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TitleCo-op Agents for Jersey Homesteads, 1939

Date Created1939

DescriptionJersey Homesteads was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. ...

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TitleCo-op store activity

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionThe photograph depicts a scene in the first cooperative store in Jersey Homesteads run by Nathan Dubin. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleConsumers' cooperative

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionThe homesteaders have their own kosher meat shop and grocery, which they expect to enlarge as the colony grows. This picture shows the manager, Nathan Dubin, doing a flourishing business in his...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleCrop workers

Date Created1936-06

DescriptionPotato field where the farm members of this resettled group have the second best crop in the three leading potato counties, according to estimates of the New Jersey Agricultural State College. Source:...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleDavid Anish bar mitzvah, Roosevelt

Date Created1967, 1967

DescriptionYoung man and rabbis at a ceremony of a barmitzvah.

Time PeriodPostwar years (1945-1970)

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TitleDeclaration of principles of the Workers Aim Cooperative Association

Date Created1935-1939

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleEvent program: Class of 1941 Commencement Exercises of Jersey Public School

Date Created1941

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of...

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TitleFamily scene with motorcycle in front of typical house, Roosevelt, New Jersey

Date Created1980, 1980

DescriptionTwo men and one woman sit in lawn chairs in front of a ranch style house with number 27 on the front door, talking to a younger man sitting on a motorcycle.

Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)

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TitleField workers

Date Created1936-06

DescriptionThe photograph depicts men working in the potato field at Jersey Homesteads, one of the crops on the farm of four hundred and fourteen acres. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleFiremen and children on fire truck

Date Created1973-07-04

DescriptionRoosevelt Fire Co. No. 1 in the Fourth of July parade.

Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)