Browse Collections (18 total)

This collection contains a selection of images from two 19th-century account books that document black labor and black health in New Brunswick. The…

Update 2023:The Scarlet and Black research team has now scanned the full book of Middlesex County birth records of Black children. Hundreds of birth…

Update 2023:Researchers searching for manumissions in New Jersey are encouraged to visit our new database New Jersey Slavery Records.The Scarlet and…

This collection contains illustrations from a variety of sources for use in our digital exhibits.

This collection consists of letters and slave sale receipts that document slaveholding among Rutgers officers and benefactors. These manuscript…

This collection contains several historical maps of New Brunswick.

This collection contains the records of the African Association of New Brunswick, including the organization's Minute Book for 1817–1824 and several…

This collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, ephemera, and Common Council minutes documenting race relations in New Brunswick and…

This collection consists of yearbook photos, newspaper clippings, and alumni files that highlight the student experience of African American women…

This collection contains a selection of "Wanted" ads printed in New Brunswick newspapers from 1877 to 1922. These clippings were collected by Scarlet…

This collection consists of newspaper clippings and archival documents pertaining to the activities of the NAACP in New Brunswick in the 1920s. These…

This collection consists of photographs, manuscripts, and clippings that document the lives of the men who studied at Rutgers before 1945. Twenty-five…

This collection consists of New Jersey newspaper clippings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including runaway ads, slave sale…

This collection contains a selection of images that appeared in the pages of the Chanticleer, a humor magazine published by Rutgers students in the…

This collection contains a selection of images from the Scarlet Letter, the yearbook published by Rutgers College students. Included here are the…

This collection consists of photographs, manuscripts, church histories, and financial records from the Alice Jennings Archibald History Library at the…

This collection consists of photographs, ephemera, student newspaper clippings, and other materials related to anti-apartheid activism at Rutgers.…

This collection consists of student publications, flyers, and other materials related to the Black student protest movement at Rutgers-Camden…