78 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
NEW JERSEY EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT. 
From the New England School Journal: 
NEW JERSEY. 
The New Jersey exhibit differs in some features from that of any other 
State. It has the same wing cabinets that were designed and first used by 
the New Jersey department of public instruction at Chicago in 1893, but for 
the display of books and various lines of work not readily shown upon the 
walls or in the cabinets, drawers instead of shelves are placed under the cabi¬ 
nets. These enable the work to be put in convenient form for inspection, 
and have the additional merit of keeping it clean. Another feature entirely 
new and used for the first time at the exposition is the Index Key, of which 
the following is an explanation: 
The exhibit is divided into sections lettered from A to M inclusive, and 
these are subdivided into units numbered from 1 to 68 inclusive. Each 
unit consists of a leaf cabinet with six drawers directly underneath. 
The units from 15 to 21 inclusive are arranged to serve as an index to the 
entire New Jersey educational exhibit. 
Unit No. 15 directs to first year’s work. Unit No. 16 directs to second 
and fourth year’s work. Unit No. 17 directs to third and fifth year work. 
Unit No. 18 directs to sixth and seventh year’s work. Unit No. 19 directs 
to eighth year’s work. Unit No. 21 directs to ninth and tenth year’s work. 
Unit No. 22 directs to eleventh and twelfth year’s work. 
To find the work from a particular school, first find in one of the index 
cabinets the card containing work from the county or city in which said 
school is located. 
This card will direct you to the section, to the unit and to the volumes, 
in which all the work of the school, except that placed upon the walls, can be 
found. Different lines of school work are bound in different colored vol¬ 
umes as shown by index cards. 
Other unique features of the New Jersey exhibit are as follows: 
The manual training work of each school is shown in connection with its 
academic. 
An historical exhibit consisting of sketches prepared by pupils of the 
public schools of historical events that have occurred in the State, accom¬ 
panied by photographs of its historical places, has served to stimulate un¬ 
usual interest in a most important line of information. 
A combined exhibit of music and art is exceptionally fine and is attract¬ 
ing much attention. 
By means of systematic arrangement a large amount of work is displayed 
within small compass. The work of the leaf cabinets is not shown in single 
sheets, but in the majority of cases from five to twenty are fastened in a 
single space, so as to be conveniently inspected. 
The general arrangement of the work in the New Jersey booth is as fol¬ 
lows :— 
Beginning at the left entrance we first find that of the New Jersey Normal 
and Model Schools, next that of the State Industrial School for colored 
youth, and then follows in regular order the general exhibit of primary, 
grammar, and high school work. 
As per instructions received from the chief of the department of educa¬ 
tion at St. Louis, no work from private schools is included in the New Jersey 
public school exhibit. 
The work of a very large percentage of its schools, both rural and urban, 
is represented, and the garden state is ably maintaining the reputation won 
at former expositions. 
