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TitleAfrican-American woman working at a loom, Newark, 1917.
Date Created1917
DescriptionAfrican-American woman working at a loom, Newark, 1917. African-American women worked in the garment trade, which employed mainly Jewish and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century. But because...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleEmployees, Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, Harrison, 1923.
Date Created1923
DescriptionEmployees, Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, Harrison, 1923. Few of Cone's photographs include African Americans until the 1920s. This picture indicates how Newark's workforce changed with the start of...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleGus. Freund Imported and Domestic Cigars-Newspapers and Magazines (undated).
Date Created1900-1930
DescriptionGus. Freund Imported and Domestic Cigars-Newspapers and Magazines (undated). Possibly photographed around World War One, the prominent display of American flags in the shop window may have been this...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleEmployees, Newark Gas Company, Newark, 1895.
Date Created1895
DescriptionEmployees, Newark Gas Company, Newark, 1895. While the workers in this picture are posing for Cone's slow-exposure camera, unlike most of Cone's workplace pictures, they look like they've been pulled...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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Title"Chas. Gong" Chinese restaurant, Newark (undated).
Date Created1920
Description"Chas. Gong" Chinese restaurant, Newark (undated). When this photograph was taken-probably some time before 1920-Newark's Chinese population numbered in the hundreds, concentrated...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleItalian Christian Endeavor group, Newark, 1896
Date Created1896
DescriptionItalian Christian Endeavor group, Newark, 1896. Cone was sometimes hired by organizations to commemorate events or record their activites. This was a local chapter of a national youth ministry...
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TitleSpinning room, Driver-Harris Company, Middlesex Street, Harrison, 1929.
Date Created1929
DescriptionSpinning room, Driver-Harris Company, Middlesex Street, Harrison, 1929.
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TitleGoodwill Thrift Store, Newark, 1929.
Date Created1929
DescriptionGood Will Thrift Store, 53 Plane Street, Newark, 1929 . Men, women and children rummage through old contributed to the Mission, a sign of the onset of hard time. The Great Depression would leave...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)