Digital: Newark School Photographs
Dates
- 1886 - 2018
Creator
- Newark (N.J.). Board of Education (Organization)
Summary
This entire collection was scanned as part of the 2016 Carnegie Grant including drawers of negatives and oversized photos, kept separately.
Additional items were donated digitally by the Newark Public Schools Historical Commission in three batches. First, similar Board of Education photos to our collection. Secondly, a group of photos from 2018 taken of school murals. Thirdly, class photographs photographed by NPSHPC from their collection.
Additionally, one class photo was donated by Jan Rohn, Chestnut Street School 1886 and is in processing for the Newark Schools Collection (MG Nwk Schools).
Extent
170.813 Gigabytes (5839 objects [6289 files])
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Photos from the Library collection are numbered 1-6732 and the number is in the identifier and local field, with many numbers skipped. These photos were scanned as 600 dpi tiff.
The first group of NPSHPC donations is in a folder called "NPSHPC School Photos" by topic. Identifiers (URL after archive.org/details) start with NPSHPC.
Mural photos were donated as JPGs and are named with captions (again found in the local field) in folder "NPSHPC School Photos/Murals 2018". Identifiers (URL after archive.org/details) start with NewarkMurals.
Class photos photographed are JPG files starting with IMG in folder "NPSHC School Folders/Class Photos". Identifiers (URL after archive.org/details) start with NPSHPC.
Files for Chestnut Street School photo are with Newark Schools Collection.
Creator
- Newark (N.J.). Board of Education (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org