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Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Baker Company scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Baker Co.-(Main)
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two scrapbooks of the William A. Baker Printing Company. Volume 1 is a sample book containing examples of printed matter produced by the company. Included are logos, advertisements, invitations, business cards, checks, newspaper clippings, stationery, greeting cards, and novelty items. At the back of the volume are some clippings about the company in general, copies of a "pen sketch" if the "Business Department" office (1889), and clippings, flyers, and...
Dates: 1893 - 1897
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Baker Company scrapbooks

Banister Shoe Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Banister-(Main)
Abstract

This collection consists of records from the James A. Banister Shoe Company of Newark, NJ from 1890-1935, as well as research on the company from 2016

Dates: 1890 - 1935; 2016 - 2019
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Banister Shoe Company Collection

C. G. Hine Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG NJ Hine
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
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / C. G. Hine Papers

CFCNJIC Archival Collections on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: Microfilm cabinets
Scope and Contents Black Power Movement Part 1 - includes Amiri Baraka (9 reels) See index in External Documents. Churchman Funeral Home Records, 1902-1934 (2 reels) See Newark Archives Project in External Documents for more information on this collection. From NJHS Collection. Plus index to volume 2 in Oversized Books collection under title "Churchman". City of Newark Engineering Drawings (6...
Dates: 1723 - 1997
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / CFCNJIC Archival Collections on Microfilm

CFCNJIC Archival Material in Book/DVD Collection (Partial List)

 Collection
Identifier: Book and DVD Collection
Scope and Contents Following are a selection of archival items in the Book and DVD collections. Search our catalog for a full list at catalog.npl.org. [Three Bamberger's videos : Christmas 1926 ; Bamberger parade 1930s ; Bamberger's Thanksgiving parade 1944] / 381.141 T4132 Newark Public Library Biographies on DVD search at catalog.npl.org for author "Voices & Visions Productions" (11 DVDs incl....
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk 1900s-2000s
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / CFCNJIC Archival Material in Book/DVD Collection (Partial List)

CFCNJIC City Directories and Phonebooks

 Collection
Identifier: City Directories & Phonebooks
Scope and Contents

The CFCNJIC owns hard copy city directories (index attached) from roughly 1835-1970s.

Additionally the CFCNJIC owns NJ Bell Telephone Directories on microfilm covering the entire state from roughly 1900-1990 depending on location.

The CFCNJIC has hard copy Newark phonebooks through 2019. The CFCNJIC also owns reverse address directories for Newark and Suburban Essex through 2019 (these start in the city directories in the 1920s, and become separate volumes c. 1972).

Dates: Statewide: 1870s - early 1990s (depending on locality) Newark: 1835-2019
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / CFCNJIC City Directories and Phonebooks

CFCNJIC Documents Collections

 Collection
Identifier: Documents
Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents published by the state, county, and city. It also includes "Quasi" collections which are documents from non-governmental organizations including non-profits and other associations, institutions, and clubs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1880-2010
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / CFCNJIC Documents Collections

Charles P. Ross records

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Ross-(Main)
Scope and Contents The Charles P. Ross business records consist primarily of general financial ledgers of daily transactions, and also include lists of real estate for sale, rental records, and bills. The contents are as follows:Box 1 (4 ledgers, and assorted loose records): 1 ledger listing rents received, with an index of the individual accounts (ca. 1897-1905); 2 general ledgers of daily transactions that record rents and payments received and bills paid (1904-1908); a list of "Building Lots,...
Dates: 1887 - 1910
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Charles P. Ross records

Donald M. Karp Newark Miscellaneous Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Karp -(Main)
Abstract

This small collection consists of an eclectic mix of Newark-related documents, photographs and ephemera amassed by Donald Karp, a history buff and long-time Newark booster, who spent the bulk of his career as an attorney and banker in Newark.

Dates: c. 1850s - c. 2012
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Donald M. Karp Newark Miscellaneous Collection

Elizabeth L. Coombs collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Coombs-(Main)
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopied manuscripts of Elizabeth L. Coombs's writings. Manuscripts are titled as "Dr. Matthias Pierson (1971)," "Henry William Herbert," "Analysis of the Escutcheon of a Leading Family of Bloomfield, N.J. : The David Oakes Family (1970)," "Translation of Certain Idioms of Importance in the History of the New Jersey Indians (1972)," "A Collection of Tales of the Morris Canal and of the Folks who Lived along it (1971)," "A Lenni Lenape, The Last Yantecaw...
Dates: 1902 - 1970
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Elizabeth L. Coombs collection

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