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Barbara J. Kukla Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Kukla
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-(Main)
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

Effa Manley Private Business Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Manley-(Main)
Abstract

The Effa Manley Private Business papers consist primarily of correspondence, but also include lists, and a few bills and receipts. The bulk of the material is related to an apartment building owned by Effa Manley and members of her family in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and property owned by Abe Manley in Camden, New Jersey.

Dates: 1933 - 1946; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1942

Elaine Hausmann Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG NWK Hausmann-(Fileroom)
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

Elizabeth L. Coombs Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Coombs-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopied manuscripts of Elizabeth L. Coombs's writings. Manuscripts are titled as "Dr. Matthias Pierson (1971)," "Henry William Herbert," "Analysis of the Escutcheon of a Leading Family of Bloomfield, N.J. : The David Oakes Family (1970)," "Translation of Certain Idioms of Importance in the History of the New Jersey Indians (1972)," "A Collection of Tales of the Morris Canal and of the Folks who Lived along it (1971)," "A Lenni Lenape, The Last Yantecaw...
Dates: 1902 - 1970

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

Gregory Family Photos

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Gregory -(Digital)
Abstract

This digital collection consists of photos of Eugene and Musette Gregory.

Dates: bulk c. 1900-1921 (Musette's death date), photo of baby c. 1927

Hahn / Schlacter Family Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Hahn-(Fileroom)
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-(Fileroom)
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

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Ashby , William M. (William Mobile), 1889-1991 1
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