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Alcove 7. — Aids to drawing used by lithographers and draftsmen tor process work: 

 Grained and embossed papers ; pasting tints ; the air-brush ; Day's shading mediums, 

 etc. — Methods of reducing and enlarging: The pantagraph ; rubber machines; 

 photo-mechanical processes. — Industrial applications of printing: Printing on wood, 

 celluloid, metal, glass, etc. 



Note. — Some of the items named in above list have not yet been placed on exhibi- 

 tion, but space has been reserved for all, and they will be added as soon as possible. 



A beginning has also been made with the labeling of the collections, 

 but the greater part of the manuscript for labels sent in thus far is still 

 in the hands of the printers. The collection of patents relating to the 

 graphic arts is in the same condition in which it was a year ago, both 

 time and money having been wanting to carry it on towards completion 

 and classification. 



The most important accession of the year has been the collection of 

 tools, materials, prints, etc., illustrating the practice of chromoxyl- 

 ography in Japan, generously donated to the Museum by the Japanese 

 Government printing office (Insetsu Kioku) in Tokio, through its chief, 

 Mr. T. Tokuno. The very interesting descriptive matter which accom- 

 panied this collection will be published as soon as certain further infor- 

 mation asked for has been received from Japan and the necessary illus- 

 trations prepared. A large collection of drawings by pupils of the Art 

 Academy of Cincinnati, presented by the Cincinnati Museum Associn 

 tion, also deserves special mention here. In the technical division, the 

 exhibits illustrating dry-pointing, soft-ground etching, engraving in 

 intaglio on wood, and the wax process have been satisfactorily com- 

 pleted. Much, however, remains to be done, more especially in the 

 divisions of drawing and painting and in the technical illustration of 

 the various photomechanical processes. The list of donations, here- 

 with submitted, shows, indeed, that a considerable number of speci- 

 mens exemplifying the results of these processes have again been ae 

 quired, but it is very difficult, under present circumstances, to secure 

 the means of explaining the processes themselves. 



LIST OF ACCESSIONS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1890. 



ACQUIRED BY GIFT. 



Andrews, John & Sou, Boston, Massachusetts. Two wood-engravings, executed in 



the establishment of the donors. (Cat. Nos. 3240, 3241.) 

 Avery, S. P., New York, New York. Collection of etchiugs, lithographs, and Procedc 



Comte prints. (Cat. Nos. 3007-3022, 3234.) Catalogue, "Atelier Jules Dupid," 



Paris, 1890. 

 Buncke, H., Lithograph Company, New York. Half-tone photolithographs, etc., 



executed in the establishment of the donors. (Cat. Nos. 2945, 2954.) 

 Berger & Wirth, New York. Specimen of prepared zinc for zincography. (Cat. No. 



3109.) 

 Buehring, Fred., New York. Lithographers and Photographers' Directory for 1889. 



(Cat. No. 2895.) 

 Chandler, Prof. C. F.,New York, New York. Collection of prints by various photo- 

 mechanical processes. (Cat. Nos. 2900-2929.) 



