Women -- New Jersey -- Newark

Alma Flagg Collection

Collection

Identifier: MG Nwk Flagg-(Offsite)

Abstract

This collection consists of documents collected by Dr. Flagg related to her work as an educator, and includes publications of the Newark Board of Education, and the New Jersey State Department of Education. The documents include curriculum materials and handbooks, annual and monthly reports, surveys and meeting minutes, as well as agendas, correspondence and mixed publications relating to Dr. Flagg’s other interests, including African-American history.

Dates: 1901 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1981

Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Alma Flagg Collection

Barbara J. Kukla Papers

Collection

Identifier: MG Nwk Kukla

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the collected papers of Barbara J. Kukla, who has worked in Newark for over fifty years as an author and reporter. These materials were collected by Barbara, both through her work and for personal interest. Some of the significant topics represented in these files are: music, theater, poetry, fine arts, books, African-American heritage and history, African-American life, women’s issues, women’s history, public schools, charter schools, universities, colleges,...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970 - 2012; 1901 - 2018

Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Barbara J. Kukla Papers

Catherine Zehner Collection

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: MG NWK Zehner-(Main)

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the two diaries she kept during those years, as well as material inserted into those diaries. The sales receipts, church programs, news clippings, theater programs, and other items have been removed from the diaries and placed in folders. Included are receipts from Bamberger's, L.S. Plaut, Morrison's, Seguine, Empire Shoe, Stevens & Co., Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Shartenberg's, Goerke Co., W. W. Oppenheim, Fain Knitting Mills, David Straus...

Dates: 1922 - 1923

Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Catherine Zehner Collection

Current Events in Art Scrapbook

Collection — Vol. 1

Identifier: MG Nwk Contemporary-(Main)

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of one scrapbook entitled "Current Events in Art" (November 1929 - April 1930). The scrapbook consists of typed lists of monthly "Current Art Talks"; each month's list is followed by clippings, and, in one case, a catalogue for an exhibit of paintings by Emma Fordyce MacRae at the Roerich Museum (1930). These materials document the brief talks given at monthly meetings of The Contemporary of Newark, a cultural club. The scrapbook appears to have been compiled by...

Dates: 1929 - 1930

Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Current Events in Art Scrapbook