Newark Wards and Sections Collection
Scope and Contents
BOX 1:
Central Ward:
Old Third Ward Survey in the Newark Evening News (1916)
Clinton Hill:
Neighborhood Council Newsletters (1965-1967)
Forest Hill:
National Register of Historic Places Application (1989)
Ironbound:
"Report on Foreign Nationalities in the Ironbound" (1931); "Ironbound City" by Fidelity Union Trust (c. 1953); Clippings Folder (c. 1956-1978); Recollections of Ironbound Resident (1991); "Ironbound Community Master Plan" by Ironbound Community Corporation" (2001); Visitors Guides (c. 2003-2010); Ironbound Community Corporation, Keep Plastics Out of the Passaic River Postcard (2018); Iberia Development Community Meeting Flyers (2024); Market Street Development Meeting Flyer (2024); Green Park Along the River, Ribbon and Card from Ironbound Waterfront Plan activism (undated);Broad National Bank Guide to Fine Dining in the Ironbound (undated);
BOX 2:
Lincoln Park:
National Register of Historic Places Application (1983); Coast Cultural District, Art is Fresh Exhibit Mission, Agenda, and Clippings (2005); Lincoln Park Area Photos by National Register of Historic Places (2009)
Lower Broadway:
Community Guide (undated)
North Ward:
Bicentennial Event materials (1976);Educational and Cultural Center materials (1979-1986)
Roseville:
Roseville Coalition, Roseville News v. 1 n. 1 (c.1970); Roseville Coalition Bulletin (c. 1981); Handwritten reminiscences of Roseville by Elizabeth Bathgate dating back to the 1840s, with information on the original Pingry School for Boys and Roseville Presbyterian Church, and accompanying letter by Samuel Berg to Charles F. Cummings (c. 1988);
South Ward:
South Ward View Newsletter January issue 1. Vol. 1 (2019)
Vailsburg:
"Vailsburg's Development," by Owen J. Fox (1936); Census statistics (1950); The Bee Hive magazine (c. 1951)
Weequahic:
Historic places and residents by John H. Laux (1949)
Woodside:
"Community Survey" by Helen Wallace, with data on Elliot Street School (1954); "Preliminary Report of the Third Ward," an undated report by Marcus H. Cooke, with copies of clippings on redevelopment plans, etc. (c. 1940-1969)
Dates
- 1916 - 2024
Conditions Governing Use
Photocopying of materials is limited and no materials may be photocopied without permission from library staff. Researchers wishing to publish, reproduce, or reprint materials from this collection must obtain permission.
Extent
.84 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection consists of miscellaneous materials on Newark wards and neighborhoods.
- African Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark
- Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council.
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Ironbound (Newark, N.J.)
- Ironbound Community Corporation
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Neighborhoods -- New Jersey -- Newark
- New Jersey -- History -- 20th century
- Pamphlets
- Programs (documents)
- Urban renewal -- New Jersey -- Newark
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org
