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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



be room for 3,000,000, which, at the present rate of increat^o, would 

 .siifKcc for two hundred years, but with the modern arrano-ement of the 

 book stacks, like those in the Congressional Library at Washington, 

 for example, the building would certainl}^ hold double that number, if 

 not many more: The Newberry Library has therefore a chance for 

 unchecked development in this direction. 



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Fig. 48. — Newberry Library. Plan of basement. 



1, duplicates (5(i by 68 feet); 3, engine room (50 by 66 feet); 7, hall; 8, vault; 9, cloak room; 10, men's 



closet; 13, anteroom (36 by 66 feet); 14, storeroom (56 by 68 feet); 17 and IS, closets; 19, shaft. 



The floor plans shown in figs. 48-52 give, with the legends, an idea 

 of the arrangement of the rooms. Perhaps it would have been more 

 judicious to have avoided the running of a corridor along the inner 

 wall of the building, as it cuts off the light to the book rooms from 

 this side and, besides, makes the access more difficult, ])ut the halls, 

 with their absolutely plain light decoration in greenish walls and white 

 ceilings, and the antehalls, decorated with paintings and busts, make 

 an excellent, charming, and pleasing impression, and they should 

 undoulotedl}^ ])e considered as very successful. The tirst story has a 

 marble floor while the others are floored with reddish brown, unglazed, 



Fig. 49.— Newberry Library. Plan of first floor. 

 20 and 21. medicine; 22, corridor; 24, museum (33 by 52 feet); 25, hall; 29, vestibule; 30, check room 

 (23 by 153 feet); 31, office (23 by 33 feet); 32, vault; 34, board room (33 by 50 feet); 36 and 37, closets; 

 38, chief librarian; 39, catalogue division. 



encaustic tiles, which are made in Ohio and are half an inch thick; 

 running carpets laid loose upon these present a somewhat unfinished 

 appearance. The hard inelastic floors are very fatiguing for walking 

 and standing, as is always the case in museums with uncovered stone 

 floors. They should be covered with linoicum or corcacin. Rooms 

 closed oft' for the employees are not provided. They sit in the large 



