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work of the foUoATing Avell known artists: AV. J. Aylwarcl, W. J. 

 Duncan, Harvey Dunn, George Harding, W. Morgan, E. Peixotto, 

 J. A. Smith, and Harry Townsend. 



From the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 

 there was received as a loan a very interesting and striking addition 

 to the war materials in the form of uniforms of the tj'pe worn by 

 American women members of Avar organizations. The organizations 

 represented in the collection include the following: American Red 

 Cross, National League for Woman's Service, Woman's Land Army 

 of America, American Committee for Devastated France, American 

 Fund for French Wounded, National War AA'^ork Council of the 

 Young AVomen's Christian Association, National Catholic AA^ar 

 Council, JeAvish AA'^elfare Board, Young ]Men's Christian Association, 

 American Friends Service Committee, American Library Associa- 

 tion, U. S. Marine Corps, Signal Corps Telephone Unit, Emergency 

 Aid of Pennsyh ania, and the Salvation Army. 



A A'ery unique addition Avas a collection of Avar toys made in the 

 United States during the Avar and illustrating the groAvth of the toy 

 industry in this country as a result of the conflict, including repre- 

 sentations in miniature of many classes of Avar material Avith small 

 arms, machine guns, tanks, battleships, aeroplanes, a majority being 

 figures of the soldier; gift of the Toy Manufacturers of the United 

 States of America, NeAv York Cit3^ 



The numismatic section of the Avar collections has received numer- 

 ous and A^aluable additions during the past year, including the fol- 

 loA^■ing: A collection of the principal decorations and medals of the 

 type aAvarded by the governments of the most prominent allied and 

 enemy countries for special service in connection with military and 

 other war Avork; transfer from the Quartermaster Corps. A collec- 

 tion of bronze and sih'er medals issued by the allied countries in 

 commemoration of notable events during the AVorld AA^ar was pur- 

 chased. This series constitutes a unique record in medallic form of 

 the part played in the AA^ar by mau}^ of the nations invoh'ed. 



The foremost accession of the year, aside from those resulting 

 directly from the AA^ar, was a collection of objects relating to the 

 career of Cyrus W. Field and the laying of the first Atlantic tele- 

 graph cables, 1858-66. In 1899 Mrs. Isabella Field Judson, the 

 daughter of the eminent projector of this historic work, lent to the 

 ISIuseum a collection of mementoes of her father and his great 

 achievement, which Avere assigned at the time to the division of 

 mechanical technology. During the past year ]Mrs. Judson secured 

 for the ]Museum fi'om the jNIetropolitan ^Museum in New York City, 

 as a loan, many other objects of great interest in this same connec- 

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