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For Users and Benefactors of the 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

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Spencer Baird Society Established ai SIL 

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SPRING / SUMMER 1999 

No. 86 

There is a new spirit of excitement at the 

Smithsonian Libraries these days, a collective sense of energy that has taken hold of 

our friends, users, and staff alike; A central 

focus.of this energy is the creation of the 

Spencer Baird Society,. the Libraries’ premiere donor recognition organization. The 

Baird Society, named for the Smithsonian’s 

second Secretary, recognizes those who 

provide significant philanthropic support 

for top priority projects of the Libraries 

and offers opportunities to become 

involved in our activities and programs. 

Friends who make a commitment 

the Libraries also qualify you for member- < < 

ship.. Our earliest members have made . 

unrestricted donations or provided funds 

for acquisitions in specific-subjects, added 

to existing Libraries’endowments, and supported special projects. These are only a 

few of the options. We are happy to discuss other possibilities with you 

depending on your particular interests and 

circumstances. 

,The Spencer Baird Society has three levels 

of membership: Benefactor ($2,000 per 

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year), Patron ($1,000 per year), and 

Associate ($500 per year). All 

Baird Society members, will 

be included in special 

behind-the-scenes tours 

through the Baird Society 

will share first-hand in 

our new ventures, such 

as learning about the latest techniques in book 

conservation; observing 

production of electronic 

editions of rarescientific voland programs planned for 

the Society by the Libraries’ 

staff, and at the higher levels 

members will receive more perumes; participating in educational 

programs centered.around one of our exhibitions; or examining wonderful new 

Libraries’ acquisitions. 

Who can join the Spencer Baird-Society? 

Anyone who makes a gift of at least $500 

each year will become a member, and 

those who join before September SO, 1999 

will be named Charter Members. Unrestricted annual gifts to the Spencer Baird 

Society.are encouraged; restricted gifts to 

underwrite a specific ‘program or service of 

sonalized services. It is a special goal of 

Libraries’ Director Nancy E. Gwinn to 

become acquainted with every Baird Society member and forge a partnership 

between Society members and the 

Libraries that will be mutually rewarding. 

How will Baird. Society contributions be ,: 

used by the Libraries? All unrestricted 

funds will be allocated to top priorities 

according to the discretion of Dr. Gwinn. 

Some possible uses are acquiring unusual 

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

IN THIS ISSUE’ 

Spencer Baird Society 

by Gweri Leighty ‘14 

Smithsonian Associates .” 

Programs 2 

National Postal Museum 

Branch 

by Tim Carr 3 

Imaging Center Opens 

by Tom Garnett 6 

Roxanne Missingham v 6 

Sores Fellow 7 ‘1, 

DEPARTMENTS 

Letter from the Director 

“Who Is Spencer Baird?” 

by Nancy E. Gwinn 2 

Development Watch 

New ‘Herald’, - 

by Dale Miller 4 

Specihl Collections 

Curtis ‘Symposium 5 .’ 

SIL News Digest 7. 

Exhibitions Calendar 8 

MARGINALIA 

-- Mary Augusta Thomas 2,4 

.-h Librarian’s F&rites .; 3. 

-- Grant for Preservatjon _jt. 4 

-- Greg Wickliff . 5 

-- “Horrors!” 6. 

-- In Brief 7 

Photography Credits 7 
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Th&nas Award 

The Smithsonian honored 

Mary Augusta Thomas in 

June with the Secretary’s 

Award for Excellence in 

Equal Employment 

qpporhmity (EEO). The 

award was based on a 

variety of leadership 

efforts in the Libraries and 

in the Institution for 

which Mary Augusta has 

been resp&ble in her 

23year career at SIL. As 

a” active member of the 

Institution’s EqualOpprhmity Advisory Council, 

she assisted in developing 

criteria for the award 

which appropfiately was 

b&o&d on her this year. 

Her commitment to EEO 

is demonstrated by the 

“team environment” she 

created as the Libraries’ 

EECt officer “in which 

each individual recognizes 

the importance of his/her 

position to the attainment 

of the Libraries’ mission 

Her crusade for diversity 

and equal opportunity at 

the Libraries and tIie Institution has provided new 

opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds” 

(quoted from Secretary’s 

Award). She also has 

worked with selecting 

officials at SIL on recruitLEVER FROM THE DIRE&OR 

who Is Spencer Baird? 

July marked the launch of the Spencer 

Baird Society, the Libraries’ first annual 

giving and donor recbgnition or&nization. 

But who, you might ask, is Spencer Baird? 

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Spencer Fullerton Baird tias the third person to join the staff of the brand new 

Smithsonian Institution. Arriving in ~1850, 

the young Pennsylvania naturalist already 

had a distinguished career as a teacher and 

numerous contacts with such leading figures as John James Audubon. Baird’s 

broad scope of activity working under 

Joseph Henry, the Institution’s first Secre- 

!ary, included operation of the international 

exchange syStem for books, periodicals, 

and specimens; the publication of. the 

Smithsonian’s Confrihutions to Knowledge, 

support of American scientists; and assurance that trained collectors accompanied 

expeditions to explore the American west. 

On top of this, Baird conducted a” extensive reselirch program to collect gnd 

identify the flora and fauna of the North 

American continent, specializing himself 

in birds and fish. 

When Baird became,Secr&ij in 1878, he 

promoted and built the US. National 

Muse&, the progenitor of the complex of 

Smithsonian musetims. that exist today. He 

knew that for efficient research, the 

National Museum’s staff needed a library 

close at hand. where the books and journals 

that documented the collections could be 

easily found: The 

Smithsonian 

owned a library, 

but in 1866 

Joseph Henry had 

placed it on perman&t &posit 

with the Library 

of Congress, 

where it served 

the needs of a 

growing nation. 

Baird donated his 

extensive personal collection to the 

\rmy I (:irrirrr, 

U.S. National Mus&m as the basis for a 

supplementary “working” library. Thus 

Baird’s library became the core of our 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries and 

.Spencer Baird our true founder. Now numbering over 1.2 million volumes, the 

Libraries’ collection joins the Smithsonian 

museums’ objects and artifacts as national 

treasures, richwith specialized and rare 

volumes that mirror the Institution’s inter- 

&. 

Baird’s generous donation set a precedent. 

Won’t you consider joining his society, the 

Spencer Baird Society, and make your own 

contribution to help carry on his legacy? 

Nancy E. Gwinn 

-Director 

“Authors Working in the’Sinithsonian Libraries” 

“Tekyhone, Thctor~, and Trains" was the 

title of Russell Flinchurn’s January 24 illttstrated talk on.his book about Henry 

Dreyfuss, Induskial Desipwr: The Man in the 

Brown Suit (1997). In collaboration with 

The Smithsonian Associates, the Libraries. 

offered two free programs for TSA members featuring writers who have conducted 

research for their 

presented by Cynthia VanAllen Schaffner, 

co-author of Americm Pnintai Furniture, 

1790-1880 

branches A sec- 

(1998), on 

March 25. The 

two authors did 

the research for 

their respective 

books at the 

Cooper-Hewitt, 

in New,York City. Branch Librarian 

Stephen Van Dyk introduced both speakers. TSA plans to continue the.series, 

“Authors Working in the Smithsonian 

Libra&s,” with a program in January. 
Spring/Summer 1999 Injomation Page3 

National Postal Museum Branch Libra y 

Airmail, V-mail, 

rocket mail, missile mail; Mr. Zip, 

zip+4, comrnemoratives, definitives, 

lick & stick, selfstick, block of four, 

plate blocks, 

postal cards, sta-. 

tionery, Benjamin 

[ 

T”‘., 

Franklin, Marvin 

Runyon,,Cinder- ‘A --ri 

elIas, Pony A 

Express, overprints, spider’ 

press and many ’ 

more materials of 

interest to the historian, collector, 

and hobbiest. The 

examples noted He later developed a postal museum in his 

home in Brooklyn. William Ricketts created philatelic indexes while managing the 

family ice, lumber and coal businesses “ear 

Wilkes Barre, Penns)&x-da. Hundreds of 

other collectors have contributed material 

to the branch. Two publications derived 

from information in gift collections now in 

the branch library demonstrate the popular 

and continuing in&& in philatelic literature. The William Ricketts Index and the 

George Turner listing of Anglo-American 

philatelic literature, compiled by two philatelists extraordinaire, were published by 

the 55,000+ inember American Philatelic 

Soc&y. 

are pirt of the philat& and postal history 

of the United States, with representative 

materials for each topic in the library. 

These items, along with books and articles 

In journals and newsletters devoted to each 

of those particilar subjects are available 

for study to staff of the Posfal Museum 

and other parts of the Smithsonian as well 

as to outside scholars and interested members of the,public. 

Most philatelic literature in general, and 

this library collection in particular, was 

researched and written by the collectors 

themselves. Their publications often 

require years of research, and the finished’ 

publication is frequently donated to the 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries by the 

author or by another devoted collector. 

The collectors who acquired the postal history literature are part of the “hidden 

.history” of the branch, GeorgeTurner, a 

former Smithsonian curator at the Museum 

of History and Technology (now known as 

the National Museum of American Histo-. 

ry) collected stamp literature assiduously. 

His collection weighed in excess of twelve 

tons. Thaddeus Hyatt,.the father of preventive dentistry, helped form the section on 

philately at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

& Sciences at the tiirn of the 19th century. 

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The National Postal Museum Branch. 

.Library tias established in 1993 when the 

museum opened its doors to the public. 

Situated in the remodeled City Post Office 

building, next to Union Station and a few 

blocks north of the Capitol, the branch 

houses 3,000 books, 3,700 serials, and “early 4OLl feet of manuscript’s, The Branch 

Librarian, Tim Carr, is assisted by Dawn 

Hawkins, Library Technician, and several 

knowledgeable and loyal volunteers. 

Tim Carr 

National Postal Museum Branch Libiarian 

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Favorites 

Librarian’s 

Cinderella Stamps 

The Libraries’ National 

Postal Museum branch 

collects the literature of 

Cinderella philately. 

Examples of Cinderellas 

are Chrishnas seals, registration labels, bogus and 

phantom issues, telegraph 

stamps, local stamps, fiscals (revenues) and 

advertising and exhibition 

labels, and almost everything not issued by 

govemme”~s for postage. 

The broad collecting field’ 

of Cinderella philately 

provides a” introduction 

to stamp collecting. 

Because they are often 

given away as promotiotia! materials, they can be 

easily collected by newcomers to philately. Due 

to their non-postage status, they are normally not 

included in general philately catalogs. And while 

Cinderellas are not collected by the National Postal 

Museum, the NPM Branch 

Library keeps books and 

journals with articles 

about Cinderellas available for library users, 

recognizing the philately 

-community’s interest in 

this varied and colorful 

field. 
rage 4 

.&ant for 

Preseriation Development Watch 

The Smithsonian Women’s 

Committee made a grant 

of $12,296.50’to the 

Libraries for purchase of 

840 protective enclosures 

for &housing rare natural 

history books. This grant 

is particularly valuable 

now, as the Libraries prepares to move the vast 

majority of natural history 

rare books from a variety 

of storage facilities to the. 

new Natural History Rare 

Book Library in the 

National Museum.of Natural History next year. 

The custom-designed 

enclosures will both protect the most threatened 

‘volumes during the move 

and provide long-term 

.environmental protection. 

fn the new branch. 

cy for a young librarian, catalogmg a new 

covtinued from pap! one 

collection, or enabling conservation treatments of rare, but fragile volumes. Each, 

or especially important rare books, puryear, the Director will report to Baird Society members on the use of their collective 

donations. 

chasing new equipment to support our 

collections digitizing efforts, providing 

stipends for a book conservation graduate 

fellow or a minoritv oosteraduate residen- 

,l I, 

i 

Gwen Leighty 

Development Officer 

The collections and services of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries have become a 

-valuable international resource. Participate 

in the exciting unveiling of the Libraries’ 

rich resources, and become a Baird Society’. 

member todav! 

We are actjvely planning the Baird Socety% first year programs and will soon 

send members information about our 

plans. To whet your appetite, all Baird 

Society members will be invited to be 

among the first to see the Libraries’ newest 

branch, opening soon at the Cultural 

&sources Center of the National Museum 

of the American Indian. Members will also 

receive invitations to a private preview in 

‘November of the Libraries’ next exhibition,’ 

“Make the Dirt Fly!,” which focuses on the 

construction of the Panama Canal. 

Joining the Spencer Baird 

Society is easy. Simply 

complete the enclosed 

reply form in the center of 

this newsletter and return 

it with your donation to 

Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, 

Smithsonian Institution 

Libraries, NHB 22,.Washington, D.C. 20560-0154. If 

you h&e additional questions about the Baird 

Society or other ways of 

supporting the Librarws, 

please call Gwkn Leighty, 

Development Officer, ‘at 

202-786:2875, or email to 

<gleighty@sil.si.edu>. 

This spring, Mary Augusta was elected to the 

American Lib&y Association (ALA) Council for a 

4.year term. The Council 

is the governing body of 

the 55,060~member association and determines all 

association policies. She 

also served as president of 

the District of Columbia 

Library Association, the 

450.member local chapter 

of the ALA, this past year. 

GZ~Z% ,SIL Acquires a “Herald of Science” - .,“, 

;;:ys,y.. 

tury folio has visual depic- tory of medicine led Bern 

tions and descriptive text Dibner to list it as #118 in 

valuable to understanding his Hernlds of Science (1955, 

the early medical arts. The 1980); a bibliography of the 

book is exquisitely illustrat- ,200 seminal works in scied with over 200 woodcuts ence and technology that 

of surgical instruments and have contributed to man’s 

Curikr Ciiidl’< Chirurgi.~ 6 procedures, bandages, and understanding of the uniGrarcu in Latinum Conwrsa orthopedic machinery. verse. In 1976, a portion of 

(Paris 1544). 12. 4.35 Guidi translated and added Bern Dibner’s collection. 

Gifts from both the Smithsonian National Board 

Annual Giving Fund and 

the Office of the Provost 

enabled the Libraries to 

purchase Guido Guidi’s 

Chirurgin 6 Graeco in Lotinum Conuersa (Paris 1544) 

for the Dibner Library of 

the History of Science and 

Technology. This 16th-tencommentaries to an assortment of ancient texts by 

Hippocrates, G&wand 

Oribasius which had been. 

compiled in the lOth-‘century by Nicgtas. Part of the 

text is traceable to a lstcentury manuscript, 

providing a dir&t link to 

the,Hippocratic tradition of 

medicine. The importance 

of Guidi’s work to the hissome 10,000 books and 

1,800 manuscript groups, 

was donated to the Institution, including nearly all of 

the Heralds. The Guidi 

copy is one of only four 

Heralds not previously 

held in the Smithsonian 

Libraries. 

Dale Miller 

Development Assistant 
Spring/Summer 1999 

Special Collections 

SIL Co-sponsors Curtis Symposium 

“Edrumd 5 Curtis ~,nd The North American 

Indim ReViewed,” a sympo&um held 

November 16,1998, was co-s@wored by 

SIL and the National Anthropological 

ATchives. Held in connection with America” Indian Heritage Month, the symposium 

f&wed a documentary film-maker and 

three descendants of Native Americans 

photographed by Edward S. Curtis. 

l’articipants,in the symposium addressed 

the historical significance of Curtis’s monumental 20.volume study of American 

Indian tribes in the westerh United States, 

Canada, and Alaska. William E. Baxter, 

head of the Libraries’ Special Collections 

Department and curator of the exhibition 

Frontier Photo~mpher:.Edroard S. Curtis, 

opened the proceedings with a talk on Curtis, the ma” and his life. Keynote speaker 

Professor Mick Gidley of University of 

Leeds, England, author of Edward S. Curtis 

and The North American Indinn, Incorporated 

(Cambridge;England, 1998) and several 

other Curtis books and essays spoke about’ 

Curtis’s photogralihic vision of Native 

Americans. Gidley later joined the panel 

witli Baxter for a wrap-up at the end of the 

day led by Smithsonian Provost J. Dennis 

O’Connor. 

The afternoon panel discussion was led by 

documentary film-maker Anne Makepeace. 

She is currently in production on “The 

Curtis Project,” a documentary film for 

public television. Panelists included Smithsonian staff Paula Richardson Fleming, 

photograph archivist at the National 

Anthropological Archives (National Museum of Natural Histoe) and George Horse 

Capture @‘Ani, Gros Ventre), deputy 

assistant director for cultural resources at 

the National Museum of the American 

Indian. Horse Capture’s grandfather was 

the subject of one of Curtis’s famed photogravures. Other panelists were Gloria 

Cranmer Webster (Kwakiutl) of Alert Bay, 

British Columbia, Canada, and Hartman H. 

Lomawaima (Hopi) of Sipaulovi village on 

Second Mesa, Arizona. Webster, former 

director of the U’mista Cultural Centre in 

Alert Bay, is the granddaughter of Curtis’s 

interpreter for his 1914 film, “In the Land 

of the Head-Hunters.” Lomawaima, like 

Horse Capture the grandson of a Curtis 

subject, is associate director of thqArizona 

State MuSeurn and associate curator of ethnology on the faculty of University of 

Arizona, Tucson. 

The exhibition on Curtis remains on view 

through September 27,1999, in the 

Libraries Exhibition Gallery, located in the. 

National Museum of American History, 

first floor, west tiing. 

Greg Wickliff 

Dibner Library Resident 

Scholar Greg Wickliff, 

Associate Professor at 

University of North Carolina at Charlqtte, is 

researching photographicaily illustrated 19th. 

century books and serials 

in science and technology, 

looking at the claims for 

truth made by scientists 

for the evidence presenied 

in early photographs. 

Nineteenth-century 

astronomers were especially sensitive to both the 

potentialStrengths and the 

weaknesses of written 

arguments based on photographic evidence, an 

area where the Dibner 

Library collection is 

strong. Wickliff iemarks, 

“one notable book in the 

Dibner Library’s’collections which I found quite 

useful is Charles Piazzi 

Smyth’s presentation copy 

to Smithsonian Secretary 

Samuel I’. Langley of his 

Report on the Teneriffe 

Astromimical Experiment of 

1856 (1858).” The Dibner 

Library Resident Scholar 

Program is supported by 

The Dibner Fund. 
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“Horr6rs!” Is 

Theme of Dibner 

Library Lecture 

The annual Dibner Library 

Lecture, suppoited by The 

Pibner Fund, was delivered on May 21 by 

Charles Brownell of Virginia Commonwealth 

University on the.theme of 

“‘Hbrrars! Changing 

Views of the American 

Victorian House.” Linking 

to this year’s Washington 

Collegium for the Humanities’ lecture series on 

“Changing Perspectives.in 

History, Art and Culture,” 

Brownell presented illustrations of the Victorian 

house as a cultural landmark that has in the past 

few decades evoked settings for horror movies 

and novels, providing 

ghostly Images for pulp 

fiction in the horror genre. 

His engaging slide presentation tracked the 

enduring effects oh Ainerican perceptions of the 

Victorian house of an 

Edward Hopper painting, 

a William Faulkner story, 

and a Charles Addams 

cartoon. The Collegium is 

a consortium of ‘nine local 

institutions which 

includes the Smithsonian 

Libiaries. The free, public 

lecture was held in the 

Carmichael Auditoriuin of 

the National Museum of 

American History. 

The SIL Imaging Center 

Treasures of the 

Libraries’ collections that 

have previously required 

a visit to SIL branches are 

now available to anyone 

with Internet access. As 

part of its Electronic 

Library Program, the 

Libraries opened its 

.Imaging Center on March 

2 where SIL staff are pmducing digital editidns of 

selected holdings from 

the Libraries’ collections 

and publishing them 

online at www.sil.si.edu. 

A collateral benefit to this 

digital editions program Sf l’10i’il5l I_ DoL,,rG o’c‘irrirri~l-, ,zr1d 511 

is that access to online edi- I:~fi~rru~~trw S!,~f~urs L)i~~i~iorr 

‘. C’imrlmy Iliirif~i,_lli f~c~rif~~if~, 

tions will reduce handling 

of fragile originals, thereby extending the 

life of materials in the collections. 

Pan’s, 1805; and Jakob Storm’s Ver&hniss 

miner Insecten-Smmnlung [List of my insect 

collection], Nuremberg, 1796. 

Initial.projects are digital editionS of rare 

natural history texts, early scientific texts 

from the Dibner Library &the History of 

Science and Technology, and selections 

from the Libraries’ collections of American 

manufacturers’ trade literature, the largest 

such colleCtion in the world. Textual 

descriptions, biographical notes, finding. 

aids, and materials on the historical context of these editions are provided by SIL 

staff. Currently &line are Tycho Brahe’s 

Astronomic instiurafa mechnnicn [Instruments for the restoration of astronomy], 

Nuremberg, 1602; Christiaan Huygens’s 

Sjstemn Snhrmium [The System of Saturn], 

The Hague, 1659; J. D. Larr&tegui’s 

Description botnnique du Chirnnthodendron, 

The Libraries’ Imaging Center will also. 

scan niaterials for SK’s educational and 

outreach functions which will increasingly 

have an Internet presence. SIL exhibitions 

will havean Internet-accessiblecompa_ 

nent. Fundmg for the equipment was 

provided by the Atherton Seidell Endowment Fund and the Jaques Admiralty Law 

Firm. The Libraries’ Preservation Services 

Department operates the Imaging Center 

with support and guidance from the 

Libraries’ Information Systems Division. 

Tom Garnett 

Assistant Director 

Information Systems Division 
Spring/Summer 1999 InfLirmation rage 7 

SIL News Digest . : In Bhef . . . 

“Library and Archival Exhibitions on the 

Web,” maintained by Rare Book Cataloger 

,Diane Shaw, was named the USA.Today 

Hot Site for June 22,1999 and the Library 

Spot Site of the Month for July 1999. The 

site featur&s links to over 500 online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, 

‘archives,‘and historical societies, as well as 

to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival 

materials. 

Ameritech Library Systems’ Horizon will 

become the new technical foundation for 

the Smithsonian Institution Research 

Information System (SIRIS), replacing the 

current mainframe computer system. SIRIS 

is an online catalog which supports several 

Smithsonian units including the SI 

Libraries, the combined catalog of seven 

archives in the Institition, and a number of 

research bibliographies on subjects such as 

cephalopods and museum studies. SI staff 

are working to implement the new system 

by. the close of 1999. 

Director Nancy E. Gwinn is serving as 

Chair of the Chesapeake Information and 

Research Libraries Alliance for the year 

beginning July 1999. CIRLA is a.&onsortium of 8 research libraries in the 

mid-Atlantic region who are all members 

of the Assocation of R&arch Libraries. 

Send an electronic postcard to your co-workers, 

family;.or friends. Colorful 

images from SIL collections in World’s Fairs 

Sores F&w 

Koszowska assisted 

the department with 

ordering and receiving monographs, and 

maintaining a department order%tatos 

report. Ms. Koszowska was one of twelve 

librarians selected for 

1999 by the Library 

of Congress-Sores 

Foundations Visiting 

Fellows Program. 

The program introduces librarians from 

central and eastern 

Europe and the forner Soviet Union to 

ibr.%ries and librarianAgnieszka Koszowska, Librarian in the 

Acquisitions Department at the Library of 

ship in America. Upon returning home, tht 

Fellows will continue the program by con- 

, Silesia, Katowice, Poland, trained with 

Acquisitions Service+ Department, headed . 

dticting seminars and workshops. 

by Lu Rossignol. For seven weeks, Ms. 

materials, trade 

literature, and the fields of 

natural history from 

botany to zoology, are 

available to send via email with your 

personalized messag&. 

Visit www.sil.si.edu/ 

card.html and send one 

today. 

I”fornmtion is published semiannually to inform users and 

benefactors about services and 

,,rograms of the Smithsonian 

Institution Librarlec. 

Send correspondence t” the 

Editor, Stiithsonia” Instituti”” Libraries, Smithsania” 

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Photography Credits 

We thank the foIlawing photographers from the 

Smithwnia” Office of Imaging, Printing and 

Photographic Services, Tcrrv McCrea and Jeff 

Tinstry fur Carr and Hawki;ls end Trading 

Stamps (p. 3, Larry Gates for the Guidi book 

(p. 4); John Dillaber for Curtis Symposium participants (p. 5,; Hugh Talma” for Wickcliff Q,. 5,. 

Bnwn~Il, Imaging Centrr, and Missingham 

(p. 6,. Do” Hurlburt for Sores fellow (p. 7,. 

Weals” thank Jo” Gwll for Thomas (p_ 21, 

BrooksKloga” Phdtographers for Gwi”” (p. 2), 

Schecter M. Lee for Chairs (p. 2). 

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