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objects shown in cases. Six new wooden frames for cases were made 

 and the glass tops for these assembled. For this work a table and 

 rack with a metal pan was built. Two new pedestals for stone 

 sculptures were built and the sculptures mounted. The shop has 

 m'ade also 40 butternut picture frames, which were sent away to be 

 gilded, 58 reeded French walnut frames, 24 frames for gallery and 

 other signs, and one large American walnut frame for hanging a 

 six-fold screen. In the autumn a removable vestibule door for 

 winter use was built and installed at the north entr'ance. In con- 

 nection with the use of the auditorium, the shop built a portable 

 wooden platform to be placed at times on the concrete stage, and 

 fitted up closet No. 10 as a cloak room, made a stand and lockable 

 cover for the projection lantern, built a portable barricade, and 

 rehung the door leading from the auditorium to the emergency exit. 

 Locks were placed on all storage cases in stor'age rooms 3 and 4, and 

 numerous fittings, such as bronze clamps for makimono on exhibi- 

 tion, a map drawer in the curator's office, a device for hanging 

 kakemmio for examination, stands with frames for notices, etc., were 

 made. 



A poi-table scaffold was built for use in the court in cleaning win- 

 dows; the joints of the coping of the main walls and court walls 

 were covered with felt and cement ; a picture molding was put on the 

 west wall of study room No. 1 ; one section of a new device for modi- 

 fying the light has been made and installed in the attic; and mis- 

 cellaneous repairs have been made on objects in the collection and 

 on furniture and building. 



The shop has also recolored the east wall of Gallery XVI, painted 

 the floor of study room No. 2, painted numbers in the various sec- 

 tions of attic and sub-basement in accordance with the architect's 

 plan, painted the underside of the skylight glass, and lettered and 

 painted several signboards. In the summer of 1923 the lettering for 

 the inscriptions to be placed on the outside of the building was done 

 by the shop painter after the architect's design, and later the in- 

 scriptions were cut by outside contract. By outside contract, also, 

 weatherproof shade-s were put outside the north and south corridor 

 windows. 



To the general equipment have been added during the ye'ar a mim- 

 eograph, a stereopticon lantern, and several pieces of office furniture. 



The Freer Gallery is gratefully indebted to the Bureau of Fisheries 

 for the gift of goldfish for the fountain, to the Zoological Park for 

 the loan of three peafowl, and to the Department of Agriculture for 

 advice as to the care of the box trees and rhododendrons in the court 

 and for constant oversight of them. 



