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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of the scarabs or seals in the form ofthe sacred beetle. This is one of the rarest and most complete inexistence, surpassed only by that, in the Boulak Museum, Egypt.It is almost a complete series from the time of Mena, the earliestknown earthly potentate, down to the Christian era, when ancientEgypt passed out of history. The scarabs are made of a greatvariety of stones and gems, and bear the signet of the monarchwhom they represent. The classical anti(;uities, presented by Messrs. M. A. Ryerson,C. L. Hutchinson. P. D. Armour and nlhcrs, consist chiefly ofGreek and Roman specimens, and are real. They include pre-historic .American vases (terra cotta) from New Mexico and Ari-zona, Greek and Roman coins. Graeco-Italian vases, Greek glass,bronzes, etc., Roman lamps and terra cotta masks of rare value. On the second floor of the Institute are the paintings. TheHenry Field Memorial Collection comprises 41 original oil paint-ings by 20 of the most esteemed modern painters, including canvas
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THE ART INSTITUTE. front, which was to be used for sessions of the Worlds Congressof Religions. Upon its close, the property reverted to the ArtInstitute, and cost it a little less than half a million dollars. Theownership of the building is vested in the city of Chicago, whilethe right of use and occupation is given to the Institute so longas it shall fulfill the purposes for which it was organized. It mustbe open free to the public on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundaysand legal holidays, however, thus being in effect a gift to thepeople. The building is of Bedford limestone and is thoroughlyfire proof. The Institute has a number of fine collections of sculpture (bothof originals and reproductions), a department of Egyptian antiqui-ties and relics of the Pharoabs. Prominent among these collectionsare the Elbridge G. Hall plaster casts from representative originalsculptures; the H. N. Higinbotbam collection of Naples bronzes,which include reproductions of objects found in Herculaneum andP

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