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THE EAST COURT 
Separated from the West Court by the Columbian Rotunda, a 
memorial of the greatest of expositions, is a series arranged to 
show human progress during four centuries. ... 
A plaster group, representing an Indian armed with primitive 
bow and arrow, killing the buffalo of the prairie. 
A fine series of representative primitive boats, the earliest 
appliances for inter-communication, and, close by, a gondola of 
the most modern type. 
A figure of Vulcan, of hammered copper, and of heroic size, 
typifying man’s strength and skill in utilizing the products of the 
mineral kingdom. 
Full size models of the locomotives of Trevithick and Steph- 
enson, illustrating man’s conquest over the elements in our cent- 
ury, by applying the generated forces to inanimate matter. These 
complete the series. 
THE NORTH COURT. 
In the North Court stands the handsome model of the Reich- 
stag (the German Parliament house), presented by the Imperial 
German Commission. This model is complete in every detail of 
architecture and sculpture, is 19 feet wide by 21 feet long, and 
stands 9 feet high. The alcoves on the East side are occupied 
chiefly by antiquities from Ireland and Assyria, musical instru- 
ments, etc., described on page 135. In the alcove off the library 
is a display of early books and printing 
THE SOUTH COURT. 
In the South Court are installed full-sized reproductions of 
antiquities from Yucatan and Central America, more fully de- 
scribed under the Department of Anthropology, page 153 ’ 
