52 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



Keith M. Melder, associate curator of political history, completed 

 a biographical sketch of Mrs. Josephine S. GriflSng, a 19th-century 

 American reformer and feminist, and revised his manuscript on 

 "Bryan the Campaigner." 



The division of cultural history joined the Corning Museum of 

 Glass, serving as principal sponsor, in a second 10-day archeological 

 investigation of the site of Jolin Frederick Amelung's New Bremen 

 Glassworks, which operated between 1785 and 1795 in Frederick 

 County, Md. Ivor Noel Hume, research associate, was archeological 

 director, with Paul N. Perrot, director of the Corning Museum, as 

 administrative director. Jolin N. Pearce, associate curator, and Rich- 

 ard J. Muzzrole, archeological aide, represented Smithsonian partici- 

 pation. The excavations revealed an astonishingly complex founda- 

 tion structure, evidence of a complete factoi-y unit, having two fur- 

 naces, fritting areas, and tlie other appurtenances of a typically 

 Germanic glass-house of the 18th century. This archeological discov- 

 ery confirms documentary hints that Amelung's enterprise was an 

 elaborate one. The project has thus become one of the most impor- 

 tant in industrial site archeology thus far undertaken in this country. 



C. Malcolm Watkins, curator of cultural history, worked with Joan 

 Pearson Watkins, research collaborator, in recording by fihn and tape 

 tlie still living tradition of potterymaking practiced in Moore County, 

 N.C., since the second half of the 18th century. A photographic rec- 

 ord of all the processes used there in making a pot, from digging the 

 clay to firing the vessel, as well as tape-recorded interviews with the 

 area's leading potter, were made this year. 



Cynthia Adams Hoover, associate curator in charge of musical in- 

 struments, completed a paper on "The Slide Trumpet of the 19th 

 Century." 



Carl Scheele, associate curator of philately and postal history, com- 

 pleted an article which surveys the history of the division and traces 

 the development of its new exhibits. 



At the beginning of the year. Dr. V. Clain-Stefanelli, curator of 

 numismatics, and Mrs. E. Clain-Stefanelli, associate curator, were in 

 Israel at the invitation of the Israeli Government. Dr. Stefanelli 

 traveled also in Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and 

 England, undertaking research on ancient, as well as United States, 

 coins in museums and private collections, and studying the history of 

 coining techniques. Mrs. Stefanelli studied ancient Greek coinage of 

 Messana at the British Museum, the Aslimolean Museum in Oxford, 

 the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and the Penningkabinet in 

 The Hague. 



Dr. Stefanelli completed research concerning a mission from Peru 

 to procure in Philadelphia modem equipment for the Lima mint, and 



