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"The museum will be a lasting memorial of the greatest exposition the world has ever known."
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Various entry tickets for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
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Model of Giant squid, Ward's Natural Science Establishment Display
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Double coconut canteen from the Seychelles
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Fossil dragonfly, late Jurassic
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Unknown mechanism
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Opening the vaults
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Ragtime music
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alligator skeleton
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Japanese tea jar
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A great fair ends...a new museum begins
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Bad notes
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Exploring objects from the Fair
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Exhibition entrance
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Octopus model
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Meet the father of modern taxidermy
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Pelt
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photo from 1893 World's Fair installation
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Corals from 1893 help answer questions today
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Corals
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detail of Branching Coral
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Mushroom coral
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Nature's beauty as accessories
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Preserved nautilus in original jar
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The Fair came at a time of discovery
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Peregrine Falcon
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Array of oils in original jars
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A Charles Millspaugh herbarium sheet
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A Charles Millspaugh herbarium sheet (detail)
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Setting the course for our collections
