Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
Digital: Newark Maps Collection
Digital Image
Identifier: Map files
Digital: Newark (N.J.) African Americans Collection and Listings of African Americans from the Newark City Directories
Digital Record
Identifier: MG Nwk AFAM Coll and MG Nwk African Americans
Dates:
1795 - 1967
Digital: Newark Picture Collection
Digital Record
Identifier: Very small selection from cataloged photo collection
Dates:
1765 - 1985
Digital: When Newark Was Younger
Digital Record
Identifier: Information files and 974.932 St9
Dates:
1949 - 1950
Donald M. Karp Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Karp
Abstract
This large and varied collection of Newark-related ephemera, publications, photographs and artifacts was amassed by Newark attorney and banker Donald Karp, a devotee of Newark history who played an active role in many aspects of the civic and cultural life of the city.
Dates:
1840 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1990
Elizabeth L. Coombs Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Coombs-(Fileroom)
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
Emma Pruden Kitchel Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Kitchel-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondance (folders 3-9, most from 1854-1868, but the earliest letter undated may be as early as 1851), mostly from Emma Kitchel nee Pruden to her sister Phebe (some to other relatives, etc.). Also contains several pages of a diary and verses (folder 2) and miscellaneous items (folder 10) calling card, Civil War flier, photograph). The donor numbered and transcribed the letters, the transcriptions are housed in folder 1 (a few letters are labelled...
Dates:
1851 - 1868