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Inc.; Neil Strawser, radio and television news commentator and
biographer of Samuel Chase; Reverend Ernest K. Twigg, historian of
Magothy Methodist Church, Pasadena, Anne Arundel County; John H.
Watson, Registrar General, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;
Constance W. Werner, researcher, Historic Annapolis, Inc.; Rowan A.
Williams, Professor of History, United States Naval Academy; Curtis
A. Wilson, Dean, St. John's College, Annapolis; James H. Whyte,
historian of Union sentiment in Southern Maryland; Clark T. Wisotski,
Head Librarian, Forest Park Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library; Genevieve
Zito, University of Minnesota, historian of Samuel Chase.

CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL EXHIBITS

Last year I gave you an account of the special exhibit of Civil War
materials which we took to Frederick and exhibited in the lobby of the
Francis Scott Key hotel during the special meeting of the General
Assembly in Frederick. These materials were all related to the meeting
of the same body held there exactly one hundred years earlier.

Part of this material was then shown here in Annapolis, in
combination with some fine items from the collection of Mr. Richard
E. Townsend of Annapolis. This exhibit was called "Annapolis in the
Civil War." It was first set up in October I960 and was continued,
with some changes, until March 1961.

Our second exhibit was composed almost entirely of Civil War
material from the superb sheet music collection of Mr. Lestcr S. Levy
of Baltimore. This very colorful exhibit attracted a great deal of
attention.

Our third exhibit consisted of lithographs of military establish-
ments of the Civil War in the Annapolis and Baltimore area. Some of
these lithographs came from our own collection and others from local
people, but the bulk were loaned to us, through the courtesy of the
Director, Wilbur H. Hunter, by the Peale Museum of Baltimore City.
Our final exhibit of the year, March 1962, was a loan from the
Evergreen House Foundation of the Johns Hopkins University. It
consisted of violently partisan broadsides, poetry, illustrated envelopes
and letterheads, all from the Civil War collection of the late John W.
Garrett. The selection was made for us by Miss Elizabeth Baer, Li-
brarian of the Garrett Library.