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The general State exhibit, thirty feet wide by one hundred 

 and forty feet long, was surrounded by an exquisite facade in old 

 English oak, consisting of twenty-two Romanesque arches, whose 

 pillars and spandrills gave lodgment to nearly four thousand trans- 

 parencies of noted Missouri educators, Missouri school buildings, 

 school scenes and school children. Beginning with the Kindergarten 

 a separate booth was set apart -for the particular work of this and each 

 of the twelve grades or years of school work provided in the school 

 system of Missouri. All written work was bound into beautiful half- 

 leather bound volumes of uniform size, and so named, lettered and in- 

 dexed that the work of any child, in any branch, could be located in a 

 moment's time. This written work came from all the primary high 

 schools of the towns and cities of the State, and from the rural districts 

 in every section of the State. Countless samples of all kinds of the best 

 work of pupils of each grade was shown in two hundred of the most 

 modern style of wing frame cabinets and cases. The manual training 

 work of each grade was most attractively presented in glass-covered 

 cases, specially designed for this exhibit and placed at the entrance to 

 each grade booth. County maps, free-hand drawing, water-color pictures 

 and a great variety of all forms of school work were shown in handsome 

 portfolios, elegantly bound in leather. Many thousands of photographs, 

 of school buildings, with teacher and pupils in the foreground, and in 

 many cases such included all the schools of a county, were show^n in 

 wing-framie cabinets. The negro schools of the State were fully rep- 

 resented by a complete exhibit of their school work in every department. 

 Besides these thirteen booths for the educational display of the primary 

 and high schools of the State, there was ample space upon which was 

 shown a matchless exhibit of the work of the Kirksville Nonnal School, 

 the Cape Girardeau Normal School, the Warrensburg Normal School 

 and Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, and also of the following promi- 

 nent colleges and academies of the State, viz : 



But the feature of this exhibit that attracted the greatest number 

 of visitors were two graphophones and seven mutoscopes or biogems. 

 The graphophones constantly sang school songs, discoursed recitations 



