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Title: Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883 Newton, Isaac, 1800-1867 Johnson, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Pierce), 1793-1869 United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1863-1864). House United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) United States. Post Office Dept United States. Postmaster General United States. Dept. of Agriculture National Ship-Canal Convention (1863 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects: United States. Post Office Dept United States. Dept. of Agriculture London International Exhibition National Ship-Canal Convention (1863 : Chicago, Ill.) Postal service Agriculture Canals
Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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scene.The regulations laid down by the commissioners, which appropriated the seatsto ladies only, were strictly complied with, and throughout the long line therewas hardly a break in the rule of ladies to the front. Seen fiomthe easterndais the scene was brilliant enough, but to those who had secured places at thewestern end and watched the procession as it advanced towards them, the coupdosil must have been still grander. At the opening ceremony, where the pro-cession squeezed painfully through two narrow pathways at each side, therewas nothing comparable to the splendor of the moving panorama of the pro-cession as it swept down the nave. At the Norwich gates the committees ofclasses 13,15, 16,17, 22, 30,33, 34, 35, and 36 were assembled. Their chairmenreceived the awards from the Duke of Cambridge in the following order : TROriiY EEECTED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT On (lit occji.sion of tlie Grand DistriLiitiou of Awarcls at the InternaUonal Exhibition, Lou* don, July 11, 18G2.
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ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 153 Pliilosophical instruments, Sir D. Brewster; liorolof>ical instruments, masterof the clockmakers company ; musical instruments, Mr. Broadwood; surgicalinstruments, Mr. Caesar Hawkins ; carpets, mayor of Halifax; furniture anddecoration, Mr. Grace ; precious metals, master of the goldsmiths company;glass, Mr. Chance; pottery, Alderman Copeland, M. P.; dressing-cases, &c.,Alderman Mechi. A few yards beyond, the procession again halted opposite Emanuels trophy,where the following awards were distributed to the respective chairmen: Photography, the Lord Chief Baron; cotton, the mayor of Manchester; flaxand hemp, the Provost of Dundee ; silk and velvet, the mayor of Macclesfield ;woollen fabrics, the mayor of Bradford ; printed fabrics, Mr. E. Potter, M. P.;tapestry and lace, Sir S. Northcote, M. P.; clothing, the mayor of Nottingham;stationery, master of stationers company ; educational, Right Hon. W. Cowper. This was the last station in the Bri

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