Manuscript Group 1362, Newark, New Jersey Photographs Collection, 1850s-present

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Manuscript Group 1362, Newark, New Jersey Photographs Collection, 1850s-present

1850s-present

https://jerseyhistory.org/manuscript-group-1362-newark-new-jersey-photographs-collection-1850s-present/

Photographs of Newark, New Jersey, which document Newark between the 1850s and the present. The bulk of these images are ca. 1890-1940, although there are many street corner views from the 1960s. The images documenting transportation and commercial architecture reveal the changes that have taken place in such main streets as Board and Market Streets since the end of the 19th century. Many photographs also document the construction of the Newark Airport, work at Port Newark, and other industrial work. The collection includes standard size, oversized and double oversized photographs, and prints. Photographers include William Cone and others. Subjects include Newark airport, apartments, several private houses, the Berg Collection of Newark street corners (over 2000 photographs of each side of various street corners in Newark in the 1960s -index available), business enterprises, churches, government buildings, Clark Thread Company, Deegan Tinsmithing Shop, Essex County Court House Buildings, hospitals, Newark industry including factories and the interiors of factories with men and women workers, public institutions, the library, Mutual Benefits Life Insurance Co., The New Jersey Historical Society, Park Place, Port Newark, ELCO Boat Company, Electric Company (PS &E Co.), railroad, trolleys and other transportation, restaurants, schools and colleges, street scenes, theaters, group portraits, and Works Progress Administration (WPA) project photographs. Also includes separate index to 200 photographs taken of Newark dwellings and businesses, 1900-1907.

25 linear feet

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7371691

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

New Jersey Historical Society

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Clark Thread Company

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George A Clark & Bros Inc, selling agents, Newark, New Jersey, USA, was formed to act as the sole and exclusive agent of The Clark Thread Co , thread manufacturers, Newark, New Jersey, USA. In 1755, James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland. In 1864 the Clark family began manufacturing in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., as the Clark Thread Co. In 1917, the company was merged with The Clark Mile-End Spool Cotton Co, also based in Newark....

Berg, Samuel,

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Mutual Benefits Life Insurance Company.

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Deegan Tinsmithing Shop.

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Public Service Electric and Gas Company

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Elco Boat Company.

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Cone, William F.

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