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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Single men live in the tents; families live in the houses
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionTent housing at the FSA migrant labor camp was occupied mainly by black workers from the U.S. South. These workers typically received the worst housing accommodations.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleJack Keefe at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1953
DescriptionJack Keefe, supervisor of Cumberland Warehouse, conducts a tour for visitors to Seabrook. In the photo, he points out the Amerio plate freezers.
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TitlePicker and farmhand who lives by himself in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm.
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionIn 1943, 516 Jamaican men employed by Seabrook lived in the Big Oaks Farm Security Administration camp. Guestworkers entered the US under government contracts that prohibited them from changing jobs.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944
Date Created1944-08-11
DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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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)
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TitleWork and Live at Deerfield
Date Created1944
DescriptionA pamphlet promotes Seabrook's new housing, which was built during the war and leased to the company by the Federal Public Housing Authority.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleFar Hills, Admission ticket for L.B.J. Barbecue, September 27, 1964 - Verso
Date Created1964-09-27
DescriptionVerso of admission ticket for the L.B.J. Barbecue held at Cragwood, the Far Hills home of the Charles W. Engelhards, in honor of Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of then United States President Lyndon...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleFar Hills, Admission ticket for L.B.J. Barbecue, September 27, 1964
Date Created1964-09-27
DescriptionAdmission ticket for the L.B.J. Barbecue held at Cragwood, the Far Hills home of the Charles W. Engelhards, in honor of Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of then United States President Lyndon Baines...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleOld School House interior (1 of 2)
Date Created1977
DescriptionInterior, with master's desk and 1752 Bible
Time PeriodColonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
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TitleCover of Industries of New Jersey, part 2 : Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, and Cape May counties.
Date Issued1882-1883