Evening star., 1939-05-28
STAR WASHINGTON, D. c, g. 1ese-PARr ONE
Naval Museum
Is Dedicated al
Annapolis Rites
Wife Of Curator Cut,
Ribbon Across New
Academy Structure
Special hsspateh 70 Ths Star.

Special hsspatch 70 The star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 9--Ar-
ticles Valued In Navy tradittDn are
shownat their best advantage ID the
new Naval Academy Museum, .dedi-
Gated today.
Mrs: H. A. Baldridge, wife Of Capt.
Baldridge, curator of the museum,
cut the blue and gold ribbons
stretched across the doorway at the
dedication service this afternoon.
Previously q luncheon for alumni
was he'd insshe adjoining Omcers'
Club.
Exterior walls Of the building are
built Of white pressed brick and cor
ners and facings of windows and
doors are Of North Carolina granite.
Chemically arranged around the
main exhibit room is the 81, ,000, 900
collection Of ship models recently
left to the Academy by the late Col.
Henry Huddleston Rogers, jr.
An oil portrait of Commodore
Stephen Decatur by Gilbert Stuart,
copy Of the original In the Ma
tional Museum, Washington, hangs
In the recess wall case In the same
room. The portrait. presented by
Decatur to his friend, DR.. Bullus, is
owned by Harry Stone Of New York
who has loaned 1t to the Naval Acad-
envy Museum.
Admiral Henry B. Wilson pre-
sented seven volumes, containing
pictorial and documentary records Of
his career, which are on display
through the window to the outer
ONCE Of the curator.
On the second floor are located the
administrative omces of the Navy
Athletic Association and the Naval
Institute. Here are hung 60 naval
prints, nucleus of the Beverley r.
Robinson collection, which consists
OF engravings, aquatints, mezzatints
and Autographs of famed naval bat
ties and single ship engagements
during the past 800 years.
This collection also is to include
80 water colors by an unknown Eng
lish artist of the naval engage
ments of the War OF 1872.
In one of the smaller rooms are
hung one-half Of the collection OF
water colors by Rodolfo Claudus
an Italian marine artist, copied
from similar water colors now hang
Ing In the italian Naval Museum
and said to have been painted by
an American who served in the
United States Navy during the Wal
Of 1872. This collection was pre-
sented by the personnel of the
sperry Gyroscope Co., who have
served in the United States Navy.
The other half Of the collection
Is temporarily hung in Bancroft,
Hall.
Part Of the Civil War exhibit 1.
in the corridor on the second fiool
and the ofiices also contain Other
exhibits such as the Malcolm Storel
Collection Of Naval Medals, approx.
mately l,24o in number.
The new museum was made pos.
sible by gifts Of the Navy Athletic
Association and the Naval Institute
In 1887. largely through the instru-
mentality of Rear Admiral Davic
r. Sellers Of Washington, D. c., ther
superintendent of the academy, thu
Athletic Association offered to do.
nate $l50,000 and the institute $780,.
900 for the purpose Of housing theil
respective ofices, and for . museum
Construction began last June. Or
October 8, Rear Admiral Wilson
Brown, present superintendent, pre-
sided at the ceremonies in connec
ton with the laying Of the cornel
stone by Admiral Sellers.
The building was completed ant
accepted May . Of this year and tn
transfer from the old museum IL
Maury Hall began at once.
Approximately $G 900 worth O.
equipment remains to be installed