SECRETARY'S REPORT 33 



The most important accession received in the division of graphic 

 arts was a bequest of 243 Currier & Ives lithographs of sporting and 

 western subjects from the Adele S. Colgate Estate. This gift greatly 

 enhances the standing of the Museum's collection of Currier & Ives 

 prints. The important gift of Erich Colin of 20 drawings and etch- 

 ings by the Gennan expressionist artists Paul Kleinschmidt and Lud- 

 wig Meidner reflects what was probably the strongest group contri- 

 bution to printmaking in this century. The Society of Washington 

 Printmakers donated, through its president, Prentiss Taylor, the in- 

 taglio print Image III^ by Lois Fine; the woodcut The Y alley ^ by 

 Isabella Walker ; and the lithograph Nova Scotia^ by Louis Lozowick. 



The section of photography acquired a number of historically note- 

 worthy specimens of photograplis and equipment. Lucien G. Bull 

 of Paris presented a large group of material related to the early his- 

 tory of high-speed photography, consisting of original negatives, 

 prints, and an electromechanical timing device. Ansco, Binghamton, 

 N.Y., presented a model of a photographic wagon of the type used by 

 Mathew Brady during the Civil War. Nikon, Inc., presented a "Niko- 

 nos" 35-mm. underwater camera, with watertight lens and body, for 

 use under water without a protective housing. The New York Dally 

 Mirror donated a lightweight Zeiss Ikon, Ernemann plate camera, 

 originally purchased in the 1930's by William Eandolph Plearst to 

 replace the bulkier cameras used by his newspapers, and another spe- 

 cially designed camera intended to take pictures from a concealed 

 position. 



The division of manufactures and heavy industries continued to 

 collect for the various halls planned for the Museum of History and 

 Technology. New York University presented to the section of nuclear 

 energy the first subcritical reactor to be installed in a teaching institu- 

 tion. Improvised from 2 tons of fuel lent by the U.S. Atomic Energy 

 Commission and installed in a pickle barrel, the university was able to 

 secure at a cost of $1,500 a teaching research facility which might 

 otherwise have been unattainable. 



Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. presented a model of an electric weld 

 pipe mill for the hall of iron and steel. A malleable iron air furnace 

 was given by Erie Malleable Iron Co. ; and some Roman nails from the 

 Inchtuthil excavation in Scotland came from Colvilles, Ltd., of 

 Glasgow. 



The section of petroleum received further gifts as a result of the 

 excellent work of the American Petrolemn Institute's subcommittee. 

 Among these were an animated model of a modern sea-going drilling 

 installation from Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.; three models of 

 drilling rigs from the Lee C. Moore Corp. ; and an interesting survey 

 model of the Velma field from Skelly Oil Co. 



