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TitleBridgeton migrant child
Date Created1943
DescriptionIn a 1943 photo from the Farm Security Administration, a small child is shown picking beans in a field. Many migrant workers traveled with their children, and reformers were concerned about working...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook
Date Created1944-05-06
DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleMemo about Disappearance of Barbadian Workers
Date Created1945-08-11
DescriptionDuring the war, the War Manpower Commission (WMC) coordinated the recruitment of migrant guestworkers from the British West Indies. Because guestworkers entered the United States with specific...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleMemo on German POWs
AuthorSeabrook, J. M.
Date Created1944-06-17
DescriptionSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleRenewal of Contracts Memo
Date Created1944-11-15
DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBarbadian Workers Deportation Order
Date Created1945-08-17
DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitlePress Releases of the Passing of Ruth G. Sherman Long Time Supporter of the Friends of the Roseland Library and Member of the Roseland Library Board of Trustees1987
Date Created1987
DescriptionPress Release of the Passing of Ruth G. Sherman Long Time Supporter of the Roseland Library as it appeared in the Roseland Library News 1987. Mrs. Sherman was appointed to the Roseland Library Board...
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleLetter from Joseph M. Shotz District Director of US Treasury Department IRS to the Friends of the Roseland
Library January 31, 1967
Date Created1967-01-31
DescriptionLetter from Joseph M. Shotz District Director of US Treasury Department IRS to the Friends of the Roseland dated January 31, 1967 stating that the IRS has determind that the Friends of the Roseland...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetters Between Roberta Claps Project Chairman of the Breakfast Fashion Show and the Friends of the Roseland Library
Date Created1965-03-20
DescriptionLetter to the Library Director Joan Bollinger from Roberta Claps Host of the Breakfast Fashion Show dated March 20, 1965. Library sells tickets for the Breakfast Fashion Show. All tickets were sold...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitlePress Release of the Roseland Library News Announcing the Friends of the Roseland Library Election of Officers September 20, 1989
Date Created1989-09-20
DescriptionPress Release of the Roseland Library News Announcing the Friends of the Roseland Library Election of Officers. At this point, the Friends are without a President and are looking for someone to lead...
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)