252 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



INDEPENDENCE HALL AND NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Staff.' Superintendent of buildings, James McCormack; Cur- 

 ator in charge, Wilfred Jordan; Assistant, Sarah Wilson; 3 engineers, 

 1 special officer, 8 guards, 3 night guards, and 5 janitors. 



Art. Sculpture, 25; Prints and engravings, 1000; Oil paintings, 

 50C+; Water colors, 20; Crayons, 50. This collection includes many 

 valuable portraits of the colonial and revolutionary period. 



History. Colonial and revolutionary relics, many of which are 

 very valuable. 



Financial Support. An annual appropriation of $1 2,860 from the 

 .city. 



Building. Independence Hall comprises three main build- 

 ings. The central building was designed by Andrew Hamilton, and 

 erected about 1736 by the province of Pennsylvania; the two others 

 were erected after the close of the Revolution for the county of Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Administration. By the bureau of city property in association 

 with an advisory board of 8 members appointed by the mayor. 



Library. A few reference books intended for the use of the staff. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily except Sunday from 

 9 to 4. No statistics of attendance are available but the number 

 of visitors is estimated at 1,000,000 a year. 



NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



This society does not maintain a museum of its own but has on 

 deposit with the Pennsylvania Museum in Memorial Hall, Fairmount 

 Park, about 5000 coins and medals. The society was founded in 

 1858 and maintains a library of 1500 books and 4000 pamphlets at 

 1300 Locust Street. 



PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. Museum. 



Staff. Secretary and manager, John E. D. Trask. 



Art. General collections representing the various schools and 

 periods in art; a collection of American paintings, said to be the best 

 in existence; examples of sculpture, and nearly 50,000 engravings and 

 etchings. The series of American paintings begins with those of 

 Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Wash- 

 ington Allston, and continues with the works of Trumbull, Krimmell, 

 Gray, Huntington, and May, with representative portraits by Rem- 

 brandt, Peale, Sully, Eicholtz, Neagle, and Inman, thus bringing the 

 series to the period of contemporary art. 



