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              1930 Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey -- Plate 29 of 48
              1930 Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey -- Plate 29 of 48
              Franklin Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, 1930 -- Plate 29 of 48 · Item · 1930
              Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

              Plate 29 of 48 in the 1930 edition of Franklin Survey Company's Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. This plate depicts the Coalport/North Clinton neighborhood of Trenton, where the Normal and Model School campus was located--the school buildings are located on the lot at the corner of Clinton Avenue and Perry Street, while the dormitories are situated along Model Avenue, across from the main campus. By the end of the 1930s, the college had moved to the Hillwood Lakes Campus, and by the end of the 1950s most of this neighborhood had been razed in the name of "urban renewal." The site of the Normal and Model Schools is currently occupied by the U.S. Grant Intermediate School.

              Note that this volume is not considered part of the same physical collection as the State Normal and Model Schools collection, instead being part of Trentoniana's historical maps.
              Jersey City (N.J.) State Normal School Collection, 1914-1935
              JCFPL001 · Collection · 1914 - 1935

              Content warning: The items in this collection may contain racist and harmful depictions of marginalized groups and sexist or misogynistic language.

              This collection includes two series containing yearbooks and ephemera from the Jersey City State Normal School.

              Series 1 - The Tower Yearbooks, 1933-1935
              In 1932, the graduating class published the first volume of The Tower. This series contains The Tower published in 1933, 1934, and 1935. The forward of the 1933 addition states, “We accept with gratitude the heritage of ‘The Tower’ bequeathed to us by the proceeding class. We desire to increase this legacy by adding our contribution of school anecdotes, trusting that each succeeding year will add materially to its value as an heirloom.”

              All of the yearbooks feature a forward, dedication, listing of yearbook staff; faculty; management; their school and class history; school organizations and student clubs with photos and descriptions; underclassmen class photos; and the senior class featured with portrait photographs of each student, a quote, and description of the student.

              The Jersey City Free Public library’s collections contain the second edition of The Tower, published in 1933 (and digitized in this series), and subsequent years through 2006.

              Series 2 - Ephemera, Jersey City State College, Pre-1980
              This series contains ephemera of the Jersey City State Normal School spanning from 1914-1934. There are two commencement pamphlets, one from 1934 in a time after the opening of the Jersey City State Normal School in 1929, and the other from a precursor to the normal school called the Teachers’ Training School in 1914. Additional ephemera includes a 1934 song book, as well as a reprinted 1932 article by Peter J. Ganon in the school newspaper The Golden Gothic on the gothic architectural style of the campus’ buildings. The song book index indicates that it contains songs from the school and other colleges, songs about the United States and New Jersey, hymns, rounds and songs of greeting, children’s rote songs, and miscellaneous songs.

               Jersey City (N.J.). State Normal School
              Detail of embossed lion face from The Seal yearbook cover
              The Seal Yearbook Collection
              TCNJ007 · Collection · 1911-2017

              Content warning: Some of the yearbooks from 1911 through the 1930s contain racist illustrations of figures in blackface and minstrel characters, as well as inaccurate, derogatory, and/or offensive depictions of Asian and Indigenous people.

              The first issue of The Seal was focused on the history and activities of the Class of 1911 and included sections on “class prophecies,” “statistics” of each student, a calendar of the year’s past events, poems, ditties and songs, vignettes of events in each department and hall (dorm) life, listings of the literary societies as well as social clubs (such as “the red mice” and “the clammy six”), a group portrait of the class and some of the societies and clubs, and advertising from Trenton businesses. The seniors were listed in a directory and did not have individual portraits. The next yearbook, 1912, had a similar format, but also included a list of faculty members, as well as photographs of the campus buildings. Starting in 1915, there were individual portraits of graduating seniors (1913 had individual portraits as well, but not 1914). The format remained fairly consistent afterward, however a few issues from the 1920s also have the Juniors, or class of February of the next year listed in the book with the previous May graduates. The Yearbook Club had several name variations, including: Year-Book Club, Year Book Club, or just “Yearbook” or “Seal.”

              The collection is complete from 1911 until The Seal ceased publication in 2017. No issue was printed in 1944 due to World War II restrictions.

              In addition, there are a few folders of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, obituaries, and other clippings taken from books formerly belonging to Vivian Rolandelli, Kenneth Weber, and Jessie Turk.

               College of New Jersey (Ewing, N.J.)
              Normal and Model Schools, Trenton, by John S. Neary (ca. 1900)
              Normal and Model Schools, Trenton, by John S. Neary (ca. 1900)
              Normal and Model Schools, Trenton, by John S. Neary (ca. 1900) · Item · ca. 1900?
              Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

              A photo of the Normal and Model Schools, Trenton, taken from across Clinton Avenue at its corner with Model Avenue. This image is scanned from its glass negative, which was originally held in an envelope that attributed the photograph to Normal and Model Schools business administrator John S. Neary, Sr.

               Neary, John S., 1863-1935