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tury of Progress Exhibition 1934). The Reichert Collection illustrative of the 

 evolution and development of diagnostic instruments (70 p., 1942). 



The Squibb ancient pharmacy (Squibb Building, corner of 58th St. & Fifth Ave., 

 New York City, 28th floor). 



Collection made in Europe for E. R. Squibb and Sons, manufacturing chemists, 

 and brought to America in 1932. George Ordang and F. W. Nitardy: The Squibb 

 ancient pharmacy (190 p., ill.. New York, Squibb, 1940; Isis 32, 493). There are 

 many such collections in Europe, but this is the largest available in America. For 

 a list of other collections, too many to be enumerated here, see Josef Anton 

 Hafliger: Pharmazeutische Altertumskunde (p. 27-39, Ziirich 1931). 



Photography. — Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak Park, Rochester, N. Y. ). 



Printing and Publication. — The New York Times, The John H. Finley Museum 

 of the Recorded Word (229 W. 43rd St., New York). Chilhcothe Newspapers 

 (Chilhcothe, Ohio). See also typesetting. 



Railroads. — The Baltimore & Ohio Co. ( Bailey's Roundhouse, Baltimore, Md. ) . 



Union Pacific System (Headquarters Bldg., Omaha, Neb.). 



Norfolk & Western Railway (Roanoke, Va. ). 



Rock drilling. — IngersoU-Rand Co. Rock Drill Museum ( Phillipsburg, N. J.). 



Scales. — Toledo Scale Museum (Telegraph Rd., Toledo, Ohio). 



Shoes. — United Shoe Machinery Corporation Shoe Museum ( 140 Federal St., 

 Boston, Mass.). 



George E. Keith Co., Old Red Shop (Campello, Brockton, Mass.). 



Steel. — Worcester Pressed Steel Co., John Woodman Higgins Steel Museum 

 (Worcester, Mass.). 



The Museum is located on 100 Barber Avenue in Worcester. It was briefly de- 

 scribed by John W. Higgins: The industrial museum (Industrial Education Mag., 

 March 1935). 



Bethlehem Steel Exhibit ( Bethlehem, Pa. ) . See also Wires. 



Surgical instruments. — V. Mueller & Co. (408 S. Honore St., Chicago). 



Telegraph. — Western Union Telegraph Co. Engineering Museum ( 60 Hud- 

 son St., New York). 



Telephone. — Bell System Historical Museum (463 West St., New York). 

 Museum established in 1913, controlled by the American Telephone and Telegraph 

 Company, illustrating the history of electrical communications. 



William Chauncey Langdon: The American Telephone Historical Collection 

 (Bell Telephone Quarterly, Jan. 1924, 12 p.); The growth of the historical collec- 

 tion (ib., April 1925, 14 p.). W. C. Farnell: The Bell System historical museum 

 (50 p., ill., Bell Telephone Laboratories, Dec. 1936), this is a guide to the main 

 exhibits. 



The Bell Telephone Co. of Canada. Telephone Museum ( 1050 Beaver Hall Hill, 

 Montreal, P. Q.). 



Textiles. — Crompton & Knowles Loom Works (Worcester, Mass.). 



Typesetting. — Mergenthaler Linotype Co. ( Park Ave. & Ryerson St., Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y.). 



Typewriters. — Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. (Hartford, Conn.). 



Watches. — Elgin National Watch Co. (Elgin, III). Waltham Watch Co., 

 FrankHn Dennison Collection (Waltham, Mass.). 



Wires. — American Steel and Wire Co. (Worcester, Mass.). 



SMALL REGIONAL OR LOCAL MUSEUMS 



To these "company museums" should be added a few of the "local" museums, 

 of which there are now many thousands in the United States. The purpose of 

 these museums is to exhibit objects illustrating the history and archaeology of a 

 definite locality and of the region surrounding it. When that region was the cradle 

 of a definite industry, the local history of that industry will in all probability be rep- 

 resented. For example, I remember seeing industrial exhibits in the Museum of 

 Rochester, N. Y., and of course many of them in the two regional historical 

 museums of New York City, the Museum of the City of New York (Fifth Ave. at 



