REPORT OE NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 45 
a correct general conception, as well as to afford an oppor¬ 
tunity for a careful examination of details. 
New Jersey has again proved she has a genius for doing 
things, and that she leads rather than follows in the character 
of school work and in the method of exhibiting it. 
WHAT THE EXHIBIT CONTAINED. 
The exhibit contained work from the State Normal and 
Model Schools, the Bordentown Industrial School for Colored 
Youth, and from every county and nearly every city in the 
State. The Normal School work occupied three units, a unit 
consisting of a base containing six drawers and a shelf or show 
case, one wing cabinet, and a space of about eight feet above 
the cabinet. There were sixty-eight units all new. The 
Model School Exhibit occupied the same amount of space. 
The exhibits showed the pupils’ work and was the most exten¬ 
sive of any schools of like character in the whole building. 
Each school received a gold medal. The work from the pub¬ 
lic schools was, as per instructions, divided into four depart¬ 
ments: First the work of the Elementary schools, (all below 
the 9th grade); second, the High School work (the grades 
above the 8th); third, Manual Training and Industrial Work; 
fourth, Art Work and Drawings. New Jersey followed more 
nearly the instructions of the managers than any other state 
in classifying the exhibits. Much of the work was displayed 
in the cabinets and on the walls or on frames over the cabinets. 
There were also some twelve hundred volumes of pupils’ work, 
bound in different colored covers, a separate color being used 
for each branch, only used by New Jersey. This proved to 
be very attractive, and was a great aid in locating the work 
from any school or pupil. The key to the Exhibit, which is 
explained in another part of this report, was a great help in 
finding work. It was used only in the New Jersey Educa¬ 
tional Exibit, being another improvement over former meth¬ 
ods. It received a medal. 
The Elementary work came from nearly every school in the 
State. It was typical of what such schools are doing. Over 
forty High Schools were represented in the High School De¬ 
partment. The Manual Training Exhibit was very complete, 
