New Jersey -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Jerseyana Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MG Jerseyana-(Main)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 8 scrapbooks of "Jerseyana" that contain clippings of Beck's and Augustine's articles (1957-1968), and an additional volume, entitled "New Jersey Newspaper Clippings" (1949-1952). Volumes 1-8 contain very little, if any, material on Newark. Newark-related material in the ninth volume includes articles, by a variety of authors, on: the Passaic River between Newark and Passaic, band concerts in Branch Brook Park, trolley cars, baseball, breweries,...
Dates:
1949 - 1968
John T. Cunningham Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Cunningham-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of clippings, brochures, pamphlets, photocopies, and copies of images collected by John T. Cunningham for his many books and articles, primarily about New Jersey. It includes some notes for his books and articles, and the text of many of the talks he gave, as well as typed copies of a few of his manuscripts, and published copies of about a dozen of his books.
Dates:
Minimally processed, dates not determined.
Joseph T. Hopping Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Hopping-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, 2 small hymn books, account books (1846-1847), bills, receipts, tax records, statements, business cards, etc. Newark-related items include the following: bills from Newark businesses, including clothiers, a stonemason, glass and paint dealers, a wallpaper dealer, a dealer in gardening supplies, and "The Newark Advertiser" (1850s-1860s); and packets of blank checks from the Newark Banking and Insurance Co. (1850s), the Mechanics National Bank of...
Dates:
1846 - 1869
Miriam Studley Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Studley-(Main)
Abstract
The Miriam Studley Collection includes articles from Studley’s Newark Sunday News column “When Newark Was Younger”, as well as related articles. The collection also includes clippings from Studley’s series of newspaper articles about New Jersey inventors.
Dates:
1949 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1951
New Jersey African Americans Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ AF AM-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1. New Jersey Historical Society (Committee on Afro-American Contribution, meetings 1969-74, Mrs. Vera McMillon speech transcripts, 1969), Moslems (photocopies of newspaper clippings, 1935-ca.1947), Prominent Negroes (Biographical information compiled by South Side H.S. students, 1965: lists, letters, index cards, photocopies of newspaper articles), Misc. (N.A.A.C.P. Montclair 50th Anniversary brochure, NJ Urban League invitation to hear the guest speaker, Charles A. Edison,...
Dates:
1823 - 1994
New Jersey Associations Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Associations-(Main)
Scope and Contents
BOX #1. General: "A Listing of New Jersey Associations and Executive Officers" (1971); N. J. Associations A-N:
The Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey (20th anniversary, 1941, brochure); American Institute of Architects, New Jersey Chapter (lecture program, 1901-2); American Legion Irvington Post 16, (membership and event cards, 1919-1922); Association for
Cape May Geographic Society: Six Annual Bulletin (June 1952); Children of New Jersey ("The Children's Inaugural," 1990);...
Dates:
1801 - 2005
New Jersey Biography Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NJ Biography-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1:
Chester Barnard (biographical sketches, obituary clippings); Archie Frederick Collins (copies of articles from the Newark Evening News, Clipping File; various periodicals; research paper (copy)); Crane Family (Crane anecdotes 1800-1850 by Elizabeth Coombs, photocopy of text, 1968); Garis (Family) (unrevised proofs from book My Father Was Uncle Wiggily, McGraw-Hill, 1966); Mary Philbrook (Articles from news clippings, Newark News); William E. Pine ("In Memory of William...
Dates:
1817 - 2022
New Jersey Churches Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Churches-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Baptist: Cherryville Baptist Church (1849-99); "Minutes of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Morris & Essex Baptist Association of N.J. (1924). Episcopal: Christ Church, Shrewsbury, N.J.; 125th Anniversary Trinity Episcopal Irvington (1966)Methodist Episcopal: The Methodist Episcopal Church in Orange, N.J. (Photo, 1930); South Orange M.E. Church (Program of the Epworth League presentation of "Patriotic Ministries," March 14, 1919).Presbyterian: New...
Dates:
1857 - 1976
New Jersey Cities and Towns Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Towns-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1. Amwell (Ledger of Town Collector, 1797-99), Chatham ("The Chathams Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of naming the area in honor of Sir William Pitt, Earl of Chatham," The American Revolution Bicentennial Committees of Chatham Borough and Chatham Township, 1973), East Orange (75th Anniversary, 1938; Olden Days Calendar, 1908-09), Elizabeth (Historic Elizabeth 1664-1932: George Washington Bicentennial Edition; "Major-General Elias Dayton 1737-1807" by Abner S. Coriell; "Bi-Centenary...
Dates:
1797 - 1982
New Jersey Elections Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Elections-(Main)
Abstract
The collection consists of material relating to New Jersey elections for municipal, county, and statewide offices. Many items relate to Newark candidates and organizations, or were produced in Newark.
Dates:
1865 - 2022