Tour the North Hall of the National Museum After the First Fifty Years

Porcelain ware belonging to Samuel Chase, of Maryland, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, comprising 2 meat dishes, 2 side dishes, 1 dinner-plate, 4 breakfast plates, 1 dessert plate, l cut-glass dish, and 1 cup.
Two shot-guns, presented to President Jefferson by the Emperor of Morocco. The stocks of these guns are covered with beautiful arabesque work.
War saddle of Baron De Kalb.
A Hall carbine, the original breech-loader.
A walking cane, formerly the property of Joseph Powell, of S. C., bearing inscriptions in relation to his own acts in behalf of the Union in 1861.
A breech-loading rifle belonging to General Sam Houston, of Texas, and also a shot-gun, the latter of flint-lock pattern.
The uniform coat of General Jackson, worn at the battle of New Orleans, with 2 gold epaulettes and 30 small buttons.
Coat of General La Paez, the associate of General Simon Bolivar-19 large and 6 small brass buttons.
Coat worn by Santa Anna, and captured by Captain R. Wheat, of General Scott's body guard-23 large and 8 small brass buttons.
General A. Jackson's pistol-case, containing 2 flint-lock pistols, 1 wipingrod, with 3 screw-points, 1 swab, 1 ball screw, 1 bullet mold, 1 thumb vise, 1 screw-driver, and vent opener, 2 spare flints.
A pair of buckskin gloves, presented to President Lincoln April 11,1865, by William Baker, of New York.
The hair of fourteen of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Pierce, inclusive.
Thirteen dress sabres, presented by Ali Pasha, Bey of Egypt, to Captain Perry and other ofiicers of the United States ship Concord, when at Alexandria, in 1832.
Sword presented to Commodore Elliot while serving in the Mediterranean.
Sword presented to Commodore Biddle by the Viceroy of Peru, with 3 large and 2 small diamonds in the hilt.
Sword presented to General Grant by the Spanish Republic, made at Toledo, in 1873. Pistol, made by Salola, a full-blooded Cherokee, of Quallatown, N. C.
Two bayonets found on Braddock's line of march to Fort du Quesne.
Small profile of Colonel William Washington.
One button, found near the Natural Bridge, Virginia; has on its face " Long live the President, G. W."
One lock of President Lincoln's hair.
Thomas Paine's shoe-buckles, which he wore in 1776; spectacles and case he used when writing his " Common Sense," " Crisis," and other stirring appeals for American independence and Union.
Statue of George Washington by Ferd. Pettrich.
Match-lock gun from Mexico in 1800.
Flint-lock frun from the West Indies.
Sword and bayonet taken from the wreck of the British frigate " Rose," sunk in the Savannah river September 16,1779, by order of Major General Prevost, to prevent the approach of the French fleet under Count D'Estaing.
Sword, three pistols, (English,) and musket lock, from the battlefield of New Orleans.
Ancient flint lock, found near Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
Cannon-ball from U. S. frigate Adams, blown up at Hampden, Me., in 1814.
Cannon-ball of Braddock's war.
Cast of small piece of ordnance from Ottawa, Illinois.
Pair of pistols and holsters used by Major L. P. Montgomery, U. S. A., killed at the battle of the Horseshoe 27th March, 1814.
Two hatchets from Singapore, East Indies.
Old English battle axe from Windsor Castle.
Fragment of the great wrought-iron gun "Peacemaker," which burst on the steamer Princeton Feb. 28, 1844, taken from the clothes of Hon. A. P. Upshur, Secretary of State, who was killed by the bursting of the gun.
Bolt from the prison of Columbus.
Tomahawk presented to Davy Crockett by the young men of Philadelphia, in 1836.
Cane carved by A. Oliver, a soldier of the Revolution, 1778.
Cane made from hull of steamer Charlotte Dundas, of Scotland, 1803.
Ancique compass from Brazil, which has marked the magnetic variations since 1604.
Pocket-knife of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky.
Sword of Rawson Clark, only survivor of Major Dade's command of 117 men, massacred by the Florida Seminoles in 1835.
Part of the machinery of the first steamboat built by James Ramsey in 1786, at Shepherdstown, Virginia.
Sword presented to Gen. E. W. Ripley, by Gov. D. D. Tompkins, of N. Y.
Sword presented by the first United States Congress to an Indian chief.
The " Classic Bouquet," a Greek manuscript book designed and chiefly executed by Miss Elizabeth B. Contaxaki, of Athens. Presented by her to the Smithsonian Institution,1856. Contains beautiful MS. illustrations of the antiquities of Greece, quotations from her famous authors, wild flowers gathered from sites of temples, &c.
Headstone of a Janissary's tomb, with inscription, from a cemetery at Constantinople. Japanese saddle, bridle, and horse trappings. Presented to the President by the Tycoon of Japan.
Life-size figure of a Laplander in his native costume, seated in a sledge attached to a harnessed reindeer. Presented by the University of Christiania.
Dressed lay figures, showing different Indian costumes.
Models of houses of Haidah Indians.
Models of figures or statuettes, showing occupations of natives of the East Indies.
Bust of General Grant, executed in wire, exhibited in the Peruvian section at the Philadelphia Centennial.
Album of autobiographical pictures bv " Running Antelope," a Dakota chief
Models of the Sutro Tunnel and Comstock Lode.
The Catlin collection of Indian portraits and scenes
Cast of the Mexican calendar stone.
Casts of heads of Indians held as prisoners of war at St. Augustine, Fla.
Casts of heads of forty Indians from Hampton, Virginia.

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