State Normal School diploma ("certificate") of George H. Dunham from September 16, 1847, signed by Principal David P. Page, Professor George R. Perkins, and Executive Committee Members Alonzo Potter, Gideon Hawley, Harmanus Bleeker, and William Campbell. Photograph reproduction from University Archives.
A photograph of a letter dated May 16, 1888, written by Edward P. Waterbury, A.M., Ph.D., President of the New York State Normal School from June 22, 1882 - August 8, 1889. The letter is concerning students who went ice-skating without permission and after curfew. There are three separate prints of this image on file with a separate negative for each print. In the upper left corner is a picture of what might be a lithograph of the Normal School building.
A digital reproduction of the exterior of a letter sent to George R. Perkins (principal of the New York State Normal School, January 1, 1848-July 8, 1852) by Charles R. Coburn of Owego, NY on March 21, 1848. The letter's text is also available.
A digital reproduction of a letter sent to George R. Perkins (principal of the New York State Normal School, January 1, 1848-July 8, 1852) by Charles R. Coburn of Owego, NY on March 21, 1848. The letter reads: Dear Friend, I am requested by the trustees of the school in this village to write to you to see if you have a pupil that will graduate this spring that you can recommend for this school. It is the school that I have taught some time. We want a superior teacher or none. We must have an [sic] man of experience, good disciplinarian, apt to teach, willing to keep up with the real improvements of the day, good moral character if pious all the better. The wages will be about $30 for the first 3 months and if good satisfaction is given they will be raised to $35 per month and board himself. If you have a teacher that will answer our purpose please to write to me without delay. Give my respects to Miss Chichester and tell her that her friends are well. I am at presently engaged in the Owego Academy. Yours with respect and etc. Charles R. Coburn
A portrait of Edward B. Horton, New York State Normal School, Class of 1886. The photograph has a photographer's stamp "deClercq" (Louis deClercq) in the lower right corner.
A Carte de visites portrait of Emily A. Taylor, teacher of Elocution and Ethics at the New York State Normal School from October 14, 1867 until July 2, 1873.
A picture of those attending a President's reception. Present are Evan R. Collins (second gentleman from the viewer's left), President of the New York State College for Teachers (the name of the institution at the time of this photograph) from July 1949-June 30, 1969, Virginia Collins (second woman from the viewer's left), Leonard Friedlander (first gentleman from viewer's right), New York State College for Teachers, Class of 1939, and Maritta Whitbeck, New York State Normal School, Class of 1898 or 1899. The event was held in association with the New York State College for Teachers Alumni Day festivities, 1958.
Presidents of the New York State College for Teachers and Principles of the State Normal School. Abram (also Abraham) Roy (also Royer) Brubacher is fourth from left in the back row. The photograph was taken on the steps of Page Hall.