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Early America in the new Museum of History and Technology. In 
connection with planning for this hall, she visited the Winterthur 
Museum in Delaware in December 1958 and again in June 1959. At 
the Baltimore Museum of Arts, Miss Roth studied an imaginative 
display entitled “Age of Elegance, the Rococo and Its Effect,” con- 
sisting of an assemblage of fine and decorative arts of the 18th century 
grouped by country of origin. 
George T. Turner, acting curator of philately and postal history, 
and Francis J. McCall, associate curator of that division, attended 
the American Stamp Dealers’ Show in New York in November 1958. 
They displayed a special Smithsonian exhibit, and Mr. Turner gave 
a talk on the history of the National Postage Stamp collection and 
its development under the preceding curators. During the first 10 
days of 1959 Mr. Turner visited several cities in California to meet 
numerous philatelists, to inform them of the material needed in the 
exhibits planned for a new hall, and to tell them something of the 
stamps missing in the National collection. Hespoke before a meeting 
of the Philatelic Research Society on the “Activities of the Smithso- 
nian’s Division of Philately and Postal History.” 
On two occasions Francis J. McCall visited New York City to 
discuss with several philatelists material of potential interest to the 
Museum of History and Technology. At the New York Historical 
Society, the Philatelic Society, and the New York Public Library he 
supplemented previous studies and strengthened contacts with staff 
members. Between October 31 and November 2, 1958, he attended 
the American Philatelic Congress in New York. From March 15 to 
20, 1959, he visited Boston and Cambridge, Mass., to discuss with 
philatelists matters of mutual interest and to study documents at 
various libraries. | 
Dr. Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli, curator of numismatics, made sev- 
eral trips to New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and cities in Mas- 
sachusetts during the year to select material missing from the 
Smithsonian library. On September 16, 1958, he gave an illustrated 
address to the Philadelphia Coin Club concerning the history of the 
Smithsonian and of the national coin collections. In October 1958 
he spent several days in Worcester, Mass., where he visited the 
American Antiquarian Society and studied their collections of colonial 
notes. At the Worcester Numismatic Club he discussed the Smith- 
sonian’s modernization program and examined a collection of German 
Renaissance medals, multiple talers, and ancient Greek coins. In 
February 1959 he spent several days in New York, principally at the 
museum of the American Numismatic Society, where he studied post- 
humous Lysimachus gold and silver coinages struck in various ancient 
Greek cities. 
