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Access to the Study and Exhibition series in the Section was also given to Major J.     ^[[G]] [[overwrites C]]. Pangborn, Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comapany's Historical Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. Numerous photographs of models and drawings in the collection were made by Major Pangborn's representative for this exhibit, which promises to be the most elaborate ever made at an Exposition by a railroad company.

At the request of the Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department a number of models      ^[[and drawings]] in the collection were photographed to form the basis of illustrations for a publication which is designed to sho^[[w]] the growth of the U.S. Post Office Department.

Among the important accessions during the year are the following:

Electrical locomotive that made the fastest recorded speed (115 - 120 miles per hour) on land, by generated power, at Laurel, Maryland, in the yea^[[r]] 1889. Publicly reported by O. T. Crosby in his paper entitled "High Speed Electrical Works", and