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TitleLetter from Albert Einstein to Boris Drasin dated May 14, 1936

Date Created1936

DescriptionIn this letter, Albert Einstein declines an invitation to attend a celebration at Jersey Homesteads. The letter is addressed to Boris Drasin. Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the...

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

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TitleMinutes of the meeting of the Displaced Persons Committee, June 1, 1950

Date Created1950

DescriptionThe Council for Human Services in New Jersey (formerly known as the New Jersey Welfare Council), was an umbrella group for social welfare agencies and social workers in the state. After the Second...

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TitleRelation of the surrender of New Sweden, by Governor Johan Clason Rising, 1655

AuthorRising, Johan

Date Created1655

DescriptionGovernor Johan Rising of New Sweden reports to Sweden on the August 1655 Dutch attack on New Sweden's Fort Christina. The Dutch traveled from New Amsterdam (present-day New York) and easily captured...

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TitleFact-finding Sub-committee, Committee on Displaced Persons, New Jersey Welfare Council

Date Created1949

DescriptionThe Council for Human Services in New Jersey, formerly known as the New Jersey Welfare Council, was an umbrella group for social welfare agencies and social workers in the state. After the Second...

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TitleMigrant deaths, 1962-1965

Date Created1962-1965

DescriptionThis memorandum from Dick Hogarty of the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, lists in chronological order the deaths of various migrant workers throughout New Jersey from 1962 to 1965. The...

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TitleMigratory labor in New Jersey - 1960

Date Created1960

DescriptionThis March 2, 1961, report consists of statistical figures of migratory labor in New Jersey during 1960. Figures were collected from various official sources, and include a comparison of migrant...

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TitleReport of Governor Johan Rising, 1655, on New Sweden

AuthorRising, Johan

Date Created1655

DescriptionGovernor Johan Rising reports to the Swedish government and royalty on the status of New Sweden (present-day New Jersey). He also reports on other Swedish colonies in the area. He asks that single...

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TitleLetter of Johannes Bogaert to Hans Bontemantel, 1655

AuthorBogaert, Johannes

Date Created1655

DescriptionJohannes Bogaert, Dutch clerk of New Amsterdam (present-day New York), reports to Holland on the Dutch takeover of New Sweden. He accounts how the Dutch travelled to New Sweden and took over Fort...

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TitleLetter from David Bishop to the Order of United Americans in response to an invitation to a celebration of George Washington's birthday

AuthorBishop, David

Date Created1858

DescriptionThe Order of United Americans, also known as the Know-Nothings, formed in the mid-1800s to support the rights of native-born Americans over those of immigrants, and to combat what they saw as foreign...

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TitleLetter from Ernest Wolff to the Hungarian Defense Council.

Date Created1942

DescriptionSent on stationery from the Hotel Paramount in Boston, this letter from Ernest Wolff, the Chief Machinist of the U.S.S. Prairie, thanks the Hungarian Defense Council for a carton of cigarettes they...