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Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:

Potter Glass Negatives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Potter
Abstract

Photos by Harry G. Potter of buildings, churches, and street scenes mostly in the downtown area.

Dates: c. 1900s-1920s

Protestant Foster Home Record Book

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MG Nwk PFH-(Main)
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a ledger with entries for children numbered 681 through 1151, and for three children without numbers. Each entry includes the child's name, age, dated admitted, parents' names, street address, religion, "nation," occupation, and remarks. The remarks include information regarding the child's health, parents' health (e.g., "consumptive") and habits (e.g., "drinks"), whether the parents will pay board, and dates and details of the child's discharge from the home. Most...
Dates: 1886 - 1911; 1848

Public Service Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MG PSEG
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs from Public Service equipment (telephones, substations and buses), operators, and staff groups from 1927-1960.

Dates: 1927 - 1960; 1985

Rachlin and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Rachlin
Abstract

This collection contains records from the offices of Rachlin & Co., a Newark real estate company (prev. Union Building Company, Alfred Greenfield & Co.)

Dates: Majority of material found within 1904 - 1973

R.C. Jenkinson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Jenkinson-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents The collection includes some examples of books and pamphlets from Jenkinson's collection, as well as correspondence, manuscript material, photographs, and clippings. Some items relate to other family members, in particular Jenkinson's wife Emily and his granddaughter, Margaret B. Skillman. Box 1: contains two books, Abraham Lincoln, by John G. Nicolay (1902) and Narratives of Newark, by David L. Pierson (1917). Among the many pamphlets in Box 1, the following relate to Newark:...
Dates: 1892 - 1930

Richard Hartshorne Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MG Hartshorne-(Main)
Scope and Contents The collection consists of eight large scrapbooks containing original correspondence and photographs, typescripts, published articles, clippings, legal and legislative material, documents related to various state commissions, conference materials, newsletters, invitations, programs, periodicals, souvenirs of European travel, and ephemera. Clippings relating to court cases and public events in Newark and incoming and outgoing correspondence (to or from Hartshorne's Newark office) from...
Dates: 1890 - 1960

Robert Curvin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Curvin-(Main)
Abstract

This collection consists of papers of historian Robert Curvin.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1954-2015, some copies of earlier material

Rutgers University Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Rutgers-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents This collection includes 2 copies of "Songs of Rutgers" (published in 1916 and 1963), a booklet titled as "School of Ceramics (1902-1952)," pamphlets regarding Paul Robeson Campus Center Dedication (1972, 1979), a photocopy of "Report to the New Jersey Legislature concerning the recent events and disturbances at the Newark and Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University (1969)," a brochure from the dedication of Ackerson Hall (1966) and miscellaneous other publications.Also...
Dates: 1916 - 2022

Samuel Berg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Berg -(Offsite)
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 15 boxes, 12 are archival cartons, 3 are flat boxes.Series 1 contains correspondence. The first subseries is Sam Berg's correspondence by date, followed by specific files Berg kept on specific correspondants. The remainder of Series 1 contains correspondence by Ethel and Mote, as well as unsigned letters and letters not involving any family member. The correspondence series makes up a powerful story of the lives of the three siblings. There are many...
Dates: 1898 - 1993

School News from Newark Newspapers (1)

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk School Photos-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents Part 1 of the School News from Newark Newspapers scrapbook collection consists of 39 scrapbooks, arranged in chronological order, of local newspaper clippings reporting issues, events, activities, and announcements of the Board of Education and of individual schools in Newark. In most of the volumes artcles are grouped by topic. Some volumes also contain original correspondence, notes, and memos. Volume 1 (1903-1907), for example, is largely devoted to school reform and expansion and the...
Dates: 1903 - 1946