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personnel represent federally appropriated support for basic exhibit, research, education, and administrative activities of the museums and galleries.  Most of the balance consists of resources associated with unrestricted and restricted trust operations, with only a small portion originating in federal grant and contract work.  A breakdown follows:

[[table, 3 columns]]
 |  | [[underlined]] FY 1979
Source of Funds | Full-Time Employment | Funds ($000s) [[/underlined]]

Federal Salaries
& Expenses | 638 | $15,705
Unrestricted trust | 29 | 2,390
Restricted trust | 37 | 2,395
Federal Grants
& Contracts | [[underlined]] 1 | 113 [[/underlined]]

Total | 705 | $20,603 [[/table]]

[[underlined]] Unrestricted [[/underlined]] trust fund support is concentrated primarily in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Collection of Fine Arts, and Museum of History and Technology, [[underlined]] Restricted trust fund support [[/underlined]] is largely directed to the operations associated with the Freer Gallery of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Archives of American Art.  Only minor amounts of grant and contract work are present in the Joseph Henry Papers and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Generally, the larger of the History and Art bureaus--the Museum of History and Technology, the Collection of Fine Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Portrait Gallery--are supported predominantly with federal funds.  Their exhibition, research, collections management, and building operations comprise their major expenses.  Each of these museums, however, has small amounts of trust funds (at most about 7 percent of the resources) made available by donors for specific purposes and from proprietary activities (bookstores, museum shops, cafeterias and the like) on their respective premises.  These latter funds are used for a variety of program purposes.

The smaller History and Art bureaus--the Freer Gallery of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Museum of African Art, Archives of American Art, and the Joseph Henry Papers--work with more evenly mixed financing.  The Freer's principal programs are financed by the income from a restricted endowment fund established by Mr. Freer's will; federal funds support the costs of protecting and managing the collections and building, and general administration.  The Cooper-Hewitt Museum receives an annual allocation of Smithsonian unrestricted trust funds to help support its programs.  Beginning in 1979, federal funds supported a small portion of the exhibit program as well as the costs of maintaining and protecting the building and collections and a share of administrative costs.  In addition, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum receives an annual allocation of Smithsonian unrestricted trust funds to help suppost its programs.  Beginning in 1979, federal funds supported a small portion of the exhibit program as well as the costs of maintaining and protecting the building and collections and a share of administrative costs.  In addition, the Cooper-Hewitt raise sin excess of a