DescriptionThis is a report on a self-survey of the Housing Committee in the early 1950s. This report demonstrates the problems within the African American community in Trenton, New Jersey, including real...
DescriptionThe "Newark Experience" is an 11-category, 10-year review of the city's progress in the areas of economic development, transportation, municipal finance, protective services, residential development,...
DescriptionThe Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) at Seabrook Farms helping with receiving Government funds for houses not to exceed 2,500 dollars. George Sakamoto, JACL President, is pictured.
DescriptionPurchasing Agent McLeod and the bags and bags of silver reveived from the back to payoff Seabrook Farms employees during the Cavalcade of Cartwheels June 6, 1950.
DescriptionThis demonstration grant report deliniates the city-wide renewal needs for the City of Newark, N.J. for the ten year period starting 1961. It suggests reconstruction as well as protective treatment.
DescriptionMap of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey removed from the League of Women Voters' "Know Your Town", 1967 edition. Legend shows designations for residential, business and economic development zones. Map was...
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...
DescriptionThe City of Newark is presently engaged in ambitious urban renewal activities for the revitalizing or rebuilding of existing deteriorating and blighted conditions.
During Newark's three hundred years...