Tour the North East Court of the National Museum After the First Fifty Years

The Museum has a fine collection of mineral, vegetable, and animal fibres including grasses, stems, barks, seeds, wool, hair, silk, &c.

Exhibits are made of jute, laces, jacquard weaving, carpets of all kinds, rope, twine, cloths, knit worsteds, yarns, calicoes, ginghams, hair-cloth, &c. A perfect-working model of the original cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney, presented by his son, is to be seen.

Return to start of the North East Court of the National Museum in 1886