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Some small things from Tesla's personal effects are selected to depict his exceptional personality, way of living and relations with other people. In the show-cases are his hat, his travelling bag and small every-day items such as invitations, theatre entrance tickets, membership cards etc. As the most valuable souvenir he kept the piece of needlework made by his mother, the embroidered bag typical for his native land Lika. Selected documents and photographs from the abundant correspondence with his friends, writers and artists (George Westinghouse, Mark Twain, Robert U. Johnson, and other) are also in the show-case. Records of Tesla's visit to Belgrade in 1892 in Belgrade newspapers of that time are also displayed, as well as the letters from Laza Kostic, a distinguished Serbian poet. The photographs of Tesla's closest relatives - father Milutin, sisters Marica, Angelina and Milka, uncle Nikola and grand-grandfather Toma are displayed in a separate show-case. The documents on his death and burial in New York in 1943 are exposed
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