ILLUSTRATIONS

Following is a summary of work accomplished in the illustration branch of the bureau under the supervision of De Lancey Gill, illustrator:

Photographs and drawings retouched, lettered, and otherwise made ready for engraving748
Drawings made, including maps, diagrams, etc.48
Engravers’ proofs criticized524
Printed editions of colored plates examined at Government Printing Office7,000
Correspondence attended to (letters)135
Photographs selected and catalogued for private publication310
Photolaboratory work by Dr. A. J. Olmsted, National Museum, in cooperation with the Bureau of American Ethnology:
Negatives154
Prints335
Lantern slides91
Films developed from field exposures48

During the early part of the calendar year Miss Mae W. Tucker was detailed to this branch to assist in listing and cataloguing the great collection of Indian negatives already classified by Mr. Gill in previous years. Of the purely ethnologic subjects, including portraits, arts, and industries, the list will embrace more than 7,000 units. This work, so long delayed, has progressed most satisfactorily.