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follows: Historic Americans; Everyday Life in the American Past; 
Costumes; and First Ladies. Rearrangement and expansion of the 
White House china collection were effected during the year. 
The educational program of volunteer docent guide service con- 
ducted with the cooperative assistance of the Junior League of 
Washington, for the benefit of the school children of the Greater 
Washington area, was continued with increasing success. The work 
is under the general direction of Frank M. Setzler, head curator of 
anthropology, working with Mrs. Peter Macdonald, chairman rep- 
resenting the Junior League. 
During the 6-month season 320 tours—an average of 53 a month— 
were conducted, in which 8,790 elementary school children were es- 
corted through the four exhibit halls included in the docent 
program—the American Indian Hall, the Hall of Everyday Life in 
Early America, the First Ladies Hall, and the Hall of Power Ma- 
chinery. This was an almost threefold increase in this activity over 
the previous year. In addition to Mrs. Macdonald and her cochair- 
man, Mrs. George Wyeth, Jr., the following members of the Junior 
League participated in the work of conducting the tours: Mrs. 
George A. Armstrong, Mrs. John K. Barry, Miss Eleanor Bishop, 
Mrs. G. Edwin Brown, Jr., Miss Joan Burke, Mrs. Paul Campbell, 
Mrs. Dean Cowie, Mrs. Charles Donnelly, Mrs. Walter Edwards, Mrs. 
C. Clarke Gearhart, Mrs. Walter A. Graves, Mrs. H. F. Gregory, 
Mrs. R. David Herdman, Mrs. Edward M. Lamont, Mrs. John A. 
Manfuso, Jr., Mrs. William McClure, Mrs. Robert L. McCormick, 
Mrs. William E. Minshall, Jr., Mrs. John Schoenfeld, Mrs. W. D. 
Sloan, Jr., Mrs. Walter Slowinski, Mrs. E. Tillman Stirling, Mrs. 
Richard F. Wallis. 
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 
At the close of the fiscal year, the temporary buildings on the site 
for the new Museum of History and Technology were being torn 
down to clear the land. The architects, McKim, Mead & White, sub- 
mitted drawings for the entire building in the tentative stage, made 
excellent progress on the working drawings, and completed the speci- 
fications and drawings for the excavation and foundations. ‘The de- 
sign of this museum building previously approved by the Board of 
Regents of the Institution, with the advice of the Joint Congressional 
Committee, was approved unanimously by the Commission of Fine 
Arts. The National Capital Planning Commission approved the 
location of the building on the site. 
Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the Joint Committee 
on Construction of a Building for the Museum of History and 'Tech- 
nology for the Smithsonian Institution, submitted to the United 
