120 REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1024 



June 30 is 5,329. The additions have a high artistic and historical 

 value. Mention of the more important ones follow : 



Shutters of historical interest have been received from several 

 sources. Adam Archinal, New York City, supplied six obsolete ones. 

 Frederick C. Hassold, Philadelphia, Pa., gave two more. A. B. 

 Stebbins, Canisteo, N. Y., gave two, one of which was a unique 

 specimen of his own manufacture, known as a drop shutter; this 

 class was in very common use before shutters were produced com- 

 mercially. He also contributed another valuable exhibit, a daguer- 

 reotype camera, which was used about 1850. A multispeed shutter 

 was loaned by Robert Eunyon, Brownsville, Tex., the only one of 

 its kind in the collections. 



B. J. Falk, New York City, sent in a very early type of magazine- 

 plate camera ; it was invented by S. C. Nash in 1885. 



Fifty lantern slides, made and used by Edward J. Muybridge, 

 were obtained by purchase. They consist of several sets, more 

 or less complete, showing action of animals, and are a valuable addi- 

 tion to our early motion-picture series. Mr. Muybridge used these 

 slides so mounted on the periphery of a wheel as to produce pro- 

 jected motion on a screen. 



Francis F. French, Cynwyd, Pa., donated a very early model 

 view camera, equipped with a no. 2 Darlot lens. 



The Society of Motion Picture Engineers contributed an impor- 

 tant collection of 15 historical specimens of the early efforts to ob- 

 tain color in motion pictures. These would be hard to duplicate. 

 They consist of pieces of films and the screens used to obtain the 

 color separation. 



The War Department transferred six aerial cameras, fully equip- 

 ped. These represent the important types of this class of camera. 



The American Raylo Corporation, New York City, added seven 

 very unusual prints made by their color process. John Adams 

 Gallagher, Washington, gave a Hess-Ives print, the only one in the 

 collection. Through the interest of Herbert B. Baldwin, Newark, 

 N. J., a portrait of the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, the inventor of the 

 photographic film, was received from Zachariah Belcher, Newark, 

 N. J. This was added to the collection of early American inventors 

 and manufacturers of photographic material. Mr. Baldwin took 

 great interest in the following accession. He was personally ac- 

 quainted with Mr. Levison from 1885 to his death in 1923. 



The original motion-picture camera, invented in 1887 by Wallace 

 Goold Levison, was received from his brother and sister, C. G. Levison 



