60 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



graphic views of historic sites; and miscellaneous relics of local inter- 

 est. This museum was founded at the time of the organization of the 

 society in 1856, with the object of illustrating as fully as possible the 

 subjects of which the library treats. Much discrimination has been 

 exercised in the selection of objects for exhibition, and they are exten- 

 sively used by archeologists and by study classes from the schools. 



The museum occupies about 1234 square feet of floor space in 

 the society's building, is in charge of the librarian, who is responsible 

 to a committee on collections, and shares with the library and lectures 

 a maintenance fund of approximately $14,000 annually, obtained from 

 endowment and membership fees. A library of 150,000 volumes, pam- 

 phlets, and manuscripts on the history of the central west is accessible 

 to the public in connection with the collections. The annual report of 

 the museum is included in the year book of the society. The museum 

 is open free to the public on every week-day. 



CHICAGO SCHOOL OF CIVICS AND PHILANTHROPY. Social 

 Museum. (35 Dearborn Street.) 



This museum was incorporated in November, 1904, as the Muni- 

 cipal Museum of Chicago, and opened to the public in February, 

 1905, in two large rooms of the Chicago Public Library. The collections 

 include exhibits in the form of maps, models, photographs, designs, 

 charts, stereoscopic views, etc., illustrating foreign and American cities, 

 and a civic reference library of some 600 titles. In the department of 

 geography, a series of 200 maps, charts, and diagrams, and 200 photo- 

 graphs, illustrate the geography of the Chicago region and the indus- 

 tries which grow out of it. A valuable group of industrial material in- 

 cludes the Essen exhibit of workingmen's dwellings and factory hygiene, 

 plans of municipal workingmen's houses presented by the city of 

 Liverpool, and maps, plans, photographs, and graphic statist'cs from 

 Munich, Dresden, Cologne, London, Manchester, Boston, and Chi- 

 cago. 



During the first two years of its existence the museum presented 

 ii exhibitions in city-making, entertained 84 conferences for discus- 

 sions of public questions, gave more than 500 free illustrated 

 addresses, and also acted as a bureau of civic information. The aver- 

 age daily attendance was 400-500, and on program days it amounted 

 to 1500-2000. 



Changes at the library forced the removal of the museum and it 

 is now stored at Hull House and the University of Chicago. In 1909, 

 ownership of the museum was transferred to the Chicago School of 



