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TitleTyped transcript of letter to Helen Sater, U.S. Dept. of Labor, November 6, 1943
Date Created1943-11-06
DescriptionIn this letter, a white woman residing at Seabrook writes that although she and other workers had been promised free housing at Seabrook, the company was now attempting to charge them. The company's...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
5308
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TitleBoys must be men
Date Created1943
DescriptionDuring World War Two, New Jersey amended its child labor and compulsory education laws in order to allow children to help make up for labor scarcities in agricultural production. In 1943, Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
5309
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)
5311
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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)
5312
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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)
5313
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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)
5315
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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)
5316
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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)