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Date Created2006

DescriptionMy mother was a quilter. Her quilts were not the traditional wedding ring or pinwheel designs; they were utilitarian but also pretty and unique. She made her quilts by hand using any and all kinds of...

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TitleCatherine Basie Woman of the Year Award scrapbook

Date Created1962

DescriptionThis scrapbook contains a photograph of Catherine Basie and newspaper clippings, the text of a speech, and correspondence related to her being honored as Woman of the Year by the Queens County Council...

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TitleCatherine Basie and Basie family scrapbook

Date Created1930-1979

DescriptionThis scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, and correspondence related to Catherine Basie and her civic and charitable work, photographs of Catherine Basie as Princess Aloha, photographs of the...

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TitleView of Queens Campus Showing Winants Hall, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.

DescriptionColor postcard featuring obscured view of Winants Hall. Winants Hall was Rutgers first dormitory, constructed in 1890. It is named for Garret E. Winants, a wealthy philanthropist from Bayonne who in...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

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TitleGreetings from Rutgers

DescriptionPostcard with two color photographs, one of Van Nest hall, and the other of the Labratory. The second instructional building at Rutgers, Van Nest Hall was erected in 1845 and named for Abraham Van...

Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)