Antiques Volume 2 1960-1962, 1960 - 1962

This collection includes five volumes of scrapbooks titled Antiques. Each contains newspaper clippings of articles from Walter H. Van Hoesen’s “Appeal of Antiques” column in the Newark Evening News. Van Hoesen’s column discussed New Jersey craftspeople of the 18th-20th centuries and the historic value of various antiques created by them, focusing mostly on the interests of contemporary collectors and exhibitions. The scrapbooks also include articles about historic sites and their preservation. A series of articles from 1959 include directories of early New Jersey craftspeople, categorized by craft. The collection also includes one article from Elizabeth McFadden’s “New Jersey Antiques” column.

Volumes 1-5 (1957-1969) of the Antiques series of scrapbooks each include upwards of 45 pages of newspaper clippings from Van Hoesen’s “Appeal of Antiques” column in the Newark Evening News. Volume 4, page 10 includes an article by New Jersey artist Elizabeth McFadden about “New Jersey Antiques.”