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Date Created1980
DescriptionInterview conducted by Giles Wright for the New Jersey Historical Commission's New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral history Project. The interview is with Mildred Arnold, an African-American who was born in...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930), The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945), Postwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
373
Date Created2002
DescriptionThis interview was conducted as part of the New Jersey Historical Commission Grant-funded Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The interviewee is Mr. Ved Chaudhary who is from northern India. He came to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
374
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)
375
Date Created2003
DescriptionThis interview was conducted as part of the New Jersey Historical Commission Grant-funded Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The interviewee is Ms. Shard Shenoy. Ms. Shenoy talks about founding her...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
376
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)
377
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)
378
Date Created1917
DescriptionAfrican-American woman working at a loom, Newark, 1917. African-American women worked in the garment trade, which employed mainly Jewish and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century. But because...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
379
Date Created1900-1930
DescriptionGus. Freund Imported and Domestic Cigars-Newspapers and Magazines (undated). Possibly photographed around World War One, the prominent display of American flags in the shop window may have been this...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
380
Date Created1895
DescriptionEmployees, Newark Gas Company, Newark, 1895. While the workers in this picture are posing for Cone's slow-exposure camera, unlike most of Cone's workplace pictures, they look like they've been pulled...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
381
Date Created1896
DescriptionItalian Christian Endeavor group, Newark, 1896. Cone was sometimes hired by organizations to commemorate events or record their activites. This was a local chapter of a national youth ministry...