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Miscellaneous items (P) relating to New Jersey, 1903 - 1988

 Collection — Box: 8

Scope and Contents

Box 8:

Parks: Legal brief, Ross vs. The Freeholders of Essex County - An Act to establish public parks in certain counties and to regulate the same (1903); Proposed Restoration of Branch Brook Park; A response to a letter to the editor by the director of the Essex Co. Dept. of Parks, Rec. & Cultural Affairs (1981); Essex County, Branch Brook Park (correspondence, publications, photographs); Delaware Water Gap, Weygadt Visitor Center; Weequahic Park Model Master Plan (file, 1980); Coupon for skee ball alleys at Olympic Park, Irvington [n.d.]

Photography: Letters to William Cone, to Gustav Walters; Professional Photographers Assoc. of N.J. (constitution and by-laws, 1913); Eastman School of Professional Photography (program, 1913); James Ricalton Exhibition (brochures, periodical articles).

Picatinny Arsenal: Assembly Resolution (1975); "The History of Picatinny Arsenal" (typed booklet, 1951); "Picatinny Arsenal" (n.d.); Sketches on blue print paper of the Revolutionary War iron industry in Morris County and proposals exhibits in relation to the Army's bicentennial; "This is Picatinny...." (pamphlet, n.d.).

Poetry: Genesis (Angelo Spina); Turn the Other Cheek Poems & Lyrics (by Catherine Brooks, 1979); Common Ground (collection of works from Bloomfield College, 1988); A Copy of Poems (Gilbert Ingersoll); An Inventor's Inventory (P.E. Wiberg); Holocaust (by Hirsch Silverman, 1988).

Postage Stamps: U.S. commemorative issues (1964); Nassau Hall (1756-1956); Rare issues on New Jersey themes (1955); List of N.J. philatelic writers (1955, in letters of John Bonton Kaiser); Ocean County Centennial (1950); commemorative issues envelopes (1949); Official State Bird & Flower (1982).

Prison: The Dome (prison publications, vol.1, nos.1 & 2).

Printing: "Printing in New Jersey before 1800 (lecture notes delivered on March 16, 1937).

Public Utilities: Nuclear Information Center (information kit); Jersey Central Power & Light Company ("This is Oyster Creek" (Jersey's first nuclear generating station); Board of Public Utility Commissioners, State of New Jersey (1970 Annual Report).

Dates

  • 1903 - 1988

Extent

.42 Linear Feet (1 Hollinger box)

Language of Materials

English