44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 
New York Public Library. 
William E. Geoghegan, exhibits technician, with Kenneth Perry, 
visited Warwick and Richmond, Va., between October 29 and 31, 
1958. At the Mariners’ Museum in Warwick and at the Confederate 
Museum in Richmond they worked on models of ships that will be 
exhibited in the Museum of History and Technology. In November 
1958 Mr. Geoghegan went to Providence, R.I., and Essex, Conn., to 
examine the models of certain historic ships. Work on several such 
models is progressing as anticipated and it is expected that they will 
greatly enhance the educational value of the hall being planned by the 
division of transportation. 
Exhibits technician Chris Karras made a field trip in May 1959 
that took him to several museums in the eastern half of the country. 
He was mainly interested in marine biological displays in connection 
with the new Hall of Oceanic Life that is being planned for the 
Museum of Natural History. 
Mrs. Ann Karras, exhibits designer, visited the Cincinnati Art 
Museum and the Taft Museum, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 1958 to 
acquire background information for details of the Hall of Musical 
Instruments of the Museum of History and Technology. Between 
November 15 and 26, 1958, she visited several museums for the pur- 
pose of studying fossil mammal exhibits, in connection with a pend- 
ing renovation of a hall in our Museum of Natural History. This 
visit took her to the Chicago Natural History Museum, the University 
of Nebraska State Museum, the Denver Museum of Natural History, 
the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, and the American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Between November 17 and 21, 1958, James A. Mahoney, exhibits 
designer, visited George Eastman House, Eastman Kodak Co., and 
Bausch & Lomb Co. in Rochester, N.Y., for technical data needed in 
the Hall of Photographic History, in the Museum of History and 
Technology. He obtained much valuable information, and got a 
general view of present methods of displaying photographic and 
historical topics. 
William Pennock, exhibits designer, went to New York in the com- 
pany of Dr. Clain-Stefanelli between August 7 and 9, 1958, to examine 
various exhibit methods, color and lighting techniques, case designs, 
architecture, and manufacturing processes pertaining to numismatic 
displays. 
John C. Widener, exhibits specialist, attended sessions of the Na- 
tional Plastics Exposition held in Chicago from November 17 to 21, 
1958. He discussed the utilizations of various plastics with specialists 
who attended the exposition and visited several companies in order to 
