. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. wives of early presidents may be;een, also glassware, fans, combs and other articles, but all areA^ell labeled and need here no description. In the northwest court are the collections of musical instru-ments, coins and stamps. The musical instruments are froim30th aboriginal and civilized peoples. There are about 6,000:oins and medals representative of nearly every country of theA^orld. Several Chinese and Japanese pieces of earliest type arencluded. The coin collection of the United States is notcomplete but contains many rare and int
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. wives of early presidents may be;een, also glassware, fans, combs and other articles, but all areA^ell labeled and need here no description. In the northwest court are the collections of musical instru-ments, coins and stamps. The musical instruments are froim30th aboriginal and civilized peoples. There are about 6,000:oins and medals representative of nearly every country of theA^orld. Several Chinese and Japanese pieces of earliest type arencluded. The coin collection of the United States is notcomplete but contains many rare and interesting pieces. The Post Office Department transferred to the custody)f the Museum its extensive collections of postage stamps,objects and papers identified with the postal history of the:ountry. The most important exhibits are the series of postage;tamps, both foreign and United States. There are complete;ets of American stamps and a large collection of uncancelled>tamps of foreign countries. The Museum continues to RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE 123. Smithsonian and Older Museum Buildings TKe Mall Pages 122 and 126 receive the new issues for all countries as they are distributedthrough the mediuni of the Postal Union. Undoubtedly thecollection must soon attain a foremost position in the worldas regards the subject of philately. Rotunda. Passing on into the Rotunda, the plaster modelof Crawfords Liberty, surmounting the dome of the Capitol,towers above the fountain-basin, and is surrounded by severalother models of statues, the bronze or marble copies of whichornament the parks and buildings of New York, Boston, these are fully labeled. The two great Haviland memorialvases here, whose value is estimated at $16,000, were presentedby the great pottery firm of Haviland, in Limoges, France, andare the work of the artists Bracquemond and is entitled 1776, and the other 1876, and they aredesigned to be illustrative of the struggles through which thisRepubl
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