DescriptionWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper...
DescriptionThis letter commends William McCoy, a fellow townsman. It is dated August 2nd, 1861.
The original is in the Miss Emma A. McCoy papers from 1861-1940, located in the New Brunswick Free Public...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Descriptionthis letter was written by Angelica Ostendorff to her brother Adalbert when he was in the army during the First World War.In this letter she discusses various neighbors' illnesses and her family's...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThis is a letter written by William Dudley Junior, then 8 years old, of Red Bank to his cousin Adalbert Ostendorff who was serving in the army during World War I.
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThis letter, which has been translated from Yiddish, describes the ways in which the author felt that the Communist Party had infiltrated the Jewish farm co-operatives of New Jersey and used them as a...
DescriptionAfter the Soviets suppressed the Revolution in Hungary in 1956, aproximately 200,000 Hungarians fled the country. Many Hungarian refugees came to New Jersey, some of whom were housed at Camp Kilmer, a...