Acetate Film Negatives, 1939 - 1963
Scope and Contents
As Minthorne was city photographer, these negatives were taken for various departments of the city. Each negative or print is labelled with the city department and then the topic. Negative and prints each have a number with corresponds with date. Most envelopes contain multiple negatives.
Some of the negatives are from 1920, so may have been taken by someone besides Minthorne.
City departments and offices represented in the photos include Water, Sewer, Central Planning, the Airport, Port Newark, Streets, and Street Cleaning. The photos span a wide range of subjects.
Many of the photo subjects are pipes, tunnels, construction projects, vehicles, water meters, and street and sidewalk damage and repairs. However, perphaps of more interest to researchers, there are also Newark panoramas, photos of city workers and politicians, Port Newark, Newark Airport, parks, buildings, recreation facilities, and streets. There are also several photos taken for the Newark Defense Counsel including photos of the city blackout in 1941 to prepare for the Second World War.
This collection is a valuable record of city photographs during this time period.
Dates
- 1939 - 1963
Extent
From the Collection: 6.42 Linear Feet (3 Paige boxes, 1 Hollinger box, 6 glass negative boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Topics include:
- Airport
- Doremus Avenue Bridge
- Motor vehicles
- Street cleaning (incl. awards to drivers)
- Port Newark Development / old Port Newark (incl. Franklin Lumber Co., the Robin Locksley)
- lighting
- Mayor Perry (#3817)
- Water / pipes / tunnels (incl. Erie RR tunnel)
- City seal (#3866)
- Vincent Carson (#3902-3905)
- Wanaque Resoivoir (#3906-3910)
- Traffic conditions
- City railway
- Sewar excatvation / construction
- City dumps
- Shade trees (Vassar Ave.)
- Newark Industrial Commission
- condemned buildings
- Bureau of Central Purchase
- old Water Shed
- tax revaluation report (#4111-4130)
- street construction
- William Bank, Bauerman (#4133)
- Fairchild aerial photos copies
- Meter laboratory, water dept (#4172-4176)
- Route 25 (#4177-4184)
- Watershed aireal maps (#4185-4186)
- Newark Defense Council Black Out (#4191-4198)
- Comm of Joint Meeting (#4221-4223)
- Painting of pool WPA (#4255)
- Hayes Park East pool (#4285-4287)
- Route 21 (#4344-4352)
Box 8 #4357-5113 (1941-1948)
Topics include
- Water pipes / lines / tunnels
- Street cleaning, street conditions (incl. Augusta St., staff awards)
- Comissioner Byrne (#4371)
- Mr. Rankin, Edward Decher (#4372)
- City alsphalt plant (#4373-4376)
- Port Newark
- Sewers
- Trucks and vehciles
- Street repairs
- City Hall stairway (#4446)
- Dept Public Works band (#4447)
- Night photos of downtown Newark, for Defense Counsel (#4452-4463, 4465-4466)
- Airport (includ. convention #4964)
- Sidewalks / pavement
- Tax Surveys (Doremus Ave, #4531-4534, 135 Norman Rd, #4586)
- 85 Main Street (#4578)
- 36 Franklin St (#4590-92)
- Old Essex Market (#4614)
- Central Planning Board: views of Newark and Post Offices (4638-4659), 1st ward (4792-4802), from Penn Station 4915-4918
- #8 S. Tracey (4684-85)
- Water shed
- Canister Dam
- Streets (incl. corner of Mulberry and Lafayette #4879-81, Raymond at Halsey 4961)
- 57 Green (#4882)
- Prince Street fire house (#4883-84)
- #4900-4905: Mutual Benefit, Wars of America, House of Prayer, American Insurance, Seth Boyden, Washington Park, Lincoln Park
- Old buildings
- Views from Firemans Insurance Co. (4923-4924)
- #10 Engine Fire House (4947-4948)
- Veterans Housing (4994-4998, 5064-67)
- Sanitation
- City Hall and Broad (5035-5038)
- Incinerators
- Planning Board exhibit at Museum (5084-93)
- 134 Badger street conditions (5094-95)
- Jay Street Stables (5103-106
Box 9 #5114-5926 (1948-1963, bulk to 1955)
Topics include:
- Sanitation
- Sewers
- Incinerators
- Sidewalks
- Vehicles / Motors
- Echo Lake
- Street Cleaning
- Streets (5259-5263: Halsey and Raymond, 14th Ave. and S. 6th Street, 5373-5376: Littleton, 15th, Camden, 5420: Chestnut, Broad, 5422-23: Broadway, Grafton, 5708-0: Cedar and Broad, bus station, 5712-5721: Wilson between Hyatt and Rutherford, 5781-82: Broad and Raymond, 5794-95: Broad and Central, 5796-97: Goldsmith and Park View, 58548-50: 11th and Orange)
- 33-37 Nairn (5268-70)
- Airport
- Route 25
- 76 Ave. C (5308-10)
- Water / pipes / water boxes
- Widemmayer Estate, Mount Prospect Ave (5378-5382)
- Hayes Park Swimming Pool (5383-84)
- 241 N. Broad (5385-86)
- 11 Norwood Demolition (5407-10)
- Watershed
- Railroad Bridge over Raymond Blvd (5447-5449)
- St. Charles St. Bridge (5463-65)
- Condemned building Central and Somme (5550-1)
- 21 Hillside Terrace (5561-2)
- Anthony Street Station (5563-64)
- Water Survey, resovoirs, etc.
- 16 Waverly (5564-66)
- Junkyard at 26 Monteith, Aqueduct Alley (5567-71)
- Sign poles
- Center Market Building (5729-32)
- Park at Raymond Plaza West (5746-48)
- Front lawn City Hall (5749-52)
- Mr. Weiss 38-51-53-59 Ingraham Pl, Van Ness Place, 59-67 Nairn Pl (5767-74)
- South Street Station (5785-90)
- Ivy Haven Buildings (5802-5)
- Meeker and Lehigh Valley Railroad (5817-18)
- William St: Alleys (5829-32)
- Newark Commission for Neighborhood Conversation and Rehabilitation 5833-5845: Commerce, Durand, Essex Court and Mulberry, Cherry and River, W. Park Street at McCarter Highway, Center St., Kirk Pl. and McCarter Highway, Rio Hotel at Commerce and Mulberry, Comet Hotel and Penn Hotel at Lawrence and Market and 5923-5926: Artist sketches
- Mayor Carlin, Council, street sweepers (5851)
- Ward maps (5920)
Box 10 Negatives labeled NCNCR, no numbers, 1961
- 87 Lincoln
- 132 Heller Parkway
- 209 Montclair
- 424 Ridge
- 415 Ridge
- 159 Elwood
- 217 Woodside
- 299 Woodside
- 681 Lake
- 630 Summer
- 592 Parker
- 29 Hansbyry
- 92 Hansbury (a conservation area)
- 88 Vassar
- 11 Pomona
- 11 Netherwood
- 43 Midland
- 57 Tuxedo
- 128 Isabella
- 164 Vermont
- 32 Synott
- 592 Parker
- 745 Parker
- 908 DeGraw
- 630 Summer
- 147 Chadwick
-233 Chadwick
-193 Chadwick
- 778 S. 10th
- 768 S. 10th
- 148 Shepard
-531 Summer
- Delevan corner 9th
- 319 N. 13th
- 47 N. 9th
- 48-50 S. 11th
-252 N. 11th
-750-752 N. 8th
- 324 N. 11th
- 145 N. 11th (rebhabilitation area)
- 299 N. 10th
- 21 Heller
- 220 Woodside
- 85 Elm
- 313-17 Elm
- 311 Lafayette
- 76 Ann
- 257 New York
- 389 Walnut
- 377 Walnut
- 511 Lake
- 356 14th
- 200 Littleton
- 112 S. 7th
- 96 Camden
- 58 Camden
-216 S. 12th
- 71 Darcy
- 137 Third ave. - four houses together
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
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Newark NJ 07102 United States
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