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Exhibits furnished by the office were made at the following places 

 under the auspices of the organizations named: 



American Road Builders' Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., February 28 to 

 March 3. 



Automobile Show, Fort Wayne, Ind., January 10 to 15. 



Chamber of Commerce, Chaideston, S. C, March 23 and 24. 



Connecticut Agriculture College, Storrs, Conn., January to May. 



Copper County Fair. Houghton, Mich., September 28 to October 2. 



Fauquier County Farm Association, Marshall, Va., September 29 to 30. 



First International Road Congress, Worcester, Mass., December 14 to 17. 



Industrial and Mercantile Exposition, Danbury, Conn., November 8 to 13. 



International Dry Farming Congress, Denver, Colo.. September 27 to Octo- 

 ber 9. 



Lakeland Chamber of Commerce, Lakeland, Fla., March. 



Mississippi-Alabama Fair, Meridian, Miss., October 18 to 23. 



Mississippi State Fair, Jackson, Miss., October 25 to 30. 



Municipal Exhibit, Newark, N. J., November 20. 



Ninth Chicago Cement Show, Chicago, 111., February 12 to 19. 



Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, Cal., to December 16. 



Panama Exposition Commission, Panama, Canal Zone. 



Road School, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., January 25 and 26. 



Road School, University of Kansas, Manhattan. Kans., February 28. 



Rutland Farm and Horse Show, Rutland, Vt., September 6 to 10. 



Second Annual Land Products and Live Stock Exposition, Toledo, Ohio, 

 December 1 to 12. 



Seventh Annual Cotton Carnival, Galveston. Tex., July 22 to August 1. 



State Fair. Nashville, Tenn., September 20 to 25. 



State Fair, Raleigh, N. C, October 18 to 23. 



State Good Roads Association. St. Augustine, Fla., March 23 and 24. 



State Highway Commission, for use at Kentucky State Fair, Louisville, Ky., 

 September 13 to 17. 



State Highway Department, Montgomery, Ala. 



Sub-Tropical Mid-Winter Fair, Orlando, Fla., February 15 to 19. 



Suwanee Fair Association, Live Oak, Fla., November 2 to 5. 



To-day and To-morrow Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15 to June 10. 



Tri-State Fair, Memphis. Tenn., September 26 to October 5. 



University of Illinois, Urbana, 111., January 10 to 21. 



Virginia Road Builders' Association, Richmond, Va., January 18 and 19. 



Volusia County Fair Association, Deland, Fla., January 25 to 29. 



Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee, Wis., September 13 to 17. 



It is estimated that G80,000 persons examined the exhibits, com- 

 pared with 440,000 for the year 1915. 



GOOD ROADS TRAIN. 



A "good roads" train, equipped by this office with a complete set 

 of road models and photographs, and including a lecture car pro- 

 vided with stereopticon and motion-picture equipment, was operated 

 throughout the State of Iowa. 



Stops were made at 131 towns and cities and 200 lectures and 

 demonstrations of models were made during these tours. The total 

 attendance at the lectures and demonstrations was 22.000. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK AND PREPARATION OF MODELS. 



In the photographic laboratory 2,742 negatives, 12,591 prints. 1,738 

 lantern slides, and 109 bromide enlargements were prepared, and 

 2,654 new lantern slides w r ere colored. Sixty-four sets of lantern 

 slides were loaned to various individuals and organizations, exclu- 

 sive of those used in lectures given by employees of the office. There 

 were 16,318 negatives and 10,240 lantern slides on file in the office 

 at the close of the fiscal year. 



Eight new models were constructed in addition to the repair and 

 reconstruction work necessary on the models comprising the collec- 

 tion of this office. 



