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CARLINVILLE: 



BLACKBURN COLLEGE. Taylor Museum. 



The collections, which occupy one floor of Robertson Hall, were 

 donated to the college by Dr. Julius S. Taylor in 1882. They contain 

 25,000 fossils, representing nearly every epoch throughout the pale- 

 ozoic and mesozoic eras, and a large part of the Van Cleve corals 

 figured in the Indian report; 8000 minerals; 500 Indian relics; and 

 small working collections in botany and zoology. 



CHICAGO: 



ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. 



STAFF. Director, Wm. M. R. French; Assistants to the director, 

 Bessie Bennett, Lucy Driscoll; Secretary to the director, C. H. Burk- 

 holder; Librarian, Mary Van Home; Assistant librarian, Edna Fair- 

 child; Reference librarian, Nancy Adis; Department of stereopticon 

 slides, Edith Emerson; i stenographer, i door-cashier, 10 guards, 

 5 gallery-men, 13 janitors, 6 engineers, and i office boy. 



ART. Sculpture, 147 2 objects, including very large collections 

 of reproductions in marbles and plaster, metal work, bronzes, fragments, 

 medals, plaquettes; Prints and engravings, 500; Framed drawings, 

 186; Oil paintings, 452; Water colors, 25; Ceramics, 38g; Textiles, 

 i623 pieces; Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, 54 cases (an 

 important department); Ivory carvings, ioo (loaned); Musical 

 instruments, m (loaned), 28 (owned); Oriental art, jades, crystals, 

 lacquer, shrine, enamel, porcelain, numerous small objects, 717. 

 Among the more notable exhibits may be mentioned: The Field col- 

 lection of 41 pictures, representing chiefly the Barbizon school of 

 FrencK painters; 13 works of the highest value by old masters of the 

 Dutch school, from the Demidoff collection; the Albert A. Munger 

 collection of paintings; and the Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson 

 collection of fine Japanese, Chinese, and East Indian objects of art, 

 and of modern pictures. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Art Institute had its beginning in a 

 school of art practice, established in Chicago in 1886, and soon after 

 organized into the Chicago Academy of Design. After serious strug- 

 gles, a new organization was formed, called at first the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Fine Arts, but subsequently changed to the Art Institute of 

 Chicago, and incorporated in 1879. The present building was formally 

 opened as a museum on December 8, 1893. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The institute has the following sources of 

 income: from endowment, $20,000; from the city, $65,000, comprising 



