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Candid photographs of students and faculty at Normal School, including many with Mildred Bard and her friends including Elizabeth Kendall and Anna Barnett, and students from Millville, New Jersey. Faculty pictured include: William Mumper, A. J. Dohner, Grace Wood, and Robert Leavitt.

Loose pages of candid photographs from annotated photo album created by Mildred Bard of students and faculty at New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton. Subjects include students posing in costume for "Japanese Tea", Senior Day June 1915, Maypole dance, roasting marshmallows, and skits about "The Mumpers." Faculty pictured include: Robert Leavitt, Levi Seeley, Frank Scobey, Ruby Lee Minar, Margaret Cochran Wagg, Minnie Eby, Emma Jane La Fetra, Lillie Williams, Susan Reilly, Grace Heward, Kate Stout. Students include Mildred Bard, Genevieve Tallman who was class president, Anna Barnett, Elizabeth Kendell, and members of Theta Phi and "The Fates."

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.

Diary of Mildred Eleanor Bard (Charlesworth, Pepper) written during the summer just before, and during her time at New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton.

Strip of four studio portrait photographs of Mildred Bard wearing suit, hat, and gloves.

1915 New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton Diploma.