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The American Insurance Company Building is a 21 story commercial edifice designed to serve as the company's main office. It is located in what now is considered the James Street Commons Historic District.

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Alsdorf Pianos & Bicycles was a company located at 605 Broad Street in Newark, NJ. Specializing in Sohmer Pianos, bicycles, and sewing machines, the company also offered bicycle riding lessons on the fourth floor of its building.

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The almshouse was a facility used as a mental hospital, and a hospital for the acute and chronically ill, and the dying and destitute. The almshouse was the predecessor to the City Hospital.

A description of the Port Authority new construction and renovation projects at three New York metropolitan area airports.

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Congregation Ahavas Shalom,the oldest operating synagogue in Newark, is a reminiscent of the city's vibrant Jewish community in the early twentieth century. Located to the north of Newark's Central Business District, the synagogue was designed in the…

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View of Newark, showing all buildings in Downtown. Important buildings and train stations are labeled. Important streets are identified. Also includes view of Harrison on other side of Passaic and the Crane Company Thread Mill of East Newark.

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Elizabeth Aerial Photo (including Newark Airport)

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Aerial photograph of most of Downtown Newark with the future path of Route 280 indicated with bright red line. This map was created in preparation for the construction of this highway and the demolition of homes and businesses that impeded its path.

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Aerial photograph of Newark Central and North Wards, documenting the area between South Orange Avenue to south and Park Avenue to north; Branch Brook Park to east and Fairmount Cemetery to west. Map predates the 1957 construction of Route 280. A…

Article includes plans, sections, elevations, details, interior and exterior photographs. of the Administration Building of the Essex County Park Commission.

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The theater first opened in January, 1912 as the Shubert Theatre. In 1913, it was renamed Payton's Theatre, and then Keeney's Theatre. It became Adams Theatre in 1931.

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Slide showing ""The Trolley Electric Vehicle”". Year unknown, estimated as early 20th century, noted in Newark public Library as 1946.
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