Scrapbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
New Jersey Churches Scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MG NJ Churches SB-(Main)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to churches in New Jersey, with a few on churches outside the state. An inscription at the start of the volume, "Ex Libris Nova Caesarea Chapter Newark New Jersey Organized April 15, 1891," indicates that it once belonged to the Nova Caesarea [New Jersey] Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). A letter dated March 1938 states that it was compiled by Helen S. Tennyson in memory of Grace L. Ward. The...
Dates:
1900 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1938
Newark Architecture Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK Architecture
Abstract
This collection contains materials on Newark architecture from Julia Sabine, Donald Geyer, the Historic Sites and Buildings Committee of Newark and miscellaneous other sources.
Dates:
copies from 19th century, 1903-2021
Newark Board of Education Scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk BOE
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 4 scrapbooks of material relating to the Newark Board of Education and to individual schools in Newark. The contents are as follows: Scrapbooks 1 (1923-1925) and 2 (1925-1934): arranged in chronological order, contain local newspaper clippings related to issues, events, activities, and announcements of individual schools, and of the Newark Board of Education. Topics include, but are not limited to, the suitability of hiring married women as teachers...
Dates:
1910 - 1934
Newark Business Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Business Scrapbook-(Main)
Abstract
This scrapbook contains postcards of Newark paired with ads for local businesses and other entities.
Dates:
1919
Newark Colleges Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK Colleges -(Fileroom)
Abstract
The collection consists of documents, including clippings, commencement programs, course bulletins, fundraising material, etc. mostly relating to University of Newark, Newark College of Engineering, Rutgers University, and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Dates:
1889 - 2020
Newark Department Stores Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Dept. Stores-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1. Hahnes folder: "My little red Indian book" (children's booklet); Gallery of Fame (leaflet of American heroes); Catalog (1976); KRESGE: Christmas catalogs (1954, 1963); various issues of magazine (1945-46); ad for Christmas folders [n.d.]; L.S. PLAUT: Pocket calendar and stamp case (1 1/2" x 2", 1916); Urban League "nigger brown" case (William Ashby memoirs and letter from L. S. Plaut, 1921); "Home Talk" (July 1899 issue); 40th anniversary celebration, The Bee Hive Musical Monthly...
Dates:
1896 - 1976
Newark Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Music-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1: Programs (1850-1900, 1900-1940, 1940- ), Cathedral Concert Series (Vierne Festival Concert, 1976 series), Morris Choral Society (concert, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart), John Weaver and Marianne Weaver (Feb. 1978), Pierre Cochreau concert (Sacred Heart Cathedral, April 2, 1978), Sacred Heart Cathedral (worship & programs of music, 1978-79), The Winchester Cathedral Choir (Sacred Heart Cathedral, Mar. 5, 1979), Michelob Jazz Series (1980, 1981), Ravi Shankar, Sitar (Cathedral...
Dates:
1850 - 2025
Newark Newspaper Photographs Scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Photos A -(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 12 binders of pictures of Newark which ran in newspapers (all identified newspapers were published in Newark) from about 1933-1987. Subjects of pictures span the 1800s-1987. Binders are labelled by date of picture subject. Box #1: 1800s-1900s (2 binders), 1930s, 1930s&1940s; Box #2: 1930s&1940s, two unlabelled binders that have dates in the 1940s, and one unlaballed binder that starts in 1959. Box #3: "Mostly 1960s", unlabelled binders that start in 1966 and...
Dates:
c. 1933-1987
Newark's 300th Anniversary Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG NWK 300th Scrap-(Main)
Abstract
This collection consists of four scrapbooks compiled for Newark Public Library in 1966 and 1967 by librarian Gertrude Cahalan. The scrapbooks contain clippings from newspaper coverage of Newark’s 300th anniversary.
Dates:
1966; Majority of material found in 1966 - 1966
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