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For the Worlds Columbian Exposition it was hoped that a large [[strikethrough]] and mo [[/strikethrough]] historical collection might be arranged, [[strikethrough]] with the expectation of the American [[/strikethrough]] but it was impossible to accomplish all that was planned. The exhibits sent to Chicago included (1) about eighteen hundred engraved and photographic portraits of [[strikethrough]] eminent Americans [[/strikethrough]] Members of the Continental Congress, the Federal Convention of 1787, the first Congress of the United States, Members of the National Academy of Sciences, and of other ^[[eminent]] American Statesmen, Jurists, [[strikethrough]] Am [[/strikethrough]] Philosophers, Army and Navy Officers, Medical Men, Clergymen, Educators, Artists, Authors, Merchants and Philanthropists; (2) Almost six hundred