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Donald Hoist of the office of exhibits ; a Pennsylvania bar share plow 

 was donated by Daniel G. H. Lesher ; and an early threshing machine 

 by James W. Brown. 



Preparation of exhibits for the new museum made it possible for 

 the division of graphic arts to acquire a number of important prints. 

 Among these are "St. Catherine with the Wheel," a hand-colored 

 anonymous woodcut dated 1465-70, and examples of the graphic work 

 of J. M. Whistler, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard, Muirhead Bone, 

 Georges Kouault, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and others. An out- 

 standing collection of materials representing the history of motion- 

 picture photography, comprising 864 items, was received as a bequest 

 from Gatewood W. Dunston. 



History. — The division of civil history acquired a notable reception 

 room that was originally installed in a house near Kutztown, Berks 

 County, Pa., during the period 1785-90. This room corresponds in 

 size, plan, locale, period, and original usage to the second-floor front 

 drawing room of the Philadelphia Presidential Mansion as it appeared 

 during Washington's second administration. 



The Ladies' Hermitage Association, Nashville, Tenn., presented a 

 buff-and-gold china bowl from one of the dinner services used at the 

 White House during the administration of President Andrew Jackson. 

 A plate and a cup and saucer representative of the State services made 

 by Wedgwood for the White House for use during the Theodore 

 Roosevelt administration were presented by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, 

 Inc. 



A most interesting addition to the costumes collection is a gold 

 brocade shoe for a woman of the early 18th century with a matching 

 gold brocade clog, a gift of Mrs. Brookings T. Andrews. 



The military history collections were enhanced by the gift from 

 President Dwight D. Eisenhower of a summer service uniform of a 

 General of the Army worn by him during his term as Commanding 

 General, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe. Twelve 

 military paintings by the celebrated military artist Charles Hoffbauer 

 were presented by Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. 



Outstanding among the specimens received in the division of naval 

 history was a series of six oil paintings of naval actions in the Pacific 

 Ocean during World War II which came as a gift of the artist 

 Clarence J. Tibado. 



An important accession received in the division of numismatics is 

 an original pantograph invented and built by Christian Gobrecht, a 

 foremost United States Mint engraver, together with various engrav- 

 ings and plate proofs of State bank notes made by him, the gift of 

 Mrs. C. F. Wolters. Outstanding among the specimens presented by 

 Paul A. Straub are a broad gold 8-ducat piece struck in 1617 in Qued- 



