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Barbara J. Kukla Papers
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Kukla-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the collected papers of Barbara J. Kukla, who has worked in Newark for over fifty years as an author and reporter. These materials were collected by Barbara, both through her work and for personal interest. Some of the significant topics represented in these files are: music, theater, poetry, fine arts, books, African-American heritage and history, African-American life, women’s issues, women’s history, public schools, charter schools, universities, colleges,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970 - 2012; 1901 - 2018
Catherine Zehner Diaries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG NWK Zehner-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the two diaries she kept during those years, as well as material inserted into those diaries. The sales receipts, church programs, news clippings, theater programs, and other items have been removed from the diaries and placed in folders. Included are receipts from Bamberger's, L.S. Plaut, Morrison's, Seguine, Empire Shoe, Stevens & Co., Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Shartenberg's, Goerke Co., W. W. Oppenheim, Fain Knitting Mills, David Straus...
Dates:
1922 - 1923
Current Events in Art scrapbook
Collection — Container: Vol. 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Contemporary
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of one scrapbook entitled "Current Events in Art" (November 1929 - April 1930). The scrapbook consists of typed lists of monthly "Current Art Talks"; each month's list is followed by clippings, and, in one case, a catalogue for an exhibit of paintings by Emma Fordyce MacRae at the Roerich Museum (1930). These materials document the brief talks given at monthly meetings of The Contemporary of Newark, a cultural club. The scrapbook appears to have been compiled by...
Dates:
1929 - 1930
Elaine Hausmann Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG NWK Hausmann-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, programs, and other items related to Hausmann's singing career. It includes programs from the Griffith Auditorium and the Mosque Theatre (Symphony Hall), as well as other venues.
Dates:
1944 - 1950
Emma Pruden Kitchel Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Kitchel-(Main)
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondance (folders 3-9, most from 1854-1868, but the earliest letter undated may be as early as 1851), mostly from Emma Kitchel nee Pruden to her sister Phebe (some to other relatives, etc.). Also contains several pages of a diary and verses (folder 2) and miscellaneous items (folder 10) calling card, Civil War flier, photograph). The donor numbered and transcribed the letters, the transcriptions are housed in folder 1 (a few letters are labelled...
Dates:
1851 - 1868
Hahn / Schlacter Family Photo Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Hahn-(Main)
Abstract
This collection contains photos from several German families in early to mid 20th century Newark.
Dates:
c. 1900-1957
Hazel Bliss Finlay Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Finlay-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to Miss Townsend's School, a private secondary school for girls in Newark. Included are copies of the Sphinx, the school's literary magazine, from 1908 and 1909. Also included are commencement programs and invitations (1906-1909), programs from school plays and recitals, and a booklet of songs written for the school by Frances Leavitt.
Dates:
1905 - 1909
New Jersey Federal Writers' Project Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG FWP-(Main)
Scope and Contents
1 Hollinger box contains manuscripts of writings, exhibition catalogs related to the exhibitions held by Federal Writers' Project at The Federal Art Gallery (Newark, N.J.), and lists and biographical sketches of the contemporary writers from Essex County, N.J. (1935-38).Newark-related material in the collection is as follows:Folder "Joyce Kilmer": contains a timeline on New Jersey newspapers, most from NewarkFolder "Misc.": two exhibition brochures for the...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
Sonn Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Sonn-(Main)
Abstract
The collection of consists of 15 scrapbooks of research notes, sketches, original photographs, postcards, and clippings. Most of the material relates to the history of buildings in Newark, but there is also material on other New Jersey cities, on New York architecture, and on historic preservation in other states.
Dates:
c. 1936-1962
Soroptimist Club of Newark collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Soroptimist-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Organized in 2 boxes: Box #1. Minutes and Annual reports (1951-78), Treasurers' reports (1958-77), folders labeled as "50th Anniversary of American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs (1970)," "SIA / Club relations, correspondence, conferences, reports," "Correspondence-Special," "Committee reports (partial)"; Box #2. "Soroptimist Laws (1988-1990)," "Constitution and By-Laws (1955-79)," "Installion Procedures," "Other Community Activity (1960-75)," "Membership lists...
Dates:
1944 - 1994
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