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Photographs and Other Published Materials Ephemera, and Artifacts
6 · Series · 1859 - ?
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This series includes a handful of photographs and a variety of materials that do not fit in the other series. Of particular interest to the history of Normal schools in general is the work "American Normal Schools: Their Theory, their Workings, and their Results, as Embodied in the Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the American Normal School Association, Held at Trenton, New Jersey August 19 and 20, 1859." There is also a small and charming collection of dance card/event programs, which were used by young women to schedule with whom they would dance during the evening. Often, as in this collection, the cards were part of a small, printed program of the event which could be worn on the wrist. Finally, this series includes a ca. 1930s Teacher’s College beanie that freshman class members were required to wear.

Note that the photographs that appear in the "Additional Photographs" folder make up a part of Trentoniana's photograph collection, and do not physically appear in this record group.
1959 Annual Report
Annual Report
1859 · Item · 1859
Part of Annual Reports and Bulletins

Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School, with Accompanying Documents, to the Legislature, for the Year Ending February 9th, 1859
American Normal Schools: Their Theory, their Workings, and their Results, as Embodied in the Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the American Normal School Association, Held at Trenton, New Jersey August 19 and 20, 1859. Published by A. S. Barnes & Burr: New York
Item · 1860
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

A digitized copy of this work is available through HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006582035
1860 Annual Report
Annual Report
1860 · Item · 1860
Part of Annual Reports and Bulletins

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School with Accompanying Documents, to the Legislature for the Year Ending February 9th, 1860.
1861 Annual Report.
Annual Report
1861 · Item · 1861
Part of Annual Reports and Bulletins

Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School with Accompanying Documents, to the Legislature for the Year Ending February 9th, 1861
1862 Annual Report.
Annual Report
1862 · Item · 1862
Part of Annual Reports and Bulletins

Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School and Accompanying Documents, to the Legislature for the Year Ending February 9th, 1862
Model School - Other Financial Documents, Printed Materials, Ephemera, and Scrapbooks
10 · Series · 1862-1930
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This series include tuition receipts for John McCormick (n.d., 1862) and George Hildebrecht (1902-1903); Commencement Programs (1878, 1880); the History of Class of 1904, compiled by Class President Kenneth H. Lanning (1930); Modellian (1915) [Model School yearbook]; and two scrapbooks kept by Grace Bromwell Fletcher, Class of 1907 and Emma R. Kerns Crofton, Class of 1916. These scrapbooks were pre-printed and titled The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book, providing places for photographs, event programs, class prophecies, class autographs and other ephemera.
Model School tuition receipts, ca. 1862 and 1902-1903
Model School tuition receipts, ca. 1862 and 1902-1903
Model School tuition receipts, ca. 1862 and 1902-1903 · Item · 1862; 1902-1903
Part of TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This collection of four receipts for tuition, room, and board at the Model School gives insight into how much it cost to attend the de facto elite institution. The first two vouchers, made out to a John McCormick and from around 1862, show that the Normal School charged about $8.00 in tuition in its first decades. According to census statistics, an average New Jersey laborer spent about $2.50 per week on bread, so this was not an unsubstantial amount of money!

Forty years later, in 1902-1903, George Hildebrecht (owner of Trenton's Hotel Hildebrecht) paid $10.50 for per quarter for his son Albert. At this time, based on census statistics, this would have equaled about half a day's wages for the average Trenton industrial laborer.

No transcriptions, as the documents are largely typed.

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