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transporting tobacco from the plantation to the markets of 
Jamestown 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 wheelbarrow, Amoy, China, used to 
transport 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, 
including 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 fop 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 ve- 
hicles, also a large drawing of Stephenson’s first street car, to- 
gether with photograph of street car , lines in other countries. 
TRANSPORTATION BY STEAM. 
This divison of transportation, occupying the East Pavilion, 
is designed to illustrate, largely through full-sized reproduc- 
tions and or'ginals, the evolution and development of perma- 
nent way, structures, motive power, equipment and appli- 
ances. The nucleus of this representation is in the extensive 
collection made by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for 
the Columbian Exposition, and purchased by the Field Colum- 
bian Museum. This collection embraces thirty-eight full-sized 
working reproductions, covering the period from the initial idea 
of steam propulsion on land, 1680, to the first “Camel’’ engine 
of 1848, and nine original locomotives, including examples of the 
practice followed from 1832 to 1876. In addition there are 
nearly eighteen hundred uniformly mounted and framed ex- 
