

Box 7 of 24 5/29/1987 Finn to team "Themes for the Matrix, or What the Visitor ShouldGet from the exhibit version 211 [using historical examples to illustrate thethemes]

Box 7 of 24 6/8/1987 Finn "Process for justifying what goes into the exhibit" [evidence,concepts, and design]

Box 7 of 24 Written notes 111858 Node 311 [comments by Finn, Williams, Merzbach],undated

Box 7 of 24 8/l/1986 Merzbach to Eklund, Finn, Makurath, Williams: [outline for exhibit oninformation]

Box 7 of 24 10/11/1986 Miscellaneous Finn outlines of nodes, etc.

Box 7 of 24 11/10/1986 unsigned [Finn/Eklund?] Concept Script draft 11/7/1989 Morsescript fragments

Box 7 of 24 Data tabulation for Visitor behavior study in; undated

Box 7 of 24 "Engines of Change" and "Life in America"


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Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous node writeups, earlier draft of Merzbach 8/l/1986 outline

Box 7 of 24 [Merzbach?] Major Additions to the Collections, undated

Box 7 of 24 2/4/1987 Finn "Note 3 (1917?)"

Box 7 of 24 1/21/1987 Allison to team "Conceptualization and Structuring of the Exhibit"

Box 7 of 24 Outline of chronology, some reprints of chronologies. Suggests alteringEklund's original scheme, especially adding more events to the list

Box 7 of 24 2/11/1987 Finn "Comments about nodes" [defending idea of node as discretetime point]

Box 7 of 24 2/22/1987 Finn "Node 1 (1858)"

Box 7 of 24 Allison: "Immediate reactions to node 1, version of 2/22/1987 [point by pointresponses to Finns scheme] undated

Box 7 of 24 1/23/1987 Eklund to team [applauding the debate, contesting Allison's1/21/1987 positions in some spots]

Box 7 of 24 1/14/1987 Finn "Node 3 (1917)"

Box 7 of 24 7/12/1986 Eklund MS for "Annals [of the history of computing]: "TheInformation Rovolution: A New Smithsonian Exhibition"

Box 7 of 24 3/23/1987 Finn to David [Allison] and Marie, Uta: Themes and revolutions(talk given in Jersey)

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous typography

Box 7 of 24 Script fragment: wireless, undated

Box 7 of 24 "Computer World Contacts" [innovative use of communication tech. ineducation, business, etc.] undated

Box 7 of 24 Script fragment: Instantaneous communication: telephone [mannequin script,label], undated

Box 7 of 24 12/1988 Storyline "The Information Age: People Information, and technology"

Box 7 of 24 9/13/1988 Storyline "Connected: information, technology, and society1835-1990"


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Box 7 of 24 1/11/1988 NMAH Emergence of the Information age Draft script outline:Manifestoll

Box 7 of 24 11/7/1989 draft script [Part I] edited 12/27/1989

Box 7 of 24 Miscellaneous script fragments

Box 7 of 24 10/31/1989 Script, including designs of layout of gallery at end misc. script[fragments] from 8 - 12/1989, includes listing of interactive videos, etc.

Box 7 of 24 9/2/1988 Thomas Nemcik of Community Memory Project, Berkeley,California to Mattson [bundle of information on Community Memory: Userguides, newsletters, a sociology study on computers as a social network tool]

Box 7 of 24 8/19/1988 Press kit on Iris corps. interactive health "link"

Box 7 of 24 3/21/1988 Heritage Projects [UK] "Report for a computer museum/archive,March 1985

Box 7 of 24 Research Notebooks, 1979-1982

Box 7 of 24 University of Chicago Medical Center, 1983-1985

Box 7 of 24 Burroughs Hospital Information System, 1979

Box 8

Box 8 of 24 Center for Naval Analyses, 1984

Box 8 of 24 Research Notebook, 1980-1981

Box 8 of 24 Work Diary (Computer Printouts), c. 1980s

Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project/Brochure, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project: List Development, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project: Luncheons, 1985 (2 folders)

Box 8 of 24 RMA Brief, 1988

Box 8 of 24 Memoranda: Allison, David, 1987

Box 8 of 24 CIS: Administrative Notes, 1986


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Box 8 of 24 Correspondence, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Lorch, Stephen, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Computer Events, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Insurance, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Introduction to VAX/VMS and EDT Editor

Box 8 of 24 IDA Work, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Computing Services Newsletters, 1980-1981

Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project: Press Conferences, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project: Follow-ups, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Sloan Foundation: Videohistory Proposal, 1985-1986

Box 8 of 24 Stevens Institute, 1986-1987

Box 8 of 24 Tech World

Box 8 of 24 Babbage Institute, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Press Conference, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Luau, 1987

Box 8 of 24 Pentagon Contacts, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Vogt, Peter, 1987

Box 8 of 24 FBI, 1988

Box 8 of 24 Illustration

Box 8 of 24 Exhibition Support: U.S. Western Attendee List, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Exhibition Support: U.S. Eastern Attendee List, 1985


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Box 8 of 24 Information Revolution Project: NMAH Reinstallation Plan

Box 8 of 24 Japanese Interment Exhibition Information

Box 8 of 24 Seminar 1: Information History Problems, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Seminar 2: Computers and Brain, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Seminar 3: Information Revolution, 1986

Box 8 of 24 Seminar 4: Economic Issues, 1986-1987

Box 8 of 24 Press Releases, 1985

Box 8 of 24 Seminar: Information, 1987

Box 8 of 24 Internal Advisory Group, 1987

Box 8 of 24 Planning for Information History Seminar, 1987

Box 8 of 24 Bibliographic Information

Box 8 of 24 Early Exhibition Planning

Box 8 of 24 Ideas for Interactives

Box 9

Box 9 of 24 Ideas for Interactives

Box 9 of 24 West End Issues, 1983-1987

Box 9 of 24 Visitor Overview

Box 9 of 24 20th Century Collecting, 1987

Box 9 of 24 Music Exhibition, 1988

Box 9 of 24 Life in America Project, 1988

Box 9 of 24 Elaine Gurain's Game, 1988

Box 9 of 24 Weatherium Proposal, 1988


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Box 9 of 24 ACS Project, 1988

Box 9 of 24 CIS Division, 1988

Box 9 of 24 System Integration

Box 9 of 24 AIS-II

Box 9 of 24 National Air and Space Museum (NASM) Progress Reports/Minutes,1986-1988

Box 9 of 24 News Releases, 1986

Box 9 of 24 NASM Aerospace Computing Gallery, 1985 (2 folders)

Box 9 of 24 NASM DEC Hardware, 1986

Box 9 of 24 TIES Authoring System, 1986

Box 9 of 24 Computer Products

Box 9 of 24 Office of Information Resource Management (OIRM) Issues, 1985

Box 9 of 24 CMASS Description

Box 9 of 24 Finn's Laser Program

Box 9 of 24 PC System Work/Hints, 1985-1987

Box 9 of 24 NMAH Fund Management System, 1987

Box 9 of 24 Software Development

Box 9 of 24 PC/AT Information

Box 9 of 24 General Networking Information, 1987

Box 9 of 24 Video Disc/NDL

Box 9 of 24 Apple/MAC II Information, 1988

Box 9 of 24 LCIS, and Museum Functional Analysis, 1988


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Box 9 of 24 Apple Computer Users Group, 1988

Box 9 of 24 AutoCAD, 1987

Box 9 of 24 Laser Jet II/Xerox Publishing Software

Box 9 of 24 Networking Articles and Write Ups

Box 9 of 24 Local Area Networking

Box 9 of 24 OIRM Information Architecture Project

Box 9 of 24 Inventory Program/Configuration Management, 1985

Box 9 of 24 Computer Science

David K. Allison's Records

Box 9 of 24 Miscellaneous images of computer, "speed mail," installations (c. 1950-1970)

Box 9 of 24 Miscellaneous reprints on the media and satellite telecommunications

Box 9 of 24 "Statistical report value of shipments data by product class for the 1000largest manufacturing companies of 1950. FTC" (1972)

Box 9 of 24 Images, reprints, cartoons, technical reports on early period of television,pre-1960, also telephones in 1940-1960

Box 9 of 24 6/1987 Rogow and Bernstein: "The Info Revolution: Notions" - Clips,images, etc. of R&B's ideas. Include conceptualizations of entrance (kineticsculpture), Native Americans, Turing Test, "Disembodiment," and "What isreal?" Three bound copies - 1 marked "David" [unannotated, marked M3[Mattson; some annotation, one unnamed, annotated in black pen]

Box 9 of 24 4/15/1988 Mattson to group: interactives and A/V pieces

Box 10

Box 10 of 24 Aviation Film Libraries (Bijou Theater)

Box 10 of 24 Library of Congress Info Services and Systems


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Box 10 of 24 8/28/1986 Automation and computers: an alphabetical microthesaurus ofterms selected from the legislative indexing vocabulary

Box 10 of 24 Vickils LC Photos

Box 10 of 24 Lists of images of calculating machines, etc.

Box 10 of 24 Within the bldg (NMAH) non-archives

Box 10 of 24 Movie Posters: Division of Community Life, undated

Box 10 of 24 7/31/1987 Division of holitical history audiovisual collections

Box 10 of 24 Table of contents from American Broadcasting: A Source Book on the Historyof Radio and Television, Lichty and Topping, eds. ["Elliot Sivowitch personalcopy"] (1975)

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous images of consumer electronics (c. 1960-1980)

Box 10 of 24 Smithsonian Institution Archives

Box 10 of 24 Brochures for: Marlboro Advertising history, Arab American, PepsiAdvertising History, Alka-seltzer advertising history collections, and overviewof all SI archives collections

Box 10 of 24 UCLA film archives

Box 10 of 24 Catalog entries of newsreel footage (c. 1940-1965)

Box 10 of 24 Rick Prelinger Archives

Box 10 of 24 Film and photography of American material culture

Box 10 of 24 Book Notes

Box 10 of 24 1986 Lexis Nexis printout of review of Beniger's Control Revolution byLangdon Winner in 10/5/1986, New York Times, section 7, p 43

Box 10 of 24 1986 Lexis Nexis Printout of story by Beniger "Information society and theControl Revolution" in Computerworld Magazine, 11/3/1986

Box 10 of 24 Bibliography of museums of science and technology


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Box 10 of 24 3/17/1986 Finn MS "The Museum of Science and Technolgy" for TheMuseum: A Refernce Guide

Box 10 of 24 12/1985 Basic musuem Bibliography compiled by Philip D. Spiess II, office ofmuseum programs, SI

Box 10 of 24 Local production and post-production facility (1986)

Box 10 of 24 In Motion Magazine: "The 1986 Production and Post production facilitysurvey" [DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, undated]

Box 10 of 24 Historical Society of Delaware

Box 10 of 24 NBS Museum

Box 10 of 24 Brochure

Box 10 of 24 11/1977 H. L. Mason, "Catalog of artifacts on display in the NBS museum"NBS

Box 10 of 24 National Cash Registrar

Box 10 of 24 4/15/1988 unsigned (WHO) Trip report - Visit to Dayton Ohio [tour ofcollections of National Cash Register]

Box 10 of 24 Xerox Parc

Box 10 of 24 "Xerox PARC blue and white serires reports 1973 [written: "digest recentresearch"] c. 1984

Box 10 of 24 10/1987 ASIS 50th anniversary conference: "Information Science onTape" [film clips available]

Box 10 of 24 Library of Congress SCORPIO retrieval system

Box 10 of 24 6/1986 Congressional research service office of automated infromationservices information systems section "scorpio self-teaching workbook"

Box 10 of 24 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) bibliography

Box 10 of 24 Nancy McGovern "The early involvement if the US Government in dataprocessing 1880's to 1950's" [archivist, machine readable branch specialarchives division, National Archives and Records Administration], c. 1985

Box 10 of 24 Photos for Information Revolution


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Box 10 of 24 Photo of NMAH, Constitution Ave

Box 10 of 24 "Information USA in BACK of this folder"

Box 10 of 24 Script "Information USA special publications exhibits service, U.S.Information agency," undated (2 copies)

Box 10 of 24 "Information USA Exhibit text? English" [blue covers]

Box 10 of 24 New England Technology Group press kit on their interactive exhibitry, articleon Information USA

Box 10 of 24 4/20/1987 Brian [?] to David [Allison] [mentions exhibit brochure not in thefile] attached is "Suggested computer software for Information USA exhibit8/21/1986 [commercial programs from games to word processors]

Box 10 of 24 Live AID

Box 10 of 24 3/15/1988 Allison to Bob Geldof [requesting Live AID materials, etc. for "WeAre the World" segment]

Box 10 of 24 11/18/1987 DIALOG search service printout of newspaper search on LIVEAID (no sign of reply from Geldof or representatives)

Box 10 of 24 Silver Hill: Naval History

Box 10 of 24 List of objects at Silver Hill in Naval History section

Box 10 of 24 6/13/1988 Newsweek Magazine: Stephen Hawking spread

Box 10 of 24 8/18/1988 . Newsweek Magazine Iranian Airliner shot down

Box 10 of 24 1988 IIA prospectus

Box 10 of 24 2/4/1988 Jeff Sturchio, Bell Labs to Allison: reprints of Bell Labs innovation[contemporary and historical]

Box 10 of 24 Originals - Articles (newspaper magazine)

Box 10 of 24 Cathcart and Gumpert "I am a Camera" reprint

Box 10 of 24 1/1988 "On the Line: Essays in the history of auto work" Lichtnestein andMeyer, advertisement (photo shows anti-robot labor protest in 1950's)


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Box 10 of 24 Reference: Field to Factory Exhibit Script

Box 10 of 24 12/3/1986 Bob Selim to Finn: Field to Factory Script [script enclosed. nearlyfinal version - Production to start "immediately"]

Box 10 of 24 Reference: NASM Aerospace Computer Gallery

Box 10 of 24 10 & 11/1986 Ceruzzi: Aerospace computing Gallery monthly report

Box 10 of 24 Ceruzzi "Walk through of Aerospace computing gallery," c. 1986

Box 10 of 24 Ceruzzi "Aerospce computing: a new gallery at the NASM, Galleryprospectus," undated

Box 10 of 24 Reference: Outside Agencies Exhibits/Concepts 1/27/1988 Mattsonto Arizona State University Professor Kyrala: [thank you for outline ofmathematics exhibit done by Kyrala (attatched)]

Box 10 of 24 Reference: NMAH Academic Programs

Box 10 of 24 Written notes

Box 10 of 24 Exhibit Projects

Box 10 of 24 2/l/1984 Molella and Withuhn to East and West End Planning groups,Department of History of Science and Technlogy: Major Reinstallation(East and West ends) [new exhibits include: "materials show, science inamerican life, observational sciences in america, the experimental sciences,science and tech in the atomic age, information society, medical sciences,connections"]

Box 10 of 24 2/9/1987 American music exhibit proposal

Box 10 of 24 1987 exhibit review meetings schedules

Box 10 of 24 1/21/1987 Kennedy to Museum Advisory Committe: [info on Claudia Kidwell's"Dressing the Part" attached: ""Men and Women" Exhibit review" andExtended exhibit scenario)

Box 10 of 24 10/8/1985 Deborah Warner: "Science Power and Conflict" synopsis

Box 10 of 24 11/7/1986 Carlene Stephens: Draft Preliminary Exhibit Proposal: ClocksCapitalism, and Culture" [2 copies]

Box 10 of 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Show, undated


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Box 10 of 24 Reference: Project Database

Box 10 of 24 1986 reprints about PC database programs

Box 10 of 24 Reference: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)/History of ScienceSociety (HSS) 1987 Meeting

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence to Allison concerning business, etc. of Historyof Science Society and Society of History of Technology

Box 10 of 24 HSS/SHOT joint meeting 1987 brochure

Box 10 of 24 Reference: USIA exhibit on Information to Russia

Box 10 of 24 Information USA symposium program "Benefits and Costs of an InformationSociety" 6/1987, Moscow

Box 10 of 24 Exhibit opening press release (good summary of intent, scope of show)

Box 10 of 24 Smithsonian Facilities: Museum of American History

Box 10 of 24 Smithsonian history overview

Box 10 of 24 3/21/1983 Scholarly Studies Program

Box 10 of 24 3/1986 SI's "resources for research" handbook, NMAH section

Box 10 of 24 4/1986 "General Useful information" for interns/fellows/new staff, etc

Box 10 of 24 Smithsonian staff: Biography

Box 10 of 24 Robert McC Adams, Kennedy, Eklund, c. 1986

Box 10 of 24 Division Administration

Box 10 of 24 1/2/1987 correspondence on division reorganization

Box 10 of 24 3/18/1987 "Agenda: Meetins on "information Revolution" exhibit"

Box 10 of 24 Office Memoranda

Box 10 of 24 Financial management procedures


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Box 10 of 24 Smith Horizons Magazine

Box 10 of 24 10/1986 Smithsonian Magazine - McC Adams on Information Revolution

Box 10 of 24 Newsletter

Box 10 of 24 "News of the Information Revolution Exhbit A quarterly bulletin," Spring 1987

Box 10 of 24 Team biographies: Molella, Eklund, Finn, Merzback, Mattson, Hilke, Allison,Mcglade

Box 10 of 24 Collections

Box 10 of 24 7/22/1987 Finn: Part II list of objects

Box 10 of 24 1/29/1985 Ceruzzi to Sperry Corp re CIC computer donation

Box 10 of 24 6/11/1987 Mike Williams: Items from the UNIVAC 9400 salvaged

Box 10 of 24 3/19/1987 Lubar to Scientific American, re aquiring 1950's robots by W. GreyWalter

Box 10 of 24 10/17/1986 Eklund to one Harry Wood: [declining offer of UNIVAC 1050]

Box 10 of 24 IBM sorter, Bro. Fitt

Box 10 of 24 August/Sept 1986 correspondence concerning St Johns University Donationof IBM punchcard equipment

Box 10 of 24 Radio Shack TRS-80 (J. Collazo)

Box 10 of 24 7/19/1991 S. Allison inventory continued

Box 10 of 24 Apple-1 P H Morrison

Box 10 of 24 9/12/1986 Mike Williams to one Dr. Morrison [concerning donation of Apple1board]

Box 10 of 24 Letter from Morrison offering board for tax write-off

Box 10 of 24 IBM optical scanner, c. 1960's

Box 10 of 24 Marks, Katharine


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Box 10 of 24 2/4/1977 Merzbach to one Katharine Marks [reciept of Honeywell computeras gift]

Box 10 of 24 Lee, Dave (Venko Valancic) Computer Circuit Boards

Box 10 of 24 12/28/1979 Merzbach to one Dave Lee [concerning donation of moon shotcomputer circuit boards]

Box 10 of 24 5/12/1979 Dave Lee to SI [offering boards]

Box 10 of 24 Konder, Robert LPG-30

Box 10 of 24 6/6/1978 correspondence between Konderl and Merzbach

Box 10 of 24 5/24/1978 MAH Collections Committee approval of acquisition.

Box 10 of 24 5/3/1978 Konders Photo of computer

Box 10 of 24 Holcomb, Larry

Box 10 of 24 Potential UNIVAC 1104 acquisition [Merzbach]

Box 10 of 24 Hagopian, Jacob J.

Box 10 of 24 Correspondence concerning dontation of early [first?] hard disk driveinvented by Hagopian in 1955 (1972-1974)

Box 10 of 24 Great Lakes Steel

Box 10 of 24 1974 miscellaneous notes [Merzbach]

Box 10 of 24 Finn/GE

Box 10 of 24 3/18/1974 GE to Finn regarding A/C network analyzer

Box 10 of 24 Coker, Charles (Scanner Prototype)

Box 10 of 24 3/16/1979 correspondence and collections committee action on magnetic

Box 10 of 24 Strip scanner prototypes offered by Coker of IBM to Merzbach. IncludesCoker's photos and inventory

Box 10 of 24 Life's collector edition 2000 covers


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Box 10 of 24 May 1988 Life Magazine all Life covers (reduced xerox)

Box 10 of 24 2.2 Telegraph

Box 10 of 24 9/4/1858 Harper's Weekly "Telegraph Supplement"

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous photo records of telegraphy

Box 10 of 24 2.3 Telephone

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous images of telephones, c. 1940-1965

Box 10 of 24 2.7 Processing

Box 10 of 24 Two images of adding machines, c. 1959, 1964

Box 10 of 24 2.4 Wireless

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous images of radio [includes page from WJZ "Milestones withMarconi" radio script, c. 1917-1940

Box 10 of 24 2.5 Radio

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous Exhibit Item Forms: Images of radio advertisments, radioprograms/announcers and broadcasts, hardware (tubes, full sets, etc.)

Box 10 of 24 Social Environment World War II

Box 10 of 24 Miscellaneous images of wartime advertising, Dept. of War photographs ofstateside events - rationing, scrap salvage, electronics production (especiallyradio)

Box 11

Box 11 of 24 3.5 ENIAC

Box 11 of 24 ATHENA Computer, at Silver Hill 10/22/1987 Eklund to team "PostwarTechnological Core Draft," undated

Box 11 of 24 3.2 CIC

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous images of World War II naval radar, anti-submarine warfare,etc. Original captions typed on back of xeroxes


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Box 11 of 24 2.8 Televisions

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous images of early television (c. 1950-1965) technicalspecifications, set, transmitters, programming

Box 11 of 24 Yellow Folders: Computer World: Awards for innovative use of informationtechnology in association wtih the Smithsonian institution [1989 winners]

Box 11 of 24 Business: Bell & Howell

Box 11 of 24 Manufacturing: University of Iowa National Advance Driving Simulator

Box 11 of 24 Environment: Sierra/Misco; flood control

Box 11 of 24 Media: Uplinger enterprises: Live AID

Box 11 of 24 Medicine: Eyegaze Computer System (for disabled)

Box 11 of 24 Retail: Inovis interactive technology

Box 11 of 24 Finance: Fidelity Investors

Box 11 of 24 Education: Orangeburg School District 5 (computers in school)

Box 11 of 24 Government: National Research Center for the Identification of MissingChildren

Box 11 of 24 Transportation: American Airlines

Box 11 of 24 Computerworld/Smithsonian Awards

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence setting up award program

Box 11 of 24 Atanasoff Affair

Box 11 of 24 1989 correspondence between Allison, Roger Kennedy, and Clark Mollenhoffof Washington and Lee University concerning priority dispute betweenMauchley and Atanasoff over invention of the digital computer (Kennedywants to turn debate over to the historians (Allsion, et al), but Mollenhoffdoesn't trust them and passionately wants to see Atanasoff vindicated)

Box 11 of 24 August 15, 1989 Kennedy to congressman Fred ["Gopher"] Grandy


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Box 11 of 24 7/26/1989 Eklund to Allison [stipulating the version of the story Eklund standsby]

Box 11 of 24 7/28/1989 Kennedy to Senator Grassley [avoiding pressure]

Box 11 of 24 7/24/1989 Eklund "The Atansasoff Matter"

Box 11 of 24 Public Inquiry

Box 11 of 24 12/1988 Jacob Hagopian inquiry on nature of Information Age


Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous - 7/31/1990 Visitor Comment form "This is the best exhibit Ihave ever seen anywhere." 13 year-old


Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence from team members in and out of museum:Pioneer videodisk players, recruitment of EDS

Box 11 of 24 11/22/1989 Allison to Kennedy [requesting Kennedy as voice talent forBishop Doane giving Atlantic Cable blessing in opening street scenerecording]

Box 11 of 24 1989 Kidwell miscellaneous for Chron file

Box 11 of 24 9/15/1989 SI press release on opening of "Costume, Gender, & Power"

Box 11 of 24 ISYS Forum promo materials

Box 11 of 24 10/2/1989 Eklund to Allison: Comments on Allison's script for section 3.5

Box 11 of 24 Louis to David, Barney, Claudine,, Vogt: choices of clips for Newtwork TVloop, undated

Box 11 of 24 9/5/1989 Allison to designer Bill Anderson: comments on parade/churchscene

Box 11 of 24 9/l/1989 Yoko Nonaka [Xerox PARC] to Allison: re making Alto "alive" withoutrunning

Box 11 of 24 Correspondence, 1989-1990


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Box 11 of 24 6/12/1990 Allison to Molella: [draft charter to establish "SI Multimediainteractive program office"]

Box 11 of 24 Robert Friedells review of Information Age "A Brief Dramatic Prelude,"undated

Box 11 of 24 Fax copies of the following concerning conflict of interest at Air and Spacefollowing United Technologies Sponsorship of Sikorsky exhibition

Box 11 of 24 12/23/1989 Washington post op-ed Harwit rebutting charges

Box 11 of 24 11/24/1989 Washington Post Weekend/Friday, Hank Burchard criticizesSikorsky show

Box 11 of 24 Robert McC Adams to Burchard, undated

Box 11 of 24 4/28/1989 Burchard to McC Adams re Reuters and Information Age - "presspuffs" [Reuter's letter enclosed]

Box 11 of 24 4/28/1989 Burchard to Hardesty [of NASM] re allegations of conflict ofinterest

Box 11 of 24 4/21/1990 Hardesty to Burchard: "private" explanation of how museum/exhibitions work, response to B's "Power and the Story" below

Box 11 of 24 4/13/1990 Washinton Post, Weekend: Hank Burchard "The Power and theStory" conflict of interest with Library of Congress and Gannett Foundationexhibit on the press.

Box 11 of 24 May/June 1990 Computerland Magazine flood control network [awardwinner]

Box 11 of 24 7/25/1990 Finn to Bob Norton thru Allison: Revised plans for period TV setcluster

Box 11 of 24 1/24/1990 SI Collections management policy

Box 11 of 24 4/4/1990 SI Info age video wall post-production schedule

Box 11 of 24 3/15/1990 Allison to Lavendel, Xerox PARC re script review

Box 11 of 24 3/14/1990 New York Times - Interactive computers in museums for virtualreality

Box 11 of 24 Hilke: The exhibition preview area opening March 1990


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Box 11 of 24 5/15/1984 PC magazine "Supercomputer poer and the PC's future"

Box 11 of 24 3/15/1990 Allison to High of Intel: script review [letters to others for samepurpose also on this date], undated

Box 11 of 24 2/26/1990 Maureen Braden/ Barbara Mallow: Smithsonian Information ageexhibit systems integration video-focus. Theme: System integration in theinformation age. Message: how does it all work?

Box 11 of 24 101st congress 2s session, Senator Kennedy: "Excellence in Mathematics,Science, and Engineering Act of 1990, undated

Box 11 of 24 5/12/1989 Allison to team: "Information Wizard Interactive," undated "David -You continue to work miracles with the Information Age. Thank You, Roger"

Box 11 of 24 2/6/1990 I. B. Cohen to Allison: Script review

Box 11 of 24 3/18/1990 Allison thank-yous to I. B. Cohen, James Martin, Shoshana Zuboff,J. David Bolter & Sherry Turkle for filmed interviews for Information Age

Box 11 of 24 2/9/1990 Allison to Zuboff [Harvatd Business School] interview schedule

Box 11 of 24 3/18/1990 Allison to Amy Warner [National Associate Program] onInformation Age Seminar

Box 11 of 24 1/23/1990 Hutsko [of Information Services and Tech] to Allison: "Certainlyyou and your team are in on of he neatest sandboxes ever constructed...'Where is the Life we have lost in living?/ Where is the wisdom we have lostin knowledge?/ Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' T. S.Eliot" [also enclosed is Calvin and Hobbes]

Box 11 of 24 (12/30/1989) complaining about lack of futuro technology, Hobbes says"I'mnot sure people have the brains to manage the technology they've got"

Box 11 of 24 2/8/1990 unsigned "Draft pattern and world list for fast talker" [techno-babblestuff]

Box 11 of 24 2/8/1990 unsigned quesiton for on-the-street interviews

Box 11 of 24 1/9/1989 Finn on the John Sheetz re Pulse Code Modulation demonstration

Box 11 of 24 1/9/1989 Allison to Stan Williams: MS by Allison "Planned Coverage ofTelephone Technology and its Social Effects in Information Age: People,Information, and Technology"


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Box 11 of 24 12/7/1989 Kennedy to C. Dianne Martin, George WashingtonUniversity: receipt of Martin MS: "American and Soviet Attitudes AboutComputers" [1988 poll in US and USSR, the latter taken at the USIA InfoUSA show]

Box 11 of 24 1/26/1990 Peter Vogt treatment for video wall, undated

Box 11 of 24 Information Age related events, April-June 1990

Box 11 of 24 Correspondence and Memoranda, 1989

Box 11 of 24 7/25/1989 Kennedy to To Whom it may concern: Requests for 911 tapes[presumably from local law enforcement agencies]

Box 11 of 24 1989 miscellaaneous correspondence relating to in-kind equipmentdonations from IBM, HP, etc.

Box 11 of 24 8/22/1989 Allison to Team: "Plans for "software Section" in area 4 of theexhibition" [Eklund is to develop this; notions of what's to be in the section]

Box 11 of 24 8/21/1989 unsigned written note 114.4 south side" [2nd page: "Pac Man,Pong", also sketch of layout]

Box 11 of 24 8/7/1989 Klose to Gewrt Niers, Aufbau newspaper: [Gathering information/materials for Jewish family in street scene (what was actually collected/provided?)]

Box 11 of 24 8/11/1989 Klose to Kennedy: "documenting design decisions" [two lettersfrom Bernstein indicating descisions on reader rails]

Box 11 of 24 7/1/1989 Allison [turns down offer of director of Computer Museum] undatedInfo-Age Film and Video List [written: "Film Festival"]

Box 11 of 24 Correspondence and Memos, 4/18/1989-7/1/1989

Box 11 of 24 5/5/1989 Klose to Peter Vogt: [adjustments to rough cut of "Bijou Theater"film.] "the group seemed to feel that you should strive to clarify the topicaland chronological flow more for our visiotrs, increase the intensity of thebuild-up to the presentation of the CIC and then tighten that presentation andexpand a bit othe message that the story has larger implications related tothe coming information age."

Box 11 of 24 5/12/1988 Klose to Kennedy: Design decision documentation: type for labels,revised floorplan

Box 11 of 24 6/13/1989 Information Age update session


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Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous letters to McC Adams from potential sponsors: Citicorp, Aetna,3M,

Box 11 of 24 6/20/1989 Diana Robinson to various, re computer gear for interactive gallery

Box 11 of 24 5/30/1989 Unisys corporate Archives to Allison: Univac I oral historysymposium on 6/16/1989

Box 11 of 24 6/19/1989 Allison to Jack Humphreis, C&P Telephon: 911 tape request,description of exhibit layout and function

Box 11 of 24 6/9/1989 Allison to Kennedy: [priming K. for 6/13 sponsor review]

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous letters to McC Adams from potential sponsors: Dow Jones,Co., GTE, Cray

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous offers of computers and calculators for donation to SI byprivate citizens

Box 11 of 24 5/10/1989 Allison to collections committee: aquisition of DEC PDP 1 andPDP 8.

Box 11 of 24 4/24/1989 Allison to Dr. Sybil Milton, US Holocaust Museum: IBM/Hollerithmachine for Holocaust Musuem [in reply to Milton 4/13]

Box 11 of 24 4/24/1989 Allison to Kurzweil Computer products (miscellaneous technicalinformation, Kurtzveil specs, etc.)

Box 11 of 24 Correspondence and Memoranda, 2/24/1989-4/18/1989

Box 11 of 24 4/10/1989 Karen Lee to Claudine Klose: "Summary of suggesting forimproving the Hansen Carousel"

Box 11 of 24 3/9/1989 McC Adams to IBP pres. Akers: Updated proposal and equipmentrequest

Box 11 of 24 12/7/1988 David Lendt Iowa State University Information Office to Allison:[further salvo of support for Atanasoff-Berry computer priority-vindication etc.]

Box 11 of 24 3/29/1989 CNN VP marketing to Allison: [outlining form and content of CNNinteractive station]

Box 11 of 24 3/2/1989 Tepper to Allison [concerning dispute with R+B]


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Box 11 of 24 2/27/1989 Bernstein to Tepper [the dispute]


Box 11 of 24 11/23/1988 miscellaneous repsonses to public offers of objects by PeggyKidwell

Box 11 of 24 11/22/1988 Allison to Peter McWilliams [requestion memorabilia related toearly PC's "anything humorous?"]

Box 11 of 24 11/21/1988 Allison to Lendt [Atanasoff]

Box 11 of 24 10/13/1988 Lendt to Mattson [problems with SI's portrayal of Atanasoff]

Box 11 of 24 6/15/1988 Lendt to Mattson [Atanasoff: cites court case as deciding arbiter inhistory]

Box 11 of 24 11/16/1988 Mattson becomes Special Assistant to the Secretary

Box 11 of 24 11/14/1988 Allison to Molella : Accomplishments in 1988 "I believe we havebeen successful in developing the exhibition into amore balances technicaland social presentation and in making it a more interesting and engagingstory that it was a year ago. With your help, we have kept the exhibition teamtogether and working well."

Box 11 of 24 11/5/1988 Arthure Burks, EE at University of Michigan to Allison

Box 11 of 24 11/11/1988 Mattson to Gene Autrey [sic] of Flying A Pictures: Requestingmaterial for Autolox theater

Box 11 of 24 10/25/1988 Allsion to Burks (Atanasoff: explanation of historiography ofinnovation)

Box 11 of 24 9/9/1988 Mattson to Ken Leonardo: "re: 25 words or less. Here it is... InMarch, 1990 the National Museum of American History of the SmithsonianInstitution will open a new permament exhibition that will examine themergence of information technologies and their effect on society."

Box 11 of 24 9/16/1988 Allison to Anita Watkins, EDS public affairs [discussing idea of andimage for "information utility" to link entrance and exit of show]

Box 11 of 24 9/8/1988 McGlade to Mutual of Omaha: visit to corporate archives, object list



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Box 11 of 24 8/8/1988 Allison to Robert Crooke, Reuters North America [content of newsmonitors in final interactive area]

Box 11 of 24 8/16/1988 Allison to Mike O'Malley: Statement of work for research contract[to research impact of TV and computers on American politics, describesmethods and structure of background research project]

Box 11 of 24 8/15/1988 Allison to Michael Williams [summary of exhibit goals and content]

Box 11 of 24 8/9/1988 Allison to NMAH Office of Personnel Administration: Creationof a new historian position ... "The individual sought must particularlyhave knowledge and expertise in social history related to infromationtechnology in order to balance the expertise of the Division's two curators,who are specialists in the history and of science and technology." [PositionDescription attached]

Box 11 of 24 8/9/1988 Allison to McGlade: Research tasks [phone in white house, lifeinsurance, street scene, intro. carousel, post-war period]

Box 11 of 24 8/9/1988 Allison to Nat Pendelton: Research tasks

Box 11 of 24 8/9/1988 Draft Script: The Information Age: Visions and Realities

Box 11 of 24 8/4/1988 Allison to Ed Ezell [supervisor, Armed Forces History, NMAH: Scriptmaterial - Flaws in current conception: "The two most serious are that it is notvisual enough and the mix of social and technical content is still weighted toomuch to the technical side."]

Box 11 of 24 7/8/1988 Allison to Distribution: Information Exhibition meeting [current stateof project, "iterative" development, emphasizing social aspects]

Box 11 of 24 7/7/1988 Allison to Watkins, EDS public affairs [wish list for robotic carassembly station]

Box 11 of 24 6/20/1988 Nat Pendleton [Division of Electricity] to Allison: [selection of filmclips for Bijou Theater. Those listed here are cartoons]

Box 11 of 24 6/21/1988 Mattson to Zahava Doering: re notes on 6/13/1988 meeting[beefing up social aspect, talk about the title]

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous letters to artifact donors from Peggy Kidwell


Box 11 of 24 2/16/1989 preliminary screen design for IBM's gesture interface for visitorcomments


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Box 11 of 24 2/17/1989 Allison to Watkins [of EDS]: Artist's concept of automated carproduction

Box 11 of 24 2/7/1989 Dorfman Museum Figures to Nicastro, NMAH: Bid on figures forThe

Box 11 of 24 Information Age (insight into speicfication and creation of mannequins)

Box 11 of 24 2/8/1989 Allison to John Korty [Jonathan COmpany] [Concerning final film:Clarifying goals of film]

Box 11 of 24 2/3/1989 Schloss to Ed Hackley: Revision of Style book [new headlines forshow]

Box 11 of 24 2/l/1989 Allison to FInn, Eklund: Plans for interactive stations [galvanometer,wireless, early TV tube, FM radio, color TV, software emulation]

Box 11 of 24 1/6/1988 Specifications for life-sized figures

Box 11 of 24 12/21/1988 Dorfman Museum figures to Klose: [Early specs on figures]

Box 11 of 24 1/24/1989 Schloss to Showscan: [not going to use Showscan]

Box 11 of 24 1/17/1989 Allison to Catherine Wolf, IBM [using gestural interface for visitorfeedback, using the hardware to make a point]

Box 11 of 24 12/20/1988 Hilke to Bernstein and Tepper: potential bottlenecks in theinformation center area [discussion floor plan for traffic flow]

Box 11 of 24 11/28/1988 Mattson :Information age interactives [what they are and who willdo them]

Box 11 of 24 11/25/1988 Allison to Finn: Communications interactives and suggestions forinformation center [responses to Finn's proposed interactives]

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence from Peggy Kidwell to object donors

Box 11 of 24 Correspondence and Memoranda, 3/l/1988-6/5/1988

Box 11 of 24 6/l/1988 Mattson to Hilke: Comments on 5/16/1988 memo [role of audienceadvocate: clarify, be sure included in development team from start]

Box 11 of 24 3/29/1988 I. B. Cohen to Allison [comments on Script outline of 3/1988 quitefavorable, effusive]


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Box 11 of 24 3/25/1988 Hugh Aitken to Finn [comments on script, lack of focus in tellingstory of innovation]

Box 11 of 24 4/15/1988 Mattson to team: Interactives and A/V pieces

Box 11 of 24 4/12/1988 Kennedy to Allison: "Your letter from I. Bernard Cohen is atriumph. You have obviously earned his confidence and that's not easy todo..."

Box 11 of 24 Miscellaneous correspondence by Peggy Kidwell to object donors

Box 12


Box 12 of 24 3/18/1988 Allison to Greene [Kidwell promotion]

Box 12 of 24 3/15/1988 Eklund to team: Distribution of Functions for Information Systems[who will do what]

Box 12 of 24 3/16/1988 Allison to Nancy Linde, NOVA, WGBH [collaboration on episode,reply to Linde of 2/24/1988]

Box 12 of 24 3/15/1988 Allison to Bob Geldof: Live AID [We are the world segment ofshow]

Box 12 of 24 3/14/1988 Allison to Douglas Trumbull. Berkshire Films [closing film ideas/goals]

Box 12 of 24 3/14/1988 Allison to Eklund: Exhibit section on 4.12, Integrated SystemsControl Technology [comments on ways of talking about hardware andsoftware]

Box 12 of 24 3/11/1988 Allison to I. B. Cohen, Laberis of Computerworld, Watkins of EDSconcerning script reviews

Box 12 of 24 3/11/1988 Allison to team: Numbering exhibt sections

Box 12 of 24 3/10/1988 Allison to team: "Exhibition development" (overview of progress,milestones ahead

Box 12 of 24 3/7/1988 Mattson to Kennedy [fate of advisory board, script readers, internalacademic review


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Box 12 of 24 3/1/1988 Eklund to Computer, Information, and Society Division: Collectionspolicy draft [originally developed by Peggy Kidwell]


Box 12 of 24 2/12/1988 Eklund to Allison: Potential artifact donations

Box 12 of 24 1/25/1988 Allison to Presper Eckert: (ENIAC interview schedule)

Box 12 of 24 1/21/1988 Allison and Mattson to Roger Kenndey [Rogow and Bernsteinproblems]

Box 12 of 24 1/13/1988 Mattson, Allison, Kondratas, Hutt to Molella [Molella to DougEvelyn, same date, recaps this info: Closing of exhibition space on lst floor,maintaining a science exhibit presence at NMAH]

Box 12 of 24 1/7/1988 Mattson to Tom Wolf: SI/MIT-Athena project [possible collaborationwith MIT for info age interactives, demonstrations]

Box 12 of 24 1/5/1988 Allison to Sokal of WPI [declining to write paper for HSS newletter]

Box 12 of 24 12/11/1987 Carrigan to Rogow and Bernstein: [review of design and award ofstage II and III contract, not hint of problems here]

Box 12 of 24 12/9/1987 Eklund to Friedl, Xerox PARC [can not guarantee exhibition ofobject in return for its donation]

Box 12 of 24 12/8/1987 Eklund to one Gerald Wright [SI doesn't accept long-term loans]

Box 12 of 24 12/4/1987 Molella to Distribution [absorption of Section of Mathematics in toCIS division]

Box 12 of 24 12/3/1987 Allison [Merzbach retirement]

Box 12 of 24 12/l/1987 Allison to Eklund [Eklund to have control of accession/deaccessionof computer holdings]


Box 12 of 24 11/30/1987 Allison to team [screening of "Middletons" 1939 World's Fair film(connected to the "Info age Middletons" scenario)]

Box 12 of 24 11/4/1987 Lubar and Stephens to Rogow and Allison: 1941 office periodroom (also to be found in Mattson files above)


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Box 12 of 24 10/30/1987 Mattson to Kennedy and Carrigan [agenda for R+B visit of11/3-11/6]

Box 12 of 24 10/23/1987 Mattson to team: Minutes from 10/22/1987 meeting [proposedGallery Study Part II organization]

Box 12 of 24 10/26/1987 Mattson to team: Minutes form 10/9/1987 meeting [person inshow, humans to bring tech. alive, physical considerations]

Box 12 of 24 10/23/1987 Eklund to various Boston Children's museum staff [praising"Estimating" show there]

Box 12 of 24 10/13/1987 Allison to Charles Gillispie [Allison was Gillispie's student atPrinceton. Allison comments on Gillispie's teaching and mentor ship]

Box 12 of 24 7/21/1987 CompuServe to Hilke (describing the Science Museum ComputerNetwork)


Box 12 of 24 9/15/1987 Mattson to team: Minutes from 9/10/1987 meeting ["The use ofthe word "labels" was discussed. We should not be writing actual labels, aswe think of them for use in the finished show. Instead, we should be writingcontent descriptions of the artifacts or graphics."]

Box 12 of 24 Draft script assignments

Box 12 of 24 9/15/1987 Allison to one Mr. K. Tang [fellowship application]

Box 12 of 24 9/13/1987 Hilke to team: Have we pushed the personea idea too far?

Box 12 of 24 9/4/1987 Allison to Molella: Performance appraisal for period 1/5/1987through 8/31/1987 [upon arriving at SI]

Box 12 of 24 8/12/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meetings with R+B, 7/29-31, etc. [periodsettings to tell story, breakdown of sections]

Box 12 of 24 8/13/1987 Allison to Mattson: Entry for exhibit title of the week contest"Online: The Emergence of the Electronic Information Age"


Box 12 of 24 7/31/1987 McC Adams to Japanese Shipbuilding Industry Foundation[includes proposal to above for Information Age]


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Box 12 of 24 7/24/1987 Mattson to McC Adams: Talking points for ASIS talk

Box 12 of 24 7/23/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 7/23/1987 [postwar section,name of show]

Box 12 of 24 7/22/1987 Finn: Part II after 1945 preliminary list of objects and other material[includes diagram of organization]

Box 12 of 24 5/1987 Tom Freudenheim Travel report [Trip to Germany - Information onmany German museums]

Box 12 of 24 4/28/1986 J. A. N. Lee (computer science, Virginia Tech] "Proposals forfunding: the excavation of the Harvard Mark III Calculator [6/18/1987 Lee toAllison claims this was distributed to a variety of funding agencies]

Box 12 of 24 7/21/1987 Allison to team: Mones on meeting of 7/16/1987 (technologicalcore, discussion of chronological versus subject-related approaches)

Box 12 of 24 7/17/1987 Ceruzzi to Allison: Present status of exhibit script [arguingcentrality of World War II in story, exploring meaning of ENIAC]

Box 12 of 24 7/14/1987 Allison to team: Minutes for meeting - 7/9/1987 [replacement ofnode approach accepted]

Box 12 of 24 6/24/1987 McGlade to team: Intern guidelines [narrative of what to do vis avis collections. Artifact-based research plan]

Box 12 of 24 6/23/1987 McGlade to team: Minutes of meeting Friday, June 20, 1987[external advisory committee]

Box 12 of 24 6/4/1987 Allison to team: Plans for external advisory groups: [compositionand role of advisory groups]

Box 12 of 24 6/17/1987 Allison to R+B [things to be thinking about]

Box 12 of 24 6/19/1987 Finn: Node 1 from differnt perspectives rough comments [howvisitors with different backgrounds might see different objects]

Box 12 of 24 6/16/1987 McGlade to team: Notes on meeting of 6/11-12/1987 [debatesover title, story-line/design alignment. includes: 6/8/1987 Finn: Process forjustifying what goes into the exhibit]

Box 12 of 24 6/8/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 6/4/1987 [plans for nodes,package for describing show to funders et al. agenda for 6/11 meeting(McGlade 6/16 above) mentions Turkle, but T. not in McGlade 6/16]


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Box 12 of 24 6/3/1987 Mattson to distribution: Apple fundraising meeting [Apple notoriousfor not giving cash]


Box 12 of 24 5/29/1987 Mattson to team: Notes on meeting of 5/28/1987 [discussion ofFinn's "Themes for the Matrix"]

Box 12 of 24 5/28/1987 Finn "Themes for the matrix or what the visitor should get from theexhibit"

Box 12 of 24 5/22/1987 Allison to team: Notes on the meeting of 5/21/1987 [includes letterto R+B, 5/22/1987, Allison preliminary thoughts on exhibit introduction, andHilke's thematic analysis]

Box 12 of 24 5/11/1987 Allison to Doug Evelyn, Deputy Director, NMAH: Proposal forSmithson Society support of a Symposium on "New Directions in the Historyof Information Technology" 9/18/1987

Box 12 of 24 5/6/1987 unsigned Plans for the "Information Revolution" Exhibit: "Thisnarrative plus the enclosed diagram are the current working overview of the"Information Revolution" exhibition."

Box 12 of 24 5/14/1987 Allison to File: Highlights of Princeton Conference

Box 12 of 24 5/l/1987 Allison to Carrigan [tabulation of communications with R+B]

Box 12 of 24 5/l/1987 Allison to team: notes on meeting of 4/30/1987

Box 12 of 24 4/27/1987 Rogow to Eklund and Allison [need for chronological developmentas stipulated by curators, "ideas" to represent "messages"]

Box 12 of 24 4/29/1987 Finn & Merzbach: Node 2 (1897) (Outline)

Box 12 of 24 4/22/1987 Allison & Eklund to R+B [concerns that there be "a much closerlinkage between your design ideas and our concepts in the Statement."]

Box 12 of 24 4/16/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 4/9/1987

Box 12 of 24 4/21/1987 Allison to Thomas DeFanti, Director Electronics Visualization Lab,University of Chicago: [Thanks for materials on exhibit to be done at ChicagoScience & Industry]

Box 12 of 24 Spring 1987: News of the information revolution exhibit


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Box 12 of 24 4/16/1987 unsigned Plans for the Information Revolution Exhibit ["conceptoutline"]

Box 12 of 24 4/7/1987 Allison to team: notes on meeting of 4/2/1987 [period settings,interactives]

Box 12 of 24 4/7/1987 Allison to File: Reflections on preliminary Eckert interview

Box 12 of 24 Correspondence and Memornada, 1/5/1987-3/31/1987

Box 12 of 24 3/31/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 3/26/1987 [USIA InformationUSA, R+B, developing exhibit overview]

Box 12 of 24 3/27/1987 Allison to R+B [clarifying design principles, treatment of conceptsof show]

Box 12 of 24 3/27/1987 Allison to various: Internal review committee

Box 12 of 24 3/26/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 3/12/1987, R+B meeting3/18-20/1987 [R+B: explanations to them of thrust of show - Differencebetween history and science-center type show]

Box 12 of 24 3/6/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 3/5/1987 [transition to WorldWar II, then World War II itself and post-war]

Box 12 of 24 3/3/1987 Allison to team: Notes on meeting of 2/26/1987 [advisorycommittees, TI artifacts, node 1]

Box 12 of 24 2/26/1987 handwritten notes of 3/3 above

Box 12 of 24 3/3/1987 Allison to team: Thoughts on second part of the Exhibit [World WarII transition, postwar]

Box 12 of 24 Kennedy to Gwen Bell, Director, Computer Musuem: Official version ofmemorandum of understanding, undated

Box 12 of 24 Allison: Immediate reaction to node 1 version of 2/22/1987, undated

Box 12 of 24 2/25/1987 Allison to Terry Sharrer: Script for "The Search for Life" [topicsinclude growth of biological sciences, genetics, social issues]

Box 12 of 24 2/20/1987 Allison to team: Notes on infofrmation review meeting of2/19/1987: [advisory committees, part II of show]


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Box 12 of 24 Allison to team: Trip to Computer Museum February 6, 1987 [idea of asoftware archives also "redefinitions for field of computer history], undated

Box 12 of 24 2/18/1987 Allison to John Fleckner, Public Life Group: Planning for NMAH20th Century collections

Box 12 of 24 2/17/1987 Allison to team: Notes on information revolution meeting of2/12/1987 [Finn's node 1 plan]

Box 12 of 24 [Allison?] dot-matrix typescript "The information revolution: a developingexhibit" [objective, approach), undated

Box 12 of 24 2/12/1987 Eklund to Allison: Experimental video history tape of the NRLRadiation Astronomy and Geophysics group [what things are useful in aninterview schedule, how to use artifacts on video]

Box 12 of 24 8/20/1986 [Yes] Information revolution update [project outline]

Box 12 of 24 1/29/1987 Allison to team [Eklund, Makurath, Finn, Merzbach ' Hilke](consensus on node treatment with period settings]

Box 12 of 24 1/21/1987 Allison to "Planning group": Conceptualization and Structuring ofthe Exhibit [nodes in Part I, Periods in Part II, including reprints of variouschronologies]

Box 12 of 24 Newsletters

Box 12 of 24 SHOT

Box 12 of 24 Charles Babbage Institute

Box 12 of 24 History of Science Society

Box 12 of 24 Turing, Alan

Box 12 of 24 4.5 FBI NCIC

Box 12 of 24 Photos of FBI identification division

Box 12 of 24 4.6 1976-1990

Box 12 of 24 Prints of Osbourne computer, fiber optic test bench, American Express cardreader, Xerox copier

Box 12 of 24 Portable Computers/Various Photographs, etc.


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Box 12 of 24 4.7 Information Utility

Box 12 of 24 Print of Intel 1972 microchip photolith mask

Box 12 of 24 Photo: German narrow band station

Box 12 of 24 Color prints of CPC Wilmington operation: computer center

Box 12 of 24 Contact sheet, negatives, of B&W shots CPC Wilmington, including NMAHtour group

Box 12 of 24 Possible Software Graphics: Images not shot for videowall (keep together)

Box 12 of 24 Color snapshots of HP Bicycle company color prints of auto factory, color andB&W slides from IBM, HP, and EDS miscellaneous images of computers incontemporary business settings

Box 12 of 24 Correspondence re: Exhibition preparation and prospective donors, 1987


Box 12 of 24 Correspondence re: Advisory Committee, Contribution Estimates, andExhibits Plan, 1986

Box 12 of 24 Correspondence re: Automation/Computers, 1986-1987

Box 12 of 24 Correspondence re: Text labels, 1990

Box 12 of 24 Financial Reports, 1986-1987

Box 12 of 24 ATM/DCLC Terminals, 1989

Box 12 of 24 4.6.2 Programing

Box 12 of 24 "The Software Challenge," 1988

Box 12 of 24 Mark I Coding

Box 12 of 24 Fortran

Box 12 of 24 Cobol

Box 12 of 24 Basic


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Box 12 of 24 Tools of the Programmer

Box 12 of 24 The Hopper Connection

Box 12 of 24 Operation and Management, 1986-1987

Box 12 of 24 Exhibition Planning, 1984-1987 (2 folders)

Box 12 of 24 Trade Literature, 1985

Box 12 of 24 IBM Exhibition of Information Technology, undated

Box 12 of 24 Casio Computer Company, LTD., 1987

Box 12 of 24 Presentation: The Information Revolution

Box 12 of 24 Advisors

Box 12 of 24 CBEMA

Box 12 of 24 AMD

Box 12 of 24 Volunteers

Box 12 of 24 Newspaper Clippings

Box 12 of 24 Fiscal: Reviews and Surveys (6 folders)

Box 12 of 24 Postwar Socio-Technological Core: Object List (2 folders)

Box 12 of 24 Label Scripts, June and August 1989

Box 12 of 24 Concept Script

Box 12 of 24 Minutes and Correspondence, 1987-1988 (2 folders)

Box 12 of 24 EDS Corporation: Trade Literature and Meeting, 1987

Box 13

Box 13 of 24 Trade Literature


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Box 13 of 24 National Computer Conference, 1987

Box 13 of 24 Administrative Files, 1986-1990

Box 13 of 24 Washington, Diana: "The Computer as a Significant Component of Society'sInformation System," 1985

Box 13 of 24 Advisory Committee Progress Reports, 1991

Box 13 of 24 Washington, Diana: "Information Age Exhibit - Outline Proposal forContemporary Issues' Section," 1985

Box 13 of 24 Draft Copies: Information Revolution Prospectus, 1985

Box 13 of 24 Early Exhibition Files, 1984

Box 13 of 24 Mahoney, Michael

Box 13 of 24 Norberg

Box 13 of 24 de Sota Pool, Jean, 1987-1988

Box 13 of 24 McGlade, Jackie, 1987

Box 13 of 24 Dennett, George E.

Box 13 of 24 Molella, Arthur

Box 13 of 24 Memoranda, 1985-1988 (2 folders)

Box 13 of 24 Williams, Michael, 1986-1988

Box 13 of 24 Campbell-Kelly, Martin, 1987

Box 13 of 24 Allison, David K., 1987

Box 13 of 24 ASIS

Box 13 of 24 Materials Labels, 1988

Box 13 of 24 Information Revolution Concepts

Box 13 of 24 Imaging Reality Files, 1986-1988


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Box 13 of 24 SI Interactive

Box 13 of 24 Laser Disc Information,

Box 13 of 24 Fiber Optics Transmission, 1979-1987

Box 13 of 24 Division of Computers, Information, and Society, 1987-1988

Box 13 of 24 Manchester Calculating Machine (1949)

Box 13 of 24 Stevens Institute of Technology, 1984-1987

Box 13 of 24 Information Revolution Preliminary Intent Review, May 1987

Box 13 of 24 Administrative File, 1989-1990

Box 13 of 24 Software: General, 1985-1988

Box 13 of 24 Software: Sequence Control (c. 1800s-1940s)

Box 13 of 24 Software: Algorithms (BC to present)

Box 13 of 24 Software: The First Computer Programs (1948-1951)

Box 13 of 24 Software: Early Computer Languages (1952-1960)

Box 13 of 24 Software: Languages, Operating Systems & Applications (1960s)

Box 13 of 24 Software: Time Sharing (1959-1965)

Box 13 of 24 Administrative Files, 1985

Box 13 of 24 Whole Scripts #1/Beginning February 1988 [Contains a number of stapled orgathered documents with various titles, e.g. "Script," "Conceptual Outling",etc. Dates of composition actually begin in 1986.]

Box 13 of 24 1.1: SG (26 pp.): "Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging Information Age,February 1988"

Box 13 of 24 1.2: SG (14 pp.): "Script Outline/For/Mind Machines:/Emergence of theInformation Age/February 1988.


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Box 13 of 24 1.3: SG (19 pp): With covering memo date February 12, 1988: "To: Roger,Mike, Art/From: Marie" and entitled "Script Outline/Emergence of theInformation Age, February 12, 1988.

Box 13 of 24 1.4: SG (17 pp.): "Conceptual Outline/For/NMAH Information Exhibit/February 3, 1988.

Box 13 of 24 1.5: SG (3 pp.): "The Emergence of the Information Age ConceptScript" [Dated: January 29, 1988.]

Box 13 of 24 1.6: SG (22 pp.): "National Museum of American History/Emergence of theInformation Age/Draft Script Outline/As of January 11, 1988."

Box 13 of 24 1.7: SG (12 pp.): "National Museum of American History/Emergence of theInformation Age/Draft Script Outline/As of January 11, 1988.

Box 13 of 24 1.8: SG (12 pp.): "Emergence of the Information Age/Draft Script/As ofJanuary 7, 1988.

Box 13 of 24 1.9: SG (27 pp.): With covering memo dated December 29, 1987; To: PamRogow/From: David K. Allison): "Emergence of the Information Age/DraftScript/As of December 29, 1987

Box 13 of 24 1.10: SG (li pp.): "Materials for Pam Rogow /December 21, 1987.

Box 13 of 24 1.11: SG (5 pp.): "Online: Exploring the Emerging Information Age/Summaryof Sections/AS of November 27, 1987

Box 13 of 24 1.12: SG (4 pp.): "Online: Exploring the Emerging Information Age/Summaryof Sections/As of November 19, 1987

Box 13 of 24 1.13: SG (13 pp.): "Online: Exploring the Emerging Information Age/Summary of Sections/As of September 16, 1987.

Box 13 of 24 1.14: DUPLICATE of 1.13.

Box 13 of 24 1.15: SG (pp.): "Memo/ To: Information Revolution Planning Group/From:David K Allison/ Subject: Conceptualization and Structuring of the Exhibit."Dated January 21, 1987.

Box 13 of 24 1.16: SG (36 pp.): Fragment from Script Draft of 11/10/1986. Consists of3 page "Outline", 33 pages of Draft Script. On 4th page is the title: "TheInformation Revolution/Part II, Section IV: Information and Computers forEveryone/The Micro-Chip and the Micro-Computer (1972-the present)"


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Box 13 of 24 1.17: SG (130 pp. ): 11 Information Revolution/The Script/M. R. Williams/November 10, 1986

Box 13 of 24 1.18: SG (30 pp.): Draft of Paper, "The Information Revolution/A NewSmithsonian Exhibition." Written by Jon Eklund. Version of May, 1987.

Box 13 of 24 1.19: Graphic (1 p.): Box Diagram. Outline of exhibit units.

Box 13 of 24 1.20: SG (22 pp.) : "Section 1: Introduction: Our Af f air with Mind Machines."

Box 13 of 24 Whole Scripts #2/March 1988

Box 13 of 24 I. 2. 1: SG (16 pp.; unpunched.): "Storyline/The Information Age/People andTechnology/1835-1990/September 21, 1988".

Box 13 of 24 I.2.2: SG (13 pp.): "Storyline/Connected/Information Technology andSociety/1835-1990/September 13, 1988".

Box 13 of 24 I.2.3: SG (10 pp.): Hand labeled: "Draft - 3/31/1988/Gene". [A 3-column list ofartifacts, labels and comments. Appears to be by Barney Finn.]

Box 13 of 24 I.2.4: SG (25 pp.): "Overview of Information Exhibition/National Museum ofAmerican History/ May 12, 1988".

Box 13 of 24 I.2.5: SG (33 pp.): "Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging Information Age/April15, 1988.

Box 13 of 24 I.2.6: SG (c. + ii + 29 pp.): "Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging InformationAge/March 1988".

Box 13 of 24 I. 2.7: SG (29 pp.): 11 Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging Information Age/mid-March 1988"

Box 13 of 24 I.2.8: SG (30 pp.): "Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging Information Age/March1988.

Box 13 of 24 I.2.9: SG (27 pp.): "Script Outline/FYI: The Emerging Information Age/earlyMarch 1988".

Box 13 of 24 I.2.10: SG (18 pp.): "11 ... Apt8-Change-Bks/First Diablo Line Count: 423.Needs 409 3/2/1988/ Chapter 8 - Computers and Chips/By T.R. Reid".

Box 13 of 24 I.2.11: Xerox of 16 hand-written cards with titles of computer topics.

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Box 14 of 24 "Background #2/Including Processing continued/1927 node-/Post World Warl Computing/Auto Car"

Box 14 of 24 Tab Label "Node 3 - 1915"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.0: SG (13 pp.; Unpunched): "Components (1946-1960)" [B. Finn]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.1: (29 pp.): "Node 3 (1912, 1915) B. Finn 10 September 1986 [16 + 12 + 1pp.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.2: Gathering (16 pp.): "Node 3. 1912 (& World War I)"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.3: Gathering (12 pp.): "Node 3. 1914: Selling Efficiency."

Box 14 of 24 I.3.4: Gathering (1 pp.; Xerox): "Node 3 (1917)/(additions 1/1987 by BF)

Box 14 of 24 I.3.5: (75 pp.): "Mike Williams' Script for Section 2.511" [74 pp + illustrations]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.6: (3 pp.): "The 1850's and its era". (3 pp.)

Box 14 of 24 Tab Label "Node 4-1927"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.7: (2 pp.): "Period Vignette, 1914" [2 pp. signed "SL 11/18/1871"].

Box 14 of 24 I.3.8: (12 pp.): "Node 4 (1927)/draft 12/15/1986" [11 pp. and "SuggestedModifications and Miscellaneous Remarks Node 4 (Computing)" initialedIlucm/1/1987"]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.9: (12 pp.): "Node 4 B. Finn 18 September 1986" (11 pp. "SuggestedModifications and Miscellaneous Remarks Node 4 (Computing)" initialedIlucm/1/1987". Identical with 'lb," above.]

Box 14 of 24 Tab Label "Node 5-1939". By B. FINN, dated 12/15/1986.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.10: G (2 pp.): "Period Setting E. 193911" [2 pp. no attribution]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.11: (7 pp.): "Node 5 (1939)/(draft 12/15/1986)" [6 pp. + SuggestedModifications and Miscellaneous Remarks Node 5 (Computing)", initialedIlucm/1/1987"]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.12: (2 pp.): "Information in 193911 [2.pp. initialed IIBF-11/1986]


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Box 14 of 24 I.3.13: (7 pp.): "Node 5 (1939)/(draft 12/15/1986)" [6 pp. + "SuggestedModifications and Miscellaneous Remarks Node 5 (Computing).", initialedIlucm/1/1987]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.14: Two notes to "Jackie" from "David" n.d.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.15:

Box 14 of 24 I3.16: Gathering (12 pp.): "FYI: The Emerging Information Age/3. World WarII: The Information War." (n.d.; Pages marked 111711 to 112811]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.17: Sheaf (L pp.): Sheet with notes.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.18: Gathering (6 pp): "To: Peter Vogt/From: David K Allison/Subject:Conceptual Agenda for CIC Movie"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.19: [Identical to item 18, but with some misc. notations]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.20: Miscellaneous hand notes: [3 pp. ungathered] "Victory at Sea"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.21: Miscellaneous hand notes

Box 14 of 24 I.3.22: Miscellaneous hand notes: "Psychological Training"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.23: Miscellaneous hand notes: "Battle of Atlantic"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.24: Gathering (2 pp.): "Object Outline for World War II Section".[Annotated, n.d.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.25: Phone Message: "Dean Allard"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.26: Note (l pp.): IIDCA Contact"

Box 14 of 24 Miscellaneous Handwritten notes [8 pp. ungathered, 5 pp. gathered]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.27 through I.3.32

Box 14 of 24 I.3.33: SG (5 pp.): "Materials at Silver Hill"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.34.: Gathering (2 pp.): NSA memo dated October 2, 1987 agreeing to letSI borrow the Cryptoanalytic Bombe.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.35: Miscellaneous typed and hand notes on various aspects of the exhibit[13 pp. ungathered, 6 pp. gathered. Appear to be largely from 1988].


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Box 14 of 24 I.3.36: Miscellaneous sketches on various aspects of the exhibit [13 pp.ungathered, 6 pp. gathered. Appear to be largely from 1988].

Box 14 of 24 I.3.37: SG (2 pp.): "Notes on Meeting with Ex-OSG Personnel/September 4,1987"

Box 14 of 24 "ENIAC Passageway"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.38: Gathering (2 pp.) "Information and the Invention of the Computer(1942-1950) ". Appears to be notes by Mike Williams on the first section ofthe original Part II.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.39: Gathering (10 pp.) "Section 3.5 The ENIAC Walkway (Final version -July 20, 1988)."

Box 14 of 24 I.3.40: Gathering (7 pp.) "Biographical Notes". Notes by Mike Williams madein late 1986 on major figures in the first decade of computing.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.41: Gathering (5 pp.): "Information Revolution Node 6, Sect. 1/ I.Information and the Invention of the Computer (1942-1950) Outline by JohnEklund.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.42: Identical to "I.3.3811" above.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.43: Identical to "I.3.3811" above.

Box 14 of 24 "Communications/ Post War"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.44: Gathering (5 pp. + cover memo dated April 22, 1988): No title.Appears to be script for section on development of color television.

Box 14 of 24 "Post WWII Computing/ Section 411

Box 14 of 24 I-3.45: Gathering (3 pp. Memo "To: David/From: Jon/Subject: Periodization ofthe Postwar Socio-Technological Core" dated July 24, 1988.)

Box 14 of 24 I.3.46: Gathering (51 pp.) "Script for Artifact Portion of Section 411. Laterpage headers labeled: "Mike Williams' Script for Section 4.6, .7, 9.,.ll-.14.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.47: Gathering (50 pp. with cover memo dated December 4, 1987)"Postwar Technological Core." Concept script and object list for postwarperiod. Object list had been converted into a full database (RBASE SystemV).


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Box 14 of 24 I.3.48: Gathering (2 pp. Memo "To: David/From: Jon/ Subject: More onthemes and messages for the PSTC" Dated July 11, 1988. Commentary onpossible organization for the post war section.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.49: Gathering (2 pp.) Handwritten notes on paper labeled "software AG".

Box 14 of 24 I.3.50: Gathering (5 pp.) "The Software Challenge" Concept for treatingsoftware in the exhibition by Jon Eklund.

Box 14 of 24 I.3.51: Gathering (31 pp.) "A Software Script/By/Martin Campbell-Kelly/April29, 1988". [Concept script proposal for section on software.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.52: Gathering ( 5 pp.) "Comments on 'Software Script' by MartinCampbell-Kelly dated April 29, 1988./ Jean E. Sammet/June 21, 1988". [E-Mail sent to and distributed by Mike Williams.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.53: Gathering ( 43 pp. including cover memo) "FYI: The EmergingInformation Age" (Preliminary draft of label script for "postwar technical core".Lists both "social factors" and "technological factors".]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.54: Gathering (14 pp. n.d. Post-it label: "To: David A./ From: Barney")"Components (1946-1960)." [Concept script for various communicationsdevices.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3.55: Gathering (8 pp.): 114. 12 Information Components, 1946-1960/ BF7/6/1988.-I

Box 14 of 24 I.3.56: Gathering (5 pp. with covering memo "To: FYI Group/From: MarieMattson/RE: Interactives and A/V pieces (so far)".

Box 14 of 24 I.3.57: Gathering (12 pp.) [Outline (handout) for presentation at Thursdaymeeting on postwar section by Jon Eklund. n.d. (probably Spring, 1989).]

Box 14 of 24 "Automated/Car processing"

Box 14 of 24 I.3.58: Gathering (5 pp.): "FYI: The Emerging Information Age/A Concept forInformation systems in society/Automated Automobile

Box 14 of 24 Production 1985/ June 22, 1988 [Concept outline for elaborate exhibit sectionon GE automated plants. Includes graphics.]

Box 14 of 24 I.3. 59: Gathering (2. pp) : Memo "To: David, DD, Jon Marie/From: Barney/Subject: Notes on Buying a Car". [Cautionary memo on automobileautomation exhibit unit.] Dated "May 14, 1988".


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Box 14 of 24 Background #3/Including Processing continued/1927 node-/ Post World War ICoiftputing/Auto Car

Box 14 of 24 "Sect 1 1944-1954"

Box 14 of 24 I.4.1: Gathering (37 pp. Starts with p. 3): "Section 1: (1944-52) The ElectronicRevolution". [From original script of late 1986. It is a section of Part II andwas written by Mike Williams.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4. 2: Gathering (4 pp. ): "Components (1946-1960) ". [By Barney Finn. Labelscript including fm stereo, color TV, touch-tone phone etc.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.3: Gathering (6 pp.): "Components (1946-1960)". [By Barney Finn. Labelscript including color TV, speakers, Stereo headphones etc.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.4: Gathering (14 pp.) : "Microelectronics (1946-1950) 11: [By Barney Finn.Label script listing objects and including transistors, integrated circuits etc.]

Box 14 of 24 "Sect 2 1954-1964"

Box 14 of 24 I.4.5: Gathering (38 pp. Starts with p. 40): "Section 2: (1954-64): TheDevelopment of the Computer." [Mixed concept and label script by MikeWilliams from the script of late 1986].

Box 14 of 24 "Section 1965-75"

Box 14 of 24 I.4. 6: Gathering (4 pp.) "Decade 3: The 1960s" (Outline of computerdevelopment during this period by Mike Williams. Dates from 1986.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.7:

Box 14 of 24 I.4.8. Gathering (21 pp.) "Note to Eklund, Finn, Makurath, Williams/Fromucm". [Hand dated July 1986. Outline by Uta Merzbach dealing withmathematical themes and calculators.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.9: Gathering (2 pp.) "Decade 3-the 1960". [Overview by Mike Williams ofcomputer development in this period.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.10: Gathering (2 pp.) "Decade 2 (1950-1960) "Computers becomeEstablished". [Overview by Mike Williams of computer development in thisperiod.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.11: Gathering (4 pp.): [Sketches, with dimensions, of major computers inthe collections. Probably done for Gene sometime in the summer of 1989]


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Box 14 of 24 I.4.12: (1 pp.): [no. attr., n.d., handwritten header 114.12.1. cont. 2.11 List ofgraphics and interactive items for the section on color television, presumablyby Barney Finn."

Box 14 of 24 I.4.13: Gathering (8 pp.) "FYI: Postwar Socio-Technological Core: Object List/Elements: 1945-1959/ Version of 05/11/1988/ Section: Decoding"

Box 14 of 24 I.4.14: Gathering (102 pp.) [First draft of a label script which was intended toinclude 4 social factors (Access, Content, Control, Cost) and 5 TechnologicalFunctions (Encode, Process, Store, Transmit, Decode) for each object. Doneby Jon Eklund, probably in the late summer of 1988.]

Box 14 of 24 "Social Env."

Box 14 of 24 I.4.15: Gathering (3 pp.) "April 10, 1988/ Thoughts on the SocialEnvironments" [Appears to be a report to David for a 4 day contract. Signedby Joan Krammmer.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.16: Gathering (2 pp.) "FYI Social Environments/Proposed ExhibitFormat" [indicates that it proposed titles and short descriptions of "vignettesproposed to serve as the social environments for visitors at several stationsin the FYI exhibit."]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.17: Gathering (2 pp.) "FYI Social Environments/Proposed Exhibit Format."Identical to I.4.2 above, but has hand notation Summer 1988.

Box 14 of 24 I.4.18: Gathering (42 pp.): "Bibliography/For Personal Vignettes/Female" [Actually only 1 p. of bibliography followed by 41 pp. of xeroxedillustrations & text about women and information technology.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.19: SG (6 pp.; n.d.): "Connected Over Time/Individual Social HistoryPresentations."

Box 14 of 24 I.4.20: Clipping (1 pp.): "Doers Profile."

Box 14 of 24 I.4.21: SG (4 pp.): "April 8, 1988 /For the Social Environment/Notes on the 6Periods."

Box 14 of 24 I.4.22: G (5 pp.): [Miscellaneous Handwritten notes.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.23: SG (3 pp.) "Social Themes in the Information Exhibit (BF 7/6/1988).

Box 14 of 24 I.4.24: SG (7 pp.; n.d.): [Xeroxes of Text and Graphics re Solomon G. Brown.]

Box 14 of 24 I.4.25: SG (2 pp.) "April 8, 1988 / For the Social Environments/Notes on the 6Periods." [Appears to be identical to the first 2 pages of item I.4.21 above.]


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Box 14 of 24 I.4. 2 6: SG (2 pp. ): Memo: "To: Information Exhibit Group/From: Jon/Subject: Gallery Study." (Dated "June 3, 1988.11]


Box 14 of 24 Science in American Life: Feasibility Study, 1989

Box 14 of 24 Research Resources, 1989


Box 14 of 24 Memoranda, 1987

Box 14 of 24 Introduction to Node I

Box 14 of 24 Inaccurate Script, Summer 1990, Copy 1



Box 14 of 24 Complete Script, Early Version

Box 14 of 24 Part of final film script

Box 14 of 24 "Brochures": various versions

Box 14 of 24 Exhibit Catalog

Box 15

Box 15 of 24 Info Rev Video Script [Fundraising Video]

Box 15 of 24 3.1 Mobilization

Box 15 of 24 2.2 Telegraphy

Box 15 of 24 4.4.1 Phase II Intro

Box 15 of 24 Research & Script Tasks

Box 15 of 24 3.5.2 ENIAC


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Box 15 of 24 4.2.1 Phase I Intro

Box 15 of 24 Murals

Box 15 of 24 Section IV Graphics

Box 15 of 24 Social Environments

Box 15 of 24 Final Film

Box 15 of 24 Werner Schumann

Box 15 of 24 "Breaking the Code" script

Box 15 of 24 Code breaking

Box 15 of 24 FBI

Box 15 of 24 Introduction

Box 15 of 24 Contact prints from Olson interview

Box 15 of 24 Turner Entertainment

Box 15 of 24 Research

Box 15 of 24 Code breaking 3.03

Box 15 of 24 Prodigy - Presentation Folder

Box 15 of 24 XCIS Xerox System

Box 15 of 24 911

Box 15 of 24 Interactives

Box 15 of 24 4.7 Info Utilities

Box 15 of 24 Information Age: Operations and Management, May 1990-February 1991

Box 15 of 24 Script Labels for Interactive Gallery


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Box 15 of 24 Information Wizard

Box 15 of 24 CW/SI Awards

Box 15 of 24 Children's Hospital

Box 15 of 24 Script & Elevations

Box 15 of 24 Misc. proof sheets, film material

Box 15 of 24 Script Material [Mostly 1990 final or late rewrites]

Box 15 of 24 Miscellaneous lists and script, 1989

Box 15 of 24 Language Translator

Box 15 of 24 Baseball Hall of Fame

Box 15 of 24 Printout Station

Box 15 of 24 Kurzweil

Box 15 of 24 Ham Station

Box 15 of 24 Comment Station #1

Box 15 of 24 Siggraph # 11

Box 15 of 24 Systems Integration

Box 15 of 24 Prodigy

Box 15 of 24 Reuters 15

Box 15 of 24 General Stuff - Interactive Gallery

Box 15 of 24 IDG

Box 16

Box 16 of 24 Miscellaneous 1990 material on interactive gallery

Box 16 of 24 Bicycle Factory #14


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Box 16 of 24 Photos from xerox for Alto

Box 16 of 24 Hewlett-Packard Bicycle

Box 16 of 24 Unisys Oral History

Box 16 of 24 Printout

Box 16 of 24 Software Section

Box 16 of 24 Kennedy/Nixon

Box 16 of 24 Possible Material for Future Rotating Exhibits

Box 16 of 24 Fiber to the Home

Box 16 of 24 Miscellaneous collection of 1989-1990 material

Box 16 of 24 4.1 Establishment of Info Age

Box 16 of 24 Miscellaneous late 1989, early 1990 material

Box 16 of 24 Intel IC's

Box 16 of 24 Bellcore Research

Box 16 of 24 Rotating Space

Box 16 of 24 Script Background

Box 16 of 24 Exhibit Planning

Box 16 of 24 Policies and Procedures

Box 16 of 24 Reference: COMPAQ Equipment

Box 16 of 24 Rogow & Bernstein Contract

Box 16 of 24 Rogow & Bernstein Contract II

Box 16 of 24 20th Century Collecting


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Box 16 of 24 Collections Requests

Box 16 of 24 Management Structure

Box 16 of 24 IA Exhibit: Interactive/Media

Box 16 of 24 IA Exhibit: Node I Background

Box 16 of 24 IA Exhibit: Concepts and Narratives, 1985-1987

Box 16 of 24 Projects: Sloan Video History

Box 16 of 24 Newsletter Masters

Box 16 of 24 Outside Agencies: Computer Museum

Box 16 of 24 Ford

Box 16 of 24 Outside Agencies: Computer Museum of America

Box 16 of 24 Rogow & Bernstein Meetings 3/18-20/1987

Box 16 of 24 Reference: Info Rev Seminar Position Papers

Box 16 of 24 Projects: Info Rev Seminar 9/11/1987

Box 17

Box 17 of 24 Vivid Effects

Box 17 of 24 WETA Presendation Folder: Smithsonian World

Box 17 of 24 Presentation Folder: Carbons to Computers

Box 17 of 24 Info Age Exhibit Ideas

Box 17 of 24 3.5 Birth of the Computer

Box 17 of 24 Felsenstein

Box 17 of 24 OCLC

Box 17 of 24 IBM 650


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Box 17 of 24 ERMA (2 folders)

Box 17 of 24 IBM 650

Box 17 of 24 Felsenstein

Box 17 of 24 Paul Armer

Box 17 of 24 SUN

Box 17 of 24 Manchester Machine

Box 17 of 24 PDP-8

Box 17 of 24 "Design, Management, Early Proposals, R&B, Hilke"

Box 17 of 24 G (l P.): "Social Themes/bf 7/28/1988"

Box 17 of 24 SG (6 pp.): "Section I: Information Processing Prior to World War II" [MRW]

Box 17 of 24 G (4 pp.): "Comments/2/29/1988/B Finn"

Box 17 of 24 SG (2 pp.): "February 22, 1988/To: David, Marie, ion/From: Barney"

Box 17 of 24 SG (4 pp.): "Steven Lubar 1/28/1988"

Box 17 of 24 SG (2 pp.): "14 January 1988/To: Information Group/From: Barney"

Box 17 of 24 SG (6iT ): "Some Thoughts on Exhibit Material/M. R. Williams 5/27/1986"

Box 17 of 24 SG (3i:): "Some Thoughts on Exhibit Material/M. R. Williams 6/1986"

Box 17 of 24 SG (9 pp.): "Tentative Outline and Comments/Bernard Finn June 6, 1986

Box 17 of 24 SG (5,TT:): "Some Thoughts on Exhibit Material/M. R. Williams, 6/2/1986"

Box 17 of 24 SG (2 pp.): "Node 0 (Comments about nodes)/BF, 2/4/1987"

Box 17 of 24 SG (16 pp.): "March 23, 1987/To: David, DD, Jon, Marie,Uta/From: Barney"

Box 17 of 24 SG (2 pp.): "November 9, 1987/Group/From: Jon"


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Box 17 of 24 SG (9 pp.): "October 21, 1987/Deborah Bretzfelder/Barney Finn's outline andon

Box 17 of 24 "Scripts/Miscellaneous Notes on show"

Box 17 of 24 "1946-1990/Info Systs in Soc./4.11/Information Systems 1975-1990"

Box 17 of 24 "4.11/Information Systems/1975-1990/#31,

Box 17 of 24 G (XX pp.) Information Age Graphics Style Book"

Box 17 of 24 Info Rev Briefing

Box 17 of 24 Budget & Schedule

Box 17 of 24 IBM Letters

Box 17 of 24 Exhibit Educational Plan

Box 17 of 24 Pioneer Agreement

Box 17 of 24 Pioneer

Box 18

Box 18 of 24 Sponsors Meeting

Box 18 of 24 Viewgraphs

Box 18 of 24 Current Exhibit Plans

Box 18 of 24 Allison

Box 18 of 24 Position Paper

Box 18 of 24 Bibliography

Box 18 of 24 IBM Research, Yorktown

Box 18 of 24 SG (ll pp.): Proposal to Ford Motor Company (2 copies, loose)

Box 18 of 24 Audience Research Issues


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Box 18 of 24 Visitor Surveys

Box 18 of 24 Photo Research

Box 18 of 24 Kodak

Box 18 of 24 VJ Day Mural

Box 18 of 24 Life Picture Service

Box 18 of 24 Graphics, other art for Street etc.

Box 18 of 24 Hansen

Box 18 of 24 Drawing by Hansen

Box 18 of 24 Visions and Realities

Box 18 of 24 G (7 pp.): Cardinal Sound & Motion Picture Systems

Box 18 of 24 Steve Hansen Intro

Box 18 of 24 Film

Box 18 of 24 Miscellaneous notes to Exhibits Department

Box 18 of 24 Information Age Meetings

Box 18 of 24 Internships

Box 18 of 24 George Mason University

Box 18 of 24 Registrar

Box 18 of 24 Museum Shops

Box 18 of 24 Registrar's Office Move

Box 18 of 24 Office Spaces

Box 18 of 24 Conservation

Box 18 of 24 Publications


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Box 18 of 24 Brochure/Printout

Box 18 of 24 139 Street Scene

Box 18 of 24 Information Story Lines/Script

Box 18 of 24 SG (16): "Storyline/The Information Age/October 27,1988"

Box 18 of 24 G (l): [Memo: November 21, 1989-Allison to Molella re Lubar assignment]

Box 18 of 24 SG (2): [Memo: August 22, 1989: from Allison re so tware section]

Box 18 of 24 SG (4): Information Exhibition meeting/March 17, 1988 (four folders)

Box 18 of 24 G (5) [Memos: JE - Claudine re ENIAC progress]

Box 18 of 24 Staff Responsibilities

Box 18 of 24 SG (ll): "Status of Exhibit Sections, December 29, 1988"

Box 18 of 24 [Memo: Molella - Distribution re Script Review/December 15, 1989]

Box 18 of 24 SG (24): "Alternative 'summaries' for Part 2 ... /BF 9/7/1988"

Box 18 of 24 SG (13): "Storyline/Connected/Information/Technology and Society(9/13/1988)

Box 18 of 24 SG (12): "Storyline/The Information Age: Visions and Realities" (9/6/1988)

Box 18 of 24 Drawing: "Social Security, NMAH/Information (6/19/1989)

Box 18 of 24 Memo: Allison - Information Exhibition Group/March 11, 1988 (2 folders)

Box 18 of 24 Memo: Allison - Information Exhibition Group/March 10, 1988

Box 18 of 24 Committee for Wider Audience

Box 18 of 24 Early documents re Bernstein/Tepper Disagreement."

Box 18 of 24 Detail Drawings

Box 18 of 24 Script - Section IV


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Box 18 of 24 Elevation Drawing, Sheet # 17

Box 18 of 24 Elevation Drawing, Radio Wall Case

Box 18 of 24 R & B Design Work

Box 18 of 24 Style sheets

Box 18 of 24 IBM

Box 18 of 24 Interactive Gallery

Box 18 of 24 Vivid Effects

Box 18 of 24 Viewed Speech

Box 19

Box 19 of 24 Video Window

Box 19 of 24 Interactives: Eds

Box 19 of 24 No Tab Label: Material on Interactives (large file)

Box 19 of 24 "1946-1990/Information Systems in Society (165B46-X)"

Box 19 of 24 Information Age Clippings

Graphic Notebooks

Box 19 of 24 Morse

Box 19 of 24 Cable & telegraph

Box 19 of 24 Cable

Box 19 of 24 Telegraph

Box 19 of 24 2.3 to 2.7

Box 20


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Box 20 of 24 2.3 to 2.7 (continued)

Box 20 of 24 Telephony

Box 20 of 24 Wireless

Box 20 of 24 Radio

Box 20 of 24 Island - Stock Ticker

Box 20 of 24 Island - Radio Broadcasting

Box 20 of 24 Island - Titanic

Box 20 of 24 Sheutz & Corliss

Box 20 of 24 Management

Box 20 of 24 Markets

Box 20 of 24 Systems

Box 21

Box 21 of 24 People

Box 21 of 24 Exhibition Photos

Box 21 of 24 Island-Social Security

Box 21 of 24 Island-NYSE Booth

Box 21 of 24 2.8

Box 21 of 24 Street Scene

Box 21 of 24 Combat Information Center (CIC)

Box 21 of 24 Code Breaking

Box 21 of 24 3.1 to 3.3

Box 21 of 24 New Partnership


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Box 21 of 24 ENIAC

Box 21 of 24 Birth of the Computer

Box 21 of 24 3.4 to 4.1

Box 22

Box 22 of 24 Overlook

Box 22 of 24 CIS (1946-1960)

Box 22 of 24 Electrical (1946-1960)

Box 22 of 24 Textrails

Box 22 of 24 Kennedy/Nixon

Box 22 of 24 Communications

Box 22 of 24 Software, Business, Knowledge, Miniaturization

Box 22 of 24 Textrails (Computers)

Box 22 of 24 FBI

Box 23

Box 23 of 24 FBI

Box 23 of 24 1971-1990

Box 23 of 24 4.2 to 4.6

Box 23 of 24 Layout

Box 23 of 24 Photographs

Box 23 of 24 Stibitz Material

Box 23 of 24 Script


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Box 24

Box 24 of 24 5/1987 - Rogow & Bernstein: "The Information Revolution; preliminary intentreview" [subjects: objectives, traffic flow, entry, introduction, emergence,establishment, development, conclusion, gallery plan options, projectschedule]. 2 copies: 1 has pp 1-28 (color cover), one has pp 1-15 (plaincover)

Box 24 of 24 10/1987 - Rogow & Bernstein: "Online: the Emerging InformationAge" [technical and social channels. 2 copies, each pp 1-27] undated Rogowand Bernstein "Key Plan" [shows extant space and planned demolition/modification; quite ambitious--more holes thru ceiling, redo of entryway, etc. 2copies, each pp. 1-16]

Box 24 of 24 Outline: Emerging Information Age, 1987

Box 24 of 24 The Information Age: Graphics Style Book

Oversize

Oversize 15 installation blueprints and layouts. Also includes 1 sample of InformationAge sign for the exhibition

exhibition records, circa 1979-1990, and undatedsirismm.si.edu/eadpdfs/sia.fa00-001.pdf ·...

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