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TitleNotice of Intent to Appoint Surveyors for Roads in New Barbadoes, 1835

Date Created1835

DescriptionPublic notice that freeholders of Bergen County intend to submit application to Superior Court of Common Pleas for permission to hire six surveyors to lay out five new roads in New Barbadoes Township....

Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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TitleAerial view of Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1994

DescriptionOverhead aerial view of Seabrook Farms Co. Produce fields, plant buildings, and Hoover Village can be seen.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleBird's-eye view of Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1960

DescriptionThis aerial view of Seabrook Farms shows the plant, factory, fields, and housing villages for the workers.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleThe Evolution of the Modern Urban Core: The Implications of Newark's Late Nineteenth-Century Housing and Population Patterns

AuthorForresta, Ronald A.

Date Created1976

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,...

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TitleThe Swedes in New Jersey: Bulletin No. 2

Date Created1938

DescriptionThis booklet on the founding of New Sweden (now the present-day New Jersey area) was prepared for use in the public schools by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New...

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TitleThe Swedes and Finns in New Jersey: Bulletin No. 3

Date Created1938

DescriptionThis booklet on the founding of New Sweden (now the present-day New Jersey area) was prepared for use in the public schools by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New...

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TitleThe Swedes and Finns in New Jersey: Bulletin No. 4

Date Created1938

DescriptionThis booklet on the founding of New Sweden (now the present-day New Jersey area) was prepared for use in the public schools by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New...

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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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Title'Comments' on Charles Stephenson's 'Process of Community' and Ronald Foresta's 'Evolution of the Modern Urban Core' - from the 8th NJ History Symposium

AuthorScheiner, Seth M.

Date Created1976

DescriptionThis comments paper by Seth M. Scheiner, an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History...

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TitleReport of Governor Johan Printz, 1647, on New Sweden

AuthorPrintz, Johan

Date Created1647

DescriptionGovern Johan Printz, the governor of New Sweden (later to become New Jersey), reports on the status of the colony and the settlers. Many freemen have arrived to settle in New Sweden, but the...