Missouri Education Exhibit: Examination Papers Collection

Accession Number: SC 18:96
Location: RB-M
Dates: 1876
Size: 26 bound volumes; 4.0 cubic feet
Creator/Collector: Unknown
Acquisition info: Assembled by the Centennial Committee of the St. Louis School Board
Accruals: No accruals expected
Custodial history: St. Louis-area students before being donated for use in the Centennial International Exhibition. Returned to Public School Library at end of exhibit.
Language: English, German, and Latin
Processed by: Melissa Miller, December 2018
Conservation notes: No notes
Scope and Content: The collection contains 26 bound volumes of sample tests, student papers and exams, and student drawings from the Missouri Education Exhibit. The exhibit was held in Philadelphia for the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition.
Arrangement: Alphabetical by volume title
Restrictions: No restrictions
Remarks: Shelved in RB-M
Detailed description of the exhibit found in report of William
Torrey Harris in Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of
Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools for the year ending August 1, 1876. St. Louis: Slawson Printer, 1877.

Missouri Education Exhibit Collection Examination Papers
1876
26 bound volumes; 4 cubic feet

  Description
  Finding Aid
Elleardville Exams
Grade School Exams   

-Arithmetic (2)
-Drawing
-Geography (2)
-German
-Grammar (2)
-History
-Map Drawing (3)
-Natural Science
-Penmanship
-Writing (3)

High School Exams

-Algebra
-Analysis
-Drawing (2)
-Latin (2)
-Rhetoricals

Normal School Exams

-Drawing

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