Like A Museum Piece: The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Piece Hall (opened in 1779), where I nerchants formerly sold their cloth, has been j named an "ancient monument." Shibden Hall is I a 15th century timber house with the West York-' shire Folk Museum on its grounds. The Bankfield Museum has a collection of Textile machinery from all periods.
Until the riiid-17th century the "gibbet law" was in force, under which Halifax inhabitants could be put to death for stealing "to the value of thirteen pence halfpenny"-a safeguard against the theft of wool cloths when they were stretched a the open fields on tenters or tenterhooks. Population: (1961) 96,120. CORDON- STOKES, Author of "English Place-Names"
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like a museum piece the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
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