SECRETARY’S REPORT 21 
President Benjamin Harrison was presented by Mrs. Samuel 
Schwartz. The First Ladies collection was enhanced by the loan of 
the inaugural dress of Dolley Madison from the William Rockhill 
Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City. 
The division of cultural history acquired the furnishings and fit- 
tings of the Stohlman Confectionery Shop originally installed in 
Georgetown, D.C., in 1900. This remarkable accession with its ice- 
cream parlor, its ornate cabinetwork, candy jars, fancy ice-cream 
molds, and countless other minutiae will serve to document a pic- 
turesque phase of late Victorian urban life. A complete set of orig- 
inal furnishings from a 19th-century parlor in a Thomaston, Maine, 
house was donated by the Misses Helen R. and Elizabeth W. New- 
combe. The carpet, mirror, sofas, and side chairs will make it pos- 
sible to reproduce authentically the parlor of a rural Victorian 
gentleman. 
Among the outstanding accessions received in the division of 
numismatics are 22 die proofs of vignettes used for Canadian cur- 
rency, donated by the British American Bank Note Co., Ottawa; 
664 Chinese cash pieces transferred by the Library of Congress; 1 
Continental $60 note, issued September 1778, donated by Consul J. 
Warner; 4 Byzantine gold solidi and 2 modern Greek gold coins, 
given by M. Tambakis. Senator Harry Byrd donated three $1,000 
bonds and five $500 bonds issued by the Confederate States of Amer- 
ica in 1861 and 1863. A rare copper plate made by Charles Toppan 
& Co. and used about 1835 by the New Haven County Bank for the 
printing of $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes was presented by the New 
Haven Bank, Conn., through Comptroller W. F’. Hasse, Jr. Showing 
his continued interest in the growth of the national coin collections, 
Paul A. Straub donated a group of rare Holy Roman Empire gold 
coins struck in Hungary and Carinthia, and an unusual Prussian 
taler struck in 1719 in the name of Frederick Wilhelm I. 
The division of philately and postal history received an excep- 
tionally large accession through the transfer of 5,801,500 United 
States obsolete revenue stamps from the Internal Revenue Service. 
Former Postmaster James A. Farley converted a loan of 8,835 speci- 
mens to a gift. A rarity, the United States 24-cent airmail stamp 
with inverted center, was donated by the Raymond H. Weill Co. Sid- 
ney N. Shure of Chicago presented the first issue of Israel complete 
in sheets. An airmail collection of Albania and Bulgaria, a stamp 
collection of Czechoslovakia in 17 volumes, and a 5-volume collec- 
tion of Rocket Mail were presented by Tom Lowenstein. An official 
presentation booklet of stamps of the United Nations for use in the 
European Office (Swiss overprints) was donated by John M. Harlan, 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. | 
