. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 48 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1962. Exhibits specialists Waiter Lewis and Deborah Bretzfelder restoring specimens of the early Spanish period for hall of everyday life in America in new Museum of History and Technology. tors vividly and intimately to that precise moment in the Nation's Jiistory when this shattered warship, having fired her last shot in our struggle for independence, slid quietly beneath the waters of Lake Champlain. Notable among early 19th-century naval accessions is an oil painting by Mic
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 48 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1962. Exhibits specialists Waiter Lewis and Deborah Bretzfelder restoring specimens of the early Spanish period for hall of everyday life in America in new Museum of History and Technology. tors vividly and intimately to that precise moment in the Nation's Jiistory when this shattered warship, having fired her last shot in our struggle for independence, slid quietly beneath the waters of Lake Champlain. Notable among early 19th-century naval accessions is an oil painting by Michel Felice Corn, depicting the engagement in 1812 between the Constitution and the Java., donated by Mrs. Mabel P. Garvan. The Department of the Navy has provided two early boarding pikes and a pair of mid-century gangway headboards on indefinite loan. Valu- able light on the emergence of the steam Navy and its Corps of Engineers is provided in the professional correspondence (1847-67) of Chief Engineer James M. Adams, USN, donated by his great grandson, James Adams Knowles. Submarine operations during the Civil War are represented by a superb model of the Confederate sub- mersible 77. L. Hunley^ constructed and presented by Mr. Floyd D- Houston, of New Suffolk, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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