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Public Service Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MG PSEG

Scope and Contents

This collection includes of photographs from Public Service equipment (telephones, substations and buses), operators, and staff groups from 1927-1960. Box 1, Folder 1-2 includes photos of equipment including substations and bus stops. Box 1, Folder 3, includes photos of staff operating equipment (mostly telephones). Box 1, Folder 4 includes photos of staff groups and events. Box 2 contains 3 scrapbooks from the late 1920s including mostly photographs of telephone operators, but also installed equipment including in the Newark News office. Two binders contain photos of operators and equipment. The majority of the photos in the entire collection seem to be of the telephone or telecommunications department, even including photos from AT&T of new equipment. However, there are also many photos of bus stops (which would be under Public Service Coordinated Transport), as well as electrical substations (presumably part of PSE&G as of 1928).

Dates

  • 1927 - 1960
  • 1985

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers wishing to publish, reproduce, or reprint materials from this collection must obtain permission.

Biographical / Historical

PSE&G (Public Service Electric & Gas Company) was formed in 1928 out of the gas and electric utilities of the Public Service Corporation (founded 1903).

Public Service Transportation was another subsidiary of the Public Service Cooperation, formed in 1917. It operated most of the trolleys and buses in New Jersey. It became part of NJTransit in 1980.

Today PSE&G is a subsidiary of the Public Service Enterprise Group, which was organized in 1985. There is no longer a transportation component associated with the company

Extent

1.25 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger boxes (Fileroom), 2 binders (Main))

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection consists of photographs from Public Service equipment (telephones, substations and buses), operators, and staff groups from 1927-1960.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donation of Raymond Castellano, PSE&G employee, Dec 2018

Related Materials

The CFCNJIC has many books and reports from Public Service and PSE&G available via catalog.npl.org including two large histories “The Energy People” (333.7932 C762en) and “Making Things Work PSE&G’s First Century” (333.7932 C125ma).

Related archival collections include Trolley Treasures (388.42 M31, Vol. 1, Parts 1-6), 1978 PSE&G groundbreaking program (MG Nwk Misc. P), some photographs in MG Gibson of PSE&G employees and Gibson, and a brochure on the building (MG Nwk Misc. B).

Processing Information

Loose material was sorted by genre of photograph. Scrapbooks and binders were left in place. Binders are shelved separately. One flier was kept at it shows that the source of these photos may be the telephone or telecommunications department.

Author
Beth Zak-Cohen
Date
2019
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Contact:
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Newark Public Library
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Newark NJ 07102 United States
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