Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 281 Collections and/or Records:
BOX 12 - M: Museums
Series — Box 12
Scope and Contents
BOX #12:
Museums: The Newark Museum ("A Chronicle of the Founding Years 1909-1934"; "Address by the Honorable Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of the City of Newark, at the Dedication of the New Museum of Newark, New Jersey" (printed for the Newark Museum Association, booklet, 1926); "Black Artists: Two Generations" (catalog, May 13 - Sept. 6, 1971); "The Newark Museum: A Celebration" (brochure, 1989); "Program of the Newark Museum for the Season 1935-36"; "The Newark Museum Development...
Dates:
1784-2023
BOX 13 - N: Newark Downtown District - Newspapers
Series — Box 13: Series MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Identifier: MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Scope and Contents
BOX #13:
Newark Downtown District: Newark Downtown District: Folders of handoutsNewarks of the World: "Newarks of the World" (a booklet prepared by Public Information Office of the City of Newark, N.J., Mayor: Sharpe James), and "Other Communities Called Newark" (mimeographed material on history of Newark, SD; and postcard from the library of Newark, CA). A folder of correspondence, mostly with Douglas Eldridge, Aide to the Mayor of Newark; a list of "Newarks";...
Dates:
1784-2023
BOX 14 - P: Parks
Series — Box 14
Scope and Contents
BOX #14: Parks: Lincoln Park material includes a copy of the application for classification as a Historic District; a brief history of the park; and a list and map of owners of houses surrounding the park (1978-1980s); Washington Park material includes a draft history of the area surrounding Washington Park; a letter from Jean R. Geiger to Mayor Kenneth Gibson regarding the "atrocious condition" of the park (1977); and a clipping on the park's rejuvenation (1985)...
Dates:
1784-2023
BOX 15 - P: Photography
Series — Box 15: Series MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Identifier: MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Scope and Contents
BOX #15:Photography:
William F. Cone: a hand written list of captions for Cone photographs, some with dates (1892-1922); a notebook regarding photographs taken for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of NJ, with the number, date, location, lens used, and "remarks" (1905-1916); a notebook with numbered caption list of negatives of the Firemen's Insurance Building (1909); a photograph of Cone and his wife(?); 3 books of cancelled checks with notes (1897-1901); Cone's lease for an...
Dates:
1784-2023
BOX 17 - R: Radio
Series — Box 17: Series MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Identifier: MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Scope and Contents
BOX #17:Radio:"Newark Sunday Call...1930 Radio Guide"WAAT: WAAT Newark Program Souvenir Card with photo of Perry Como (undated); Souvenir photo of WAAT J.W. Greene's 5:30 Request Club, Paul Brenner and Sammy Kaye, (c. 1939). WBGO: WBGO (Program Guide, April 1979-June 1982; "When Newark was younger" (1950); "WBGO Radio Series to Highlight Newark Collaboration Group Efforts"; WBGO Scripts #1-5: "Paradise for Puritans," "The Chosen Place," "The...
Dates:
1784-2023
BOX 20 - T-W: Taxation - World War I
Series — Box 20: Series MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Identifier: MG NWK Misc. (Main)
Scope and Contents
BOX #20:
Taxation: 19th century tax records (receipts, bills, etc.); List of tax ratables (1781); Real estate tax receipts (1928-1933); tax receipt and arrears of AP Baldwin (of Joseph Baldwin & Company, 1895-1896); Teachers: George Brinkerhoff ("Depression: cause and remedy" (mimeograph, 8p); Margaret Coult (Booklet, 1931), "William E. Bissell, 1856-1899" (booklet, 1899); Wayland Stearns (Memorial fund program, 1938); NTU (Newark Teacher's Union) 2010 Letter on...
Dates:
1784-2023
Business and Industrial Coordinating Council (BICC) Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk BICC-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Box 1: contains drafts of a history of BICC (1973); a file labeled "Task Force"; training and personnel manuals; certificates; bylaws; budgets; minutes, etc. (ca. 1967-1973)
Box 2: contains 6 binders of material labeled "Executive Director's Report" (1970-1972); " Executive Committee Minutes" (1970-1975); " Minutes" (1970-1973); " Programs" (1970-1973); "Computer Match" (1971-1972); and " Finance and Budget" (1971-1972).
Dates:
1963 - 1973
C. Durand Chapman Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Chapman-(Main)
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, sketches, cut-out picture books, reproductions of art work, clippings, book plates, address books, travel souvenirs, and ephemera related to Cyrus Chapman's life and career. Also present are family papers and photographs, most of them associated with Caroline Holbrook Chapman.Box 1: contains a copy of a handwritten biographical sketch of Chapman; mock-ups, sketches, and copies of cut-out children's games; a box of book...
Dates:
c. 1896-1913
C. G. Hine Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Hine-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Box #1: manuscripts titled as "Elizabeth-Morristown," "Middlebrook and Pluckemin," "North-Western New Jersey," "To Princeton and Trenton through New Brunswick and back through Kingston, Rocky Hill and Pluckemin, Washington Treck," "Northern New Jersey," and "George Washington's Itinery covering West of the Hudson River and New Jersey," and miscellaneous papers.Box #2: files including newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures, and brief manuscripts and labeled as "Bibliography,"...
Dates:
c. 1883-1929
Catherine Zehner Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NWK Zehner-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the two diaries she kept during those years, as well as material inserted into those diaries. The sales receipts, church programs, news clippings, theater programs, and other items have been removed from the diaries and placed in folders. Included are receipts from Bamberger's, L.S. Plaut, Morrison's, Seguine, Empire Shoe, Stevens & Co., Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Shartenberg's, Goerke Co., W. W. Oppenheim, Fain Knitting Mills, David Straus...
Dates:
1922 - 1923