Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MG MBLI Records-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents
This portion of the MBLI collection is comprised of 160 bound volumes of records. The records date to the founding of the company, and increasingly reflect the nationwide scope of the business. In many cases the place of residence of policy-holders is not noted. The content of the volumes is as follows: 4 Dead Annuity Registers (1951-1980), 6 books of policy forms (1845-1936), 2 cashbooks (1845-1852), 2 Policy Ledgers (1889-1890), 1 Agents Ledger (1845-1847), 4 Insurance Tables (1887-1893),...
Dates:
1845 - 2001
Nancy Zak and Arnold Cohen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Zak-Cohen
Abstract
This collection consists of material from Arnold Cohen and Nancy Zak's careers in community organizing including the Ironbound Airplane Noise Committee, newsletters, photographs, and emphemera. Though there is some overlap this personal material is separate from the Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, part of which exists at Van Buren Branch and the rest of which is set to be archived in 2022.
Dates:
c. mid-1970s to 2000s
Nat G. Bodian Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Bodian -(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into two series, 7 boxes of background files (or "work files") relating to the online essays and 21 binders (numbered SB 1-21) containing copies of the essays and comments from readers. The background material includes printouts of reference materials, notes, drafts of essays, clippings, printouts of lists of article references found in the New York Times online, correspondence connected to Bodian's research on a particular topic, and e-mails received from readers...
Dates:
c. 1920-2009
National Newark and Essex Bank - Director's Minutes
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Essex Bank-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
This post binder contains board minutes from National Newark and Essex Bank from July to December 1950.
Dates:
1950
Nelson P. Rabone Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Rabone
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials from Rabone's sports career. In Box #1 (main) is a publication "Official Handbook of the Newark Public School Athletic Association" (1915-1916). This booklet contains a photo of Rabone on the soccer team. The original photo is also included. Other photos include 2 photos of an unidentified basketball team -with the same C shaped logo (posing with a trophy), a soccer team photo with a logo that looks like T and B -- identified by Tom McCabe as the True...
Dates:
c. 1915-1930
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
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 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 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