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RKl'ORT OF NATIONAL MITSEUM, 19(>,S. 



The libraiy ccmtaiiis 150,000 volumes, particnlarly Americana, Bibles 

 (10,000 volume.s), Shakespeareana, and music, besides al)Out 75,000 

 pamphlets, 600 manuscript volumes, 600 volumes of incunabula, 50,000 

 letters, 4,000 maps, etc. Nothing is lent out. There are 25 employees. 

 The visiting hours, etc., are the same as in the Astor Library. After 

 dusk the library is lighted by electricity and open to visitors. There 

 are 108 seats. In 1898-99, 68,000 volumes were used by 26,000 readers 



Fig. 15. — New York Public Library. Plan of second floor. 



.1ECUND FLOOR PLAN. 



(an average of 84 daily), besides the use of the great reference library 

 of 5,000 volumes in two reading rooms. Only two books were stolen 

 and 25 mutilated in the two libraries together. 



On the second floor there is a galler}' of 400 i)aintings. for the most 

 part modern — among them works by Becker, Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, 

 Bougucreau, Brozik, Church, Constable, Copley, Corot, Delaroche, 

 Detaille, Diaz, Gainsborough, Gerome, Hiibner, Huntington, Inness, 

 Knaus, the two Koekkoeks, Landseer, Leslie, Lessing, ]\la(lrazo, 



