shing;
equipment and products; Products of fisheries; Fish culture.
No report.
Department N, Anthropology, Dr. W.J. McGee, Chief; Mrs. Zelia Nuttall,
Cambridge, Mass., Department Juror.
This department comprised 4 groups and 5 classes, under the
group headings: Literature; Somatology; Ethnology; Ethnography.
Mrs. Nuttall reports, as group juror, this department.
(Report not on file.)
Department O, Social Economy, Dr. Howard J. Rogers, Chief; Miss Jane
Addams, Chicago, Ill., Department Juror.
This department comprised 13 groups and 58 classes, the group
headings being: Study and investigation of social and economic
conditions; Economic resources and organization; State
regulation of industry and labor; Organization of industrial
workers; Methods of industrial remuneration; Cooperative
institutions; Provident institutions; Housing of the working
classes; The liquor question; General betterment movements;
Charities and correction; Public health; Municipal improvement.
Miss Addams says in her report as department juror of the above:
The general advance in social betterment has been very marked in
the eleven years intervening since the Columbian Exposition, at
Chicago, and women have not only shared that advance, but have
undoubtedly contributed more than their proportionate share, if
tested by the proportionate value of their exhibits at Chicago
and at St. Louis. This is also true if tested by the social
economy exhibits made in Paris in 1900, where I was a juror in
the department of social economy. No separate exhibit was there
made of the work of women save that implied in the exhibition of
women's philanthropic societies. At the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition their separate exhibits were not only larger, but
more definite and coherent. The work of women was as much
appreciated when placed by the side of men as if it had been
installed by itself, and the results would have been no better
if separately exhibited. Certainly nothing in the entire
department at St. Louis was more successfully installed and
attracted more favorable attention than the Twin City Museum,
which occupied an entire building upon the Model street and was
under the direction of Mrs. Conde Hamlin, of St. Paul, who had
also planned it from the beginning and was made commissioner. It
was certainly a notab
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