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Baker Company Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Baker Co.-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two scrapbooks of the William A. Baker Printing Company. Volume 1 is a sample book containing examples of printed matter produced by the company. Included are logos, advertisements, invitations, business cards, checks, newspaper clippings, stationery, greeting cards, and novelty items. At the back of the volume are some clippings about the company in general, copies of a "pen sketch" if the "Business Department" office (1889), and clippings, flyers, and...
Dates: 1893 - 1897

Emma Pruden Kitchel Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Kitchel-(Fileroom)
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

Essex County Court House collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG NWK Court House -(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents

"Programme of a Competition for the Selection of an Architect for a Court House to be erected for Essex County at Newark, New Jersey by the Essex County Building Commission" (1901); Letter from Asa Whitehead to General (Isaac) Andruss requesting a copy of the proceedings of the Bd. of freeholders re the location & building of the new court house, May, 1836; Essex County Bicentennial Commission. "Law Day: Essex County Courthouse Dedication, April 30, 1976."

Dates: 1836 - 1976

Krueger Brewery Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Krueger-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents The collection consists of miscellaneous items discovered by John N. Ioannou, a carpenter from Madison, NJ, at the site of a demolition on Belmont Avenue, "near the old Krueger Brewery." According to an undated note from him to Charles F. Cummings, he donated them to the Newark Public Library. The collection consists of material apparently gathered and buried or hidden on the occasion of the groundbreaking for a new stable for the Krueger Brewery, May 18, 1880. One large document consists...
Dates: 1880

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG MBLI-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents The collection is stored in 4 file cabinets and 3 boxes. Newark-related contents are as follows: File Cabinet 1, Drawer 1: company brochures and pamphlets; clippings and other material on anniversaries and company buildings; biographical files; exhibit material, including many photographs; and videotapes of speeches by Robert Van FossanFile Cabinet 1, Drawer 2: material on new building at 520 Broad St., including correspondence on opening ceremonies; biographical...
Dates: 1845 - 2001

Newark Authors Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Authors-(Fileroom)
Abstract

This is a collection of miscellaneous materials by and about a number of writers who lived, or were connected with, Newark. It consists of several large folders devoted to material on individual writers and one folder containing items relating to a number of different individuals.

Dates: 1849 - 1996

Newark Biography Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Biography-(Main)

Newark Business Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Business-(Main)
Scope and Contents

This collection contains miscellaneous Newark Business materials ranging from the nineteenth century to present day.

Dates: 1855 - 2020

R.C. Jenkinson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Jenkinson-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents The collection includes some examples of books and pamphlets from Jenkinson's collection, as well as correspondence, manuscript material, photographs, and clippings. Some items relate to other family members, in particular Jenkinson's wife Emily and his granddaughter, Margaret B. Skillman. Box 1: contains two books, Abraham Lincoln, by John G. Nicolay (1902) and Narratives of Newark, by David L. Pierson (1917). Among the many pamphlets in Box 1, the following relate to Newark:...
Dates: 1892 - 1930