New Jersey -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
New Jersey Churches Scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MG NJ Churches SB-(Main)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to churches in New Jersey, with a few on churches outside the state. An inscription at the start of the volume, "Ex Libris Nova Caesarea Chapter Newark New Jersey Organized April 15, 1891," indicates that it once belonged to the Nova Caesarea [New Jersey] Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). A letter dated March 1938 states that it was compiled by Helen S. Tennyson in memory of Grace L. Ward. The...
Dates:
1900 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1938
New Jersey Cities and Towns Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Cities-(Main)
Abstract
This artificial collection consists of a variety of materials relating to cities in towns in New Jersey. Cities and towns included are: Amwell Township, Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Bernards, Blairstown, Bound Brook, Budd Lake, Burlington County, Cap May, Chatham, East Orange, Elizabeth, Harding Township, Harrison, Hightstown, Hoboken, Irvington, Jersey City, Kearny, Lakewood, Lawrence, Levittown, Livingston, Maplewood,
Montclair, Morristown, New Brunswick, North Arlington, Nutley, Oakland,...
Dates:
1703 - 2025
New Jersey Federal Writers' Project Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG FWP-(Fileroom)
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
New Jersey History Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ History-(Main)
Scope and Contents
"Battle of Connecticut Farms" (Union County, pamphlet), Civil War (Soldiers' paychecks signed by Marcus Ward, New Jersey State paymaster.for Union Forces during the Civil War, 1863-64, newspaper clippings, letters-1944; "Governor Richard J. Hughes and the New Jersey Civil War Centennial Commission request the honor of your presence at the Rededication of the New Jersey Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park, 1963 & 64; Minutes of the 22nd & 28th Annual Re-union of the Society...
Dates:
1862 - 2021
New Jersey Industries Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Industry-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box 1:
Armstrong Cork Co. Millville NJ, (c. 1948); Bayonne Oil Refinery, Bayonne NJ, (undated); Beattie Carpets, Little Falls NJ, (c. 1956); Bergen Iron Works, (1814-1888); Breweries in “American Breweriana Journal”, (1993); Campbell Soup Co, Camden NJ, (1952); Colt Mills, (undated); Continental Paper Co. and Alford Cartons, Ridgefield Park NJ, (c.1945); Crocker-Wheeler Ampere NJ, in Powerfax Magazine, (1951); Curtiss-Wright Corp, Wood-Ridge NJ, (c. 1954); Edgewater Assembly Plant Ford...
Dates:
1750 - 2004
New Jersey Land Survey
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MG NJ Land Survey-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This volume includes ca. 60 maps of various neighborhoods, and towns in Essex County. Most of the maps are photostats or other reproductions, and many are either tax maps or maps of lots owned by realty companies. More than half of the maps are of the Town of Bloomfield. Newark-related maps include: a photostat of an 1896 map, overlaid with another map and notes regarding the Union Building; lots owned by the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company (1905); Clinton Avenue Heights...
Dates:
c. 1920-1925
New Jersey Libraries Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NJ Libraries -(Main)
Scope and Contents
Programs, invitations, histories, directories and letters relating to various libraries and library associations in New JerseySeries 1 contains NJLA items in two subseries. Subseries 1 "General" includes directories, conference programs, handbooks, annual reports, brochures, etc. Of note are several brochures on library aid such as "Do Not Have and Cannot Borrow" (1957). In the conferences file is a letter from Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson welcoming delegates to the spring...
Dates:
1938 - 2023
New Jersey Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Music-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1: Essex County Symphony Society (programs and Symphony Magazines, 1936-47); "Contextual Connections," A Celebration of the Expansion and Renovation of the John Cotton Dana Library and the Opening of a New Facility for The Institute of Jazz Studies (1994, program); Orchestra (The Irvington Symphony Orchestra, program, 1984; New Jersey Youth Symphony, 1982; South Orange Community Orchestra, Annual Spring Concert, 1966; The Nutley Symphony Orchestra, 1958 and 82), N.J. Opera (Essex County...
Dates:
1915 - 1999
New Jersey Nationality Groups Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Nationality Groups-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box 1: Germans: Nordland, Independence Day Celebration, German American Bund Auxiliary, program (1939); "The Germans of New Jersey: An Exhibition", The New Jersey Historical Society, flyer and poster, (1980); German Language School - Deutsche Sprachschule, Inc. (1985-86); Indians: India in America Conference, County College of Morris, Program (1994); India Festival (Middlesex County College) (1994) "Coming from India: A Radio Documentary," 1999);Irish:...
Dates:
1938 - 2009
New Jersey Oral History: Nursing Transcripts
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Nursing -(Fileroom)
Abstract
This collection consists of interviews conducted under a project entitled "Patterns of Nurse Education and Health Care," administered by Rutgers University's Graduate Program of Nursing (Newark), in 1982. The interviewers were students, supervised by Dr. Ruth Greenberg-Edelstein. The interviews cover nursing education and work experience from the 1920s on, including reminiscences of Depression-era nursing, early midwifery, World War II service, Vietnam War nursing, etc. Most interviews are...
Dates:
c. 1982