36 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
In September 1957 E. M. Howell, acting curator of military history, 
spent 8 days in Chicago and Milwaukee studying collections of arms 
and armor at various museums. In March 1958 he visited the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art and New York Historical Society examining 
collections of powderhorns, Colt revolvers, Revolutionary War Brit- 
ish insignia, and colonial-type armor. 
Through an exchange the Museum acquired an 1866 model Gatling 
gun, which was examined and reported upon by Craddock R. Goins, 
Jr., assistant curator of military history. Late in January 1958 
Mr. Goins made an extensive trip to the major firearms manufactur- 
ing firms in the vicinity of Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford, 
Conn., and Springfield and Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
John E. Anglim, supervisory exhibits specialist, spent 2 days in 
Williamsburg, Va., inspecting a variety of exhibition cases, panel, 
grid, and light systems. He also studied the interiors of the re- 
stored buildings for ideas that might be included in the hall of 
18th- and 19th-century furnishings of the Museum of History and 
Technology. 
In preparation of designing an exhibit to portray hand and photo- 
mechanical printing processes, Miss Judith Borgogni, exhibits 
worker, visited the New York Public Library in February 1958. To- 
gether with exhibits worker Robert B. Widder, she critically exam- 
ined the display methods used in the University of Pennsylvania 
Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 
Consultant John C. Widener and exhibits worker Thomas G. Baker 
spent several days in February 1958 visiting chemical and plastics 
manufacturing companies in order to determine the most feasible 
method for exhibiting the Museum’s large blue whale. 
A detailed analysis of the arms and armor exhibition of the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art was made by exhibits worker William B. 
Eddy in March 1958. He also scrutinized a variety of exhibits at the 
Museum of the City of New York and at the American Museum of 
Natural History. 
In connection with the planning of a hall of photographic history 
in the Museum of History and Technology, Mrs. B. A. W. Karras, 
exhibits worker, spent 4 days in April 1958 reviewing the highly 
specialized exhibit at George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y. Even 
though technical exhibits comparable to those at Eastman House 
will be presented, they must be geared simply and graphically to the 
average visitor both as a source of study and for pure enjoyment. 
During February 1958 exhibits specialist Benjamin Lawless, Jr., 
and exhibits worker Robert B. Widder made extensive examinations 
of museum displays, new buildings under construction, and archi- 
tectural offices in New York City. 
