An unpublished essay on two Trentonians who played an important role in the establishment of the State Normal School in 1855.
This scrapbook includes photographs, illustrations, commencement and class day booklets, correspondence, report cards, and ephemera collected by Emma R. Kerns, Model School Class of 1916. It offers insight into the daily lives and school careers of the Model students throughout the school's final years before its closure after the 1917 academic year. Later annotations also appear; some are perhaps by Miss Kerns before her death in 1977, but others most likely were added by past Trentoniana librarians following the book's donation ca. 1977. Any additions in a clearly different hand have been rendered in italics. Some of these italicized annotations simply read "index," probably referring to Trentoniana's card catalogue.
Due to the volume's bulky nature, it was not possible to digitize without disbinding the entire volume and scanning pages individually. Two photos of the book before this process are included at the end of the PDF. Pages have been scanned in order, skipping any blank sections; as a result, page numbers may appear to jump. Kerns also pasted many booklets and folded items into these pages, and these items sometimes required multiple scans to entirely capture. Finally, note that file size limits have required a significant amount of compression to host this PDF, and may negatively affect the quality of the images. An unaltered version is available through Trentoniana upon request.
A partial transcription of the handwritten sections is included.
Kerns, Emma R. (Emma Rebecca), 1896-1977Content warning: While the vast majority of this work contains no harmful content, one "joke" on page 141 includes insulting language about African-Americans.
This scrapbook includes photographs, illustrations, commencement and class day booklets, correspondence, ephemera, and manuscript materials collected by Grace B. Fletcher, Model School Class of 1907. It offers insight into the daily lives and school careers of the Model students throughout the first decade of the 20th century. While the bulk of the items pasted into the work date to around 1907, some date to as early as 1901. In addition, some annotations must have been added later, at least as early as 1916.
Due to the volume's bulky nature, it was not possible to digitize without disbinding the entire volume and scanning pages individually. Two photos of the book before this process are included at the end of the PDF. Pages have been scanned in order, skipping any blank sections; as a result, page numbers may appear to jump. Fletcher also pasted many booklets and folded items into these pages, and these items sometimes required multiple scans to entirely capture. Finally, note that file size limits have required a significant amount of compression to host this PDF, and may negatively affect the quality of the images. An unaltered version is available through Trentoniana upon request.
A partial transcription of the handwritten sections is included.
The following notes relate to specific pages of the document:
- The Class Day booklet on page 121 has not been scanned, as it is identical to one on page 87.
- The clippings found on pages 136-139 were not pasted into the book and may have originally been placed elsewhere.
A history of the mural "The Peace Council of New Jersey and the Indians, 1758," by Richard Blossom Farley (1910), which is currently displayed in the Roscoe West Library.
Content warning: the illustration and description of the mural include inaccurate, derogatory, and/or offensive depictions of people indigenous to the area.
1875 New Jersey State Normal School Commencement program.
Normal School Commencement program and newspaper clipping about Normal and Model Commencements
1876 Commencement program