122 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Financial Support. Purchases are made from special contribu- 

 tions of friends; other expenses are met by the university. There is 

 no endowment. 



Building. Erected in 1902 at a cost of about $80,000 given by 

 Mr. Schiff. It provides about 8000 square feet of floor space for 

 exhibition, and about 5000 for offices, workrooms, etc. 



Administration. By a curator acting with a committee, respon- 

 sible to the president and fellows of Harvard University. 



Scope. Primarily, exploration and college teaching; secondarily, 

 public instruction. 



Library. About 1500 volumes on Semitic subjects intended for 

 the use of instructors and students. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 5. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Social Museum. 



The Social Museum was begun in 1903 for the purpose of promot- 

 ing investigation of modern social conditions, and directing the amelio- 

 ration of industrial and social life by means of graphical illustration 

 of progress in various countries. The collections comprise photo- 

 graphs, models, diagrams, and charts. Among them may be mentioned 

 an exhibit, made at the St. Louis Exposition by the German gov- 

 ernment of the workingmen's insurance system; and by German in- 

 dustrial establishments concerned with the welfare of their working 

 people; exhibits from France, Belgium, Italy, and Japan, illustrating 

 municipal progress, improved dwellings, and philanthropic institu- 

 tions; a duplicate of the exhibit of the United States bureau of statis- 

 tics of labor concerning wages, strikes, and trade-unions; an exhibit 

 representing the English cooperative movement; an exhibit illustrating 

 social settlements; charts representing life-insurance statistics; illus- 

 trations of welfare-work in American industries; photographic 

 collections illustrating charity, industrial methods, immigration, im- 

 proved housing, prison reform, etc. The museum occupies two 

 rooms in Emerson Hall and in conjunction with the library of 3000 

 volumes affords the student much material for study and research. 



CHARLESTOWN: 



UNITED STATES NAVY YARD. Museum. 



The navy yard maintains a museum and library occupying 3000 

 square feet of floor space and comprising extensive collections of models 

 and pictures; Chinese and South Sea Island weapons of war; and 

 minerals and shells. The library contains about 4000 volumes of 



