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TFPL001 · Colección · ca. 1857 - 2024

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).

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Iona Fackler Myers, Trenton State College class of 1937, to Erna S. Hoover, Chairman of the Trenton State College Board of Trustees, 1986 · Unidad documental simple · 09/06/1986
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

Myers complains about attempts to rename Trenton State College, copying Trenton Mayor Arthur Holland and others. Holland's reply, a boilerplate "thank you," is included but was not scanned.

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Sarah A. Dynes, Normal School Dept. of History, to Adam J. Strohm, Librarian, Trenton Free Public Library, 1904 · Unidad documental simple · 02/06/1904
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

One letter, regarding books of interest to Dynes. She reports that her students “enthuse over the courteous and helpful treatment they receive” from the library staff.

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605 Monmouth St.
Trenton N.J. Feb. 8 1904
Mr. Adam J. Strohm, Librarian
of Trenton Free Public Library
Dear Sir:
Your favor of February fifth just received. I am very greatly obliged to you for the trouble you have taken to secure the books recommended. You are quite right in regard to [George] Kitchin. It was his “History of France” [https://archive.org/details/historyoffrance02kitc] that I suggested. With this I inclose card as suggested with correct title, but am not sure whether the author’s initials are H.M. or or [sic] not. I am familiar with H. Morse Stephens’s The French Revolution [https://archive.org/details/cu31924024309480] and his Orators of the Revolution [https://archive.org/details/principalspeeche02stepuoft], and I imagine that he is the author of the work on the card [no longer extant] but cannot remember.
May I take this opportunity of expressing my very great appreciation of the work being done by you, and your corps of assistants? I cannot express in words how much the library has increased the value of the work I am trying to do, and added to the material aid is the object lesson daily shown in courtesy and sympathetic assistance to young people who are very crude and often trying. I am constantly hearing students enthuse over the courteous and helpful treatment they receive. It is certainly most gratifying to have the library so efficiently managed and we are anxious to show our appreciation of the work.
Respectfully yours,
Sarah A. Dynes
Dept. of History State Normal

Normal School Commencement booklet, 1879 · Unidad documental simple · 1879
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This booklet from the 1879 Normal School commencement at Taylor Opera House includes lists of graduating students (both the February and June classes), including their home towns. It also contains the list of commencement exercises. No transcription.

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Model School Commencement program, 1903
Model School Commencement booklet, 1903 · Unidad documental simple · 1903
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This booklet from the 1903 Model School commencement includes lists of graduating students, their home towns, and their area of study. It also contains the list of commencement exercises. Of some note is the mention of an essay given by honor student Charlotta Miller on the Black poet and author Paul Lawrence Dunbar, which has unfortunately not survived. The student roster also includes several surnames that appear in other classes from around this period, namely Britton, De Cou, and Bosworth; these students may be siblings of those sharing their name. Some students from the Class of 1904 also appear. No transcription.

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Thanksgiving Festival booklet 1917
Thanksgiving Festival booklet, 1917 · Unidad documental simple · 1917
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

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.

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Swarthmore-Normal School debate booklet, 1918 · Unidad documental simple · 1918
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This small booklet likely comes from the same unknown "black paper backing" scrapbook as several other documents from around 1918. It details the fifth annual debate between several debating societies of the New Jersey State Normal School and several from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College. The topic for the debate, which took place amid American intervention in the First World War, regards whether colleges should substitute military training for athletics during the war. No transcription.

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Arguromuthos Sigma dance card booklet, 1941 · Unidad documental simple · 1941
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

This booklet most likely came from the same student as the other dance cards; this student was also a member of the Arguromathos Society and may have donated the photos from the same time period. Regardless, this dance was billed a "Winter Carnival." As with the related items, this booklet includes spaces to write dance partners' names--in this case, the student danced with "[Ruth] Carty and Jimmie Clark," "Jan and Les Hiat," and "Connie and Les Olsen." No transcription.

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Normal and Model Schools colorized side view, n.d. (ca. 1880s) · Unidad documental simple · ca. 1880s
Parte de TFPL New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools at Trenton and Successor Institutions Collection

A side view of the Normal and Model Schools, with the Model School in the foreground. The image, although at its core a photograph, has been colorized and touched-up by an unknown person, perhaps the photographer.

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