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by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Federation of 
Musicians). Mr. Bales appeared as guest conductor at a number of 
concerts in several cities throughout the United States during the 
year. Special concerts were held to commemorate United Nations 
Day and the Lincoln Sesquicentennial. 
Four Sunday evenings during May 1959 were devoted to the Gal- 
lery’s 16th American Music Festival. All concerts were broadcast 
in their entirety in stereophonic sound by station WGMS-AM and 
FM, Washington. The Voice of America regularly received portions 
of the Sunday evening concerts for transmission overseas. ‘The in- 
termissions during Sunday evening concerts featured discussions by 
members of the Educational Office staff and Mr. Bales. 
During the fiscal year, 4,103 copies of 14 press releases in connection 
with the Gallery’s activities were approved and issued by Director 
John Walker. In all, 148 permits to copy and 121 permits to photo- 
graph works of art in the Gallery were also issued. 
During the fiscal year, in response to requests from Senators and 
Congressmen, 9,872 copies of the pamphlet “A Cordial Invitation 
from the Director” and 9,636 copies of the National Gallery of Art 
Information Booklet were sent for distribution to their constituents; 
29,800 copies of “A Cordial Invitation from the Director” were sent 
to various organizations holding conventions in the Washington area. 
During this fiscal year, the slide project begun in the fiscal year 
1958 was carried to completion and sets of 500 color slides were sent 
to 114 colleges and universities having departments in the History 
of Art, and to museums having slide-lending services. This program 
was initiated in order to make slides of the works of art in the Na- 
tional Gallery of Art available in color at a minimum cost. 
Henry B. Beville, the Gallery’s photographer, and his staff proc- 
essed 13,681 prints, 488 black-and-white slides, 1,121 color slides, 
1,508 black-and-white negatives, 175 sets of color-separation nega- 
tives, 345 color transparencies, 6 infrared and 2 ultraviolet photo- 
graphs during the fiscal year. 
AUDIT OF PRIVATE FUNDS OF THE GALLERY 
An audit of the private funds of the Gallery will be made for the 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1959, by Price Waterhouse & Co., public 
accountants, and the certificate of that company on its examination 
of the accounting records maintained for such funds will be for- 
warded to the Gallery. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Huntineton Cairns, Secretary. 
Dr. Lronarp CARMICHAEL 
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 
