. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. EXHIBITS 23 New ship models prepared for the historical series in the new museum have been placed on exhibition as soon as they are received. A special exhibition, featuring the model of the 1819 steamship Savannah, was presented in the watercraft hall in celebration of National Maritime Week, May 21-27. Associate curator John H. White, Jr., wrote scripts for the railroad hall, and these were used by exhibits designers James Mahoney and Virginia Kneitel in designing units for the street railwaj^ and locomo- tive sec
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. EXHIBITS 23 New ship models prepared for the historical series in the new museum have been placed on exhibition as soon as they are received. A special exhibition, featuring the model of the 1819 steamship Savannah, was presented in the watercraft hall in celebration of National Maritime Week, May 21-27. Associate curator John H. White, Jr., wrote scripts for the railroad hall, and these were used by exhibits designers James Mahoney and Virginia Kneitel in designing units for the street railwaj^ and locomo- tive sections of the hall. Production of street railway exhibits was begun in May. The locomotive Pioneei\ which served the Cumberland. Diorama of radio broadcasting studio of the early 1920's, complete with wind-up phonograph, was added to displays of early history of electronics. Valley Railroad in 1851, was placed on exhibition in the east hall in February, and the cable car was removed for restoration prior to its exhibition in the new building. New locomotive and street car models have replaced old and inaccurate ones, and a scale model of the Norris Locomotive Works has been added to the east hall exhibits. Curator Eugene S. Ferguson wrote the exhibits script, collected major specimens, and prepared specifications for models and dioramas for the hall of tools of the Museum of History and Technology, The design of exhibits for this hall by HarrA- Hart and Bright Springman is nearing completion. Adequate ecj[uipment for a pre-Civil War ma- chine shop was obtained after a search extending over four years, and the systematic restoration of machine tools and other objects for the hall of tools is going forward at an accelerated pace. Two land- mark machine tools of 1865-1875, completely restored and made operative by William Henson, were placed on exhibition in the south-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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