Two series: Assistant secretary's files and Director's files.
Letters to and from the Society about selection of British jurors to Vienna Exhibition 1873
The main correspondence relating to the committees is included in the Guard Books
General correspondence to and from the Society about the arrangements for the annual Thomas Cubitt lecture.
Correspondence and working papers mainly of an administrative and financial nature relating to Industry Year and its subsequent development into Industry Matters. Includes records of the Women's Working Group/Advisory Group.
Includes correspondence about displays by India and Ceylon at the Exhibition
A fire on July 5, 1894 burned the Court of Honor, Machinery Hall, Electricity Building, Administration Building, Mining Building, and the Manufactures Building
Includes details of discussion of selection of works of art to be shown at Exhibition and letters from J W Beck (Secretary to the Committee) and Lord Leighton, its president.
Corresponding members were first elected in 1755. Benjamin Franklin being one of the earliest.
Letters from Fay Lankester and others about exhibiting in the Women's Building at Chicago