I COMPARATIVE ATTENDANCE 

 STATISTICS AND DOOR RECEIPTS 



FOR YEARS 1958 AND 1957 



1958 



Total attendance 1,049,401 



Paid attendance 161,593 



Free admissions on pay days 



Students 45,106 



School children 156,469 



Teachers 8,955 



Members of the Museum 708 



Service men and women 811 



Special meetings and occasions 3,519 



Press 41 



Admissions on free days 



Thursdays (51) 131,665 



Saturdays (52) 246,379 



Sundays (52) 294,155 



Highest attendance on any day 



(November 29) 15,133 



Lowest attendance on any day 



(January 6) 244 



Highest paid attendance (September 1). . . 3,332 



Average daily admissions (363 days) 2,891 



Average paid admissions (208 days) 777 



Number of picture postcards sold 247,866 



Sales of Museum publications (scientific 

 and popular). General Guide, and 



photographs; checkroom receipts $ 29,675 



1957 



1,097,561 



139,834 



221,896 



$ 27,502 

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