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nance of building, $11,000; total, $27,002 (190S). The income given 

 for the museum is independent of the income for the maintenance of 

 the school. 



Building. Completed in 1876 for the Centennial Exhibition 

 but designed as a permanent art museum. The cost was $1,500,000, 

 of which the state paid two-thirds and the city one-third. The Penn- 

 sylvania Museum occupies 70,000 square feet of floor space in this 

 building, which also accommodates the Wilstach Art Gallery. 



Administration. By a director and a museum committee, re- 

 sponsible to a board of trustees. 



Scope. The purposes of the museum are the development of the 

 industries of the state, furnishing material for instruction in the school, 

 research by the staff, and the maintenance of a bureau of identification. 



Library. About 2600 titles on art subjects intended for use of 

 both staff and public. 



Publications, (i) Annual reports, 33 issued to 1910. (2) Mu- 

 seum Bulletin, issued quarterly since January 1903. (3) Monographs 

 and catalogs, about 30. (4) Art handbooks, 2. (5) Art primers, 4. 

 (6) A general handbook of the museum. 



Attendance. Open free to the public every day in the year; 

 Sundays, 1 to 6, Mondays, 12 to 5, other days, 9 to 5. The average 

 yearly attendance is about 400,000. 



THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUMS. 



Staff. Director, W. P. Wilson; Secretary, Wilfred H. Schoff; 

 Curator, Charles R. Toothaker; Curator's assistants, George T. Hast- 

 ings, Geo. P. Goll, B. Meade Wagenseller; Photographer, Fred D. 

 Maisch; Librarian, John J. MacFarlane; Chief of foreign trade bureau, 

 Dudley Bartlett; Editor of bureau publications, Horace S. Morrison; 

 Chief assistant in the bureau, George C. Gibson; Superintendent of 

 buildings and grounds, CD. Williason; 2 stenographers; 1 cashier; 

 6 minor curatorial assistants; 2 assistants in photography; 3 assistants 

 in the library; 23 clerks, stenographers, translators, and printers in 

 the foreign trade bureau; 8 watchmen and guards; 5 cleaners; 1 engi- 

 neer and an assistant; 2 firemen; a variable number of carpenters and 

 painters. 



Collections. The exhibits are both geographic and mono- 

 graphic. In the geographic exhibits the object is to show in one place 

 all that pertains to the people, industries, and products of one coun- 

 try. The monographic exhibits show the different varieties of one 

 substance or of one group of articles in all parts of the world. 



