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TitleChildren's Home and Horse Carriage Parade
Date Created1900-1950
DescriptionBlack and white photo postcard of Horse Carriage Parade and Children's Home on Somerset Street. Circa 1885. The school was a direct descendant of the old Lancasterian School, ans was funded by the...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)
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TitleU.S. Congress. House of Representatives Immigration Commission. Subcommittee on Northern Italy (etc.). Report, 1907, Section on Hamburg
Date Created1907
DescriptionBenjamin Franklin Howell (1844-1933) was a member of Congress from New Jersey. While in Congress, he served on the Immigration Commission Subcommittee on Northern Italy, which traveled around Europe,...
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TitleWhittier House letterhead, February, 1928
Date Created1928
DescriptionWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleTwenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of Whittier House Social Settlement
Date Created1922
DescriptionThe Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain with the...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleLetter to Henry Ford requesting donation to Whittier House
Date Created1917
DescriptionWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleWhittier House Fundraising Letterhead - February 1928
Date Created1928
DescriptionWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleLetter to George F. Brensinger from Cornelia F. Bradford regarding the location of Jersey City school No. 5
Date Created1915
DescriptionThe Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. (Hudson County) in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleBoy's Club.
Date Created1920-1929
DescriptionThe Whittier House collection of photographs caputures the facilities, staff, programs, services, and neighborhood adults and children. The Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement...
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TitleSt. Mary's Orphan Asylum, New Brunswick, N. J.
DescriptionIllustrated colored postcard of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum. The building, c. 1875, was the first Saint Peter's Hospital at the head of Easton Avenue. The hospital was opened in October 1872 by Dr....
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)
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TitleMarian Glaeser giving out tickets (Image 1 of 2)
Date Created1950
DescriptionMarian Glaeser giving out [meal] tickets for Delaware flood relief. Picture taken on November 27, 2006.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)