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Recent Significant Acquisitions : 2000
2000 Significant Acquisitions
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1893 Columbian Exposition Postal Cards
A mint set of the third and last issue of the official Columbian Exposition souvenir—an expanded series of
twelve domestic-size (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inch) 1-cent postal cards and a wrapper (not original to the set)—were given
to the Museum.
Charles W. Goldsmith (copyright owner and then agent for the U. S. government) created ten designs of Exposition sites—the
Government, Administration, Manufacturers and Liberal Arts, Agricultural, Electrical, Horticultural, Mines, Fisheries and
Woman's Buildings and the U. S. Naval Exhibit—carrying the Exposition seal and signatures of fair officials. The Kaller set
includes two site designs of the Fine Art and Machinery Buildings.
Donor: Myron and Judith Kaller
2000.2007
Image (at left):
The Fisheries Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
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1883 Mailing Cylinder for Medicines
Dr. N. Tucker of Mount Gilead, Ohio, used this cork-lined wooden cylinder with threaded brass lid (patent date 1883) to
purportedly mail prescriptions to patients in the 1800s. But was Tucker mailing prescriptions to patients or was he sending
empty vials back to druggists for refills?
The cylinder bears two cancelled U. S. stamps which would have paid for the then 4-ounce postal limit—the 1894 1-cent
blue Franklin and the 1895 8-cent violet brown Sherman—and Dr. Tucker's printed return label.
Donor: Sheridan Crothers
2000.2018
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