New Jersey -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
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 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
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: "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
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
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
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
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
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