Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There has been placed on exhibit in the Assyrian room of the Semitic Museum a plaster cast of the stone, on which is written the Code of Laws of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia about 2250 B.C. There are 44 columns of writing containing 247 laws which give evidence of an advanced civilization among the Babylontans 1000 years before the time of Moses...
...philosophy, and six smaller rooms. On the second floor are the psychological and sociological, libraries, the museum of social ethics, a working room for students, and a lecture room. The third floor is the psychological laboratory of 25 rooms. The interior of the building is finished in white plaster, dark pine...
...floor the red oak panelling, surmounted by a six-inch cornice, in the philosophical and psychological libraries, is almost complete. Large spaces have been left between the panels for book cases. Two other small studies have been finished in the same way, but in the other rooms, merely the plaster has been stained. In the instrumental room, two long quartered oak cases, with glass fronts, have been placed...
...Germanic Museum has recently received from Mr. Henry W. Putnam '69, of Boston, a plaster cast of a statue of a Roman soldier--a companion figure to the statue of the Frankish warrior which has been in the Museum since its opening. This new plaster cast, like the old one, is from the Romisch Germanisches Museum at Mainz. Like the Frankish warrior, it is equipped with exact reproductions of arms, the originals of which are in the possession of the Mainz museum. Together the two figures give a very interesting illustration of the way in which Roman military art influenced...
...lower floors the walls have been varnished and covered with white lead, in preparation for a cost of paint, but none of the oak floorings have yet been laid. A wooden panelling to be placed along the bottom of the stained plaster walls is partially made...