The Newark Experience
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Newspapers
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History of Newark
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The Sixties and Beyond
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Government and Politics
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The People: Everyone Comes From Somewhere
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Newark Schools
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The College Experience
Dana College/University of Newark/Rutgers-Newark New Jersey College of Pharmacy/Rutgers University College of Pharmacy Seth Boyden School of Business/Rutgers Business School Newark Technical School/Newark College of Engineering/New Jersey Institute of Technology Legal Education Newark Normal School/Newark State College/Kean College Dana College/University of Newark/Rutgers-Newark
The Dana Library has the following Newark student newspapers available on Microfilm:
The Dana College Chronicle 1930-1935 The University of Newark Observer 1936-1942 The Observer 1942-1953 The Rutgers Observer 1953-1975 The Observer 1975-1980 An incomplete collection of unbound issues of the Observer is also available in the Dana Library Archives.
University of Newark 1990 Reunion [Videorecording].
"A history, in black and white still photographs, of the University of Newark, which merged with Rutgers University in 1946 to form Rutgers-Newark."
Dana Call Number: Media Video 343Bennett, Hugh Francis. A History of the University of Newark, 1908-1945. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1956.
Dana Call Number: LD3905 .N22B46 1984a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Wechsler, Harold S. Brewing Bachelors: The History of the University of Newark
From the establishment of the University of Newark in 1936 to the merger of the University with Rutgers University in 1946.Electronic New Jersey: Rutgers Prepares for War
Digitized documents from the Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Response of the Rutgers (New Brunswick) community to U.S. entry into World War II.
Lewis, Jan Ellen. A Brief History of the Red Scare at Rutgers
"In the early 1950s, three members of the faculty were forced out of our university for refusing to answer Congressional questions about their possible Communist affiliations." Delivered to the Faculty, Rutgers University, Newark March 25, 2009.
Richards, Thomas F. The Cold War at Rutgers University: A Case Study of the Dismissals of Professors Heimlich, Finley, and Glasser. Thesis (Ph.D), Rutgers University, 1986.
Dana Call Number: On OrderRutgers From the Inside: A View of a Contemporary University [Motion Picture]
"Shows college classrooms (graduate and undergraduate), activities, and campus of Rutgers University (Rutgers, Rutgers Newark, Douglass) in 1966. Includes interviews with students who express their attitudes towards classmates, curriculum, and the transition to a state university."
Media Call Number: FILM 5-211Electronic New Jersey: Social Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
Based on sources from the Rutgers University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives.
40th Anniversary of the 1969 Conklin Hall Takeover
On February 24th 1969, members of the Rutgers-Newark Black Organization of Students (BOS)took over Conklin Hall, one of the main classroom buildings, to protest the lack of minority students and faculty on campus. A project of the John Cotton Dana Library Digital Preservation Initiative, the site features several slide shows, video interviews, a time line, and digital documents and photographs.
Rutgers-Newark Marks 40th Anniversary of Conklin Takeover
Kelly Heyboar. Newark Star-Ledger February 24, 2009.
Rutgers Newark commemorates takeover of Conklin Hall Dungan, Ralph A. A Report to the New Jersey Legislature Concerning the Recent Events and Disturbances at the Newark and Camden Campuses of Rutgers, the State University. Trenton, Department of Higher Education, 1969.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LD4753 .D8Winterbauer, Nancy. An Analysis of the 1968-1969 Black Student Disturbances at Rutgers University. Thesis (ED. D.), Rutgers University, 1980.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC.W787 1980McCormick, Richard Patrick. The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Dana Call Number: LD4756.M38 1990 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Brown Bowles, Deborah. Factors Contributing to the Decline of Black Undergraduate Enrollment at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: 1981-1985. Thesis (Ph.D), Temple University, 1989.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC2781 .B76 1988aFarza, Omid. What Does it Mean to be an American at Rutgers-Newark?
A Newark Metro report.New Jersey College of Pharmacy/Rutgers University College of Pharmacy
Bowers, Roy A. The Rutgers University College of Pharmacy: A Centennial History. Roy A. Bowers and David L. Cowen. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Established as the New Jersey College of Pharmacy in 1892 in Newark, the College became part of Rutgers in 1927. In 1971 the College moved from Newark to Busch Campus in New Brunswick.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK RS111 .N5B69Inventory to the Records of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy, 1892-1942
Administrative history, chronology of events up to 1927, and collection scope and contents notes.Seth Boyden School of Business/Rutgers Business School
RBS at Seventy-Five: 75-Year Retrospective: 1929-2004
The Rutgers Business School--Newark and New Brunswick.Newark Technical School/Newark College of Engineering/New Jersey Institute of Technology
History of the Newark Technical School and the Newark College of Engineering
Unpublished 415 page history of what is now the New Jersey Institute of Technology written by a group of faculty and administrators in 1955.Thomas, Leroy. Expediency, Vision, and Leadership: Factors in the Development and Growth of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1881-2002. Ph.D. Thesis, Fordham University, 2004.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK T171 .N5T46 2004aNJIT Attic
"The mission of the NJIT Attic is to collect, document, and display -- in both digital and traditional formats -- items, objects, information, and records that tell the corporate and social living history of NJIT and its predecessors." Includes digital NJIT Yeakbooks for 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1969.Legal Education
Skemer, Don C. "The Institutio legalis and Legal Education in New Jersey: 1783-1817," New Jersey History 96(3/4), Autumn/Winter 1978, 123-134.
On November 27, 1783 six law clerks met in Newark to form a moot court society. The Institutio legalis was New Jersey's first experiment in organized legal education.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleNewark Normal School/Newark State College/Kean College
Raichle, Donald R. From a Normal Beginning: The Origins of Kean College of New Jersey. Rutherford N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1980.
The history of the Newark Normal School from its founding in 1855, its evolution to Newark State College and move to Union, N.J. in 1958, and its reemergence as Kean College in 1973.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ LD2750.R34
Getting Around: Transportation
"Development of Transportation Networks in New Jersey From the Colonial Era Until 1946," IN The New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey. Prepared by A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. for the New Jersey Department of Transporation Bureau of Environmental Analysis, September 1994, pp. 24-52.
Drummond, James O. Transportation and the Shaping of the Physical Environment in an Urban Place: Newark, 1820-1900. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1979.
Focuses on "the role of transportation in the ascendancy and decline of this major American industrial city during the nineteenth century."
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6D7
Folson, Joseph F. "The Beginnings of the Morris & Essex Railroad," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Series Vol. 1, No. 2, 1916. pp. 60-71.
Taber, Thomas T. "The First Commuters From Morris County," New Jersey History 85(2), Summer 1967, 86-99.
Commuting from Morristown to Newark in the first half of the 19th century. From the Morris Turnpike to the Morris and Essex Railroad Horse Car, to the Morris and Essex Railroad.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleConniff, James C.G. and Conniff, Richard. The Energy People: A History of PSE&G. Newark, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, 1978.
History of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey and its founder and long-time president Thomas McCarter. At the turn of the 20th century utilities were primarily transport providers; Newark's Public Service Corporation came to be the major provider of intra and inter-city transportation services--trolley, electric rail, bus and ferry--not only in Newark but throughout New Jersey.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD2767 .N44C6Parson, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas. Report on Traffic and Transportation in the City of Newark and Vicintity. Newark, 1927.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HE310.N6P37 1927Newark Area Transportation Study: A Study of Population, Land-Use, Employment and Circulation Trends as they Affect Emerging Transportation Needs in the Newark Area. Trenton, N.J., Dept. of Convervation and Economic Development, 1959.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE310 .N6N49 1959Re: Newark Economic Development Land Use and Transportation Plan June 9, 1999
Response from local and regional agencies to the Newark Economic Development Land Use and Transportation Plan developed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.
'Informed Intuition': Discussion Paper for Newark's Transit Future. Prepared by Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and PBF Consulting. New Brunswick, N.J., Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, February 2008.
Examines existing conditions and reports on recommendations resulting from interviews with industry experts on policies and projects that could improve Newark transit services.Newark Light Rail
New Jersey Transit site: current schedules, fares, map, and connections.Public Service Trolleys
Goodrich, Ernest Payson. Trolley Transportation, City of Newark, N.J. Newark, 1912.
Report to the City Plan Commission.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLX TF725.N6G6Mankoff, Al. "The Seventh Wonder of the Traction World"
History of the Newark Public Service Trolley Terminal. Originally published in "Electriclines" magazine, July/August 1990.Public Service of New Jersey: Newark Streetcars
Bill Volkmer Collection of images.Brinckmann, John. The Union Trolley Line. Highlands, N.J., National Railway Historical Society, North Jersey Chapter, 1988.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE4487 .N5B75 1988Four Corners Traffic Tower
The Four Corners Traffic Tower
Nat Bodian for Old Newark Memories. The history of the tower from which police directed traffic at "the world's busiest traffic intersection"--the corner of Broad and Market Street--from 1925 to 1939.The Four Corners Traffic Tower Images.
Subways
Abandoned Stations: The Cedar Street Subway (Kresge's and McCrory's)
"The Cedar St subway was constructed in 1914-1916 by the Public Service Railway to bring streetcars into the lower level of the new Public Service Terminal in downtown Newark" History, diagram, and photographs.Newark City Subway
Newark City Subway Timeline Significant dates in the history of the Newark City Subway from the building of the Morris Canal in the 1820s to the 1990s.
Riley, John Harrington. Newark City Subway Lines. Oak Ridge, N.J., 1987.
The basic book on the City Subway.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK TF847 .N53R55 1987Saitta, Joseph P. The City Subway: Newark's Best Kept Secret. Merrick, N.Y., Traction Slides International, 1985.
Photographic history of the Newark City Subway. Includes track maps.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK TF847.N53S25 1985Abandoned Stations: Newark City Subway Platforms
Includes a history of construction and operations, a diagram, and photographs.Newark City Subway. Photographs, includes views from the 1970s.
Newark, New Jersey: The City Subway
Description of the current subway followed by photographs taken between 1999 and 2001.Light Rail Extension
Newark, New Jersey Subway Connection
On the plan to connect Newark's Penn Station to the Broad Street Station.
Carmen, Richard A., Smoluchowski, Peter, and Berliner, Harvey L. "Floating Slab Trackbed Design to Control Groundborne Noise from Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link Light Rail Transit," IN Experience, Economics, and Evolution: From Starter Lines to Growing Systems. 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference, November 16-18, 2003, Portland Oregon. Washington, DC, Transportation Research Board, November 2003, pp. 407-420.
Mitigating groundnoise levels so as to not adversely affect New Jersey Performing Arts Center events.
Smothers, Ronald. Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past
Newark's light rail spur opens July 17, 2006.Hudson Tubes
The Hudson Tubes
Images of the Newark Hudson Tubes StationBuses
Kramer, Murray S. "Newark Independents," Motor Coach Age 44(5/6), May/June 1992, 4-32.
Bridges
New Jersey Historic Bridge Data: Essex County. The New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey. Prepared by A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. for the New Jersey Department of Transporation Bureau of Environmental Analysis, September 1994.
Part of a survey designed to assess all bridges built before 1947 for their eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. For those judged to be of historical significance, includes a physical description, bibliography, and information on technological and historical significance.
Essex County Bridge Records, 1880.
Dana Call Number: In Process1958 Newark Bay Bridge Wreck Photograph
New Jersey Central Railroad
CNJ Newark Branch Timetable (Week days) June 1925
CNJ Newark Branch Timetable (Week days) April 1941
Pennsylvania Railroad
Commemorating the Opening of Pennsylvania Station, Newark, New Jersey, March 23, 1935
Illustrated booklet produced for the opening ceremony. Section on "Architectural Features" includes McKim, Mead, and White's diagrammatic street-level plan, as well as a cross-section. Also includes a section on the "World's Greatest Railroad Lift Bridge."Newark Airport
Newark Liberty Facts
Includes brief history as well as statistics from 1949 to the present.Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings
The early history of the "first great commercial airport in the United States." The original Art Deco buildings are now on the National Register of Historic Places.Arend, Geoffrey. Newark International: Celebrating 60 Years 1928-1988. Revised edition. New York, Air Cargo News, 1989.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE9797.5 .U62N62 1989 [In Process]Gorky, Arshile. Murals Without Walls : Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered. Ruth Bowman, guest curator. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1978.
In 1935 Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was employed by the Federal Art Project to produce a large mural for the new Administration building at the Newark airport. Lost for decades, two of the ten panels (now in the Newark Museum) were rediscovered in the 1970s. O'Connor, Francis V. "Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Murals: The History of Their Making," pp. 17-29; Jordan, Jim M. "The Place of the Newark Murals in Gorky's Art," pp. 47-64.
Dana Call Number: ND237.G613A4 1978 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Ellenstein, Meyer C. Brief in Support of the Retention of the Newark Metropolitan Airport as the Eastern Airmail Terminal. Newark, Fidelity Union Trust Company, 1935.
"On June 20, 1935, at the request of Harllee Branch, First Assistant Postmaster General, Mayor Ellenstein with a Citizens Committee went to Washington to present in a formal brief the facts supporting the retention of the Metropolitan Airport at Newark, N.J., and in contradiction of claims that the Airport should be removed to Floyd Bennett Field in Long Island."
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE6496 .E44 1935.Newark Metropolitan Airport
One of the "Stories of New Jersey Prepared for Use in Public Schools" by the Federal Writers Project (1939).Tillet, Paul. The Closing of Newark Airport. ICP Case Series no. 27, University of Alabama Press, 1955.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 TL725.3 .G6T55 1955Hough, Bill. "Newark International Airport: the First 70 Years," Airliners no. 59, September/October 1999, 32-43.
Newark Airport
Includes photographs of Newark Airport in the 1950s.Schank, Joshua and Sclar, Elliott. "Flying on the Pike: The New Jersey Turnpike and the History of Newark Airport," New Jersey History 118(3/4), 2000, 51-59.
As a result of the easy access provided by the construction of the New Jersey Turnpike in the early 1950s, the Newark Airport became the busiest airport in the region.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleFairweather, Virginia. "Historical Terminal Takes a Ride in Newark," Civil Engineering 70(12), December 2000, 11.
"The 1935 landmark terminal building at New Jersey's Newark International Airport has been split into three pieces and mounted on dollies for a 3,700 ft (1,130m) long trip across airport property as part of a massive airport redevelopment program."
Available online. Restricted Access.Evans, Antony D. and Clarke, John-Paul B. Responses to Airport Delays: A System Study of Newark International Airport. Cambridge, MA, MIT International Center for Air Transportation, June 2002.
EWR Turns 80: A History of Newark Liberty International Airport. An Exhibition at the Newark Public Library April 7-June 14, 2008.
Exhibition booklet.Other Transport
Ambulances
Photographs of Newark City Hospital ambulances from 1886 to 1945. [Page down to "Box List."]
What They Saw: Newark Art and Architecture
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDMARKS
Directories of Buildings and Sites
National Register of Historical Places - Essex County
Directory of Essex County sites which have been designated as official federal landmarks.Guide to Newark Landmarks and Points of Note
Address and brief description, part of the City of Newark Website.Emporis Database: Newark
Lists of all Newark buildings over 12 stories (including those planned but never built); photographs, construction histories, architects, etc. Emphasis on high-rise architecture, but also lists some low-rise buildings and churches.Reinventing Newark: Visions of the City From the Twentieth Century
Unrealized plans for individual projects for Newark, including civic centers, recreation areas, commercial districts, hospitals and universities. From the Rutgers-Newark Graduate Department of Public Administration.Reinventing Newark: Visions of the City from the Twentieth Century. Marc Holzer, et.al., Newark, N.J., National Center for Public Productivity, 2005.
Exhibition catalog.
HT169.73 .N6R456 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Architects
Charles F. Cummings compiled a list of architects associated with Newark landmark buildings which appeared as a series of articles published in the Newark Star-Ledger in 1999:
"Glory of the City's Designers Still Lives on in Their Buildings." March 11, 1999, p.3 [A-Ge] "More Architectural Gems: The Courthouse and Museum," March 18, 1999, p.4 [Gi-H] "The Glory and the Grandeur of the City's Religious Edifices." March 25, 1999, p.3 [J-Ra] "City is Known for Traditional Architecture and Innovative Designs." April 1, 1999, p.4 [Re-Z] Buildings and Sites
Schnall, Kenneth B. A Survey of Ecclesiastical Architecture Built in Newark from 1810-1865. M.A. Thesis, Newark State College, 1965.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ NA5235.N533S"The Old Jail on New Street"
History and photographic tour. The Essex County Jail is oldest public building in the county. Designed by John Haviland, it was built in 1837.Bataille, Edward F. Grace Church in Newark: The First 100 Years, 1837-1937. Newark, N.J., Kenny Press, 1937.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ BX5980 .N533GBGrace Church
Designed by Richard Upjohn (1848). Photographs from New Jersey Churchscape.Wister, Robert James. St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral: An Historical Reflection 1850-2000
Illustrated history.Sabine, Julia. "The Mutual Benefit LIfe Insurance Buildings," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 75(3), July 1957, 180-196.
Study of the various home office buildings erected by the company between 1847 and 1927.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleUnited States. Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Construction of Buildings. Specifications for Building the Custom-house at Newark, New Jersey; Including Accommodations for a Post Office and United States Court Room. Washington, D.C., A.O.P.Nicholson, Public Printer, 1855.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY NA4466 .N49 1855Sabine, Julia Elizabeth. The North Reformed Church, Newark, New Jersey: An Architectural Study. Newark, N.J., The Consistory, 1959.
Church designed (1857/59) by William Henry Kirk.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY BX9731 .N6N8SOne Hundred Fifty Years' History of the First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, Newark, New Jersey. 1801-1951. 1951.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ BX6480 .N532FPeddie Memorial Baptist Church
Image from New Jersey Churchscape.Dietz, Ulysses Grant. The Ballentine House and the Decorative Arts Galleries at the Newark Museum. Newark, N.J., The Musuem, 1994.
Krueger-Scott Mansion
Designed by architect George Edward Harny for the Ballantine family, the Ballantine House is last remaining 19th century residence on Washington Park. Currently part of the Newark Museum, the period rooms have been restored to about 1891 and are open to the public.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK NK460 .N48B356 1994
New Jersey Historic Trust photo/description.Cathedral of the Sacred Heart: History
A Virtual Tour is also available at this site.Branch Brook Park
Description and history. Park originally (1895) designed by the firm of John Bogart and Nathan F. Barrett; design revised by Frederick Law and John Charles Olmsted (1900).Galop, Kathleen P. and Longendyck, Catharine. Branch Brook Park. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia, 2007.
Part of the "Images of America" series.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N5G35 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Ely, John H. Specifications for the Construction of a New City Hall Building and Boiler House on Broad Street. Newark, N.J., 1902.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ NA4433 .N6N53 1901Essex County (N.J.) Building Commission. Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey. [Including] Report of Cass Gilbert, architect of new Court House. Description of mural paintings and statutary. Description of old Court House by Joseph L. Munn, counsel of Essex County Commission. Newark, 1908.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N533EsNewark Female Charitable Society [Image] 1886.
Essex Club
Designed by Guilbert and Betelle (1926), this is the current home of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Historic Trust photo/description.National Newark Building: Historical Photos
One of the country's first skyscrapers, built in 1930 by Wilson and John Ely for the National Newark & Essex Banking Company.Commemorating the Opening of Pennsylvania Station, Newark, New Jersey, March 23, 1935
Illustrated booklet produced for the opening ceremony. Section on "Architectural Features" includes McKim, Mead, and White's diagrammatic street-level plan, as well as a cross-section. Also includes a section on the "World's Greatest Railroad Lift Bridge."Dolan, Thomas. Newark and Its Gateway Complex.
A NewarkMetro report. Social history of the Newark Gateway Center complex, built in four stages between 1971 and 1988.Webb, Michael. New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mulgrave, Vic., Images Publishing, 1998.
Dana Call Number: NA6835 .N49N49 1998 [NEWARK plus STACKS]PUBLIC ART AND ARTIFACTS
Bzdak, Meredith Arms. Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Dana Call Number: NB230 .N5B98 1999On March 12, 1913 a Newark statute went into effect wherein "All questions concerning the location and architectural design of any work of art, statue, or any other memorial within such city, shall be referred to the City Plan Commission for its consideration and report before final action is taken thereon."
Newark City Plan Commission. City Planning for Newark. Newark, N.J., L.J. Hardham Printing Co., 1913.
Chapter II of the report deals with "Municipal Decorative Improvements," noting that "There is...one feature of civic improvement notably lacking in Newark, and that is the systematic grouping of public buildings, and a dignified treatment of prominent street intersections and plazas in connection therewith." [p.43]
Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127. N6A3 1913Thurlow, Fearn. "Newark's Sculpture: A Survey of Public Monuments and Memorial Statuary," Newark Museum Quarterly 26(1), Winter 1975, 1-31.
28 statues and memorial sculpture (1873-1972). Photographs of works; biographical information on the artists.
Dana Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.Parks, John A. "Modern Sculpture From Ancient Sources," American Artist 60, October 1996, 42-47.
Diana Moore's monumental blindfolded head of "Justice," commissioned for the Newark federal courthouse plaza.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title Also available via Academic Search Premier Restricted Access.Columbus Monument in Washington Park
Gutzon Borglum Monuments
The 'Puritan and Indian' statue (1916) and the 'First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark' relief (1916).Schwartz, Barry. "Newark's Seated Lincoln," New Jersey History 113(3/4), 1995, 22-59.
Gutzon Borglum's statue of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated in Newark in 1911.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleThe Newark Lincoln, A Memorial. Newark, N.J., The Free Public Library for the Trustees of teh Van Horn Trust, 1912.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK E457.6 .N53 1912
Swayze, Francis. Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Washington Statue at Newark November 2, 1912. [n.p.] Privately Printed, 1913.
Stories of the Statues. Newark Museum Association, 1913-1917.
#4 (1917): Bartolommeo Colleoni: A Statue by Verocchio. Includes information on the history of the copy in Newark's Clinton Park.Charles Cummings wrote about Newark's 'historical artifacts' from the 1,200-pound bronze 'Hiker' monument at McKinley Circle to the engine that once powered the Jackson Street Bridge:
"Lost and Saved: Tale of Newark's Famed Statues, Sculptures," Newark Star-Ledger, July 15, 1999, p. 3 "Artifacts Represent the Incredible Diversity that is Newark," Newark Star-Ledger, July 22, 1999, p. 3 250th Anniversary
Newark, N.J., Committee of One Hundred. The Newark Posters Catalogue: Newark, New Jersey, Celebration of 250th Anniversary, 1916. Newark, N.J., Essex Press, 1915.
Catalogue of the traveling exhibit resulting from the poster contest held in conjunction with the 250th anniversary. Includes an introductory essay on poster art and the selection rationale and artist descriptions of entries. Illustrated.
Federal Arts Projects
New Deal Art, New Jersey. Text by Hildreth York. An exhibition organized by the Museum Training Program, Newark College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers University and the Newark Museum. Newark, N.J. Rutgers University, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, 1980.
This exhibition catalog and the York article in New Jersey History are basic resources for information on federal Works projects in New Jersey. Includes the history of the projects; discussion of individual works; selected bibliography; list of New Jersey artists; and a list of New Jersey murals. Many illustrations.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6530.N55A4 1980York, Hildreth. "The New Deal Art Projects in New Jersey," New Jersey History 98, Fall-Winter 1980, 133-174.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleGorky, Arshile. Murals Without Walls : Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered. Ruth Bowman, guest curator. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1978.
In 1935 Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was employed by the Federal Art Project to produce a large mural for the new Administration building at the Newark airport. Lost for decades, two of the ten panels (now in the Newark Museum) were rediscovered in the 1970s. O'Connor, Francis V. "Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Murals: The History of Their Making," pp. 17-29; Jordan, Jim M. "The Place of the Newark Murals in Gorky's Art," pp. 47-64.
Dana Call Number: ND237.G613A4 1978 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Gorky, Arshile. My Murals for the Newark Airport: An Interpretation.
Essay originally written for a proposed report to Congress on the value of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). A slightly different version of the essay appears in Murals Without Walls pp. 13-16.Kiesler, Frederick T. "Murals Without Walls," Art Front 3 (December 1936), 10-11.
Contemporary account of Arshile Gorky's murals for the Newark Airport. Reprinted in Murals Without Walls.
Special Collections Call Number: PERIII Shelved by TitleMcDowell, Eddie-Sue. Romuald Kraus: Justice and Other Work for the Works Progress Administration, 1933-1943. Thesis (M.A.), University of Louisville, 1992.
Dana Call Number: NB237 .K73A68 1992a [NEWARK plus STACKS].Marqusee, Janet. Michael Lenson: Real and Surreal
Biographical essay on painter and muralist Michael Lenson who headed up New Jersey's Mural and Easal Divison for the WPA, and later (1944-1946) served as Director of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.Phillips, Harlan. Interview with Michael Lenson
WPA Posters
Transcript of 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art. Focuses on Lenson's work with the WPA in New Jersey.Angelo Tartaglia. Poster Poster for an exhibit at the New Jersey Federal Art Gallery on William Street in Newark.
Angelo Tartaglia. Poster Poster for a WPA regional exhibit at the Montclair Museum.
Poster Poster for a WPA regional exhibit at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City, August 16 to September 8, 1938.
Irving Russell. Poster Poster for an exhibit of New Jersey paintings at the Federal Art Gallery on William Street in Newark.Kea's Ark
Kea's Ark [Image]
Hamalian, Linda, "Kea Tawana: Or Who Would Build a Better Ark than Noah?" Black American Literature Forum 21(1/2), Spring/Summer 1987, 97-112.
Biography of Kea Tawana and history of "Kea's Ark." Photographs of architectural drawings and the ark itself by Camille Billops. Based on an interview conducted by Hamalian and attended by Billops' art class from Rutgers-Newark in 1986. Available online Restricted AccessZeamon, John. "Dismantling a Dream: Newark's Lost Ark," The Record April 11, 1988. Available online via America's Newspapers Restricted Access
Zeamon, John. "Sawdust Memories of the Ark: Ark Builder Moving On," The Record October 7, 1988. Available online via America's Newspapers Restricted Access
Metz, Holly. "Where I Am Going: Kea's Ark, Newark, New Jersey." Southern Quarterly 39(1/2), Fall/Winter 2000/2001, 197-216.
The Ark as "outsider architecture."
Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleVergara, Camilo Jose. "Kea's Ark of Newark" Print 53(5), September/October 1999, 26.
11 years after Newark officials forced her to dismantle the Ark, Tawana revisits Newark with Vergara.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title. Also available online Restricted AccessDecorative and Industrial Arts
Maffei, Nicolas. "John Cotton Dana and the Politics of Exhibiting Industrial Art in the U.S., 1909-1929," Journal of Design History 13(4), 2000, 301-17. John Cotton Dana, director of the Newark Museum from 1909 to 1929, pioneered the exhibition of mass-produced goods in museums.
Jewelry
Dietz, Ulysses Grant. The Glitter and the Gold: Fashioning America's Jewelry. Newark, N.J., Newark Museum, 1997.
Published to accompany a Newark Museum exhibit (May 7-November 2, 1997) on the development of Newark as a center for the design and production of gold and silver jewelry designed primarily for the new affluent middle class.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK TS723 .G55 1997Dietz, Ulysses Grant and Zapata, Janet. "Beaux-arts Jewelry Made in Newark, New Jersey," Magazine Antiques 151, April 1997, 592-599.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleZapata, Janet. "American Plique-a-Jour Enameling," Magazine Antiques 150, 1996, 812-21.
Riker Brothers and Whiteside and Blank in Newark were two of the four jewelry firms creating objects using the plique-'a-jour enameling at the turn of the 20th century.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleFurniture
Dietz, Ulysses Grant. "Edwin Van Antwerp's Jelliff Furniture," Magazine Antiques 137, April 1990, 906-13.
John Jelliff and Company was the most important 19th century furniture manufacturer in Newark.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleWhite, Margaret E. "John Jelliff, Cabinetmaker of Newark," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 76(4), October 1958, 297-300.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleDietz, Ulysses Grant. "A Major New Piece in the Jelliff Puzzle, Magazine Antiques 129, May 1986, 1096-1099.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleSkemer, Don C. "David Alling's Chair Manufactory [Craft Industrialization in Newark, New Jersey, 1801-1854]," Winterthur Portfolio 22, Spring 1987, 1-21.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleSilver
Johnson, J. Stewart. Silver in Newark: A Newark 300th Anniversary Study. Newark, N.J., The Newark Museum Association, 1966.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK NK7112.J64 1966Other Newark Artists
Gerdts, William H. Early New Jersey Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibit held at the Newark Museum, March 7th-May 19th, 1957. Newark, Newark Museum Association, 1957.
Includes works by many artists associated with Newark. Pages 19-29: Alphabetical list of New Jersey artists with NJ city of association; Page 30: Members of the Newark Sketch Club, 1894 and 1898.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6530 .N5N482 1957Newark Museum Association, Newark, N.J. Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1799-1868: A Catalogue of His Works. Newark, 1950.
Art Library Call Number: ND237 .E39N4Gerdts, William H. "Rembrandt Lockwood, an Artist of Newark," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 76(4), October 1958, 265-279.
The career of portrait and religious painter Rembrandt Lockwood who lived and worked in Newark from 1847 to 1858. History and reception of Lockwood's monumental Last Judgement, exhibited in Newark's Concert Hall in 1854. List of Lockwood's known works.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleSchumer, Ann Byrd. "Aspects of Lilly Martin Spencer's Career in Newark, New Jersey," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 77(4), October 1959, 244-255 and Frontispiece.
Popular nineteenth-century painter Lilly Martin Spencer moved to Newark in April of 1858 and, having purchased Rembrandt Lockwood's studio, spent the next 21 years living and working there. Attributes two Ward family portraits in the Newark Museum to Spencer.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title
Lilly Martin Spencer Papers, 1825-1971
Description of the Spencer materials available in the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution).Francis, Marilyn G. "Mary Nimmo Moran: Painter-Etcher," Woman's Art Journal 4(2), Fall/Winter 1983-1984, 14-19.
Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleA Catalogue of the Complete Etched Works of Thomas Moran, N.A. and M[ary] Nimmo Moran, S.P.E. on Exhibition at C. Klackner's. New York, 1889.
Art Library Call Number: NE539 .M66A4 1889Brown, Joshua. "City on Display: A Newark Photographer and His Clients, 1890s-1940s," New Jersey History 121 (1/4), 2003, 4-22.
From the 1890s to the 1940s commercial photographer William F. Cone created an extensive visual record of Newark.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleMecklenburg, Virginia M. John R. Grabach: Seventy Years an Artist. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
While he lived much of his life in Irvington, Grabach was born (1886) and raised in Newark and taught at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6537 .G67A4 1980Cummings, Charles F. "3 Masters of the Brush Made the Cityscape Their Own Scene." Newark Star-Ledger, January 14, 1999, p. 2.
Michael Lenson, Henry Gasser and Adolf Konrad.Henry Gasser: Beyond City Limits
Essay on the Newark artist (1909-1981) by Gary T. Erbe and images of many of the works from an exhibit created by the Butler Institute of American Art and shown at the Morris Museum in Morristown and at the Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University [April 1 through June 28, 2004]."Henry Gasser's Paintings of Newark," American Artist 30 (9), November 1966, 48-53; 75-77.
The six paintings commissioned by Prudential commemorating Newark's 300th anniversary plus earlier paintings exhibited for the occassion. Includes a commentary by the artist on the technique used for the paintings as well as some anecdotes from "painting on the street."
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleTo Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the City of Newark the Prudential Insurance Company of America Presents an Exhibition of Watercolors by Henry Gasser. Newark, N.J., Prudential, 1966.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK ND1839 .G25 1966
Henry Gasser Papers, 1939-1972
Brief description of the Gasser papers at the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution).Konrad, Adolf. An Artist Looks at Newark An exhibition in connection with the 300th anniversary of the city of Newark, the Newark Museum, April 16-September 5, 1966. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1966.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6N48Mitnick, Barbara. The Realist Vision of Adolf Konrad: A Retrospective. Morristown, N.J., Morris Museum, 1992.
Catalog of exhibition held at the Morristown Museum March 29-May 24, 1992 of the work of the 'painter-laureate of Newark.'
Art Library Call Number: ND237 .K599A4 1992
Creating and Recreating the City
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Leisure Time: Recreation & Sports
The Arts
Rabicoff, Richard. "The Carteret Book Club of Newark: An Historical Sketch and Bibliography," New Jersey History 92(2), Summer 1974, 93-102.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleRecords of the Carteret Book Club of Newark, New Jersey
Description and finding aid to the collection at the Grolier Club Library in New York City.Moore, Lester L. Outside Broadway: A History of the Professional Theater in Newark, New Jersey, From the Beginning to 1867. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1970.
Dana Call Number: PN227 .N66M6 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Kukla, Barbara J. Swing City : Newark Nightlife, 1925-50. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.
Discusses Newark as a center for African American music and entertainment in the the first half of the 20th century. Based on interviews with musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, bartenders, waitresses and nightclub owners and their families.
Dana Call Number: ML3508.8.N53K8 1991 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Newark's Lost Jazz Shrines [Videorecording]
"Short biographical documentary on ragtime/stride/early jazz pianist and composer Willie 'The Lion' Smith, with special focus on the Newark, New Jersey music scene in the early part of the century."
JAZZ Call Number: Video 393Old Newark Theater Photograph, c.1920
Rothschild, Barbara L. A Tribute to Newark's Movie Houses From the Newark Memories site.
Pasquale, Ron. Newark's Downtown Theatres From the Newark Memories site.
"Perseverance and Perspiration" Spell A.A. Adams and Success
February 23, 1946 newspaper article about A.A. [Adam Adam] Adams, owner of the Adams Theatre (Closed; 28 Branford Place) and the Newark Paramount (Closed; 195 Market Street)."New Jersey After Hours" Cover of After Hours: The Weekly Guide to Entertainment [March 3, 1950]
[The Early Years of Savoy Records]. [Videorecording] 1998
The early history of Newark-based Savoy Records, one of the most important record labels in the history of jazz and gospel.
JAZZ Call Number: VIDEO 377"Newark & Music in the 1950s: Oral History," Blue Newark Culture 1990, 46-73.
Special section consists of:Heard, Nathan C. "Remembrances of Little Jimmy Scott in Newark in the 1950s," pp.46-55. Mendelsohn, Fred. "Maybelle, Freddie, & Herman," pp.56-65. ["Big Maybelle", Fred Mendelsohn, and Herman Lubinsky] Candena, Ozzie. "Jimmy, Ozzie, & Herman," pp.66-73. [Ozzie Candena, Jimmy Scott, and Herman Lubinsky]
JAZZ Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1990Jardin, Gary. "Spirit and Redemption: The Soul of Jimmy Scott," Blue Newark Culture 1990, 74-93.
JAZZ Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1990Ritz, David. Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, 2002.
JAZZ Call Number: ML420 .S425R57 2002
Jardin, Gary. "Blue Coda: The Triumph of Jimmy Scott, " Blue Newark Culture 1993, 156-160.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1993Johnson, Leo. JJ's Theme: Newark Jazz Clubs of the 1960s and 70s. Thesis (M.A.), Rutgers University, 2005.
Dana Call Number: RESERVE ML .J67 2005Carner, Gary. "Conversation with Hal Mitchell: Jazz Patriarch of Newark," Black Perspective in Music 17(1/2), 1989, 109-134.
JAZZ Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title
[Club Music in Newark], Blue Newark Culture 1993, 93-155.
Includes:
- Jardin, Gary. "Preface," pp.93-95.
"Club Music as a form is rooted in disco, but it came into its own in the '80s as underground black dance music after disco's commercial peak...club was by far the most popular art form in Newark during the 1980s."- Hedge, Kevin. "Growing Up with Club Music in Newark," pp.96-111.
- Mungin, Ace, Kelton Cooper, and Dave Slade. "The Roots of Club Music in Newark," pp. 112-125.
- Hayes, Shelton. "The Club," pp. 126-134. [LeJoc and Club Zanzibar]
- Albert Murphy, Newark's Poet of Style," pp.135-141. [Photoessay]
- Jardin, Gary. "Al Murphy and the Club Music Aesthetic," pp. 143-155.
Webb, Michael. New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mulgrave, Vic., Images Publishing, 1998.
Dana Call Number: NA6835 .N49N49 1998 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Tamburri, Jack. The State of the Arts in Newark. September 2001.
Recreation Areas
Branch Brook Park
Description and history. Park originally (1895) designed by the firm of John Bogart and Nathan F. Barrett; design revised by Frederick Law and John Charles Olmsted (1900).Galop, Kathleen P. and Longendyck, Catharine. Branch Brook Park. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia, 2007.
Part of the "Images of America" series.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N5G35 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Newark. City Plan Commission. A Public Recreation System for Newark: Suggestions and Recommendations by the City Plan Commission. Newark, N.J., 1915.
"A brief review, from the city-planning standpoint, of the value of a comprehensive system of public recreation." Part of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Also
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV54 .N6A3 1915Harland Bartholonew & Associates. Preliminary Report on Parks, Playgrounds, Recreational Facilities and Schools for Newark, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., 1946.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY3 GV54 .N6H37 1947U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Northeast Region. National Urban Recreation Study, New York/Newark/Jersey City. Denver, 1977.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK GV54 .A115N36Great Public Spaces: Weequahic Park
Weequahic Park is the second largest developed park in Essex County.Land Use Element of the Master Plan for the City of Newark: Appendices. Prepared by the City of Newark Department of Economic and Housing Development and Philips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc., for the Central Planning Board. Newark, 2004.
Appendix B: Inventory of Public Parks, Open Space and Recreational Facilities
Harnik, Peter. Newark, New Jersey: An Open Space Analysis. Morristown, N.J., The Trust for Public Land, 2004.
Brief history of city parks in Newark; Newark parks today and the possibilities for meeting the need for more recreational areas. Appendices (Maps): Newark Parkland and Buffers; Access to Parks by Income; Children's Access to Parks.Passaic River Waterfront Proposals
Wallace, Roberts & Todd. A Development Plan for the Newark Passaic Riverfront, Downtown Newark, New Jersey: Final Report. Philadelphia, Pa., 1983.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6W34 1983Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area, Newark, NJ
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (New York District) Fact Sheet.Newark Waterfront: Visioning a Waterfront Place for Downtown Newark
"The Newark Waterfront Community Access Study (NWCAS) is a Public Outreach Program being implemented by the New Jersey Department of Transportation to determine pedestrian access links from Downtown Newark to the Passaic Riverfront park across McCarter Highway (Route 21), which is currently being widened and realigned, from Raymond Boulevard to Bridge Street in Newark's central business district." (2003)Imagine Newark's Waterfront: Newark Waterfront Access Study. New York, Project for Public Spaces Inc., December 2003. [DRAFT]
Baseball
Cvornyek, Robert. Baseball in Newark. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia Pub., 2003.
Photographic history of baseball in Newark from the 19th century to 2003.
Dana Call Number: GV863 .N52N49 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]The Ball Game. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 1898. [Video clip]
Records of Newark Professional Baseball Teams
The Newark Peppers
In 1915 the Indiana Hoosiers, the 1914 champions of the renegade Federal League, moved to Newark and opened the season as the Newark Peppers--the only major league baseball team ever based in New Jersey.
1915 Newark Peppers Roster and Photograph.
Lane, F.C. "Famous Magnates of the Federal League: Harry Sinclair, Oil Wizard, the Live Wire of the Feds," Baseball Magazine 15(4), August 1915, pp. 28-32, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114.
Sinclair was the owner of the Newark Peppers.Lane, F.C. "Editorials," Baseball Magazine 15(2), June 1915, p.15.
On Newark's impressive opening day.Grand Parade in Honor of Federal League Opening Day in Newark [Photograph] Opening Day Crowd [Photographs] The Newark Bears
Mayer, Ronald A. 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Dana Call Number: GV875 .N47M39 1994 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears. Trenton, N.J., White Eagle Print, 1978.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ GV875 .N6L7Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears: The Middle Years. West Trenton, N.J., 1979.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV875 .N47L57Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears: The Final Years. West Trenton, N.J., 1981.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV875 .N47L572
The Newark Bears
Web site of the "new" (1998- ) Newark Bears minor league baseball team.The Newark Eagles
"African American Stories: The Newark Eagles," Jersey Journeys 2000, no. 4 (February 2000).
The Newark Eagles, the outstanding Negro Leagues baseball team, played in Newark from 1937 to 1948. Profile of owner Effa Manley and players Monte Irvin and Larry Doby.Overmyer, James. Queen of the Negro leagues : Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles. Lanham, MD., Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK GV865 .M325094 1998
Cricket
Kirsch, George B. " American Cricket: Players and Clubs Before the Civil War," Journal of Sport History 11(1), Spring 1984, 28-50.
Examines demographic, social and cultural characteristics of cricketers and cricket clubs in Newark and the other major U.S. cricketing centers (New York City, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia) before the Civil War.
Cycling
Nye, Peter Joffre. Newark, N.J., Started a National Cycling Tradition
Bodian, Nat. Newark: Cradle of Cycling in the Sport's Golden Age
A Bad Spill--Newark, N.J., Velodrome Track [1914 Photograph]
Other
Sterner, Alice P. Radio, Motion Picture, and Reading Interests: A Study of High School Pupils. New York, Teacher's College, 1947.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LB1135 .S75 1947Charles F. Cummings published numerous articles on recreation and leisure in Newark history in the Newark Star-Ledger, including:
"German Community Thrived on Music and Athletics." September 7, 2000, p. 3
"Symphony Hall Has Hit Many Highs and Lows," November 9, 2000, p. 3
"Great Italian-American Entertainers Lit Up City's Name." January 11, 2001, p. 3
"City's Great Stadiums Provided Entertainment to All." November 8, 2001, p. 3
"Enduring Affair With Stadiums Distinguishes City." November 15, 2001, p. 2
"Patriotic Celebrations Often Showed City's Rowdy Side." December 27, 2001, p. 3
"Music Ruled During Era of German Singing Societies." April 4, 2002, p. 3.
"Elegent Events Abounded in Century of High Society." January 16, 2003, p. 3.
"At Height of Passaic Regattas, Newark Was All Oars." January 23, 2003 p. 3.
"Passaic River Regattas Were a Highlight of City's Leisure." April 22, 2004, p. 3.
Newark Municipal Documents
Newark City Archives
The Newark City Archives at 295 Halsey Street is a central repository for the records of Newark city departments back to the 19th century. At present there is no on-site access to this collection. Users looking for particualr information or documents must submit a request with the City Clerk's Office at the Newark City Hall. (920 Broad Street, Room 415, Phone: 973/733-3844)
Newark Municipal Documents Collection
The Newark Municipal Documents collection consists of microfiche of assorted annual reports and other documents produced by Newark city departments and agencies between 1973 and 1996. The fiche are housed with the Dana Newark collection and are available for in-house use from the Dana Library Reference Desk.
The following departments and agencies are included in the collection. Note that these are selected publications and only one or two reports may be available from a specific agency or department.
- Board of Education
- Central Planning Board
- 1978 Newark Master Plan only.
- City of Newark
- Includes 1986-1989 budgets.
- Council for Higher Education
- Department of Administration
- Division of Central Purchasing
- Includes 1979-1983 annual reports.
- Divison of Budget
- Department of Development
- Department of Engineering
- Includes 1975-1994 annual reports
- Department of Finance
- Department of General Services
- Department of Health & Welfare
- Includes 1973-1978 annual reports
- Department of Law
- Department of Public Works
- Includes 1974-1978 annual reports
- Department of Recreation & Park
- Includes 1973-1983 annual reports [not all years].
- Division of Rent Control
- Fire Department
- Includes 1973-1981 & 1989-1996 annual reports.
- Health Planning Advisory Council
- Housing Authority
- Mayor's Policy & Development Office
- Miscellaneous Annual Reports
- Municipal Council
- Includes Council Minutes 1989-1990 and 1995.
- Neighborhood Consumer Services
- Includes 1979/80-1981/82 annual reports.
- Newark Economic Development Corp
- Newark Private Industry Council
- Office of Consumer Action
- Office of the Mayor
- Human Rights Commission
- Mayor's Office of Employment & Training
- Parking Authority
- Public Library
- Includes 1974-1979 annual reports.
- Real Estate Commission
- Redevelopment and Housing Authority
- Regional Health Planning Council
- Watershed Conservation and Development Corp.
Published Documents
Reports of City Officers of the City of Newark, N.J., For the Year 1902. Newark, N.J., Groebe-McGovern Co., Printers, 1902.
City Directories
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