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The photograph shows students and faculty sitting and standing on the steps of the school. They are located in front of the main doors to the school building. The photograph is inscribed "June 1917."

The photograph shows students and faculty sitting and standing on the steps of the school. They are located in front of the main doors to the school building. Students in the front row hold a two-colored triangular banner that reads "FEB 18."

The photograph shows students standing on the steps and on the concrete of Green Hall. The name of the photographer, Inscribed in the lower right corner of the image is the photographer "Lynwood Photo, Trenton;" in the lower left corner, the inscription reads "Class 1937, State Teachers College, Trenton, NJ."

The photograph shows students standing on the steps and on the concrete of Green Hall. The inscription reads "Class '42, State Teachers College, Trenton, N.J."

The photograph shows Alumni Association (North Jersey) members attending the 50th Annual Reunion banquet. Members are seated at tables organized by their graduation year (shown as cards in tall card holders). Also shown is a very large, illustrated banner hanging in the back of the hall. The inscription in the lower right corner reads "50th Annual Reunion North Jersey Alumni Association of the N.J. State Teachers College at Trenton at Essex House, Newark, N.J., April 29, 1944." In the lower left corner is the insignia for Central Photo-Flash Photographers of New York.

The photograph shows the faculty on the steps and on the concrete of Kendall Hall. The name of the photographer, inscribed in the lower right corner of the image is the photographer "Lynwood Photo, Trenton;" in the lower left corner, the inscription reads "Faculty, State Teachers College, Trenton, 1956."

Bills and receipts addressed to Clara's father Gabriel Wolverton for the use of books at New Jersey State Normal School for $1.00 per quarter.

This collection documents the ceremonies and related events of Commencement and/or graduation exercises at The College of New Jersey spanning 1858 to the present day.

The collection includes the following materials:

Commencement invitations - These are formal printed invitations that may include a student’s calling card or handwritten details during the Normal School years, as well as commercially printed invitations used to date, c. 1869-2005 (bulk c. 1869-1920, 1977-2005).

Class Day and/or week programs - These are often beautifully printed and bound with cord and tassels, which likely served as a keepsake for students of the Normal and Model Schools. They list the schedule of activities for a graduating class during a day or over the span of a week. In some cases, they also include the Commencement program (c. 1894-1924).

The Normal and Model Schools classes of 1917 did not have a Class Day, but instead participated in Red Cross activities supporting World War I. The Model School as a K-12 school ended after the class of 1917, when it became “The Training School” offering only the elementary grades. In the 1930s, official Class Day or Week activities were replaced by less formal “Senior Week” activities, which continued off and on over the decades. Search The Signal newspaper for more information https://dr.tcnj.edu/handle/2900/275

Commencement tickets - These are admission tickets to the Normal or Model School Commencement ceremonies, usually at Taylor Opera House, c.1873-1901.

Commencement programs - These are printed programs of the Commencement ceremony, often containing the names of all graduating students. During the Normal School years, some have various embossed and/or multicolor illustrations of the school, insignia, or decorative lettering. Later programs have fewer design elements. The collection is mostly complete after 1891 with the exception of 2000, c. 1883-2023.

Promotion Exercises programs - These were for the Grammar A Class of the Model School, which held a graduation-style ceremony, c. 1909-1917.

Class and school songs - These are separate printed pages of songs to be sung during Commencement and other graduation events, usually containing a unique song for the graduating class and other school anthems and/or alma mater, c. 1899-1901.

Baccalaureate programs - These were printed as separate programs c. 1934-1964, but during the Normal School years, information about the Baccalaureate service was listed in the Class Day/Week or Commencement programs.

Programs for departmental, diploma, or other special graduation ceremonies - These are programs for Commencement events held outside of the main ceremony, often for graduate students or special groups, c. 1967; c. 2016-2023.

Original speeches - There are two handwritten speeches: “I Have Wandered in my Dreams,” is a Commencement speech from 1870 whose author is unknown. The Annual Report for that year lists Mary F. Chadwick and Rosalie A. Collins as presenters of "honorary essays," and Katie L. Wilson was valedictorian. And "The Child's Ability to Reason" was a valedictory essay written by Ira Collins, but read by O. Watson Flavelle, due to Collins’ ill health at June 1899 Commencement.

Graduation or Commencement Bulletins - These are newsletters that contain information and schedule of events around the Commencement ceremony. c. 1969-1999

Graduation Convocation program - During some years, the college held an August graduation combined with the annual Convocation ceremony. These programs document those ceremonies, c. 1960-1967.

Scrapbooks - There are two scrapbooks in this series: The older scrapbook (c. 1873-1921) contains ephemera related to Commencement such as invitations, tickets, and programs for Senior class activities and the Commencement ceremony from the era of the Normal School.

In the 1908-1932 scrapbook, many of the Commencement programs only have the page with the events of the day and do not have the cover and/or a page listing the graduate’s names. Starting in 1918, some of them have the page with graduates’ names, but they were at one time pasted into a notebook that has since been disassembled but the back pages of the brochures may not be accessible and/or readable.

The image shows the students and teachers of the Model School graduating class of 1903. The people in the photograph are sitting in front of the closed doors of front of the Normal School. The back of the photograph is inscribed with the following text: "Miss Ely Much love from The class of '03."

The photograph shows students and faculty sitting on steps in front of a closed doors. Several people are leaning on columns in front of the doorway. Several students are holding bows and arrows. Others are holding other objects such as books, umbrellas, and croquet mallets. There are croquet mallets on the ground in front of the group.