Second Annual Report and Accompanying Documents of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School, to the Legislature, for the Year Ending February Ninth, 1857

219 p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of floor plans; 23 cm. Lacking cover. The Jersey State Normal School was established in 1855 to train teachers for the state. everal names changes later, it is now the College of New Jersey. The frontispiece shows the front of the original building. This report contains detailed information about the first two years of the school. It includes the Annual Register of the Officers and Students, which lists trustees, faculty, and students (73 women and 31 men), as well as the contents of the library, the furniture and "effects" (1 human skeleton). Scarce. In Good Condition: lacking cover; occasional light foxing; otherwise, clean and solid.