. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 382 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. tirm, where everything is of iron. It has done some very excellent work in several Government buildings in Massachusetts, about which I shall speak under Boston. The authorities of the United States, for BricK Partition Walls. 'steel Curtain^^^^'^^'Tteel Curtain &teei turtain Fig. 23.—Ground plan of the room shown in figs. 21, 22. the sake of greater security against tire, are turning more and more t
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 382 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. tirm, where everything is of iron. It has done some very excellent work in several Government buildings in Massachusetts, about which I shall speak under Boston. The authorities of the United States, for BricK Partition Walls. 'steel Curtain^^^^'^^'Tteel Curtain &teei turtain Fig. 23.—Ground plan of the room shown in figs. 21, 22. the sake of greater security against tire, are turning more and more to iron furniture, which is preferable to wood also on account of its general appearance. Iron is prepared for this purpose with much better machinery than among us, and is, in consequence, in spite of higher wages, much cheaper than in Germany. It has at the same time the advantage of an elegant exterior. Especially perfect is the varnish, which is obtained by triple burning. B}' its use the iron becomes as if enameled. It is, moreover, adorned with bronze, brass, marble, painting, and the like. There are several larger firms of the same sort in the United States, as, for example, Snead & Co. Iron Works in Louisville, Kentucky, which, among other things, constructed the remarka- ble iron book stacks in the Li- brary of Congress, to which I shall refer in a later report; there is also J. B. and J. M. Cornell, Twenty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue in New York (also Cold Spring in New York), who manufactured the furnishings of the county court-house in Worces-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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