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and exchange. Many of the foreign exchanges which lapsed during 

 the war have again resumed, and good progress has been made in filling 

 the gaps, brought about by the war, in periodical sets. 



Cards on hand for domestic periodicals have been typed, and the 

 shelf list for tliis classification is now complete. A beginning has been 

 made on typing the cards for serial publications of domestic societies 

 and institutions, and this will soon be finished. 



The labeling of sets of publications of domestic societies and institu- 

 tions and all the domestic periodicals has been completed, and the 

 labeling of the foreign serial publications has begun. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



From late fall of 1946 up to June 30, 1947, E. G. Cassedy, illustrator, 

 spent most of the time, with the exception of time taken out to prepare 

 weather graphs, work for the Editorial Division, and miscellaneous 

 maps and plates, on the restoration of the old Indian negatives of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. With the help of Mr. Brostrup this 

 work has been progressing very satisfactorily and many negatives 

 which were important historically and which were about to be lost 

 have been preserved for coming generations. 



ARCHIVES 



Miss MaeW. Tucker continued the work of operating and cataloging 

 the manuscript and photographic archives of the Bureau. In addi- 

 tion to furnishing material for routine requests, some special requests 

 for photographic prints requiring urgent attention have been filled. 

 Visitors desiring to consult material in the archives have been given the 

 required assistance. 



The greater part of the time has been given to work on the manu- 

 script catalog which is being prepared for publication, to include all 

 the unpublished manuscript material in the Bureau archives. The 

 data for this catalog has been typed on individual cards for each item 

 and is ready for final assembling. 



A new file-print collection consisting of prints made from the re- 

 photographed and retouched negatives in the Bureau collection has 

 been started and will continue as the new prints are made. On Mr. 

 Cassedy's recommendation, an extra set of prints is being made along 

 with the file prints, this set to be preserved for possible emergency use. 



Some time is necessarily required for research work in connection 

 with both the manuscript material and the photographs. 



SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC RESTORATION PROJECT 



The Bureau of American Ethnology ever since its inception in 1879 

 has maintained a collection of photographic negatives of North Ameri- 



