Exhibition Loans Approved

Exhibition Title: Gold Fever! The Lure and Legacy of the California Gold Rush
Exhibition Dates: January 24 - July 26, 1998
Object Lent: Letter, from Captain J.L. Folsom, August 23, 1848 (from RU 305, accession # 135)
Borrower: The Oakland Museum

Exhibition Title: Baird's Dream: A History of the Arts & Industries Building
Exhibition Dates: September 29, 1998 - indefinite
Object Lent: Brief Guide to the Smithsonian Institution, c. 1958 (from SIA Information Files)
Borrower: Institutional History Division, SIA

Exhibition Loans Returned

Exhibition Title: see Gold Fever loan listed above

Exhibition Title: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Exhibition Dates: September 15, 1997 - April 30, 1998
Object Lent: Diary, William Dall from Telegraph Expedition Survey, 1867 (from RU 7073)
Borrower: Division of History of Technology, NMAH

Exhibition Title: Audubon & and the Smithsonian
Exhibition Dates: March 5, 1997 - June 26, 1998
Objects Lent:
–photograph (B&W, 8X10), Laboratory in the A&I Building, c.1890s (from RU 95)
–photograph (B&W, 8X10), Office of George Brown Goode, 1896 (from RU 95)
Borrower: Special Collections Department, SIL

Exhibition Title: History of the US Fish and Wildlife Service
Exhibition Dates: October 9, 1996 - May 29, 1998
Objects Lent:
–Logbook for Steamer Albatross (from RU 7184)
–Field Notebook, Vernon Bailey, 10/17/1889 - 1/7/1890 (from RU 7267)
–US Department of Agriculture Report of the Ornithologist and Mammalogist for the Year 1889 (from RU 7171)
–Journal, Vernon Bailey, 1906 (from RU 7267)
Borrower: US Fish and Wildlife Service Gallery, Interior Museum, Department of the Interior

Exhibition Title: The Collection in Context: Raymond Duchamp-Villon's ‘The Horse'
Exhibition Dates: May 23, 1997 - January 4, 1998
Object Lent: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901 (from SIA Accession 93-068)
Borrower: Curatorial Department, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Exhibition Title: North American Wildflower Paintings by Mary Vaux Walcott; and Photographers on Location: Landscapes and Cityscapes from NMAA
Exhibition Dates: April 7, 1994 - December 9, 1997
Objects Lent:
–panorama photograph (#1208a) by Charles D. Walcott, 1918 (from RU 7004)
–panorama photograph (#1338) by Charles D. Walcott, 1921 (from RU 7004)
–panorama photograph (#1338b) by Charles D. Walcott, 1921 (from RU 7004)
Borrower: Curatorial Department, National Museum of American Art

Exhibition Title: Federal City: Plans and Realities
Exhibition Dates: February 2, 1976 - August 31, 1998
Objects Lent:
–Letter, Andrew Jackson Downing to Joseph Henry, June 14, 1851 (from RU 7001)
–Hints on Public Architecture (1849), by Robert Dale Owen (from SIA Library)
Borrower: Office of American Studies, NMHT [NMAH]; Returned by Keeper of the Castle Collection