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- Exhibit title: Elkinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate enameled and repousse work platters, vases, and urns decorated with figurines and plants. Titles on labels: Cloisonne and repousse -- England, and: Selection from silver and steel repousse, works of art, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
- Collection of metal ware, including two painted plates -- one with an Asian motif, the other with a Native American motif -- sugar bowls, vases, coffeepots, creamer and a candlestick decorated with Native American motifs and two Indian figurines, one in a canoe. Exhibit title: Tiffany & Co., New York, N.Y., Exhibit #430, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Titles on labels: Selection from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Selection's from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
- Interior view of the U.S. Government Building. Depicts a display of stuffed seals and sea lions lounged atop large rocks. Also shown is a sign that reads "Smithsonian," indicating that the display is part of the Smithsonian Institution's Exhibit. In the background are various other stuffed land mammals.
- Exhibit title: Naval group - Larkin G. Mead, Ames Manufacturing Company, Chicopee, Mass, Exhibit #146, Memorial Hall/Art Gallery, Bldg. #101. Sculpture of three men around a cannon. One man is seated on top of the cannon, one is peering around it on the left and the third is standing erect with a telescope in his hand. All are in navy dress. Erected outside of Memorial Hall. The sculpture was made for the Lincoln Monument in Springfield, Illinois.