Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Newark School Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk School Photos
Abstract
Newark School Photographs, originally a Newark Board of Education collection, consists of 18 boxes of prints, plus four drawers of small-format prints, most with matching negatives.
Dates:
1888-1967, additional material added to digital collection through 2018
Newark Schools Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Schools-(Main)
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection consists of a variety of materials relating to public, private, and religious schools in Newark.Box #1: Newark Public Schools Ledger (1904-13), Newark High Schools Scrapbook (1903-07, newspaper articles, typed reports, etc.). A ledger with inventories of sewing supplies by school, including the colored school (1904-1913); and a scrapbook of material relating to Newark's Board of Trade and schools, with reports on students in commercial courses and manual...
Dates:
1809 - 2021
Newark Yearbooks
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Yearbooks-(Digital)
Scope and Contents
The library owns some items in our book collection, but many yearbooks were donated by schools and citizens, scanned and returned.
Dates:
1876 - 2020
Newark's California Gold Rush Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NWK Gold Rush-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The diary covers most of 1849, from March 1 until October 2. It is the handwritten account of Charles Hicks, a Newarker who traveled to California as part of the California Gold Rush. At the end of the diary is a list of the 22 men who traveled in this party, including Hicks. The names on the list include several with long-standing Newark and New Jersey family names, including Pennington, Kinney, Meeker, Joralemon, and Canfield.Also included in the collection are several items: a...
Dates:
1849 - 2000
Newspaper Photos of Newark's Past: Scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Photos-(Main)
Abstract
The collection consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Walter Edward Blythe and Robert Arthur Illig. They contain illustrations relating to the history of Newark, clipped from local newspapers (the Newark Sunday Call, the Newark Evening News, the Newark Star-Eagle, etc.). The illustrations, cut out and neatly mounted on scrapbook pages, are annotated with the date of publication. The publication dates are mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, but many of the graphics and photographs reproduced date...
Dates:
1890 - 1938
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
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
The Daily Patriot Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK Daily-(Main)
Abstract
This collection consists of paper issues of The Daily Patriot.
Dates:
1865-09 - 1865-11
The Sentinel of Freedom
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK-Sentinel
Abstract
This collection consists of paper issues of The Sentinel of Freedom newspaper.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1811-03-19 - 1881-12-13
Tomkins Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Tomkins-(Fileroom)
Abstract
This notebook, author unidentified, contains notes on the genealogy of the Tomkins family, some of the first Newark settlers.
Dates:
c. 1880s-1910s