ABSTRACT
During the summer of 1875, the approach ofthe International Exhibition suggested to the minds of several persons who had previously been interested in the subject of Industrial Art Education, that there would here be presented an unusual opportunity of forming a nucleus of works of industrial art, the beginning of a collection which, as has been seen in the history of similar enterprises, would, if once made, grow of itself, and which, in time, could not fail to have a most beneficial influence upon the industries of our State and City. An organization was effected and so arranged as to inelude in the management representatives of the leading educational institutions of the City, and of the State and City authorities, thus securing the co-operation of all those whose devotion to the public good proved their value, and demonstrating the fact that the new Museum and School of Industrial Art did not intrude on the work of established organizations, of which our citizens are so justly proud ...
