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AMERICAN NEGRO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society has a small collection of pictures, pamphlets, and curios 

 connected with negro slavery in the United States. George W. Mitchell, 

 90S Walnut Street, is corresponding secretary. 



DREXEL INSTITUTE MUSEUM. (Chestnut and 32nd St.) 



Staff. Curator, Mary T. MacAlister; Attendant in picture gal- 

 lery, Elizabeth C. Niemann; minor employees are detailed from the 

 staff of the institute for special duties in the museum. 



Art. A gallery of paintings comprising the Anthony J. Drexel 

 and John D. Lankenau bequests; casts from the antique; modern 

 sculpture; French and English prints; oriental and European ceramics; 

 metal work; furniture and wood carving; and textiles. Among special 

 collections may be mentioned the series of Egyptian antiquities col- 

 lected by Brugsch in 1895; the George W. Childs collection of carved 

 ivories ; Sevres white and gold ware of the Louis Philippe and Napoleon 

 III periods; hand-printed cottons of India; fragments of European 

 silks and velvets of the 15th to the 18th century. 



Commerce and Finance. A small collection. 



Historical Sketch. The museum was begun in 1892 as a part 

 of the work of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. 



Financial Support. By appropriations from the general funds 

 of the institute, and by gifts. 



Building. The building was erected in 1891, and the museum 

 occupies 8700 square feet of floor space for exhibition. 



Administration. By a curator, responsible to the president and 

 a committee of the board of trustees of the institute. 



Scope. The primary purpose of the museum is the instruction 

 and artistic cultivation of the students of the institute, but the privi- 

 leges of the museum are extended to the public. 



Library. 36,000 volumes intended for the use of the staff, stu- 

 dents, and the public. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily except Sundays and 

 holidays, from October to March, from 9 to 6. No statistics of at- 

 tendance are available. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. (1300 Locust St.) 



The society maintains a large collection of local historical por- 

 traits and relics, in charge of John W. Jordan, librarian. Among the 

 artists represented are: Hesselins, West, Copley, Stuart, Peale, 

 Polk, Wurtmuller, Pine, Wright, Sully, Eicholtz, Inman, Read, Pettit, 

 and Lambdin. 



