REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
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the FUItNITUKE IN THE MUSEUM. 
With the exception of the old exhibit cases used at the Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition, in Philadelphia, in 1876, all the other furni¬ 
ture except a few small tablencases paid for by the Geological 
Survey, the furniture in the Museum was procured by the several 
departments when making exhibits at the Chicago Worths Fail 
and the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, it includes that from 
the Educational, Geological, Forestry, Agricultural, Women's 
and Transportation exhibits. 
The furniture from the Chicago Educational Exhibit consists 
of six large exhibit tables, sixty-five New Jersey wing cabinets, 
sixteen large show-cases and tables combined, two hundred 
different frames for exhibit work, together with other furniture 
used in exhibits, and costing in the aggregate over $3,000. 
From the Pan-American Exposition, ten wing cabinets, four 
show-cases, a number of picture and other frames, shelving, 
drawers, portfolios, &c. 
From the Transportation or New Jersey Coast Exhibit at 
Chicago, one hundred large photographs framed and covered with 
glass 4 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 9 inches, and fifty smaller framed 
photographs, the whole costing the State over $10,000. 
The furniture of the Geological and Forestry Exhibits com¬ 
prises four large plate-glass show cabinets for wood and other 
specimens (costing about $1,000), one nest of drawers, thirty 
small show-cases for insects and four tables for holding them, 
table for large relief map of the State of New Jersey, several 
large frames, frames for transparencies, two bookcases, swing 
frames for maps and spring rollers for maps. 
From the Agricultural Exhibit, one large upright stereopticon 
with views of New Jersey farm scenes, three hundred glass jars 
for exhibit purposes and a set of string frames for maps. 
Women’s Chicago Exhibit, a cluster of twelve double glass 
frames hung on a central standard, for statistical exhibits. 
Jlad it not been for the State Museum this furniture and the 
many valuable exhibits from the several expositions would not 
have been saved to the State. Now they are cared for and ready 
for use if wanted for future expositions. 
