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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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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Migrant who lives alone in a barn on the farm where he works

Date Created1942-07

DescriptionMigrant workers like the man living in this barn often did not have adequate food storage or cooking facilities.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleAn act to incorporate a company to erect a rail-road from the river Delaware, near Trenton, to the river Raritan, at or near New-Brunswick.

Date Issued1815

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TitleCoal burning freight engine built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J.

Date Issued1861

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TitleTitle page of Acts of the Thirty-ninth General Assembly of the State of New Jersey ... being the second sitting.

Date Issued1815

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TitleTitle page of Documents tending to prove the superior advantages of rail-ways and steam-carriages over canal navigation.

AuthorStevens, John

Date Issued1812

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TitleThe first American locomotive on rails at Castle Point, Hoboken.

Date Issued1928

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TitlePortrait of Colonel John Stevens.

Date Created1800-1900

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TitleFolded plate from Mr. Sullivan's description of a cheap, durable rail road, and certain routes, in the states of New York and New-Jersey.

Date Issued1827

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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)