TitleGary D. Saretzky Collection on Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers
Date Issued1892-2010
DescriptionThe collection consists of handwritten notes, lecture texts, excerpts from a database of New Jersey photographers, letters, printouts of electronic mail, reproductions of nineteenth-century documents from the state of New Jersey (including marriage, death and probate records) and the federal government (including census records and patents), printouts of selected web pages, copies of biographies and obituaries, excerpts from genealogical compilations and databases, city and business directory information, reproductions of photographers' advertisements, clippings and copies from newspapers and magazines, information on photographers that was written or compiled by other researchers, lists of photographs held by selected institutions, announcements and handouts for exhibits of historical photographs, and copies of nineteenth-century photographs and their printed backs. The lecture texts, 2006-2008, pertain to presentations on early photographers active in the New Jersey counties of Morris, Gloucester, Ocean and Hudson. In addition to librarians and archivists, the correspondents include local historians, photo historians, photograph collectors and photographers' descendants. Among the several original nineteenth-century documents in the collection is an 1892 Pach Bros. invoice.
CollectionSpecial Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
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