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Title: Annual report, 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--Annual reports Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art--Annual reports Philadelphia Museum School of Art--Annual reports Philadelphia Museum College of Art--Annual reports Philadelphia College of Art--Annual reports Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts--Annual reports University of the Arts--Annual reports
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Contributing Library: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries
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a similar need is not less urgent. Special atten-tion has already been given in these reports to the growth ofthe department of Chemistry and Dyeing; to the exceptionalvalue of the work it is accomplishing, and to the necessity for in-creased facilities under which it labors at present. So congestedhas the situation become that satisfactory work in the Dyeing 15 rooms is now impossible, on account of the interference of thefumes from the Chemical Laboratory, the two branches being socrowded together as to virtually occupy the same rooms. A tem-porary structure for use as a dye-house to be erected at the FifteenthStreet end of the south yard during the summer vacation will re-lieve the situation somewhat, but the erection of a suitable additionof a permanent character for the adequate installation of this de-partment cannot long be deferred if the School is to maintain theposition which has unquestionably been accorded it hitherto. Respectfully submitted. THEODORE C. SEARCH, President.
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RELIEF PANEL IN PORCELAIN BISCUIT, WITH GLAZED PORCELAIN FRAME. The Descent from the Cross. By Richard Ginori, Milan, Italy.Bought at Paris Exposition, 1900. From the Joseph E. Temple Trust. 17 REPORT OF THE MUSEUM. The twelve months ending May 31, 1902, have been marked bygreat prosperity for the Museum. During this period there were1659 accessions to the collections by gift and purchase and 2014by loan, making a total of 3673 objects received. Among themost important additions are an ancient throne chair from a Per-sian mosque; a richty chased and inscribed silver vase of histori-cal interest, made by Reed, of Philadelphia, and presented by theWhigs of the same city, during the Henry Clay Campaign of 1843,to Hon. James C. Jones, the Governor of Tennessee, for valuableservices rendered by him ; a beautifully painted bleu de roi ewerand bowl of Sevres porcelain, said to have been made for Napo-leon in 1805 ; a collection of Colonial relics illustrating the domes-tic, industrial and fa

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