Course catalogs and circulars of information from the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair from 1909 to 1927
Zonder titelTranscript of Mary Jane Sergeant Larison's diary, transcribed by Alison Matthews in 2024.
The handwritten diary of Mary Jane Sergeant (Larison) contains a series of journal entries from 1855-1856 describing her experiences and studies while attending the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey. The diary encompasses the first term of the Normal School and provides a glimpse into the earliest days of its opening years, highlighting the variety of subjects studied including Latin, arithmetic, climatology and cartography and reflecting theory and practice in teachers' colleges in the mid-19th century. Some entries in the latter half of the diary appear out of chronological order. The diary makes mention of the laying of the cornerstone of the first permanent building at the Normal School, the first Principal Willian Phelps, as well as several instructional texts for teachers' education of the period.
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 from c. 1873 to 1921 with the bulk of the materials dating 1891-1921.
Blank Commencement invitation and envelope from New Jersey State Normal School, undated but similar to those printed c. 1869.
Zonder titelNormal School Commencement program and newspaper clipping about Normal and Model Commencements
1875 New Jersey State Normal School Commencement program.
Clipping about 1875 Normal and Model School Commencements.
1884 Model School Commencement program, gift of Elizabeth Chambers Oliphant.
1888 Normal School Commencement program
1896 Model School Commencement program