Students -- New Jersey -- Newark

Abstract

Newark School Photographs, originally a Newark Board of Education collection, consists of 18 boxes of prints, plus four drawers of small-format prints, most with matching negatives.

Scope and Contents This artificial collection consists of a variety of materials relating to public, private, and religious schools in Newark.Box #1: Newark Public Schools Ledger (1904-13), Newark High Schools Scrapbook (1903-07, newspaper articles, typed reports, etc.). A ledger with inventories of sewing supplies by school, including the colored school (1904-1913); and a scrapbook of material relating to Newark's Board of Trade and schools, with reports on students in commercial courses and manual...

Scope and Contents Part 1 of the School News from Newark Newspapers scrapbook collection consists of 39 scrapbooks, arranged in chronological order, of local newspaper clippings reporting issues, events, activities, and announcements of the Board of Education and of individual schools in Newark. In most of the volumes artcles are grouped by topic. Some volumes also contain original correspondence, notes, and memos. Volume 1 (1903-1907), for example, is largely devoted to school reform and expansion and the...

Abstract

Part 2 of the School News Scrapbook Collection consists of 26 scrapbooks of local newspaper clippings reporting issues, events, activities, and announcements of relating to Newark schools and to the Board of Education. Each volume, or group of volumes, covers a date-span (usually 2-3 years). Within many of the scrapbooks, clippings are grouped alphabetically by topic.

Scope and Contents This collection includes photos of Newark Public Schools that Bill May took while working for the district. Schools include: Weequahic, Vailsburg, Peshine Avenue, Newton, Science High, West Side, and Arts.Box #1: All schools alphabetically except Peshine Avenue and Peshine Avenue 1987-1988Box #2: Peshine Avenue 1988-1991Digital material includes photos of all schools, mostly in the 2000s, as well as historical research into the Newark Public Schools and...