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. ...
DescriptionThe Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Freehold was directed every spring session to set the price rates for liquors, food, lodging, provender, and stabling or pasturing of horses for every licensed...
DescriptionSpanish and English recruitment posters from the Newark Fire Department. The Department is offering training and employment opportunities for both English and Spanish speakers. These posters attest...
DescriptionLeaflet giving the program for the celebration of Lincoln's 100th birthday sponsored by the Deutsch Amerikanischen Central Verein of Middlesex County, at the Braga Hall in Perth Amboy, on February 12,...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionJames Hood, Mayor of Bridgeton, proclaims April 19, 1865, as a day of mourning for Bridgeton citizens, in response to the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes...
DescriptionThis broadside from February 1869 invites New Brunswick residents to attend orator Peter S. Bergen's lecture on love, courtship, and marriage, as well as to listen to quotations from Shakespeare and...
DescriptionThis unpublished report by the Workers Defense League describes poor wages, working conditions, and housing among British West Indian and Bahamian contract workers on New Jersey farms. It compares...
DescriptionThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that included a farm, a...
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...
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...
