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DEPARTflENT OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 
Such contributions to the Department of Industrial Arts as 
are available for Museum purposes have been arranged to show, 
as far as possible, the more important steps which have led to 
improvement in handiwork, or progress in the invention of those 
implements, machines, and processes which have proved to be 
important factors in the world’s material development. 
The objects exhibited have, with a few exceptions, been 
culled and classified from a large mass of contributed material. 
Owing to the limited space available for the creation of special 
sections, many gifts to the department have been temporarily 
placed in storage. 
Since intercommunication has had so great an influence upon 
every department of applied science, and especially upon what 
may be called the epoch-making inventions, the groupings have 
been made irrespective of geographical lines. 
The Sections of the Department of Industrial Arts thus far 
created are as follows, located in the Halls specified: 
IN HALLS ADJOINING THE WEST COURT. 
Section of Animal Industries: Hall 22, Alcove 96. 
Section of Fishery Industries: Hall 23, Alcove 97. 
Section of Ceramic Industries: Had 30, A.lcove 107. 
Section of Textile Industries: Hall 31. 
Section of Gems, Gold, and Curios: Hall 32, Alcove 105. 
Section of Miscellaneous Industries: Hall 33. 
IN WEST PAVILION. 
Section of Metal-Working Industries: Hall 76. 
