Browse Collections (18 total)
Slavery Era Account Books
![Blauvelt-Account-Book-spine.jpg Blauvelt-Account-Book-spine.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/1ace308fd2717d27ac944a0f851d8726.jpg)
This collection contains a selection of images from two 19th-century account books that document black labor and black health in New Brunswick. The…
Slavery Era Birth Records of Black Children
![SCUA-MC-Births-40-Dinah.jpg SCUA-MC-Births-40-Dinah.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/cfcdb4eba7dd67a805af9157e0937bff.jpg)
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…
Manumissions
![Manumission Book page 350 Henry Compton.jpg Manumission Book page 350 Henry Compton.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/31f0108adadb023007d0c32f5c8367ec.jpg)
Update 2023:Researchers searching for manumissions in New Jersey are encouraged to visit our new database New Jersey Slavery Records.The Scarlet and…
Illustrations
![https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/fileupload/WPL-1920s-KKKforms.pdf https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/fileupload/WPL-1920s-KKKforms.pdf](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/76cd8f5ef32b90169029725678f9639a.jpg)
This collection contains illustrations from a variety of sources for use in our digital exhibits.
Slaveholders: Letters, Sale Receipts, and Related Documents
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This collection consists of letters and slave sale receipts that document slaveholding among Rutgers officers and benefactors. These manuscript…
African Association of New Brunswick (1817-1824)
![Minutes of the African Association book cover.jpg Minutes of the African Association book cover.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/bacee57f73f1534f9853c7b1104738f8.jpg)
This collection contains the records of the African Association of New Brunswick, including the organization's Minute Book for 1817–1824 and several…
Life in New Brunswick before World War II
![The Clansman Advertisement.png The Clansman Advertisement.png](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/1b988f74023c2e6a039af4751572a97c.jpg)
This collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, ephemera, and Common Council minutes documenting race relations in New Brunswick and…
Douglass College (formerly New Jersey College for Women)
![Quair 1938 yearbook Julia E. Baxter senior photo.jpg Quair 1938 yearbook Julia E. Baxter senior photo.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/08a905cb24a8e929629770fa374605d7.jpg)
This collection consists of yearbook photos, newspaper clippings, and alumni files that highlight the student experience of African American women…
Wanted Ads (1877-1922)
![http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/45WantedAd1922-10-06.jpg http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/45WantedAd1922-10-06.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/7f98f2fdaef7c9e0ec751cf98ca35148.jpg)
This collection contains a selection of "Wanted" ads printed in New Brunswick newspapers from 1877 to 1922. These clippings were collected by Scarlet…
NAACP Clippings and Documents (1920s)
![NAACP Mass Meeting Flyer 1924.png NAACP Mass Meeting Flyer 1924.png](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/5b3ff02e0a92a7c34807dfcd38c2ae27.jpg)
This collection consists of newspaper clippings and archival documents pertaining to the activities of the NAACP in New Brunswick in the 1920s. These…
Rutgers Alumni (before 1945)
![http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/Hazelwood-1943-bio-file-photo-headshot.jpg http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/Hazelwood-1943-bio-file-photo-headshot.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/affcbf762fc121e89e6befe47709df4c.jpg)
This collection consists of photographs, manuscripts, and clippings that document the lives of the men who studied at Rutgers before 1945. Twenty-five…
Slavery Era Newspaper Clippings
![1823-07-15 Notice is hereby given.jpg 1823-07-15 Notice is hereby given.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/3f450843ce7eca7412575a93d190a852.jpg)
This collection consists of New Jersey newspaper clippings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including runaway ads, slave sale…
Racist Imagery in the Chanticleer Student Magazine (1923-1929)
![Chanticleer-1923-06-cover.jpg Chanticleer-1923-06-cover.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/3534c275bba4d63a29549aac81b3a377.jpg)
This collection contains a selection of images that appeared in the pages of the Chanticleer, a humor magazine published by Rutgers students in the…
Scarlet Letter Yearbooks (1908–1943)
![http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/Birt-1937-Scarlet-Letter-1937-p-photo.jpg http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/Birt-1937-Scarlet-Letter-1937-p-photo.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/722018a5c060a0b2dde7093b22ea4c60.jpg)
This collection contains a selection of images from the Scarlet Letter, the yearbook published by Rutgers College students. Included here are the…
Alice Jennings Archibald History Library Records (Mount Zion AME Church of New Brunswick)
![http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/MtZionAME-Photographs-Archibald01.jpg http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/MtZionAME-Photographs-Archibald01.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/6b97aba9a4ee71e43d3ed54a9a63f6f8.jpg)
This collection consists of photographs, manuscripts, church histories, and financial records from the Alice Jennings Archibald History Library at the…
Anti-Apartheid Activism at Rutgers
![SCUA-RGRPAF-B4F31-LifeUnderApartheid-front.jpg SCUA-RGRPAF-B4F31-LifeUnderApartheid-front.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/af02553321ec38bbbeae93069071f6f8.jpg)
This collection consists of photographs, ephemera, student newspaper clippings, and other materials related to anti-apartheid activism at Rutgers.…
Black Student Activism in Camden
![http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/PRL-EC-F7-Liberator-1.jpg http://scarletandblackproject.com/fileupload/PRL-EC-F7-Liberator-1.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/a87cf550db226304cf7ceea42910b607.jpg)
This collection consists of student publications, flyers, and other materials related to the Black student protest movement at Rutgers-Camden…
Featured Collection
Racist Imagery in the Chanticleer Student Magazine (1923-1929)
![Chanticleer-1923-06-cover.jpg Chanticleer-1923-06-cover.jpg](https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/files/thumbnails/3534c275bba4d63a29549aac81b3a377.jpg)
This collection contains a selection of images that appeared in the pages of the Chanticleer, a humor magazine published by Rutgers students in the…