Neil Allen of Neil Allen Productions worked on the audiovisual elements of the Hall of Photography at the National Museum of American History. The hall opened in 1972
and was organized by Eugene Ostroff, curator. Allen worked on installations of photographs broken down into seven broad categories: scientific photography, frontier photography,
family photography, news and documentary photography, amateur photography, color photography, and applications of photography. Materials include correspondence, contracts,
research notes, scripts, images, motion picture film, audio recordings, and clippings.