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in December, 1 860, when that fort was evacuated by Anderson ; 

 the war saddle of Baron de Kalb, who gave his life for Ameri- 

 can independence ; the uniform worn by General Jackson at 

 the battle of New Orleans, and many other individual objects 

 of great historic value. 



"A most instructive historic treasure is the Copp collection 

 of household objects and wearing apparel, illustrating the 

 home-life of the New England colonists from 1635 to the 

 period of the War of the Revolution, the gift of Mr. John 

 Brenton Copp. 



" As a precious treasure in memory of the immortal Lin- 

 coln, there is the original plaster life-mask. Equally interest- 

 ing are the molds of the hands made by the sculptor Volk, in 

 i860, just prior to the nomination of Lincoln for President of 

 the United States. 



"As a most conspicuous object, and a treasure as well, may 

 be mentioned the original full-size plaster model of ' Liberty ' 

 by Crawford, from which was cast the bronze statue sur- 

 mounting the United States Capitol." 



Of the Sections of Transportation, Engineering, and Naval 

 Architecture and Physical Apparatus, Mr. J. E. Watkins, 

 Curator, writes as follows : 



" The collections in transportation, engineering, and naval 

 architecture, although not great in extent, are particularly 

 valuable on account of the historical interest of almost every 

 object which has been collected and is now on exhibition. 

 Notable among the objects is the cylinder of the first steam- 

 engine erected on the Western Continent, by Josiah Horn- 

 blower, in 1753, sixteen years before James Watt began his 

 investigations of the properties of steam. The museum has 

 also been fortunate in obtaining the original machinery of the 

 Stevens twin-screw propeller steam-boat, constructed and 

 operated in the year 1804, three years before Robert Fulton 

 operated the ' Clermont' on the Hudson River. The original 

 multitubular boiler of the Stevens locomotive of 1825, which 



ran in Hoboken, New Jersey, four years before Stephenson's 

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