Browse Collections by Date

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TITLETIME SPANCALL #
Paleography study collectionca. 1280-1571MC 886
John Romeyn Brodhead papers1613-1888MC 1458
John Alexander Symington collection1622-1937MC 996
Nicholas Bayard papers1640-1800MC 219
Woodbridge Township records1668-1930Ac. 2378
Robert Morris papers1677-1943MC 1491
Charles Hartman collection1680-1978MC 1261
Piscataway Township records1682-1954MC 1359
Middlesex County records1683-1929MC 784
Rue-Holmes-Meirs family papers1695-1958MC 715
Ten Eyck family papers1725-1920MC 1488
Alan H. Strong papers1732-1931Annex Collection #404
Joseph Frelinghuysen papers1733-1948MC 1247
Julia Wells (Wells family) papers1738-1953MC 727
John S. Holmes papers1750-1877Ac. 421
Philip Freneau collection1753-1857Ac. 0.993
Gertrude N. Brick papersca. 1763-1984MC 1489
Harry B. Weiss chapbook collection1767-1945GB 18
Carl Woodward collection1767-1931Ac.0955
Neilson family papers1768-1908MC 933
Peter A. Voorhees papers1772-ca. 1930Annex Collection #1065
Middlesex Board of Chosen Freeholders minutes1778-1920, 1986-1995MC 784
Nineteenth century children's chapbook collection1780-1946GB 4
Marcus L. Ward papersca, 1782-1884MC 1020
William Cobett papers1792-1835 
North River Steamboat Company records1800-1858MC 1352
New Brunswick vertical file collection1801-presentNJ 014
Northern Missionary Society in the State of New York records1803-1833Ac. 873
Benjamin B. Cooper papers1804-1930Annex Collection #1223
William Elmer papers1808-1879MC 569
Gaston family papers1808-1960MC 547
Timothy Johnes Darcy papers1811-1900MC 564
Marcus L. Ward papers1812-1884MC 1020
Lewis C. Beck papers1814-1853Ac. 2146
Ferdinand Schurman Schenck papers1820-1881MC 1095
Allen Henry Brown papers1820-1907Ac. 2777
African Association of New Brunswick minute book1817-1824MC 50
Sheltering Arms Children's Service records1823-1966MC 1385
Roebling family papers1824-1971MC 654
George Hammell Cook papers1824-1918Ac. 590
Herbert family papers1825-1908Ac. 265
John I. Beatty account books1826-1886MC 319
George Sykes papers1835-1878 
Daniel B. Frazier Company records1836-1958Ac. 2370
William Elliott Griffis collection1838-1964MC 1015
New Brunswick Colonization Society records1838-1854 
Philip Lindsley papers1839-1887MC 321
Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers1839-1902 
Philander Betts papers1841-1938Ac. 263
Daniel Bailey papers1846-1865Ac. 2475
Rumford Chemical Works records1848-1948MC 1368
New Jersey trade and manufactures' catalog collection1848-2010NJ 009
Yznaga del Valle & Co. records1850-1881MC 1227
Peter Still papers1850-1875MC 1392
Helen-Chantal Pike collection on Asbury Park, New Jersey1850-2007NJ 012
Willard L. De Yoe papers1858-1962Ac. 2248
Brooks family papers1861-1924MC 795
Charles A. Philhower collection1862-1962 
Harrison A. Williams, Jr. papers1862-2001MC 2
Atkinson family papers1863-1946Ac. 1512
Theodore H. Stanton collection1865-1925 
Thurlow C. Haunton Jr. New Jersey railroads photograph collection1871-2014MC 1450
Walter E. Weyl papers1873-1919MC 992
Terradell family papers1873-1983MC 829
Sinclair New Jersey restaurant menu collection1873-present 
Thelma Parkinson Sharp papers1874-1976MC 876
Michiko (Michi) Nakao collection1874-1993MC 1219
Julius Nelson papers1876-1920MC 692
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Mercer County, N.J. records1876-1981MC 653
New Brunswick Children's Aid Society (Children's Industrial Home of New Brunswick) records1878-1937MC 330
Deborah Remington papersca. 1880-2010MC 1454
Modern School collection ca. 1880-2011MC 1055
Morris County chattel mortgages1880-1934MC 415
Isaac S. Van DerVeer Photograph Collection (New Brunswick)1880-1975Ac. 3546
New Jersey Zinc Company records1880-1986MC 672
Passaic Home and Orphans Asylum Association records1882-1978MC 428
Janet Hobhouse papersca. 1885-1991MC 1111
Trenton Trust Company records1887-1972MC 1053
Middlesex General Hospital Aid Association records1889-1962MC 365
Lenox, Inc. records1889-2005MC 1390
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations in New Brunswick records1889-1962RG 18/E0
Essex County Jewish Welfare collection (Jewish Counseling and Service Agency)ca. 1890-ca. 1961Ac. 2366
Tracy Stebbins Voorhees papers1890-1974MC 1407
Farmingdale collection1890-1995MC 1056
Robert J. Alexander papers.1890-1999MC 974
National Musical String Company records1891-1978MC 890
Free Acres Association records1892-1996MC 1147
J.F.C. Fuller papers1893-1965MC 1250
Charles A. Hoffman Funeral Parlor records1894-1961MC 396
Paul A. Schack papers1895-1983MC 675
Order of the founders and patriots of America New Jersey Society records1896-1916MC 426
Frances Grant papers1897-1986MC 671
Mary Roebling papers1897-1994MC 1107
New Jersey State Nurses Association recordsca. 1901-2009MC 1413
Louis F. Bishop Jr. papers1901-1986MC 70
Sinclair New Jersey cookbook collection1902-2006NJ 003
Mary L. Dyckman papers1903-1982MC 1148
New Jersey postcard collection1903-1989NJ 018
Council for Human Services in New Jersey records1904-1992MC 913
Roy M.D. Richardson papers1905-1968MC 1166
Ernest Thompson papers1907-1971MC 1180
Women's Political Union of New Jersey records1908-1910 
Congregation B'Nai Jacob, Passaic, NJ records1908-1979MC 674
Consumers Research, Inc records1910-1983MC 3
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association records1911-1938MC 1435
Arthur D. Waley papers1912-1961Ac. 1993
William T. Cahill congressional papers1912-1996MC 1226
Latin American newspaper clippings1913-1914Ac. 3190
Consumers League of New Jersey records 1913-1979MC 1090
Adele De Leeuw papers1913-1987MC 810
Sydney Goldmann papers1913-1984MC 67
Bernard Bush collection on the KKK1913-2010MC 1402
Mary Norton papers1914-1960MC 1201
Noel Sargent papers1916-1969MC 1375
Selman A. Waksman papers1916-1977R-MC 003
Lena Anthony Robbins papers1917-1945MC 1204
Congregation Poile Zedek, New Brunswick records1917-1968MC 739
Boy Scouts of America, Troop 53,  Jamesburg records1917-1972Ac. 2840
Bildner Family Kings Super Markets records1917-2010MC 1409
Elmer T. Hutchinson of New Jersey printers and publishers recordsca. 1920-1954MC 866
William F. Augustine photograph collectionca. 1920-ca. 1979Ac. 2765
New Brunswick Rotary Club records1920-1964MC 787
Temple Beth El records1920-1985MC 735
Congregation Ahavath Achim B'nai Israel, Irvington records1920-1986MC 737
League of Women Voters of New Jersey records1920-1991MC 1082
American Chemical Society records--North Jersey section1920-2008MC 1408
Orlie Pell papersca. 1920-1973Annex Collection #2860
Congregation Knesseth Israel records1921-1987MC 736
Carol E. and Robert B. Dokes papers1922-2000 
Brendan T. Byrne papers1924-2008MC 1215
Clifford Case papers1925-1982MC 656
Charles H. Detwiller architectural papers1927-1983MC 1104
I. Robert Kriendler collection1928-1965MC 908
American Association of University Women (AAUW) records--NJ Division1928-1985Ac. 3231
John Maurer papers1928-1987MC 832
New Jersey Water Environment Association records1928-2011MC 855
Lynd Ward papers1929-1937GA 10
John DePol collection1930-2004GB 2
Ben Shahn estate collection1931-1991GA 19
New Jersey master plans1931-2004 
Winifred Milius Lubell collection1933-2014GB 8
Borough of Roosevelt historical collection1933-1996MC 1060
Records of the Borough of Roosevelt1934-1994MC 1057
Marian Stephenson Olden papers1934-1970MC 1086
Bernard Bryson Shahn etchings1935-1990GA 12
Dean Anderson Gallo congressional paper1935-1994MC 996
National Maritime Union of America records1937-1977MC 718
Valentin Kenner papers1937-1967MC 1011
International Union of Electronic etc, Workers (IUE), president office records1938 (c)-1965MC 1197
Archibald Stevens Alexander papers1939-1979MC 1190
Congregation Adas Israel records1939-1986MC 738
Rutgers University collection of children's literature1939-1991Ac. 3078
Neal Ranauro photograph collectionca. 1940-1980MC 919
Miriam Schapiro archives on women artists (multiple collections)ca. 1940-2016 
E.H. Tepper Collection on World War II posters1940-1945GB1
Sidney Margolius papers1940-1980MC 1308
Miniature fine press and artists' book collection1940-2000GB 7A
Art Educators of New Jersey records1940-2016MC 877
American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service records1942-1984MC 655
Harry Kantor papers1946-1981MC 1013
Abram N. Spanel papers1946-1985MC 176
Frances Manola collection1946-2014GA 13
American Labor Party of the State of New York records1947-1956Ac. 2245
Institute for World Order records1948-1982MC 1275
Janet Hobhouse papers1948-1991MC 1111
Charles R. Howell papers1949-1955MC 269
Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO) Industrial Union Councils, NJ records1950-1957Ac. 2440
John Ross collection1950-2009GA 15
New Jersey Academy of Science records1951-1979MC 1338
Jerry Cunliffe theatrical papers 1951-1985MC 901
Siegfried Sassoon papers1952-1966MC 847
Blanche Grambs papers1953-2004MC 1463
Congregation Sharri Sholom, South Brunswick records1955-1979MC 1040
Robert Ardrey papers (restricted)1955-1980MC 190
Citizens Committee for Higher Education in NJ records1956-1971Ac. 2676
Eone Harger papers1956-1982MC 1260
Suellen Glashausser papers1956-2001MC 1260
Transatlantic Review records1957-1982MC 1422
Clare Romano collection1957-2012GA 14
Al Blaustein collection1960-2011GB 10
Edward J. Patten papers1963-1980MC 1042.1
Shirley Chisholm papers1963-1994MC 1194
Erma Angevine consumer papers1963-1998MC 122
James J., Howard papers1965-1986MC 677
Tom O'Horgan theatrical papers1965-1991MC 927
Faith Ringgold papers1967-1999MC 1213
Andrew Maguire papers1969-1983MC 670
Frank L. Lautenberg papers1969-2013MC 1464
Carol Hamoy papersca. 1970-2016MC 1459
Frances Barboza-Clark papers1970-2002MC 1397
Judith K. Brodsky papers1971-1993MC 1187
Contemporary Women's Artists files1971-2015MC 1400
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series collection1971-2015MC 1403
Women's Caucus for Art records1972-1986MC 883
New Jersey Coalition for Fair Broadcasting records1973-1983MC 1341
SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society records1974-1984MC 652
Robert Heide theatrical papers1964-1986MC 917
Pinelands Cultural Society records1974-1978MC 940
Pacific/Asian Coalition of New Jersey Chapter records1974-2007MC 1419
New Jersey Folk Festival records1974-2013MC 748
Millicent Fenwick papers1975-1982MC 834
World Hunger Year records1975-1984Ac. 3222
Gloria Feman Orenstein collection on women artists1975-2012MC 1460
James Florio congressional papers1975-1989MC 780
Folk Project records1976-2005MC 1229
New York Feminist Art Institute records1976-1990R-MC 892
Somerset County Board of Realtors--Somerset County Multiple Listing Service records1976-1991MC 1420
Heresies Collective records1977-1995MC 1041
Philippine Nurses Association of America records1978-2012MC 1438
New Jersey Pinelands Commission records1979-1989MC 783
New Jersey Book Arts Archive1979-2003 
Sisters in Crime records1979-2004MC 1105
New Jersey Association of College Admission Counseling records1979-2006MC 1417
Suellen Glashausser Artists' Books Collection1980-2000GA 16
Bernard J. Dwyer papers 1981-1992MC 906
New Brunswick Music Scene Archive1981-presentNJ 004
Monroe Berkowitz arbitration case files1984-1992MC 931
Women's Project of New Jersey records1984-2004MC 833
Guerrilla Girls posters1985-1994MC 1461
New Democratic Coalition records1986-1991MC 952
Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey records1986-2004MC 1223
Somerset County Cultural Diversity Committee records1994-2011MC 1420
Feminist Art Project collection2005-2012MC 1456
William Fernekes oral history collection re Clifford P. Case2005-2008MC 1436
New Jersey regional zine collection2013-presentNJ 010
Sinclair New Jersey beer collection2016-presentNJ 013
New Jersey portrait collectionUndatedNJ 015
Hymnals collectionUndatedAc. 7527