Box 5

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...