Miscellaneous items (R) relating to Newark (N.J.), 1829 - 2017
Scope and Contents
Box #12
Radio:
"Newark Sunday Call...1930 Radio Guide"
WAAT: WAAT Newark Program Souvenir Card with photo of Perry Como (undated); Souvenir photo of WAAT J.W. Greene's 5:30 Request Club, Paul Brenner and Sammy Kaye, (c. 1939).
WBGO: WBGO (Program Guide, April 1979-June 1982; "When Newark was younger" (1950); "WBGO Radio Series to Highlight Newark Collaboration Group Efforts"; WBGO Scripts #1-5: "Paradise for Puritans," "The Chosen Place," "The First Moving Day," "Treat's Mill," "One Heart, One Mind," Inaugural broadcast program (1948), #6-10: "Town Meeting," "Burning Day," "1776," "Made in Newark," "Thompson's Stage," #11-15: "Seth Boyden," "Lafayette," "Jacob Wiss," "James Baxter," "The Four Corners."
WOR: WOR (Remembrances of original staff member (written 1955), "A Broadcast Written and Presented by Gabriel Heatter - 18 (booklet about the station's 18th anniversary, 1940), "Design and Equipment of a Fifty-Kilowatt Broadcast Station for WOR" (booklet, 1936).
WJZ: Centenary Radio: WABC--A NYC Pioneer Crosses the 100-Year Line (history of a station that started in Newark)
Box #13:
Railroads:
Hudson Tubes / PATH: Hudson and Manhattan Railroads", Electric Railroads, August 1959; "Prospectus" vol. IV, Oct 1997; "The Public Will be Pleased William G McAddo and the Hudson Tubes" Anthony Fitzherbet, June 1964; "PATH Extension: Project Scoping Notification," 2017; PATH Map and Guide (June 29, 2003)
Lackawanna: "A Brief History of the Lackawanna Electrics, 1931-1984"; Delaware-Lackawanna Schedule (1901); Lackawanna Railroad schedules (1934-35); "Lackwanna" (NJ Transit brochure, 1984); "The Northern New Jersey Suburban Electrification Project", reprinted 1980, "50 years of Lackawanna Electrics" RailFan July 1981
Newark City Subway: Newark City Subway (NJ Transit pamphlets and histories, undated, c. 1980s); "Newark City Subway Rehabilitation Project: Substitute Bus Service Guide and Project Description" (ca. 1980s), "No. 7 Newark City Subway Fact Sheet" (1984), "Trolley Talk" April and June 1985, "7 City Subway" Headlights March 1960; Newark Light Rail schedule (2014); "Discover the New Newark City Subway" (c. 1984)
Pennsylvania: “Commemorating the Opening of Pennsylvania Station" 1935 booklet, history of Pennsylvania Station from Book of Newark. "A Century of Rail Development" by TJ Skillman Chief Engineer of Pennsylvania Railroad; "Passenger Train Journal" magazine on Penn Station “A Tale of Two Terminals”, Sept 1986; NJ Transit map May 24, 1983 ; Ownership, Assessment, Condition, and Occupants of properties in perimeter area of Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station, n.d.); Agreement between the city of Newark and Pennslyvania Railroad Company (Final, 1929 and 2nd draft, 1928)
Real Estate (Land Use, Zoning):
Pre-1800: Essex County Land Deed - Crane Family (1758)
Pre-1910: Standard Land and Building Co. (flyer, 1900), Suburban Building and Loan Association (1903), Indenture: Ward to Ward (1835), Indenture: Howells to F. Smith (1872), Executor's Sale: Estate of James Van Dyke (flyer, 1829), Statement of purchases of property, south corner of Broad & Market (October 10, 1833), Indenture, Broad & Bank Streets (Jan. 27, 1857), Indenture, McWhorter St. (Sept. 23, 1836, July 31, 1837) Indenture John Crane, his wife Sarah, and Caleb Crane to John Myer and Thomas Harrison (1796)
1920s- 1940s: Berry Bros., Inc., Realtors (1928) property appraisals (properties in Newark, Bloomfield, Orange), MacEvoy Court at Roseville Ave & 7th Ave, prospectus (ca. 1930's); Industrial Office Building booklet, flier and correspondance (1933-1941, now Essex Plaza)
Post 1980: Cogswell Realty brochures (2004); Zoning Amendment sent to residents Sept 22, 2017 MX-3; folder on the Berger organization (Miles Berger) and 570 Broad (2011); S. Klein Property Sale packet (includes floorplans, etc., 2002); Gateway Today News and Views of Gateway Center, (c.1988).
Items stored in Nwk Misc. Ovsz Box 4: 19 Lyons Avenue Architectural drawing (undated)
Recreation: Newark Swim Team correspondence with Mayor Gibson and clippings (1981-1983), Newark Coalition for Recreation plan and correspondence (1985) -- partnership included JFK Recreation Center (Newark Swim Team / JFK Advisory Committee), Boylan St. Recreation Center (Committee for Boylan St. Rec. Center), Wilson Ave. Pool (Committee to Open Wilson Ave. Pool) and St. Peter's Recreation Center (South Ward Recreation Coalition), also: Vailsburg Block Association Council, Silver-Stuyvesant Block Assoc, Ironbound Ecumenical Association (Ironbound Community Corporation), Vailsburg Community Council, Friends of Weequahic Park.
Restaurants: Men's Fashion Show Card, Harvey R. Francisco, The Washington Restaurant 559 Broad St., (1913); Napkins (2), Arthur's Downtown; Takeout menu, Theater Square Grill; Takeout menu (2), Arthur's Downtown; Spring Dinner Menu, Maize; Pamphlet, The Priory Jazz Series; Pamphlet, the Priory restaurant; Invitation, Grand Opening, Arthur's Downtown (2001); Photocopied menu, Weequahic Inn; Newark Restaurant Guide; Match book from The Roost in Newark and the Chanticleer in Millburn,; 4 matchbooks from The Treat, The Newarker (Newark Airport), The Roost, and Clinton Manor (donated by Joseph Keenan, 2016); Boston Ice Cream / Candy (Springfield Ave) article and manuscript by George Lampros; Spotlight on Newark Restaurants (Zagat 2009); Newark Club, business card; Go Newark 2011 Restaurant Guide, Hobbys Menu, "Restaurants 'Round the Rock".
Rivers: "Questions about the Proposed Bank to Bank Dredge of the Lower Passaic River" - Lower Passaic Study Group (c. 2014)
Dates
- 1829 - 2017
Extent
.84 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
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