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TCNJ006 · Collection · 1906-2000

Content warning: The illustration and description of the mural (in Box 1, Folder 3) include inaccurate, derogatory, and/or offensive depictions of people indigenous to the area.

The Mildred Duncan Warnecke Collection predominately contains student group photographs, photo albums depicting family life, sports and leisure activities, rural scenes, and Normal School students; newsletters and student activities of the class of 1907, and reunion materials related to Gamma Sigma Nu. The collection also contains copies of The Seal yearbook and The Signal newspaper. It is unclear how Warnecke came to acquire the photo albums created by Louise Woodruff Bush, although Bush was an older Gamma Sigma Nu member, and Warnecke was very active in the sorority, attending the annual reunions. The collection spans 1906-2000, with most of the materials falling between 1906-1969.

Bush, Louise E. Woodruff, 1887-1963
TCNJ003 · Collection · 1913-1980 (bulk 1913-1915)

The bulk of the collection pertains to Mildred’s time at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton from 1913-1915. Of special note is her diary, which begins with a daily account of camping in Shawmont, Pennsylvania (now Roxborough, Northwest Philadelphia) before going off to Normal where she writes of her classroom and social activities. Her copy of the Seal yearbook is heavily signed and annotated with alumni information up to 1980. Her photograph collection documents students in their everyday lives on campus including in their dorm rooms, wearing gym uniforms, performing a Japanese Tea ceremony, and a possible inside joke of her and her friends enacting characters based on their teacher William N. Mumper (the yearbook is inscribed to indicate “Mumpers” characters). There also are several photographs of faculty members (before they were pictured in the yearbooks).

There are some additional materials from the late 1970s including Normal School alumni lists and photographs of her paintings from her post-retirement career as an artist.

Pepper, Mildred Bard Charlesworth, 1895-1985
Clara Wolverton Papers
TCNJ002 · Collection · 1892-1930

The Clara Wolverton Papers contain materials from her early education beginning in 1892, through Normal School, and her earliest teaching years ending in 1903. It comprises personal items such as her grades book, greeting cards, and notes of affection from her students, as well as professional items such as her teaching contracts and letters of recommendation, and also printed commencement programs and tickets and clippings. There are only a few items after this time period, and they document her involvement in the Red Cross and Botanical Society of Pennsylvania.

There are no materials related to teaching at Trenton Public Schools or attending University of Pennsylvania.

Her collection also initially contained six books, four of which were cataloged and added to the Historical Textbooks and General Collections of Gitenstein Library, and two were deaccessioned due to duplication.

Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964
Normal School from Clinton Ave, with scaffolding, May 9, 1891 · Item · May 9, 1891
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This mounted photograph depicts the State Normal School, Trenton, from its location on Clinton Avenue. Three boys, perhaps Model School students, walk down the sidewalk. Scaffolding covers the façade of the middle portion that connects the Normal and Model School buildings.

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Class Photographs Collection
TCNJ015 · Collection · 1870-1919

Annual group portraits of graduating classes. Many years have graduating classes in February and June. There are a small number of group portraits of Model School classes through 1912, as well. Additionally, there are a handful of faculty group portraits.

College of New Jersey (Ewing, N.J.)
Argo Sorority Sisters photographs, ca. 1941 · Item · ca. 1941
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

These two photographs, both from the same donor, depict groups of members of the Arguromuthos Sigma ("Argo") sorority in around 1941; only one photo is dated. The first shows the sisters at an outdoor picnic, while the second depicts the sorority in the drawing room of Allen Hall (the center portion of "ABE"). The two photos also include a largely incomplete list of names in each image, provided by the donor. No transcription.

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Normal School students marching in Victory Parade, Trenton, 12 November 1919 · Item · 12 November 1919
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This lantern slide, one of many created by Normal and Model Schools business administrator John S. Neary, Sr., depicts a cohort of Normal School students marching down an unknown street (perhaps State). The caption, typed directly onto the frame surrounding the image, identifies the photographer and the context. This parade likely commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War One.

Neary, John S., 1863-1935
Boy and Dalmatian in front of Normal School, Trenton (ca. 1890s) · Item · ca. 1890s?
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This photo exists as both a print and as the original glass plate negative. The first page is a scan of the print, while the second is a direct scan of the negative. Both depict the a boy and his Dalmatian dog at the corner of Clinton Avenue and Monmouth Street. While the photographer remains unidentified, the negative was found with others attributed to John S. Neary, Sr., the school's business administrator and a photographer by hobby.

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The Modellian [Model School Yearbook], 1915 · Item · 1915
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

Content warning: This yearbook uses a swastika motif as a border for its pages. Although the book dates to the period when this symbol was in fashion in the West and before its adoption by the Nazi Party, it nevertheless appears prominently throughout the work.

This yearbook for the Model Class of 1915, one of the last before the school's closure in 1917, is one of the few known extant Model School yearbooks. Aside from the normal items in a yearbook--class photos, a list of officers, a class history--this volume includes an account of the "Class Horse" and advertisements for Trenton area businesses. A partial transcript of the annotations by the original owner is included.

Please note that one corner of page is torn, affecting Isabel Clark's photograph and part of Hortense Daily's biography.

The method by which this booklet was printed, particularly the photographs, means that scanning does not accurately capture the images. Furthermore, the size of this PDF file has been reduced for uploading. A full-sized version of the scanned booklet is available by request of Trentoniana.