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[[triple underlined]] Report [[/triple underlined]] on the Section of Graphic Arts in the [[triple underlined]] U.S [[/triple underlined]] National Museum, 1889
[[stamped text]] EXAMINED BY MR. RATHBUN MARCH 1913. [[/stamped text]]
      By [[double underlined]] S. R. Koehler [[/double underlined]], [[underlined]] Curator [[/underlined]]
[[strikethrough]] REP [[strikethrough]]

      [[underlined]] Curator's Report, 88-89 [[/underlined]]

[[strikethrough]]The report now submitted relates to the period between January 1887 and the date of my appointment as [[temporary]] [[insert]] acting [[/insert]] curator and June 1889." [[/strikethrough]]

   [[strikethrough]] Although this section was organized in January 1887 when I was appointed acting curator, no official report has until this time been made.  In March 1888, I was designated curator. [[strikethrough]] and since that [[/strikethrough]]  The report now submitted embraces the period between January 1887 and June 1889. [[/strikethrough]]

     It will be advisable to preface the general services of the work done within this period by some remarks explanatory of the [[underlined in blue]] principal aim [[/underlined in blue]] which has been kept constantly in view in the formation of the collections of the Section of Graphic Arts, in consonance with the general plan laid out [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] for this section from the [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] beginning of the present