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New Jersey -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

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 Jersey (1938-2003).Series 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...
Dates: 1938 - 2003
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Libraries Collection

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
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Music Collection

New Jersey Nationality Groups Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Nationality Groups-(Main)
Scope and Contents Box #1: "The Italians of New Jersey: A Research Guide" (1983), "History of Ethnic and Racial Groups in Trenton, New Jersey: 1900-1960" (by Dennis J. Starr, submitted to the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities by the Trenton Free Public Library in partial fulfillment of a grant entitled "Ethnic Groups of Trenton, New Jersey: an Index to Source Materials in the Trenton Library with a Brief History and Chronology."), Spanish Speaking (New Jersey En Sus Manos: Directorio Comercial...
Dates: 1938 - 2009
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Nationality Groups Collection

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
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Oral History: Nursing Transcripts

New Jersey Oral History - Silk Workers Transcripts

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Silk-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents

1 archival box contains oral history transcripts regarding silk industries in New Jersey, narrated by Fred Hoelscher, head of the Associated Silk Workers (1924).

Dates: 1975
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Oral History - Silk Workers Transcripts

New Jersey Oral History Transcripts

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Oral History-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents 1 archival box contains oral history transcripts (and relevant microfilms and audio tapes) narrated by Harold Lett (1973, 1974), Paul Windels, J. David Stern, Edmund De Long, Albert L. Vreeland (1974), William Halsey Wood Jr. (on the subject of William Halsey Wood, 1972), Frank Harper (on the subject of Thomas Edison, 1973), A. Hicks Lawrence (on the subject of the Volunteer Work at Camp Meritt during World War I, 1974), Edward Brockie (on the Volunteer Work at Camp Merritt during World War...
Dates: 1972 - 1974
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Oral History Transcripts

New Jersey Physicians Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Physicians-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents

1 archival box contains manuscripts of "The Knife is Not Enough (1968)" written by Dr. Henry Howard Kessler and "The Negro Physician in North Jersey and the Early History of the New Jersey Medical Society" by A. A. Phillips, M.D., and a reprinted article "Traumatic Neurasthenia (1899)" by John D. McGill, M.D.; "African American Physicans Breaking Down Barriers in NJ", Sandra Moss (2005)

Dates: 1898 - 1968
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Physicians Records

New Jersey Postcard Albums Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG NJ Postcards-(Main)
Scope and Contents The nineteen catalogued albums in this collection contain postcards of New Jersey towns collected by Mr. K. Landsberger of Verona. The cards are arranged geographically, with two albums devoted to Verona, two to West Orange, and smaller numbers representing other locales. One album, "Scrapbook 19 - Newark," contains over 200 postcards of Newark, arranged roughly by subject. Most of the cards date from the first two decades of the 20th century and most are photochrom (or photochrome) -- that...
Dates: c. 1900-1990
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Postcard Albums Collection

New Jersey Public Health Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Health-(Main)
Scope and Contents

Health Insurance (Blue Cross / Shiled - history), "New Jersey Medicine in the Revolutionary Era 1763-1787" (1976), "Flu 1976-77" (Flyer, distributed by ShopRite), "Dr. Spargue's Role in the Early History of MSP" by Irving P. Borsher (1966), "Caring: East Orange General Hospital" (1978), .

Dates: 1966 - 1978
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Public Health Collection

New Jersey Railroads Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Railroads-(Main)
Scope and Contents

This collection includes Communication Tickets (1857-58), Timetables (1901, 1951), General Plan of Yards and Waterfront (Jersey City, N.J.), Acts incorporating The New Jersey Southern Rail Road Co., The Long Branch and Sea Shore Rail Road Co., and Acts Supplementary Thereto (1870), files labeled as "The Nine-County Public Transportation Crisis (1964)" and "Erie-Lackawana (1964-71)," and publications and brochures of NJ Transit.

Dates: 1870 - 1971
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / New Jersey Railroads Collection

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