The Trentoniana Department’s yearbook collection is widely used and is always seeking donations of Trenton school yearbooks to complete the collection. Contact the Archivist if you have copies of any of these books, or other Trenton schools not represented here, and would like to donate them to the collection.
Trenton Central High School – Bobashela
1922-present [missing 1985, 2009, 2020]
Digitized: 1962 courtesy of Dorothea Naylor
Cathedral High School [became all-girls in 1936; co-ed again in 1963; closed 1972]
Cathedral: 1931-1932, 1936-1937, 1942-1949, 1952, 1954-1961, 1963-1967, 1970-1972
Digitized: 1951, 1953
Immaculate Conception High School/Trenton Catholic High School [closed 1962 when Cathedral became co-ed]
Immaculata: 1930-1962
McCorristin Catholic High School (Hamilton)
After the closing of Trenton Catholic High School, St. Anthony’s High School was built. It was renamed McCorristin Catholic High School in 1979. In 2005, four parochial elementary schools consolidated with McCorristin to form Trenton Catholic Academy.
Corristin: 1983 [Trenton address], 1992-2004
For a brief history of Trenton’s junior high schools, see this publication created by the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie.
Junior High School No. 1, now Martin Luther King Middle
Crucible: 1952-1953
Digitized: 1953
Junior High School No. 2, now Carroll Robbins
Tiger: 1984
Junior High School No. 3
Flare: 1955, 1957
Aquila: 1973
Junior High School No. 4, now Grace Dunn Middle
Argus: 1928-1973
Junior High School No. 5
Galatea: 1948
Blue and White: 1965
Wildcats: 1988
Trenton Normal School/State Teachers College/Trenton State College – Seal
1922-1973 [missing 1923, 1926-1927, 1930-1933, 1938, 1949; not published 1944]
New Jersey State Normal School – The Signal
Over 100 issues available online via The College of New Jersey
Rider College – Shadow
Rider University Libraries has their Trenton and Lawrence yearbooks digitized
Check out a project created by students (Team Fishbowl) from The College of New Jersey’s Interactive Multimedia Design Perspectives class that used one of these yearbooks.
The Trentoniana Department archives all yearbooks that are autographed and signed. From time to time, we will weed unsigned, unautographed, and unowned duplicates of yearbooks in order to make room for those that belonged to a student. Please see the list of available yearbooks here.
