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Newark Quasi Documents (Newark Q, Newark Local Docs), bulk 1880-2010

 Collection

Scope and Contents

These documents represent reports and publications (and sometimes smaller documents) for Newark quasi-governmental and private organizations including clubshospitals, organizations and institutions in the arts, business, education, civic, medicine, philanthropy, religion, and sports among other areas.

SEE ALSO Archives: MG Nwk Associations, MG Nwk Churches MG Nwk Public Health MG Nwk-NJ Programs MG Nwk-NJ Invitations MG Nwk Nationality Groups

They also contain a small number of BORN DIGITAL documents (see Digital Material below).

CATALOGED

Most quasi docs are in our catalog at catalog.npl.org under location code NJ Local Docs. NOTE: IF ITEMS DO NOT APPEAR IN CATALOG THEY MAY BE PROCESSING (07/2023). Board of Trade yearbooks are cataloged as books but as of 8/1/23 some are filed with Newark Quasi Docs due to lack of space.

These can be searched by item at catalog.npl.org. These include: Advocates for Children of New Jersey (see also Main NJ Ref), American Red Cross, Babie's Hospital / Coit Memorial, Broad Street and Merchants Association / Broad Street Association, Board of Trade of the City of Newark, Bureau of Associated Charities, Bureau of Municipal Research, Boy Scouts of America, Bethany Home Society for the Aged, Bureau of Service to the Foreign Born SEE National Council of Jewish Women, Catholic Community Services, Chamber of Commerce of the City of Newark, Children's Aid Society, Citizen's Action Committee Inc., Citizen's Housing Council, City Planning Project:, Columbus Hospital, Community Chest (SEE ALSO Welfare Federation), Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council SEE ALSO Winters Scrapbooks, Conference of Jewish Charities, Contemporary of Newark, DARE (Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Enterprise), Council of Social Agencies, Crazy Jane Society, auxiliary to Female Charitable Society, Dryden Literacy and Musical Society, Eigth Avenue Baby Shelter and Day Nursery, Essex Club, Committee for Economic Development, Council for Higher Education in Newark, Newark Community Committee, Committee for Economic Development., Family Service Bureau SEE ALSO Mg FSB, Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce, Greater Newark Council of Churches, Greater Newark Urban Coalition, Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, Home for Aged Women (Society for the Relief of), Home for Incurables and Convalescents, Home for the Friendless, Hospital and Home for Crippled Children, Hospital of St Barnabas and for Women and Children, Integrity Inc, Integrity House, Ironbound Community Corporation, Ironbound Red Shield Boys and Girls Club, Junior League of Newark, La Casa De Don Pedro, Local Services Initiatives Support Corp, Martland Medical Center, NAACP, Newark Branch (Scanned), National Council of Jewish Women Newark Section, Newark Academy, Newark Athletic Hall of Fame, Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Newark Collaboration Group, Newark Economic Development Corporation, Newark Emergency Services for Families, Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, Newark Female Charitable Society, Newark Orphan Asylum, Newark Private Industry Council, Newark Safety Council, Newark School Librarians Association, Newark Symphony Hall SEE ALSO Mg Nwk Theaters, Newark Teacher's Union SEE ALSO Periodicals, North End Community Boys, North Ward Educational and Cultural Center, Orpheus Club, Permanent Industrial Exposition, Protestant Foster Home Society, Police Athletic League of Newark, Presbyterian Hospital, Prudential Foundatom, Prudential Insurance Company, Ray Palmer Club, Real Estate Board of Newark SEE ALSO "Real Estate Commission", Renaissance NewarkCity Docs, Roseville Athletic Club (Association), Roseville Coalition, Saint James Hospital, Saint Michaels Hospital, Saint Philips Academy, Three Doctors Foundation, Traffic Club of Newark, Underwriters Protective Association (Salvage Corps) of Newark, United Community Corporation, United Community Fund and Council, United Hospitals of Newark, Unified Vailsburg Servive Organization, Vailsburg Camera Club / Newark International Salon of Photography, Wednesday Club, Welfare Federation of Newark (SEE ALSO Community Chest), Young Men's Christian Association, Women's Christian Association, Youth Consultation Service



UNCATALOGED (Q DOCS DRAWER)

"Alumnae Association of the Newark Public Schools" publication, 2 copies, 1938.

American Insurance Group (American Insurance Company): Annual reports 1944 and 1949. Investment Portfolio, 1949.

American Red Cross, Newark Chapter: Red Cross News 1946-1951 (SEE ALSO PERIODICALS), Annual Report 1956-1957 Junior Red Cross News 1949-1950, Junior Red Cross Annual Reports: 1942, 1944, 1948.

American Youth for Democracy Community Action Committee: News 1946-1947

Association of Commerce and Industry (formerly Newark Chamber of Commerce): Memoradum 1961 Military Park Garage Opening

Associated Community Councils of Newark: 1960 directory, workshop programs

Bell and Siren Club: By-laws

Broad Street and Merchants Association / Broad Street Association: misc bulletins /letters/pamphlets 1939-1948, undated

Board of Trade of the City of Newark (VERY FRAGILE): "Inagural Address David Campbell" (1870, 2 copies, "The Public Park Question" (1892, 2 copies), The Question of Taxation (1897),Port Newark Terminal (1915), "A Few Leaves With a Few Facts About

Manufacturing in the city of Newark", ""The Statistical Survey of the Newark Board of Trade, "Newark, New Jersey, Constitution and By-Laws (1868), Report of Special Committee on Drainage of Meadow (1888)

Bureau of Municipal Research: Annual Report 1953-1955, "Twenty Five Years of Governmental Research in Newark" (1957), "Summary of Consolidation of Pension Fund" (1952) "Summary of Weyer Reccomendtaions to the Rapid Transit Commission" (1956), "Summary of the William Wyer and Company Reccomendations for Study of Interstate Rapid Transit Improvements in New Jersey", 1965 list of studies, "Weaknesses in Newark's Commission Form of Government", "Partial List of Construction in Newark 1954-1964", "List of AntiPoverty Programs of the Newark Board of Eductaion", "Steps Taken to Augment Newark's Water Supply" (with progress rpeort), "Public Street Parking", "Chapter 51 Taxation", "Bureau Proposals for Adjusting State-Aid Formulas to Structural Changes in Ratabales" (correspondance, 1965), "Parking Faciltiies in the Central Business District", "Bratter Sale" (missing page 1), "It's Your Business" (1930s periodical), "City Hall Heating and Power Plant" (1938), misc memos, Port Newark and Newark Airport, "Notes on Newark" (1940s)

Burke Memorial Day Nursery (1 page description)

Chamber of Commerce of the City of Newark: Bulletins, statements, papers (bulk 1950s), Misc Brochures, Facts About Newark, Annual Report Brochures (1937-1951, not complete)

Child Service Association: Annual reports 1966, 1970, 1975

Children's Aid Society: Annual reports scattered 1899-1950.

Christian Refuge of Newark: Annual report 1911

Church Mission of Help: "What Is the Church Mission of Help Doing?" (1921)

Citizen's Committee: Report on the Social Evil Conditions of Newark (very fragile) 1913-1914

Citizen's Housing Council: "What Pace Demolition" (1938), "The Newark Housing Quiz" (1939), misc bulletins (1938) and brochures, NJ Housing Conference (1954), newsletters (1950s)

Clearing House Association: Annual Reports 1943-1945

Columbus Hospital: Annual report 1945, 1955

Community Chest (SEE ALSO Welfare Federation): Misc budgets, newsletters, docs 1930s (fragile)

Community Hospital (aka. Kenney see digital.npl.org) SEE ALSO Kenny Hospital SEE ALSO MG Nwk Public Health: "A Brief History", "Kinney Memorial Hospital", report on heart disease, 1939 and 1940 statistical reports , "Kenney Memorial Hospital":

Community Agencies Corp: brochuere and materials including on Feigenspan Mansion

Community Information and Referral Service: one booklet 1973

Community United for Rehabilitation of the Addicted (CURA): brochure

Conference of Jewish Charities: service statistics 1931, 1933, directors report 1929, Jewish Education Association report 1940, annual conference statement 1935

Congress of Newark: booklet "A condensed history" (1931)

Contemporary of Newark: Christmas program 1916

City Planning Project: Annual reports scattered 1940s, Report Newark Advisory Planning Board (1939)

Council for Higher Education in Newark: article "University heights project endorsed" and mission statement

DARE (Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Enterprise) Annoucement and findings (1969)

Daughters of the American Revolution: 1947-1948Y Yearbook

Donald Jackson Neighborhood Corp.: brochure and "the Clinton Hill Neighborhood"

Downtown Association: Annual reports 1950s

Downtown / Down Town Club: Constitution and bylaws 1919, 1921

Newark Downtown District: Annual Reports 1999-2002, 2009-2011, brpochures, broadsides, calendars, newsletters , programs. Later reports are cataloged as books.

Ford-Sayre Christian Home for Girls "Historical Sketch" 1925

Forest Hill Community Association (constitution, 1985)

Fuld Neighborhood House: annual report 1953 (also cataloged in main collection), "New Ways With Youth a Proposal for Teen Age Gangs in Newark" (1959)

Good Samaritan Mission: Annual report 1921

Goodwill Home and Rescue Mission: Annual report 2015, 1938, 1940, 1952, 1965, 1914, 1922-1924, misc brochures

Goodwill Home, Good News: 1926-1942 (periodical)

Goodwill Insdustries : Annual financial statement 1947

Gottfried Kruger Pioneer Home for Aged Men and Women: Annual reports 1889, 1894, 1895

Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce: "The County Executive Plan", "Newark Points of Interest", "A Brief History of Newark"

Greater Newark Conservancy: "Planting for the Future", "The Buzz on Newark"

Greater Newark Development Council: Redevelopment Notes (1961), Statement of Milford A Vieser Route 75 Hearing (1964)

Greater Newark Hospital Development Fund: "Let the People Know the Facts", "Let the People Know"

Greater Newark Industrial Union Council of CIO: 1938 report

Greater Newark Publicity Bureau": "Report on Wood Block Pavements", 1912

Guild of the Hospital of St. Barnabas: Bylaws

Habitat for Humanity Newark: misc. fliers, 1990 annual report, 1994 letter

Home for Incurables and Convalescents: small pamphlet

Hospital and Health Council of Newark and Vicinity: 1961 reccomendations

International Youth Organization: brochure, "About IYO", "Looking for the Best"

Interracial Council (digitized): "The Negro in Newark", "Historical Summary of the Interracial Movement in Newark", "Summary of Activities", "Interacial Council for Business Opportunity" materials including 1971 and 1976 annuial report

Ironbound Business Improvement District: "Bound for Success"

Ironbound Community Corporation: one brochure, flier for Valentines march 2011

James Street Commons Association: minutes 1988

Jewish Child Guidance Bureau: annual reports 1930s, "Children of the Depression", "Child Guidance and the War", "report to the Meviln Hollander Foundation on tthe work of the Physhciatric Division"

Jewish Children's Home: annual report 1936, "What Does the Home Owe Its Graduates", "Old and New Ideas of Child Caring Homes" "Children Without Worries", misc. other reports and brochures, intake and discharge policies

Jewish (Sisterhood) Day Nursery and Neighborhood House: Brochure, Annual reports 1910-1940 (scattered). Became Fuld Neighborhood House in 1941.

Jewish Education Association: annual meeting 1941

Jewish Social Services: Hopes for 1942, 1907 annual report

La Casa De Don Pedro: Lower Broadway Community Guide, Fliers, Annual report 1990, financials 2001

Leadership Newark: Diretcory 2000

Newark Legal Services Project: Newark's Poor and the Law (1966-1969)

Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association: "Twnty Five Years with the Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association" see MG NWk Lincoln- Douglass

Lutheran Memorial Hospital: "This Is Our Hospital"

Mount Carmel Guild (digitized): misc brochures, newsletters bulk 1930s

NAACP, Newark Branch (digitized): Report on Newark Schools (1961)

National War Veterans, Newark: letter 1934, "Winners of the West" (1930)

Neighborhood House Social Settlement (digitized): annual report, "Ironbound District", "Newark Social Settlement House:

New Community Corporation: folder of material, "Doing Today Those Things", annual report 1990-1993, 2003

Newark Academy: misc brochures, honors lists, histories

Newark Anti Tuberculosis Association: "Housing Conditions the Problem the Solution", "A Story in Words and Pictures" (annual reports (three covering 1909-1913).

Newark Art Club: Bulletins 1930s and 1940s

Newark Arts Council: brochures, 1990 minutes 1993-1994 papers

Newark Athletic Club: constitution 2 copies, one is dated 1901

Newark Black Film Festival: programs 2001, 2004

Newark Boys Chorus School: "Growing Up in Newark", "Voices of the Rennaisance"

Newark Community Development Network: "NCDN 2000"

Newark Do Something Fund: grant applications, misc. papers, folder of material

Newark Economic Development Corporation: Fliers/programs 1997-1998 South Ward Industrial Park, Overall Economic Development

Newark Educational Assoication: constitution and annnaul reports scattered from 1899-1907

Newark Exchange for Women's Work: Annual reports 1891, 1908, 1910, 1916

Newark Festival of the People: fliers, misc. papers, 1990s

Newark High School Men's Association: (booklet 1943)

New Jersey Historical Society: brochures

Newark Junior Chamber of Commerce: Roster of membership 1957, "Your Future Executives", "Does Newark Care", "The Good and Bad of Commission Government

Newark Literacy Campaign: newsletters, brochures, incorporation, by-laws (bulk 1990s).

Newark Manual Training Teachers Association: Library Report, undated

Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee: emails, fliers, misc. papers, newsletter, bulk 2000s

Newark Rotary Club: consitution and by-laws, 1924

Newark Safety Council: "The Part We Play, "Please Keep Me Safe"

Newark School Librarians Association:

Newark Services Corp: "Supported Work", "Philospohy and Goals", "Newark Services Corp"

Newark School Librarians Association: "The School Librarian" Mar 42"

Newark Teacher's Association: Tax Facts (periodical, 1939) Central Relief Committee: Annual reports 1935, 1937, 1938

Newark Tenants Organization (digitized): "Tenants United" 1977 and 1978

Newark Youth Council: brochure

North Ward Educational and Cultural Center: Annual report 1972, "Fire doesn't have to mean the end Newark May 1980"

Nursery of the Holy Angels, Old First Church: Annual report 1927-1932

People's League: "Keep Newark Free From Dictactors"

People's Light and Power Company: Stockholders, 1897

Permanent Industrial Exposition: Newark Exposition Essay Topics

Public School Principals Association: Constituion 1882, 1897, Yearbook 1925

Regional Business Partnership: minutes, brochures, emails (bulk 1990s)

Renaissance Newark: minutes, agendas, fliers, brochures (bulk 1990s), annual reports 1983-1985, "Translating Transit Into Growth", minutes and agendas include Washington Commons Development Corp, an affiliated grop

Roseville Athletic Club (Association): constitution and by-laws, "R. A. A. Tattler", Cycling Dept (1894)

Salmagundi Club: programs 1937-1943

Salvation Army: Scattered annual reports 1937-1985, "rennaisance in Northern New Jersey", "Questions Often Asked and the Answers"

Sarah Ward Nursery: Scattered annual reports 1930s-1960s

Schoolmen's Club: "50th Anniversary", constitution and by-laws

Shani Baraka Resource Center: brochuere

Social Services Bureau of Newark: annual reports, meetings, misvc. bulk 1930s and 1940s

Stephen Crane Association:L a list of his writings, "The Second 28 years"

Traveler's Aid: misc. very small reports 1930s and 1940s

Traveler's Club of Roseville: programs 1930s, 1940s

United Community Corporation: "Join the UCC"

United Way: misc. brochures

University Hospital: brochures (two) "When It Really Counts", "New Jersey Medical School"

Urban Enterprise Zone: folder of materials

Visiting Nurses Association of Newark: annual reports, history, telecast, etc.

War Veteran's Service Bureau: reports and statistics 1940s

Weequahic Park Association: Flier, Neighborhood Forum Agenda and Packet

Welfare Federation of Newark (SEE ALSO Community Chest)

Welfare Federation of Newark: Welfare News (1930s and 1940s), Social Servie Exchange 1933-1935, 1938

Work Room for Women: annual report 1910

Dates

  • bulk 1880-2010

Extent

29 Linear Feet (2 drawers + 9 shelves )

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

First aisle, near City documents. Small items are in Quasi docs drawers.

General

Local Docs and Quasi Docs and Newark Q are all terms for this collection.

Processing Information

NOT IMMEDIATELY FOUND 2023 INVENTORY

Apartment Improvement Program - in HUD Tenants ASPIRA Inc. - moved to HRIC? Brower Industrial School Society - moved to Nwk Schools? Center for Urban Research, Seton Hall University Citizen's Relief Committee Clinton Club of Boating House Craftsmen of Newark and Vicinity Economic Development Strategy

Greater Newark and Jersey City Local Initiatives Support Corp. Home for Foster Care Newark Education Council Krueger Scott Mansion Cultural Center - Archives? Madrigal Club Newark Camera Club Newark Downtown Core Redevelopment Corp Newark Day Center --> under Newark Female Charitable? Newark Music Foundation - Archives? Stephen Crane Association (In Main Collection) Sketch Club (In RAI) Overall Economic Development Program Committee - Main Collection Polish Falcons of America (1960 convention minutes MISSING)

Rutgers Business School Unified Vailsburg Youth Committee Newark Cherry Blossom Festival Newark Memorial Hospital Newark Water Group SEE Newark Water Supply IF

Stella Wright Homes Tenants Assoc was actually a NHA publication United Hospitals Medical Center Vincent J Murphy Association

Repository Details

Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Contact:
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