Historical News
THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Missouri recently inaugurated a survey
of historic sites in Missouri as the
initial step in the preservation of the
state's historic sites, according to
Floyd C. Shoemaker, secretary of the society.
The survey will utilize National Park
Service standards and procedures.
Local historical organizations in nearly
half of Missouri's counties will be
asked to cooperate in the coordination
of data.
The Michigan Historical Commission has
published a report on its state-
wide historical marking program, which
was inaugurated in 1953. The first of
the new markers was unveiled on October
22, 1955, at Michigan State Uni-
versity. Since that time nearly fifty
markers have been erected or are
scheduled for erection in the near
future. Texts for the markers are pre-
pared by the staff of the commission.
The Winterthur Museum of Winterthur,
Delaware, is offering for the
sixth year, five fellowships under the
Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture. A two-year course of study,
supervised jointly by the museum
and the University of Delaware, leads to
the degree of master of arts.
The fellowships pay up to $2,000
annually for the two-year period. The
program is designed to attract promising
young scholars looking toward a
career in curatorship, teaching,
research, journalism, or librarianship in such
institutions as museums, colleges,
historical societies, restoration projects,
and historic sites.
A catalog of their current exhibition
has recently been published by the
Henry Monsky Foundation, B'nai B'rith.
The exhibition, "Contributions of
Jews to American Civilization," was
opened November 24, 1957, in the
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Exhibit
Hall in the B'nai B'rith Building in
Washington, D. C. The exhibition
comprises twenty-five cases of documents,
books, pamphlets, photographs, silver,
and art objects. There is also a
section devoted to paintings and
sculpture by American-Jewish artists.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library recently
published its annual report