DescriptionBill of sale in which Mindert Garrabrance sells to Marytie Garrabrance a female slave named Jin and her two children, for the sum of "Forty Pounds New York Currency." Dated May 26, 1791. Signature...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
DescriptionInventory of the estate of Garret Newkirk, November 16, 1818, including three slaves as well as tools and products of a farm estate. An example of the possessions of a well-off farm, and the relative...
DescriptionInterior of a school for teaching, cooking and table manners, circa 1921. The girls are engaged in a variety of activities from preparing food to serving. Photographer unknown. The calendar shows...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Description'During the late summer and fall of 1958, a research study of the total cost of Puerto Rican farm workers to New Jersey farmers was carried out by the Department of Agricultural Economics. A large...
Description"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey,...
DescriptionThis paper by Gertrude W. Dubrovsky, a Research Associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History...
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...
DescriptionMrs. Arthur Hawkins, president of the Consumers League of New Jersey, submits a statement to The Honorable B. Everett Jordan, Chairman of the Subcommittee on General Legislation and Agricultural...
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later renamed the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers,...
DescriptionThis paper by Ronald A. Foresta, a geography Ph.D. candidate from Rutgers University, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History Symposium,...