SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 31 



ARCHIVES 



Ever-increasing use is being made of the manuscript and photo- 

 graphic collections of the Bureau. Cards for the manuscript catalog, 

 compiled for publication, have been typed and assembled. Upon 

 completion of this project, a similar catalog of the photographic 

 negatives in the Bureau collection, was begun. Approximately 2,600 

 cards for this catalog were typed by the end of the fiscal year. 



The Bureau also put into operation its new filing system of photo- 

 graphic prints, the first installment of 30 albums having been ac- 

 quired for prints from newly restored negatives. Each print is 

 labeled with information pertinent to the subject. Full biographical 

 data is furnished where possible in the case of portraits, so that the 

 information is easily accessible to inquirers. At the close of the fiscal 

 year, approximately 200 new file prints have been thus filed. Prints 

 for the duplicate reserve file also have been labeled and filed with 

 protecting paper between the prints. Bequests for pay orders ex- 

 ceeded 300 prints during the year. 



Up to July 1, 1948, 200 restorations of old negatives were com- 

 pleted. This necessitated the making of 200 11- by 14-inch enlarge- 

 ments, 200 mountings, 200 8- by 10-inch negatives, and 600 8- by 

 10-inch file prints. In addition to the restoration program, the Bureau 

 photographer filled requisitions for 53 negatives, 988 prints, and 807 

 enlargements. ^ 



COLLECTIONS 



Collections transferred by the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 to the United States National Museum during the fiscal year were 

 as follows : 



Accession 



No. Collection 



177,085. 1 skeleton of an Indian child, 2-3 years old, from near Lela, Wheeler 

 County, Tex. 



177,393. 1 skull and 4 cervical vertebrae of a dinosaur. Collected by Dr. 

 Theodore E. White 12% miles west of Kaycee, Johnson County, Wyo. 



178,819. Archeological material collected at Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz, 

 Mexico, 1941, by the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution Expedition under the direction of Dr. M. W. Stirling. 



178,831. 3 Miocene specimens from the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area in Mon- 

 tana; and 6 Eocene specimens from the Boysen Reservoir area in 

 Wyoming. Collected by Dr. T. E. White and John C. Donohoe. 



178,942. 538 specimens of archeological material collected by Dr. Gordon R. 

 Willey from the Center Hill Reservoir on Caney Fork River, DeKalb 

 County, Tenn. 



179,088. 2 moUusks from Medicine Creek, Nebr. 



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