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The Centennial Review August 1876, vol. 1 no. 8 p. 16 The Maryland building stands just west of Massachusetts, and north of New York. It is modest in appearance, and the exterior is colored in light tints, relieved with red. In front of the building stand two locomotives, exhibited by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and affording in the appearance a curious contrast. One of them was built by Phineas Davis, in 1835, and is very small and antiquated. The other is a full size locomotive of the present day, constructed for the company at its works, at Mount Clare, near Baltimore, and handsomely finished. The building consists of a large hall, with small rooms on either side. Near the centre is a collection of models of Chesapeake oyster boats, with tongs and drags used in catching oysters placed beside them. In the rear of these is a model of the fish catching house at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, in which thousands of black bass, California salmon, and trout are hatched annually, and placed in the rivers of the eastern and western shores of Maryland.
Nearby is a model of a shad packing house, with wharf boats, etc. Ranged about the hall are cabinets containing oysters found in the Chesapeake and tributary waters; a very beautiful collection of minerals*, handsome marbles, sections of woods and large pieces of coal. At each end of the hall is the escutcheon of the State, and on the walls hang a number of portraits of personages prominently identified with the history of Maryland and contributed by the Maryland Historical Society. Among these are Charles Carrol, of Carrolton, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Gen. Smallwood, General Otho Williams, Baron DeKalb, members of the Calvert family, and others.
The first room on the left is occupied by an office, and contains a register (learn more about the register). On the walls are hung drawings from the Maryland School of Design. A figure of carved wood, painted so as to resemble marble, is also exhibited. In the adjoining room is a belt mode of wampum, made by the Indians, casts of the arms of Penn and Lord Baltimore, as cut on the boundary stones on Mason and Dixon's line, and a grant of land in Baltimore Co., to the Taylor family, by Lord Baltimore. On the right are two rooms, one a sitting room for ladies, and the other for gentlemen, both furnished in a cool and inviting manner. In the ladies' room are hung portraits of Washington and Mrs. Washington, when both were very young.
*A very brief mention of the Centennial appears in the 1877 Register of the Maryland Agricultural College. A professor of chemistry and natural history reported that "investigations of Mineralogy have been very much aided by a collection of specimens, recently enlarged by contributions from the Centennial Exhibition."
- Elizabeth McAllister
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