Episode One:
The Peace Council of New Jersey and the Indians, 1758
Featuring:
Megan Scarborough
Photographs Referenced in Episode One
The Peace Council of New Jersey and the Indians, 1758 by Richard Blossom Farley (1910) as it sits today, in the Roscoe building at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ
The Peace Council of New Jersey and the Indians, 1758 as it was in 1910 in the auditorium on Clinton Ave
(Image from the Fifty-Sixth Annual Report and Catalog of the State Normal School at Trenton, 1910, from
the TCNJ Archives and Special Collections located at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ)
The stage in the auditorium on Clinton Ave: due to the architecture and comparisons with other images of the space in addition to written personal accounts, I believe The Peace Council was on the opposite wall and that the portrait to the far right is of Sarah Ely, which was also by Blossom Farley.
(Image from Photographic Image Collection: 'Clinton Ave Interiors' B12.28-B12.37, B12.40, B12.42, Box 2, File 10, from the TCNJ Archives and Special Collections located at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
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Closeup of the addition to the mural painted by Blossom Farley in 1930 to fit the new space in the Roscoe West Library
The circulation room at the Roscoe West Library, mid 20th century
Image from Box 8OS, File 1, Document Collection, TCNJ Archives and Special Collections
Special Thanks:
David Murray and librarians at the R. Barbara Gitenstein Library for access into the TCNJ Archives and Special Collections
References
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Abcsocial. “Richard Blossom Farley.” Theosophy & ART, March 30, 2018. https://theosophyart.org/2018/03/30/richard-blossom-farley/.
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Buildings and Campus, Clinton Ave Interiors. B12.28-B12.37, B12.40, B12.42, Box 2, File 10, Photographic Image Collection, TCNJ Archives and Special Collections, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
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Kohn, Margaret, and Kavita Reddy. “Colonialism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, August 29, 2017. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/#Def.
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Philadelphia Sketch Club. (n.d.) “Past Members: Richard Blossom Farley.” http://sketchclub.org/sample-page/join/past-members/#RicBlo.
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Past, Present and Future of West Library. 2000. Box 8OS, File 1, Document Collection, TCNJ Archives and Special Collections, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
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Porzelt, Beverly. “National Center.” Theosophical Society in America. https://www.theosophical.org/component/content/article/10-about-us-sp-709/national-center/1156-national-center?Itemid=1107.
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Princeton University Art Museum (n.d) [museum label for Asher Brown Durand’s Landscape, 1859]. Princeton, NJ: Author
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State Board of the Education of New Jersey (1910) Fifty-Sixth Annual Report and Catalog of the State Normal School at Trenton and the Accompanying Documents For the Year Ending June 30th 1910. Trenton, NJ: MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, Opposite Post Office (1910). Print.
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The Signal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (November 1910), TCNJ Archives and Special Collections, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
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Schwarz Gallery (2019). “View by Artist- Richard Blossom Farley” http://www.schwarzgallery.com/artist/336/Richard-Blossom-Farley.
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Wallace, A. F. C. (1970). King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung: 1700-1763. Freeport, NY: Books for Libr. Pr.