Gaar Museum Of Wayne: The State Hospital for the Insane (1890) is here. Earlham College (1847; coeducational) is the property of the Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings of Friends (Quakers). Its library contains a good collection on Quaker history. The Julia Meek Gaar Museum of Wayne County has an interesting collection of household utensils, Quaker garments, and pioneer implements of the early Middle West. Richmond is the midwest center of American Quakers. In 1893 the Friends Publishing Board commenced to publish here a fortnightly called The American Friend. Richmond was settled in 1806 by Friends from North Carolina and Pennsylvania; was laid out in 1816, incorporated as a town in 1818, and chartered as a city in 1840. It is governed by a mayor and council. Pop. 44,149.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
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