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Essex County Jail (N.J.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Essex County Jail Receipt Book

 Collection
Identifier: MG NWK Jail Receipts-(Fileroom)
Abstract Mary Habstritt worked as an assistant to a photographer who took pictures of the now-closed Essex County Jail as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). She found this receipt book on the floor of the office building, one of the structures that was part of the jail. It was among several such books laying about the floor. Each page holds four numbered receipts and this book holds carbon-copies of receipts 20101 through 20600, all dated in 1971, the year the jail...
Dates: 1971

Ronald L. Rice Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG NWK Rice-(Fileroom)
Abstract

This small collection of material deals with the Morris Canal in Newark and the Newark City Subway, which was built in the bed of the canal after it shut down. It was donated by Ronald L. Rice, the map archivist of the Canal Society of New Jersey, who has a long-standing interest in the history of the now-defunct Morris Canal. The collection also includes some records from the former Essex County Jail on Lock Street in Newark, which once stood alongside the canal.

Dates: Publication: 1900 - 2000