Exhibition in Fogg of Naval Pictures Opens

Attended by formal opening ceremonies at which 57 ranking officers of the First Naval District were present, the Fogg Museum opened to the public yesterday an exhibition of photographs and paintings depicting the birth of the New American Navy.

This display, one of the few complete collections of that period when the Navy swung from wood to steel to the modern dreadnaught, portrays Naval evolution from 1883, the year in which the first four steel vessels were authorized, through 1917, the year in which the United States Navy entered its first major international war.

Many Officers Present

Nearly one hundred of the ranking officers of the First Naval District and over 400 of the associates and friends of the Fogg Museum were invited to the opening yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, coinciding with the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Among the officers invited were Rear Admiral Wilson E. Brown, Commandant of the First Naval District; Captain John S. Barleon, Chief of Staff; Captain George N. Barker, Commanding the Naval Training Schools at Harvard; Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, Officer-in-charge of the Naval Supply Corps School at the Harvard Business School; Commander Charles A. MacGowan, Officer-in-charge of the Indoctrination and Communication School; Captain C. S. Joyce, Senior Naval Officer, Director of Naval Procurement; and other prominent Naval and civilian officials.

Outstanding among the photographs which were displayed under glass and on the walls are large pictures of the principal warships of each period in Naval evolution. all pictures were accompanied by captions describing the process of Naval growth.