28 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



Shot Color Camera was presented to the section of photography by 

 Ralph E. Wareham. This type of camera simultaneously exposes a 

 complete set of color separation negatives which are used to produce 

 color prints. Technicolor Corporation donated a display of motion- 

 picture him strips explaining their Teclmirama process of 

 cinematography. 



The division of manufactures and heavy industries acquired several 

 significant specimens. In the section of petroleum, Universal Oil 

 Products Company and Esso Standard Oil Company, in association 

 with the M. W. Kellogg Company, prepared models and flow charts 

 illustrative of phases in the development of petroleum refining. Wil- 

 liam C. Cleveland, consultant in the section of general manufacturing, 

 has been successful in locating more than 100 machines typical of the 

 development of the metalworking trades. These will provide an ex- 

 cellent basis for a treatment of the history of fasteners of all kinds. 

 A number of important pieces of equipment have been transferred 

 by nuclear physics laboratories at Argonne, Cliicago, and Wasliing- 

 ton, D.C. 



Civil history. — President John F. Kennedy gave the Smithsonian 

 Institution a magnificent volume, the Atlas Nouveau^ compiled by 

 Nicolas Sanson and published in 1692. The richly illustrated atlas, 

 intended for the instruction of the Dauphin of France, is bound in 

 handsome contemporary red leather and gilt binding. 



Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower donated a Portuguese 

 standing lamp in silver, a carved teakwood elephant and rider pre- 

 sented to him by His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, and 

 an elaborately carved scene from the Mahabharata in ivory and 

 sandalwood, presented to him by the President of India. Mr. Eisen- 

 hower also gave the twin microphones over which his voice was fre- 

 quently carried during his 50,000-mile campaign of 1952. 



Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower presented a pink embroidered organdy 

 dress given her by Mrs. Carlos P. Garcia, wife of tlie President of the 

 Philippines. Ralph E. Becker continued his donations of political 

 campaign paraphernalia of the past. Significant among the gifts is a 

 preserve crock inscribed "25,000 ]\Iajority General Jackson" — a protest 

 against the fact that in the election of 1824 General Jackson rolled up 

 a majority of greater than 25,000 popular votes over his nearest rival, 

 John Quincy Adams. He lost the election, however; since no candidate 

 had a majority of the total vote, the House of Representatives chose 

 Mr. Adams from the three candidates having the highest number of 

 electoral votes. 



Noteworthy among accessions received in the division of philately 

 and postal history is a specialized collection of early Peru donated 

 by Bernard Peyton, consisting of more than 13,000 stamps and covers 

 in 16 albums. The material portrays the postal history of Peru from 



