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# Curiosity Cabinet\*

> \*In the history of western museums, \"curiosity cabinets\" were the
> precursors of formally documented collections. Following is our
> centennial curiosity cabinet -- an eclectic collection of interesting
> and, in some cases, curious items that can be found in the museum
> collections of the National Park Service.

-   50 specimens of the foothill yellow-legged frog, *Rana boylii*,
    collected in the 1930s and now absent from the region -- Yosemite
    National Park (CA)

-   John Wilkes Booth's derringer used to shoot President Abraham
    Lincoln and the coat that Lincoln was wearing that night -- Ford's
    Theatre National Historic Site (DC)

-   A more than 36,000 year old fossil walrus skull (*Odobenus
    rosmarus*) -- Cape Hatteras National Seashore (NC)

-   343 Native American baskets hanging from the ceiling of the trading
    post and the Hubbell family home -- Hubbell Trading Post National
    Historic Site (AZ)

-   Sweet potato and peanut specimens used by George Washington Carver
    to develop new products -- Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
    (AL)

-   The President's touring car with wet bar and his collection of
    barcaloungers -- Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park (TX)

-   A plaster cast of the *Shaw Memorial*, Augustus Saint-Gaudens'
    memorial to Colonel Shaw and the 54^th^ Massachusetts Regiment, the
    first military unit of African Americans raised in the North during
    the Civil War -- Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site (NH)

-   Totem poles collected from villages throughout southeastern Alaska
    by District Governor John G. Brady and brought to Sitka in 1905 are
    exhibited along a 2-mile coastal trail -- Sitka National Historical
    Park (AK)

-   George Washington's inaugural coat -- Morristown National Historical
    Park (NJ)

-   The Palmetto Flag, which the 18^th^ South Carolina Regiment raised
    over the captured fort on April 14, 1861, marking the start of the
    Civil War -- Fort Sumter National Monument (SC)

-   Thomas Moran's paintings from the 1871 U.S. Geological Survey
    expedition led by Ferdinand V. Hayden -- Yellowstone National Park
    (ID, MT, WY)

-   Projectile points dating to A.D. 1-350 made of obsidian from a
    source more than 1,500 miles away -- Hopewell Culture National
    Historical Park (OH)

-more-

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-   The shirt of Chief Red Cloud, a leader of the Oglala Sioux of the
    Lakota Nation who led his people in the 1860s wars along the Bozeman
    Trail and negotiated a truce with the United States resulting in the
    abandonment of the Army's forts along the trail -- Agate Fossil Beds
    National Monument (NE)

-   Carl Sandburg\'s typewriter and Pulitzer Prizes -- Carl Sandburg
    Home National Historic Site (NC)

-   The Statue of Liberty's original torch removed during the memorial's
    rehabilitation in 1985, on exhibit in the memorial lobby -- Statue
    of Liberty National Monument (NY)

-   Dog tags, stuffed animals, family notes and photos, a motorcycle,
    and other personal artifacts left at the memorial -- Vietnam
    Veterans Memorial (DC)

-   Benjamin Franklin's desk -- Independence National Historical Park
    (PA)

-   Giant Sequoia cross-section -- Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
    (CA)

-   Nearly 1 million original design records detailing Frederick Law
    Olmsted's (1822-1903) work on many of America's most treasured
    landscapes including the U.S. Capitol and White House grounds; Great
    Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Parks; Yosemite Valley; New
    York\'s Central Park; and whole park systems in cities such as
    Seattle, Boston, and Louisville -- Frederick Law Olmsted National
    Historic Site (MA)

-   More than 1,400 fossilized dinosaur bones, embedded in the earth 150
    million years ago, form a natural wall in the park's visitor center
    and museum -- Dinosaur National Monument (UT, CO)

-   Dummy heads fabricated by prisoners Frank Morris and brothers John
    and Clarence Anglin and left in their beds to disguise their escape
    from Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 -- Golden Gate National Recreation
    Area (CA)

-   Parts of George Washington's set of personal tents, the office tent
    liner and the dining tent, used while he was with the Continental
    Army -- Colonial National Historical Park (VA)

-   Movies that were filmed in the Black Maria, the world\'s first
    building constructed as a motion picture studio -- Edison National
    Historic Site (NJ)

> EXPERIENCE YOUR AMERICA™
>
> The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the
> American people so that all may experience our heritage.