Digital collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Contains collections containing items that were NOT born digitally, but donated digitally. We do not have physical versions of these items.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Luso Americano [NOTE: on microfilm, 1974 on Google Drive], 1971 - 1988
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The biggest Newark papers are the Newark Daily Advertiser (19th century) the Newark News (also known as the Newark Evening News or Newark Sunday News, 1883-1972) and the Star Ledger (became the largest paper after the News). The Newark Library has a near-complete run of all three papers.Microfilmed papers are not indexed or full-text searchable. Newark Evening News has a full run index for most articles 1914-1972 [obits not death notices], see: "Newark News Morgue" entry...
Dates:
1971 - 1988
Morris Canal: digital materials
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Ronald L. Rice was the map archivist of the Canal Society of New Jersey when he donated this material in 2022. Rice has a long-standing interest in the history of the Morris Canal, which ran through Northern New Jersey for 102 miles for a century, until being decommissioned in 1924.Rice conducts walking tours of the former canal path. Much of this material was used as research for these tours. The material was also used for a book Rice co-authored, Field Guide to the Morris Canal...
Dates:
Publication: 1900 - 2000
Newark Area Community Newsletters, 1969 - 2014
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This artifical digital collection is composed of the following newsletters:From New Community Corporation:
Intercom
New Community Clarion
New Community News-HighlightsFrom Ironbound Community Corporation: Ironbound Voices
Tenant Action NewsOther:
Grafrica
Information: a paper for the people of Newark
Twin...
Dates:
1969 - 2014
Newark Community Photos
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Community -(Digital)
Abstract
This open collection of photos of Newark families was collected mostly during Newark's 350th anniversary.
Dates:
1887 - 2017
Newark Water Coalition Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Water -(Digital)
Abstract
This collection consists of items donated by the Newark Water Coalition concerning their organizing work in Newark.
Dates:
2016 - 2022
Series III: Born Digital Materials
Series
Scope and Contents
Series III includes born digital materials including photos of Newark Public Schools, as well as historical research on the schools, Newark African Americans, Newark politicians, New Jersey Jazz musicians, oral history interviews, videos and audio from Newark Public Schools.
A selection of these materials are accessible at digital.npl.org
Dates:
1900 - 2021; Majority of material found within 1988 - 2010
Vincent Bryant Photos
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Bryant-(Digital)
Abstract
This collection consists of photos of Club Zanzibar donated by Larkie Rucker, former assistant manager of Zanzibar, and Vincent Bryant, former photographer of Zanzibar.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1979 - 1993; 1979 - 2024