CAFETERIA AND LUNCHROOM 



The total volume of business in the cafeteria and lunchroom in- 

 creased slightly during the year, reaching a figure in excess of $192,000. 

 During the summer months the cafeteria remained open on Wednes- 

 day and Friday evenings of Grant Park concerts, and many visitors 

 took advantage of the opportunity to have dinner at the Museum 

 before attending the concerts (see page 21). In order to accommo- 

 date school groups better, the picnic room was entirely remodeled, 

 with special attention to improved airconditioning. Murals by Miss 

 Marion Pahl, Staff Illustrator, have added greatly to the attractive- 

 ness of the room (see below). 



PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION 



The Division of Photography attained its usual high standards of 

 excellence in photographing subjects of all descriptions. The ability 

 to reproduce the fine details of texture in wood, mineral, and textile 

 specimens is of great importance because the photographs are the 

 basis of photoengravings for Museum publications or become a 

 part of the permanent records of the Museum. John Bayalis and 

 Homer V. Holdren succeeded admirably in handling even the most 

 difficult matters. During the year they completed a total of 24,661 

 negatives, prints, kodachromes, lantern slides, and transparencies. 

 The record keeping, ably done by Miss Mary Creed, included num- 

 bering negatives and prints, replacing and relabeling torn negative 

 jackets, and other routine tasks that are indispensable to the care 

 and management of a large photographic library. 



E. John Pfiffner, Staff Artist, and Miss Marion Pahl, Staff Illus- 

 trator, accomplished many major assignments. Outstanding are 

 the picnic-room murals and several posters by Miss Pahl, and less 

 spectacular but of highest order of importance are approximately 

 100 drawings for scientific publications and 9 drawings for the 

 Museum Stories of Raymond Foundation. A large part of Artist 

 Pfiffner's time was taken up with planning exhibits for various 

 departments of the Museum, which included work for the proposed 

 Hall of Mammals in the Department of Zoology and the design 

 for the large pictorial map of Indonesia for the Department of 

 Anthropology. The close co-operation of the Staff Artist and Staff 

 Illustrator with the artists and preparators of the Museum depart- 

 ments in order to produce in record time special material for the 

 Darwin and other exhibits is particularly gratifying. 



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