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jewelry, ivory carving, and bookbinding, besides which there are 
many miscellaneous articles of novel and exquisite workmanship. 
The contributors to the loan collection, numbering 17, were as follows: 
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Miss Lydia Spencer Biddle, Mrs. James S. 
Bowdoin, Miss M. C. Codman, Mrs. Nicholas Fish, Mrs. James S. 
Harlan, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hobson, Mrs. Julian James, Mrs. Richard 
G. Lay, Mrs. C. A. Oswell, Mrs. James W. Pinchot, Mrs. Charles W. 
Richardson, Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson, Mrs. G. M. Robeson, Mrs. 
EF. W. Schley, Miss Olive Risley Seward, and the Misses Trapier. 
In addition to the above, acknowledgments are especially due to 
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid for the gift of a collar and pair of cuffs of Ve- 
netian point lace of the latter part of the eighteenth century. 
