C. Malcolm Watkins in the Hall of Everyday Life, NMHT, 1965, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, C. Malcolm Watkins standing with a mannequin of a prospector in a kitchen from the post-Gold-Rush era in California in the Hall of Everyday Life at the Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History. Watkins was a curator in the Division of Cultural History in the Museum of History and Technology from the 1960s to the 1980s..