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Newark Historic Celebrations Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Historic Celebrations-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Box #1: 1915-1936
1916: "Newark Posters"; pennant; "Newark Poetry Competition"; program of year long events; medals & badges, "The Newark Pageant & The Celebration," "The Pageant of Newark 1916" (book), "Official Programme Newark's Anniversary Industrial Exposition"; "Newark-250 Years Old," address by Franklin Murphy, "Historic Ceremonies and Exercises," "Committee of One Hundred" (invitation to exercises and listing); "Newark Anniversary Industrial Exposition Rules and...
Dates:
1905 - 2017
Newark History Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk History-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Newark City Hall. "A History of the City Halls of Newark, New Jersey and Report of the City Hall Commission 1836, 1899-1910," Blueprint, Ely, Mowbray & Uffinger, architects. Contract and bond for the construction of the new City Hall (1902); Architectural plans published in American Architecture for City Hall (competition, 1901)History: Paper Ten Cent Note, City of Newark (1862); Indian bill of sale of Newark (1667, typed copy, 1892); Souvenir of Newark, Photo-Gravures...
Dates:
1892 - 2008
Newark Housing Authority Photos
File
Identifier: MG Nwk NHA-(Fileroom)
Abstract
Photographs of urban renewal projects, construction of housing projects, and misc. originating with the Newark Housing Authority.
Dates:
1940 - 1967
Newark Insurance Companies Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Insurance-(Fileroom)
Abstract
The bulk of the material in this collection is related to the Prudential Insurance Company. The Prudential Insurance Company of America, known as the Prudential FriendlySociety until 1877, was founded in Newark by John F. Dryden in 1875. The company's first location was 812 Broad Street; in 1892 the "Main" building was constructed on the corner Broad and Bank Streets. Prudential's initial focus was on providing insurance for individuals, but group policies for businesses rapidly...
Dates:
1845 - 2001
Newark Invitations Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Invitations-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
This collection contains invitations received by Charles F. Cummings and, occasionally, other librarians and community members. 2012-2015 invitations were donated by Arnold Cohen and Nancy Zak. The invitations are sorted by year, as follows:Box 1: 1982-1985Box 2: 1986-1988Box 3: 1989-1991Box 4: 1992-1993, 1995, 1996Box 5: 1997-1998Box 6: 1998-2000Box 7: 2000-2002 Box 8 (half box): 2003 to Present,...
Dates:
1982 - 2022
Newark Italians Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Italians-(Main)
Scope and Contents
"The Recollection of Peter B. Mattia: Early Italian Settlers; Newark in the 1800's " (Assembled and Edited by Kenneth J. Rosa, 1985), "The Italians of Newark: the Process of Economic Victory and Social Retreat 1910-1940" by James Anthony Testa (photocopy of a manuscript, 1970), "The Italians in Newark," (Federal Workers' Project, copy of manuscript, 1941), Letter of Protest to the Bishop of Newark by citizens concerning the noise and disorder in the streets caused by Italians during a...
Dates:
1902 - c. 1984
Newark It's My Home Film Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK - Newark It's My Home-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of raw film footage and audio from the documentary, Newark It’s My Home . Papers include scripts, notes, transcripts, correspondence, press clippings and photographs relating to the film and are stored in one-half Hollinger box. The collection also includes (58) ¼” audio reels stored in one Paige box and (116) 16mm film reels stored in (12) 35mm film canisters. Approximately 8-12 film reels are stored in each canister.
Dates:
1979 - 1980
Newark Jazz Festival Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Jazz-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The collection includes brochures and ephemera, meeting minutes, clippings, accounts, photographs, audiovisual material, artist publicity sheets, and notes related to the Newark Jazz Festival from 1991, when it was called the Sarah Vaughan Jazz Festival, to 1996. There are also additional materials related to the jazz scene in the Newark area.
The collection includes three subject folders in addition to folders for each year of the festival.
Box #1: Newark Jazz Festival.
1. General Newark...
Dates:
1991 - 1996
Newark Mayors Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Mayors-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Box 1: Thomas L. Raymond (flyer)Vincent Murphy: letter from Murphy to Lt. David Strauss (Oct. 13, 1943)Ralph A. Villani: Exhibit, NPL, Nov. 14, 1985; removal from position as judge, brief before the NJ Supreme Court, 1934.Leo P. Carlin: correspondence, Misc. items (1935-72)Hugh J. Addonizio: campaign flyers, pamphlets, handbills, correspondence between Hugh J. Addonizio and Paul Gaetano Cavicchia (1965-70).Ken Gibson: funeral...
Dates:
1934 - 2019
Newark Memorial Tablet Evaluation Forms
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Tablets-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains evaluation forms for commemorative tablets and plaques in Newark, compiled for the Newark Historic Inventory in 1990-1992 by the city's official historian, Charles F. Cummings (1937-2007). Information collected in the inventory includes: name or title of historical tablet; location/address; a photocopy of documentation and/or wording of tablet; condition of tablet and/or site; description of site; photograph of tablet and/or site; name of evaluator; name of...
Dates:
1990 - 1992
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