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TitleRoosevelt Oral History Committee Interview with Gustave Alef (excerpt)

Date Created1981

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...

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TitleItalian Immigrants and the Working Class in Paterson: The Strike of 1913 in Ethnic Perspective

AuthorOsborne, James D.

Date Created1976

DescriptionThis paper by James D. Osborne, a New Jersey Historical Commission grant recipient, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History Symposium, December...

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TitleRoosevelt Oral History Committee Interview with Irving Bach (excerpt)

Date Created1982

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...

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TitleLetter to Mr. Drazin, President of Jersey Homesteads, from Samuel Niznevitz, Chairman of the Wage Planning Committee

AuthorNisnevitz, Samuel

Date Created1938

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...

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TitleEvent program: Class of 1941 Commencement Exercises of Jersey Public School

Date Created1941

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...

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TitleNewspaper advertisement from Jersey Homesteads Tripod Coat and Suit, Inc., to promote the ladies garments factory

Date Created1936-1937

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...

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TitleLetter from the women representatives of Jersey Homesteads' co-operative clothing factory to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date Created1940

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...

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Title'Clothing schedule' - listing of costs to prepare one suit

Date Created1936-1937

DescriptionThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that...

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TitlePress Release titled "Department of the Interior Memorandum for the Press"

Date Created1933

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...

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TitlePreamble written by Jersey Homestead settlers

Date Created1936

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...