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Normal School Commencement booklet, 1881 · Item · 1881
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This booklet from the 1881 Normal School commencement at Taylor Opera House includes lists of graduating students (both the February and June classes), including their home towns. It also contains the list of commencement exercises. No transcription.

New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
Normal School Commencement invitation/program, 1894 · Item · 1894
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This invitation from the 1894 Normal School commencement is also a booklet with brief information on the course of events. The first page includes an etching of Friedrich Fröbel, a German educator credited with coining the word "kindergarten" and spreading that word to English; his face perhaps made up part of the Normal School's logo at the time. No transcription.

New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
Normal School commencement program, 1878 · Item · 1878
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This booklet from the 1878 Normal School commencement at Taylor Opera House includes lists of graduating students (both the February and June classes), including their home towns. It also contains the list of commencement exercises. No transcription.

New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
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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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
Normal and Model Schools "Expenses Reduced!" brochure, ca. 1878 · Item · 1878
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This brochure offers insight into the Normal and Model Schools' course offerings, their tuition and expenses rates, and some of the principles underlying the school's education. The gender division of the Model School (but not the Normal School) is of particular note, as is the significantly higher annual tuition for the Model School. No transcription.

New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
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