. The Metropolitan museum of art; a review of fifty years' development, printed on the occasion of the fifieth anniversary of the founding of the Museum . istant classes, Sustaining and Fellowship, established. Departments re-organized, Department of Clas-sical Antiquities organized. Educational work organized; cooperation withPublic Schools initiated. Publication of Bulletin begun. 1906 Accessions Room Department Desk of Egyptian Art Expedition for excavation A. Hearn gives
. The Metropolitan museum of art; a review of fifty years' development, printed on the occasion of the fifieth anniversary of the founding of the Museum . istant classes, Sustaining and Fellowship, established. Departments re-organized, Department of Clas-sical Antiquities organized. Educational work organized; cooperation withPublic Schools initiated. Publication of Bulletin begun. 1906 Accessions Room Department Desk of Egyptian Art Expedition for excavation A. Hearn gives English and American paintings and fund for purchase of paintingsby living American artists. 1907 Department of Decorative Arts Room opened. Lantern slide lending collection addition to building (Addition E), Mc-Kim, Mead & White, Architects. 1908 First Museum Instructor C. Hewitt bequest, over $1,500,000. 1909 Loan exhibition, Hudson-Fulton Study Room, of Textiles, opened. 1910 Fifth addition to building (Addition F), Wing of Decorative Arts, McKim, Mead & CHRONOLOGY J. Pierpont Morgan gives part and lends part of Hoentschel Russell Sage gives Bolles Collection of American addition to building, The Library, McKim, Mead & White, C. Purdon Clarke, Director, Director, Edward Robinson, A. Hearn gives another collection of English and American Stewart Kennedy bequest, over $2,600,000. 1911 Lecture Hall opened. 1912 Francis L. Leland gift, over $1,000, addition to the building (Addition H), McKim, Mead & White, Pulitzer bequest, over $900, of Arms and Armor organized. 1913 Death of J. Pierpont Morgan. Fifth President, Robert W. de Forest, Secretary, Henry W. Kent, Altman bequest, paintings, sculpture, Chinese porcelains, etc., and fund
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