Figure 81.—Continued. B. When applied to soldiers in the field, moulages were startlingly lifelike.
Storage of Museum Collections
Even before the outbreak of the war, it had been necessary to store a major part of the collections of the Museum proper. With the onset of the war and the proliferation of new activities, still more material had to be withdrawn from exhibit, and storage space had to be found in a southwest Washington waterfront warehouse. Except for the main exhibit hall, all the exhibit rooms in the old building were given over to offices and laboratories. The number of rooms was increased by partitioning the large old-fashioned rooms into smaller cubicles.
With it all, however, the Museum proper was kept open, and continued to draw visitors at the rate of 200,000 a year. Capt. Hans Schlumberger added to
