26 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 



The Xational Society of the Colonial Dames assisted also in builcl- 

 inir up the War Collections by lending a very interesting and strik- 

 ing series of uniforms of the type worn by American ^Yomen mem- 

 bers of war organizations, including those of the American Red 

 Cross, National League for Women's Service, Woman's Land Armj^ 

 of America, American Committee for Devastated France, American 

 Fnnd for French Wounded, National Catholic War Council, Jewish 

 Welfare Board, Young Men's Christian Association, American 

 Friends Service Committee, American Library Association, Young 

 Women's Christian Association, National War Work Council of the 

 Young Women's Christian Association, United States Marine Corps, 

 Signal Corps Telephone Unit, Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, and 

 the Salvation Army. 



Early in the year the space assigned to the War Collections was 

 increased by two large ranges on the ground floor of the Natural 

 History Building. In one Avas installed the collection of foreign 

 uniforms, insignia and decorations showing the various types of 

 military costumes worn by the armies of the Allies and the enemy 

 countries during the war, and the collections of captured German 

 militar}^ equipment, for which the Museum was indebted to the 

 Quartermaster General of the U. S. Army, Major General H. L. 

 Eogers, under whose direction they were assembled for installation. 

 In the second range were placed the collections of chemical warfare 

 and ordnance material. The west and central portion of the foyer of 

 this building was given over^to the Corps of Engineers for its exhibit : 

 a portion of the foyer and three rooms on the east to the exhibit of 

 the Medical Department, heretofore mentioned, and the walls of three 

 rooms on the west of the foyer to the pictorial material. In the Arts 

 and Industries Building were placed on display captured German 

 ordnance material, small arms of the Allies and enemy countries, 

 American ordnance equipment, and the collection of uniforms worn 

 by the Avomen's organizations. Out of doors, on the west side of 

 this building, were placed the German field guns, and the airplane 

 exhibit is being assembled in the Aircraft Building. 



The War Department re^idered great assistance to the INIuseum in 

 putting this material on display, preparing labels, etc. Indeed with- 

 out such assistance the Museum could have made little progress in 

 this direction, the small force of the division of history, under which 

 the War Collections are administered, being entirely inadequate to 

 the huge task. Capt. J. J. Hittinger of the Quartermaster Corps 

 continued on detail to the Museum throughout the year, giving gen- 

 eral supervision to the assembling and installation of material; Maj. 

 John McLaren Avas detailed from the Ordnance Department in con- 

 nection Avith the ordnance section of the yvar exhibit, personally 

 superintending the installation of the field guns and accessories in 



