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Russia and Portugal. The Shah of Persia’s pleasure carriage, 
coach and his racing horses; also a series of Latin- American 
vehicles, including many from India, China and Burmah. A series 
of ancient Assyrian and Egyptian vehicles, types in use hundreds 
of years before the Christian era. 
HALL 54. 
Case 1.— Models of vehicles from various parts of the world. 
Ceylon carts for freighting; Hindoo and Burmese wagons drawn 
by bullocks and horses, including a variety of Turkish wagons, 
and modern American horse and cart. 
No. 2.— Ghurry cart, drawn by man, from Surat, India, largely 
used for transporting goods within the cities. 
No. 3.— Rolling hogshead, with yoke of oxen and negro 
driver, illustrating the method in Virginia in colonial days of 
transporting tobacco from the plantation to the markets of James- 
town and Richmond, Virginia. 
No. 4.— Carreta ox-cart wheels without spokes, made by the 
Indians of the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico, with oxen yoked 
according to the Mexican method. 
No. 5.— Passenger wheelbar-ow, Amoy, China, used to trans- 
port travelers from point to point within the city. The passenger 
places one foot across the front cross-bar, allowing the other to 
swing free, and resting the arm on top of wheel shield. 
No. 6.--Represents a section of Clay street, San Francisco, 
California, in 1872. On this street was placed and operated the 
first cable railroad in the world. A section of the cable road, in- 
cluding yokes and rails, and the first grip-car run for public use 
on any cable street railway, are here shown. On the stands are 
specimens of the original yokes and the first original grip which 
was made for Mr. A. S. Hallidie, the inventor of the cable railway, 
1872. A small model of the grip, together with models of cars, 
are also here. At the end of the stand are two yokes used on 
the cable railway of Germany. 
On the Walls are a series of photographs of land vehicles, 
also a large drawing of Stephenson’s first street car, together 
with photograph of street car linesjn other countries. 
