Freer Director Lodge Dies
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PrintJohn Ellerton Lodge, director of the Freer Gallery of Art since 1920, dies. As the first head of the Freer Gallery, he sponsored the development of the museum and expansion of its collections and encouraged language education and field work.
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Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1943. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943, p. 45.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 29, 1942
Washington (D.C.)