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Insane and Feeble-minded in Institutions 1910 By United States, Bureau of the Census

A cost analysis of state costs for dealing with the insane in public hospitals in 1903-1904.

The Indian and the Puritan is a public sculpture designed by Gutzon Borglum and located in Washington Park. This monument consists of a bronze lamp standard with stylized cattails and marshmallows with symbolic references and two life-size marble…

The building is currently used by the Holiness Pentecostal Church of Christ.

A close-up of a crew working on a new crosswalk for the City of Newark's Imprinted Decorative Crosswalk Program. The new crosswalks will enhance the beauty of Newark's streets while adding to their safety for pedestrians and motorists alike.

Paper for Prof. Tony Schuman's Envisioning Newark 679:001 class

Newark Housing Authority report

"15-21 Hill Street, the former Hotel Douglas, is a sixteen story, nine bay, rectangular plan, orange brick and terra cottafaced, commercial hotel. The Art Deco-influenced facade is divided into two horizontal and three vertical sections. The first…

Description of the design and buildings that comprise the Hospital for Insane, Overbrook, N.J.

Engine steamer horse-drawn carriages racing down Broad Street to a fire. The L.S Plaut & Company department store are on the left, Military part on the right. Note the amount of pedestrians simply walking across the street and how few wheeled…

Short film from Thomas Edison showing "four horse drawn fire engines roar up a snow-covered Newark, New Jersey, street while spectators watch from the sidelines"

A draft of an unpublished history of the Newark Technical School (NTS) and the Newark College of Engineering (NCE). It not only documents the history of the institution, but also the connection to the greater the Newark community. Contributors to…

Historical Map of Newark, 1666 to 1916 compiled for the 250th Anniversary Celebration