The photograph shows students standing on the steps and seated on folding chairs on the concrete of Calvin N. Kendall Hall. The lower left corner of the photograph is inscribed "Class of 1962, Trenton State College." In the lower right corner is the stamp of the photographer, Linwood Photo in Trenton.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)The photograph shows students standing on the steps and seated on folding chairs on the concrete of Calvin N. Kendall Hall. Students in the front row are holding a banner that reads "Class of 1960." The lower center of the photograph is inscribed "Trenton State College." In the lower right corner is the stamp of the photographer, Linwood Photo in Trenton.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)This booklet, which was originally pasted into an unknown scrapbook and at an unknown point removed, details the Normal School's Thanksgiving Festival in November 1917. The original production seems to have dressed students as various Thanksgiving foods in the first act, and as allegorical figures in the second. The top portion of the list for Act 3 is covered by the remains of the scrapbook, but the list of names is clear. No transcription.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)Content Warning: The items in this collection may contain racist and harmful depictions of marginalized groups, sexist or misogynistic language, and xenophobic attitudes and opinions.
The collection consists of 10 boxes, one oversized folder and 4 rolled maps. The material is divided into 11 series as described below. The core of this collection provides information about the history of the Trenton Normal School from its founding in 1855, its move to Ewing and transition to New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton (1937). It also provides some
information on its successor institutions from the 1930s to 2023. The collection also includes information about the Model School, especially highlighting achievements of the older students in publications including The Signal and records of the Thencanic Society, and scrapbooks kept by Grace Bromwell Fletcher, Class of 1907 and Emma R. Kerns Crofton, Class of 1916. There is also some information about alumni activities found in the form of event programs (1900s-1950s, 1980-1996) and the publication Accent and Alumni Review (1987-1996).
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.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)This small booklet unfolds to a long program detailing the staff and students involved in this production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Based on the credited names, Normal School students worked on nearly every aspect of the production, under the supervision of several teachers. No transcription.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)Content warning: the illustration and description of the mural include inaccurate, derogatory, and/or offensive depictions of people indigenous to the area.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)This series features photographs of the Class of 1911's 46th and 49th reunions (1940 and 1943, respectively), as well as Gamma Sigma sorority group portraits from c. 1908-1911.
Bush, Louise E. Woodruff, 1887-1963The 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 name of the photographer, "Alexanders, Trenton, NJ" is embossed into the photograph in the lower right corner of the image.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)The photograph shows faculty sitting and standing on the steps of the school. They are located in front of the main doors to the school building.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)