244 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



FRANKFORD : 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FRANKFORD. 



The society has a small historical collection but has not yet organ- 

 ized a museum. 



GERMANTOWN: 



SITE AND RELIC SOCIETY OF GERMANTOWN. (Vernon Park.) 



This society maintains a museum devoted exclusively to German- 

 town relics; and a reference library of Germantown imprints and au- 

 thors, and of all books of local interest. 



GETTYSBURG: 



PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE. 



The college maintains teaching collections in charge of E. S. 

 Breidenbaugh, curator, comprising 6000 minerals and 3000 rocks; 

 and 6000 botanical specimens, including a general herbarium of the 

 flora of the eastern United States. 



HARRISBURG: 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY. 



At the time of going to press the society is in process of removal 

 to a new building, making it impossible to secure detailed information 

 concerning its collections. The museum is estimated to contain about 

 10,000 articles, including old-time utensils and implements, a large 

 series of paper money, coins, badges, personal effects, rare and curious 

 papers, documents and prints, portraits, pictures, photographs, deeds, 

 business papers, accounts, etc., chiefly relating to Dauphin County. 

 There is also a large collection of Indian relics. 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE MUSEUM. 



Staff. Director, Thomas Lynch Montgomery; Deputy director, 

 Norman D. Gray; Curators, Boyd P. Rothrock (zoology), Alicia 

 M. Zierden (education); Custodians, Luther R. Kelker (history); 

 Assistants, W. J. Durborow (zoology), Charles Revie (education); 

 1 stenographer, 1 watchman, and 4 cleaners. 



Education. Exhibits illustrating elementary, secondary, higher, 

 and special education, and school books and magazines; also exhibits 

 of social economy, including public charities, penal institutions, civic 

 associations, department of health, social systems in factory and shops, 

 industrial statistics, and state banking. 



Geology. Rocks, on exhibition, 300, in storage, 4 boxes; Relief 

 maps, models, etc., 3. 



