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Frank Kingdon Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Kingdon-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box 1: consists of a scrapbook of pamphlets, reprints of articles, and newspaper clippings, primarily related to Kingdon's involvement in the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and to his work as chairman of Emergency Rescue Committee (1941); 4 folders of Kingdon's "radio talks" on WOR (1936-1940, 1944); and 1 folder of incoming correspondence, mostly fan letters and requests for copies of his radio talks (1936-1939) Box 2: consists of 3 folders of newspaper...
Dates:
1928 - 1946
Hughes Allison Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Allison-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The contents of the collection are as follows:Box 1: a folder entitled "Playbills and Theater Programs" consists mostly of material on New York productions, but also includes a program for a concert by Kirsten Flagstad at the Mosque Theatre (December 21, 1938) and the "Symphony Magazine" of the Essex County Symphony Society, Stadium Festival Concerts series (June 1940), announcing the program for the first concert, which featured Marian Anderson (June 3, 1940); a small folder of...
Dates:
1930 - 1981
John B. Ehrhardt Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Ehrhardt-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of writings, speeches, and incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence, mostly on aspects of New Jersey history unrelated to Newark. The clippings, notes, and typescripts relate to Ehrhardt's historical work and include texts of talks delivered before local historical societies by Eberhardt and others. Hewark-related items include aA 1966 letter signed "Frank," containing reminiscences of Newark Evening News reporter. There is also an exchange of letters with the...
Dates:
1933 - 1964
New Jersey Authors Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG NJ Authors- (Main)
Scope and Contents
Cunningham, John T. (Tercentenary Tales, 1962-63; Manuscript of rev. Newark History, 1987); Barbara Faith Kalik, state assembly proclamation, 1991; Sanderson, Ivan T. (1911-73, bio. material); Henderson, Daniel (editor of Good Housekeeping, personal Christmas cards, verses, 1940's, 50's); Letters of William Nelson (1910); English, Thomas Dunn (poems); NJ WPA (catalog, 1940).
Dates:
1910 - 1991
Newark Authors Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Authors-(Fileroom)
Abstract
This is a collection of miscellaneous materials by and about a number of writers who lived, or were connected with, Newark. It consists of several large folders devoted to material on individual writers and one folder containing items relating to a number of different individuals.
Dates:
1849 - 1996
Stephen Crane Papers
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Crane-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, magazine articles, ephemera, photographs, etc., and Newark Public Library reference requests for information regarding Crane.Box 1: contains Carol Joan Decker's bibliography of the Stephen Crane Collection at NPL, as of 1956. The introduction to the bibliography includes information regarding the Stephen Crane Association and the disposition of the Stephen Crane birthplace. The bibliography also provides an inventory of...
Dates:
1897 - 1996
William H. Osborne Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Osborne-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, I: contains a typescript copy of a novel, "The Taint in the Blood or the Taint." A literary agent's summary attached to the manuscript describes the book as "a story of business and political methods, and of a labor union." The events and characters are drawn directly from the history of Newark.Manuscripts, II: another typescript copy of "The Taint in the Blood or the Taint"Manuscripts, III: typescript copy of "Out of the Tub O' Blood...
Dates:
c. 1903-1920
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