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Local History Collection Books Categorized By Subject

Architecture

  • Architecture, Buildings, and Places newspaper clippings
  • Landscape Architecture (3 copies)
  • Selections From an Architect’s Portfolio

Art

  • Block Prints of Hoboken, NJ, made by the students of AJ Demarest High School, 1932 (3 copies)
  • Pen and Ink Drawing
  • Bryan’s Dictionary of Painting and Engravers Vols. 1-5
  • Dictionary of American Printers and Engravers 
  • The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel (2 copies)
  • Man Made Mobile: Early Saddles of Western North America
  • Titan of the West: The Adams Collection of Western and Native American Art
  • Schreyvogel Album: Souvenir Album of Paintings
  • Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer
  • Art Work of Hoboken: Hoboken, West Hoboken, Union Hill, and Weehawken (3 copies)
  • Heroes in the Fight for Beauty: The Muralists of the Hudson County Court House
  • Caricatures
  • Public Sculpture in New Jersey
  • Modeling for Life Drawing
  • Practical Poses for Figure Models
  • The Jersey Side (2 copies)
  • Collaborations: Hans Spiner
  • America’s Pastime: Portrait of the Dominican Dream (Freddy Rodriguez)
  • Stuart Davis: The Hoboken Series February 4 – March 4, 1978
  • Hoboken Portraits: Photographs and Text
  • Italian Sculpture of the Middle Ages and Period of the Revival of Art (1862)
  • Art for Art’s Sake: Seven University Lectures on the Technical Beauties of Painting

Baseball

  • America’s National Game: Baseball (Spalding)
  • Balldom
  • Baseball newspaper clippings
  • Baseball newspaper clippings: bound
  • Baseball: First Regular Game
  • Book of American Pastimes
  • Book of Baseball (1911)
  • Harper’s Weekly, 10/15/1859: All-England Eleven (cricket; comparison between cricket and baseball)
  • The Jersey Game
  • June 19th, 1996, 150th Anniversary Birthplace of Baseball Official Commemorative Guide
  • Panorama of Baseball, Evening World and Jersey Journal
  • Victorian Baseball Association, 1940 (Australia)
  • Victorian Baseball Association 1944 Playing Rules and 1946 Fixtures (Australia)

Bergen County

  • History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1630-1923 (Westervelt, 2 volumes)
  • Palisades Amusement Park
  • Walker 1876 Atlas of Bergen County (with atlases)
    • The Hermitage, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
      • The Rosencrantz Cotton Warp Mill: The Industrial Revolution at the Hermitage 1830-1891
      • A Revolutionary Relationship: Theodosia Prevost, Aaron Burr, and The Hermitage

Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs

  • American Aristocracy: The Livingstons
  • Blind Tom: The Black Pianist-Composer, 1849-1908
  • Edison: His Life and Inventions vol. 2
  • First Quarter Century of My Life (W.S.E. Keuffel – 3 copies)
  • Frontman: Surviving the Rock Star Myth (Richard Barone)
  • Halo Over Hoboken: The Memoirs of John Perkins Field
  • Kid From Hoboken: An Autobiography
  • Leading American Inventors
  • Life of Elizabeth Alma Allen, 1854-1919
  • The Life of John Ericsson, vol. 2
  • Lindbergh: His Story in Pictures
  • Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story
  • Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett (1855)
  • Merely This and Nothing More
  • Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816-1860)
  • Springsteen: Troubadour of the Highway
  • The Way It Was
  • William Penn as the Founder of Two Commonwealths
  • Who’s Sorry Now (Joe Pantoliano with David Evanier)
  • Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters vols. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8

Bridges

  • Bayonne Bridge Dedication: November 14, 1931
  • George Washington Bridge Dedication: October 24, 1931

Churches, Synagogues, and Other Religious Items and Locations

Crime, Murder, and Law

  • Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz
  • The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes
  • Azzolini-Raza Murder Trial 1980-1982
  • New York Herald newspaper clippings, 1857 (murder in Hoboken)
  • James F. Minturn, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (2 copies)
  • A Notable Lawsuit: Olmsted vs Astor
  • Hoboken Case: DL&W Railroad vs John Schaefer, 1913
  • New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, 1864
  • The Hoboken Case: Chamber of Commerce 1944

Cultural Resource Surveys/Environmental Impact Statements (Section 106 Compliance)

  • Rt. 7 Hackensack River Wittpenn Bridge, Jersey City & Kearny Town, Hudson County, Distribution of Section 106 Historical Context Narrative. Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. Report No. 2019-247 (CD-R Created 11/22/2022). 

Education

 

 

Engineering

  • Screw-Propulsion; Its Rise and Progress – Atlantic Monthly, March 1860
  • Marvels of Modern Mechanism
  • Mechanical Engineering

Film and Film Industry

  • The Movies Begin: Making Movies in New Jersey 1887-1920
  • Moving Places: A Life at the Movies 
  • John Sayles, Filmmaker 

Foster, Stephen

  • Stephen Foster: Songs for Boys and Girls (3 copies)
  • Musical Digest: Solving a Stephen Foster Mystery
  • Foster Hall Bulletin – No. 9 (2 copies), No. 10, No. 12
  • Stephen Foster, Residence in Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family (2 volumes)
  • He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster
  • Stephen Collins Foster Memorial 1939
  • Stephen Collins Foster Memorial 1944
  • Stephen Foster: Lincoln Herald, June 1945
  • Stephen Collins Foster: Songs and Compositions (3 volumes)

Genealogy

  • Ancestry and Ethnicity in America, Second Edition (2 volumes)
  • The Genealogist’s Address Book, Sixth Edition
  • The American Census Handbook
  • Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians
  • American Passenger Arrival Records (Michael Tepper)
  • They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record
  • Genealogy Online (Elizabeth Powell Crowe)
  • Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
  • Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood
  • Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (John Grenham)

Geology and Natural History

  • The Glacial Geology of New Jersey (1927)
  • The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
  • Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States
  • Game Birds, Wild-Fowl, and Shore Birds
  • Traces on the Appalachians: A Natural History of Serpentine in Eastern North America
  • Geode Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta

Germans and German-language Publications

  • Research Guide to the Turner Movement in the United States
  • Monatsroken (sp.?)
  • Dr. Hans Kudlich, 1913
  • Hobokenites: Die Freunde alle gruesst Kaegebehm’s Halle
  • Freibrief Satzungen und mitglieder liste des Deutschen clubs von Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Schlegel’s American Families of German Ancestry in the United States (4 volumes)

Green, Hetty

  • Hetty Green
  • Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon 
  • The Day They Shook the Plum Tree

Hoboken Businesses, Factories, and Industries

  • Every Kind of Shipwork: A History of Todd Shipyards Corporation
  • Cazin Brothers
  • What Next In Electric Lamp Making? The Cazin Lamps
  • Wiley: 175 Years of Publishing
  • Knowledge For Generations: Wiley and the Publishing Industry 1807-2007 (2 copies)
  • Banks and Banking newspaper clippings
  • Keuffel and Esser Company
  • Field to Factory: The Story of the Maxwell House Coffee Plant

Hoboken City Government

Hoboken City Budgets

  • Municipal Budget 1980
  • Municipal Budget 1982
  • Municipal Budget 1984 (2 copies)
  • Municipal Budget 1986 (2 copies)
  • Addendum/Adjustment to Municipal Budget 1994
  • Municipal Budget 1997
  • Municipal Budget 1998

Censuses

  • Hoboken Census 1850
  • Hoboken Census 1860
  • Hoboken Census 1940 Housing Block Statistics 
  • Hudson County Census data 2000

Government, Councils, Commissions

  • Undated: Ordinances of the City of Hoboken (Miniturn – 2 volumes)
  • Undated: Report of Findings and Recommendations of Charter Commission (2 copies)
  • Undated: Ordinance Establishing Building Zone and Regulation and Providing Penalties for Their Violations
  • Undated: Hoboken Survey, Recreation and Culture (roughly 14-15 copies)
  • Undated: Report on the Subcommittee on Development Finance and Project Management
  • 1852: Report of the Water Commissioners of Hoboken and Jersey City, 1852
  • 1855-1883: Ordinances of the City of Hoboken from March 23rd, 1855 – April 30th, 1883
  • 1866-1869: Statement of the Receipts and Expectations of the City of Hoboken, March 15th, 1866 – March 15th, 1869 
  • 1873: Report of the North Hudson Water Commission
  • 1882: Tariff of Rates and Regulations for the Use of Hackensack Water
  • 1889: Second Annual Report of the Board of Trustees, City of Hoboken
  • 1890: Laws Governing the Board of Water Commissioners
  • 1891: Hoboken Annual Report
  • 1892: Board of Education Report
  • 1892: Second Annual Message of the Hon. Edward R. Stanton, Mayor of the City of Hoboken
  • Ordinances of the City of Hoboken 1891
  • 1900: Survey of the Meadow District, December 12
  • 1901-1902: Annual Report of the Board of Health and Vital Statistics, Hoboken, NJ
  • 1902: City Comptroller Report
  • 1903-1908: Report of the Hudson County Park Commission: June 23, 1903 – June 23, 1908
  • 1904: Drainage of Meadow District, August
  • 1906-1910: New System Report and Audit of Accounts of the City of Hoboken, New Jersey
  • 1908-1910: Report of the Hudson County Park Commission: June 23, 1908 – November 30, 1910
  • 1910: Board of Excise Commissioners of the City of Hoboken
  • 1912: Sewerage and Drainage of Hoboken, New Jersey, October 9
  • 1921: Hoboken Meter Survey, August 1
  • 1948: Reed Report on the Government of Hoboken (5 copies)
  • 1949: Hoboken Pier Property and City Reports
  • 1970s: Model Cities Plan (2 copies)
  • 1970s-1980: Hoboken, A Comeback City: A Study of Urban Revitalization in the 1970s-1980 (2 copies)
  • 1975: Proposed Community Development Program for the City of Hoboken
  • 1979: Proposed Zoning Ordinance, May (2 copies)
  • 1985: Market Analysis, Downtown Hoboken Retail District, October 
  • 1988: Technical Manual, January
  • 1988: Status of Municipal Issues Under the Administration of Mayor Thomas F. Vezzetti, March 2
  • 1989-1996: Real Estate Transfers
  • 1996: Hoboken Task Force on Rent Control Revision and Modernization, June 30

Hoboken Master Plan

  • Undated: Population Analysis, Hoboken Master Plan
  • 1954: Land Use Analysis, Hoboken Master Plan, September
  • 1955: Housing and Redevelopment Plan, Hoboken Master Plan, February
  • 1955: Community Facilities, Hoboken Master Plan, August
  • 1955: Traffic and Transportation, Hoboken Master Plan, November
  • 1955: Plan For Land Use – Population Density, Hoboken Master Plan, December
  • 1956: Hoboken Master Plan
  • 1956: Public Utilities, Hoboken Master Plan, January
  • 1956: Zoning Proposals Housing Analysis, Hoboken Master Plan, February
  • 1978: Land Use Plan Element, Hoboken Master Plan (2 copies)
  • 1986: Hoboken Planning Board Master Plan Review Statement
  • 1990: Circulation and Parking Plan Element, Hoboken Master Plan, November
  • 1991: Recycling Plan Element
  • 2002: Hudson County Master Plan
  • 2003: Hoboken Master Plan

Hoboken History

Hoboken Historical Museum

  • History of Theatre, Vaudeville, and Movies in Hoboken (2 volumes)
  • Hoboken History 1-11: Hoboken Historical Museum Newsletter 1991-1994
  • City Animals (2 copies)
  • Deconstructing Hoboken
  • Greetings from Hoboken: A Postcard History (2 copies)
  • On The Waterfront: The Great Ships of Hoboken (3 copies)
  • From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s (4 copies)
  • Hoboken Historical Museum newsletters (various)
  • Hoboken oral history transcripts (booklets)
  • Hoboken Historical Museum items 2005-2006
  • A Chronological History of Hoboken 1609-1986 (2 copies)

Hoboken Organizations

  • Knights and Ladies of Honor, Grand Lodge of NJ, Hoboken Lodge Minutes, Nov. 1886-1891
  • Hoboken Chess Club Annals
  • Hoboken Chess and Checkers Club scrapbook
  • Chess Composition of L.B. Cook of Hoboken
  • YMCA of Hoboken, NJ newspaper clippings
  • Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 603 Scrapbook (1912-1924)
  • American Red Cross, May 1, 1950
  • Zonta Club of Hoboken, NJ (12/1930 – 6/1936 and 10/1936 – 6/1944)
  • Ruckblicke Deutacher Club. Von Hoboken 1857-1907

Hudson County (other towns with or besides Hoboken and the county as a whole)

  • History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Vols. 1-2
  • Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties in New Jersey
  • Jersey City and its Historic Sites
  • Annals of the Classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch Church
  • Hudson County Yearbook 2003
  • Jersey City of To-Day (2 copies)
  • Jersey City: A Monumental History
  • The History of Jersey City
  • Monograph on the Founding of Jersey City
  • Charter of and Acts Relating to or Affecting Jersey City
  • Receipts and Disbursements of the County of Hudson, 12/1/1887-11/30/1888
  • Index to the Hudson County Maps, 1840-1881
  • History of Hudson County: Genealogies of Prominent Families (1917)
  • Investigation of Affairs of Hudson County Reports, 1901-1912
  • Hudson Magazine: A Magazine of Progress (1910-1911)
  • Hudson County To-Day (2 copies)
  • History of Hudson County (1874, Winfield – 4 copies) 
  • Hudson County: The Left Bank (2 copies)
  • Report of the Hoboken, West Hoboken, Union Hill, and Weehawken Sub Committee of the Lady Managers of the World’s Columbian Exposition for the State of New Jersey
  • North Hudson and Hoboken Blue Book, 1912
  • History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, New Jersey (2 copies of 3 volume set + unbound copy)
  • History of Land Titles in Hudson County (2 copies)
  • Directory of County and Municipal Officials: 1928-1935, 1937-1943, 1945, 1948, 1950
  • West Hoboken, New Jersey
  • History of West Hoboken, New Jersey (2 copies)
  • Guttenberg, New Jersey: Its Early Days
  • History of West New York
  • History of Hudson County and of the Old Village of Bergen (1921, 5 copies)
  • Old Bergen
  • North Hudson Directory 1922-1923
  • Polk’s Union City Directory, 1929

Hudson River

  • New Guide to the Hudson River
  • The Hudson River Route
  • Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River
  • The Hudson: A Guidebook to the River (Arthur G. Adams)
  • The Hudson: Three Centuries of History, Romance, and Invention (Wallace Bruce – 2 copies)
  • Picturesque Hudson
  • The Hudson River (Boyle)
  • The Hudson (Benson J. Lossing)
  • Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor
  • Steamboat Days
  • The Hudson River Trail Guide
  • The Hudson (Stanne/Panetta/Forist)
  • Railroad Ferries of the Hudson

Italians

  • Americans of Italian Descent in New Jersey
  • The Italians of New Jersey
  • Industrial work, militancy, and migrations of northern Italian workers in Europe and Paterson, New Jersey, 1880-1913 (thesis)
  • Journey of the Italians in America
  • Italian-American Family History

Jersey Shore

  • New Jersey Shore: A Vanishing Splendor
  • Shore Chronicles
  • The Jersey Shore Vols. 1-3
  • A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore
  • The Beach Bum’s Guide to the Boardwalks of New Jersey
  • The Summer City by the Sea: Cape May
  • Historic Photos of Jersey Shore

Libraries

  • Jersey City Public Library Subject Index to the Local Newspapers
  • Survey of Libraries in the United States
  • ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
  • Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
  • NJLA 50th Anniversary: Meeting at the Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City, 4/19 – 4/20/1940
  • Title 40: Municipalities and Counties Libraries and Reading Rooms
  • Thomas Hatfield clippings (Hoboken librarian; spouse of Nina Hatfield)
  • Jersey City Public Library New Jersey Collection, April 1978
  • Catalogues of the Paintings Exhibit, Hoboken Library, 1908-1909
  • Library Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes vols. 2-3 (Jan. 1964 – Dec. 1973; Jan. 1973- Dec. 1983)
  • Footnotes (Friends of the Library newsletters)
  • Preservation of Library and Archival Materials (NEDCC)
  • Second Supplement of the Alphabetical Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Hoboken, NJ, January 1908
  • Alphabetischeu Katalog der. Stadt; Hoboken, NJ, Freien Offenthchen Bibliothek
  • A History of New Jersey Libraries
  • Alteration to Existing Library Building: 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken, New Jersey (Mayo, Lynch, and Associates Inc., 1960s)
  • Hoboken Public Library Exterior Stabilization and Lower Level Alterations (Dennis Kowal Architects, 2014 – post-Sandy renovations)

Literature, Popular History, and Other Books Not Related to Hoboken Specifically

  • Thompson Street Poker Club
  • Lectures Before the Thompson Street Poker Club
  • Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (vols. 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12)
  • Writings of Robert C. Sands (2 volumes; 2 copies)
  • Steep Trails (John Muir)
  • Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books (Ancient and Modern)
  • The Fabulous Forties, 1840-1850
  • From Hong Kong to the Himalayas
  • A Tramp Abroad (Mark Twain)
  • Europe and Elsewhere (Mark Twain)
  • From Sea to Sea (Rudyard Kipling)
  • Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages
  • Letter From New York (Lydia Maria Francis Child, 1845 – 4 copies)
  • Mountain Summers
  • American Caravan (year unlisted)
  • Sportsman vol. 11 no. 6 June 1932
  • Beever and Company
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventures (1950s compilation)
  • Straus-Macy: Rich Cut Glass Catalogue
  • Gleason’s Pictorial Vols. 1-2
  • Saturday Evening Post, 7/13/1929
  • Saturday Review of Literature
  • The Crusader
  • New York Mirror vols. 8, 9, 11, 14
  • The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1896
  • Irving Monthly Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1906
  • Daughter of Silence
  • 1927 Edgar Allen Poe compendium (Marie Roget was inspired by the death of Mary Rodgers)
  • Wanderer’s End
  • Custom House Guide, 24th Edition, 1905
  • Natural Enemies (T. Webb)
  • Hobnails and Heather
  • Woodside
  • The Gilded Lady
  • Room For Rent
  • From the Crash to the Blitz, 1929-1939
  • Editorials of Henry Watterson
  • Domestic Manners of the Americans
  • Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports
  • Mineral Waters of the United States and American Spas 
  • American Yachting
  • America’s Cup Races
  • Sons of the Revolution Constitution
  • Memories of Home
  • The Irrepressible Conflict (book about alcoholism, 1914)
  • April Survey Graphics Magazine
  • On The Trail of the Immigrant
  • Personal Narratives of Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826
  • Gleanings in England (vol. 2 – 1801)
  • Journals of Congress (1/1/1778-1/1/1779 – 1800)
  • Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times (1894)
  • History of the Town of Plymouth (1835)
  • The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians (vol. 6 – 1795)
  • Mythology of All Races (13 volumes)

Local Authors and Books About/Set In Hoboken

  • The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
  • The Mystery of the Folded Paper (Morley appears as a character)
  • Enough Rope (2 copies)
  • Pedrito Discovers America (2 copies)
  • His Honor, The Mayor of Hoboken (1923)
  • The Hoboken Terminal (zine; 1 volume from spring 1982 and two volumes from fall 1982)
  • The A in Autism Stands for Awesome
  • Drumbeat in Our Feet
  • Scoop the Ice Cream Truck
  • Lizzie and Lou Seal
  • Madeline
  • Max Goes Hunting (2 copies)
  • Rudy Rabbit Tried
  • Ice Cream Poems
  • The Burning Bush of Hoboken
  • The Listerine Lunatic Hits Hoboken and Other Strange Tales
  • Alive in the Sunshine
  • My Cat Story (2 copies)
  • The Place You Love Is Gone
  • Yuppies Invade My House At Dinnertime

Military History (mostly Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II)

  • Right and Duty of Citizen and Soldier
  • Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution
  • New York City During the American Revolution
  • Old Bergen Township (Now Hudson County) in the American Revolution
  • Revolutionary Scene in New Jersey
  • Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution (2 copies)
  • Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey (vol. 1: 1776-1777, vol. 2: 1778, vol. 5, Oct. 1780 – July 1782)
  • The Battles in the Jerseys
  • Block-House by Bull’s Ferry
  • A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail
  • The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley
  • Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815
  • Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, 1845 (in box labeled “Blue Book 1845”)
  • New Jersey’s Ninth Regiment, 1861-1905
  • Campaigns of the Civil War in the United States of America, 1861-1865 (2 copies)
  • Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (2 volumes)
  • Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home
  • National Memorial Day: A Record of Ceremonies Over the Graves of the Union Soldiers, May 29th-30th, 1870
  • Soldiers of the Great War (3 volumes)
  • Memories of the 309th Field Artillery
  • History of Battery F, 309th Field Artillery, 153rd Artillery Brigade, 78th Division 1917-1919
  • As They Passed Through The Port
  • World War I Casualties of the War, 1918-1922 (3 volumes, 4 binders)
  • Heroes All: Medal Recipients of 1917-1919
  • All For Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken
  • War Log of the U.S.S. Mount Vernon
  • Camp Merritt
  • Camp Merritt: The Most Used, The Least Remembered
  • With the Army at Hoboken
  • The Office of the Surgeon: Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ
  • Pilgrimage for The Mothers and Widows of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines
  • In Memoriam: The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War
  • The Language of World War II
  • New Jersey Army & Air Force National Guard: Footprints in the Sand (Desert Shield/Storm)

Morley, Christopher

  • Apologia Pro Sua Preoccupatione
  • The Blue and the Grey, or War Is Hell (3 copies)
  • Born in a Beer Garden or She Troupes to Conquer (co-written with Ogden Nash)
  • Seacoast of Bohemia (2 copies)

Music

  • Jersey Jingles (2 copies)
  • I Was Born In Hoboken (3 copies)
  • Singing Through The Ages
  • Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America
  • Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen mit Motiven
  • Long Live Liberty (2 copies)
  • State and National Songs of the United States of America: United Nations Folk Songs and National Anthems 

Native American History

Newark, New Jersey

  • History of the Newark Sewer System
  • The Archdiocese of Newark
  • Newark Museum: Tibetan Buddhist Altar
  • Newark Museum Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1975: Whaling Days in New Jersey

New Jersey (general)

  • Mapping New Jersey (2 copies)
  • “Documents relating to the revolutionary history of the State of New Jersey” (New Jersey Archives. ser. 2, v. 1-5.) (Trenton, N.J. : [s.n.], 1901-1917) (5 volumes)
  • Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey (4 volumes)
  • State of New Jersey Constitutional Convention, June 12, 1947 (4 volumes plus pamphlet)
  • Constitution of New Jersey
  • Constitutional Convention of New Jersey Committee Proposal No. 2-1
  • Laws of New Jersey
  • New Jersey Industrial Directories: 1938, 1941, 1943-1944, 1946, 1952-1953, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1979
  • 2011 Harris New Jersey Manufacturers Directory
  • The Story of New Jersey (5 volumes)
  • Scannell’s New Jersey’s First Citizens and State Guide (vols. 1, 2, 3, and 5)
  • Historic Houses of New Jersey
  • Public Service Review, 1924: Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
  • Public Service Review, 1927: Public Service Corporation of New Jersey (2 copies)
  • Public Service Review, 1928: Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
  • Biographical Cyclopedia of New Jersey
  • Historic New Jersey in Pictures
  • Biographical, Genealogical, and Descriptive History of the State of New Jersey (2 volumes)
  • Genealogy of New Jersey Families/A Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey (2 volumes)
  • New Jersey Almanac, 1964
  • New Jersey Almanac, 1967
  • Evening Journal Almanac and cyclopedia of useful local, state, municipal, and county information
  • The New Jersey Municipalities Law
  • New Jersey as a Colony And As A State (4 volumes)
  • Historic Roadsides in New Jersey
  • Lindner and McCarthy Families of Hoboken, Newark, and Elizabeth Port, NJ
  • Origin of New Jersey Place Names
  • Early Tools of New Jersey and the Men Who Made Them
  • Search For Early New Jersey Toolmakers
  • Gritty Cities
  • Women’s Place in New Jersey History
  • Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women
  • New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail
  • Industries of New Jersey, Hudson, Passaic, and Bergen Counties, Illustrated
  • New Jersey History
  • Indians of the Passaic Valley
  • Indians of Southern New Jersey
  • Indian Place Names in New Jersey
  • The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast
  • Greetings from New Jersey: A Postcard Tour of the Garden State
  • Digging New Jersey’s Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State
  • O’New Jersey
  • The WPA Guide to 1930s New Jersey
  • Three Centuries of Progress (2 copies)
  • Addresses Made on New Jersey History at the First Annual New Jersey Historical Congress
  • New Jersey Tercentenary, 1664-1964
  • Tales of New Jersey (Bell Telephone Company, 1963)
  • Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey
  • New Jersey Historical Society Vol. 100 nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1982)
  • New Jersey Historical Society Vol. 121 nos. 1-4 (2003)
  • New Jersey Road Maps of the 18th Century (1964)
  • Jersey Midlands
  • Old Canals of New Jersey
  • The Morris Canal: A Photographic History
  • More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
  • Tales of South Jersey
  • The Book of New Jersey (2 copies)
  • Traveling New Jersey (Frank J. Esposito)
  • New Jersey in History: Fighting To Be Heard
  • A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey (1834)
  • This is New Jersey (John T. Cunningham – 2 copies)
  • New Jersey: America’s Main Road (John T. Cunningham)
  • Celebration of the People: The Bicentennial in New Jersey, 1978 (2 copies)
  • 2004 New Jersey Official Travel Guide
  • The Struggle for Sex Education in New Jersey, 1979-2003: Policy, Persistence, and Progress
  • New Jersey (binder with caricatures of famous NJ residents on cover)
  • New Jersey’s African American Visitors Guide
  • Jersey Pilgrimage 
  • A Brief History of New Jersey
  • The New Jersey Municipal Data Book (2009)
  • Budget in Brief (Fiscal Year 2007-08)
  • New Jersey Budget 2009
  • New Jersey Public Sector 2005
  • How To Start a Business in the State of New Jersey
  • Modern Battles of Trenton: Being a History of New Jersey’s Politics and Legislation From the Year 1868 to the Year 1894 (1895)
  • Discover the Hidden New Jersey
  • Stories of New Jersey
  • As We Were: The Story of Old Elizabethtown
  • Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River
  • The New Jersey Churchscape
  • Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burying Grounds of The First Presbyterian Church and St. Johns Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1664-1892
  • Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey: A Guide
  • Rebuild by Design (Hurricane Sandy)
  • Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into New Jersey
  • Words That Make New Jersey History
  • New Jersey’s Special Places
  • Off The Beaten Path: New Jersey
  • Roadside New Jersey (Peter Genovese)
  • Americana Illustrated: New Jersey (1879)
  • Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Lurie and Mappen)
  • Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Somerset Publishing)
  • A Geography of New Jersey
  • New Jersey’s Multiple Municipal Madness
  • Wetlands of New Jersey
  • The Bridges of New Jersey
  • The New Jersey We Love!
  • The Jews of New Jersey
  • New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory for Jersey City, Bayonne, and Hoboken (Area Code 201) 1964
  • New Jersey: Setting the Stage for the Twenty-First Century
  • Blizzard! The Great Storm of ‘88
  • Gems of New Jersey

New York City and New York State (includes 9/11)

  • New York In Summer
  • Around Manhattan Island
  • Little Old New York
  • Fulfillment of Three Remarkable Prophecies in the History of the Great Empire State (3 copies)
  • New York Family
  • American Almanac: New York Directory (1826-27, 1836-37, 1839-40)
  • My Memories of Old New York
  • Memorial History of the City of New York and the Hudson River Valley
  • Dutch Under English Rule, 1674-1775
  • New York and Surrounding Territory Classified Business Directory, 59th Edition
  • The Story of the Bronx, 1639-1912
  • History of the City of New York: Externals of Modern New York
  • The Encyclopedia of New York City
  • The Historical Atlas of New York City
  • New York in the Nineteenth Century
  • September 11: Hoboken Remembers (2 copies)
  • The 9/11 Encyclopedia (2 volumes)
  • Portraits of 9/11
  • New York: September 11 (Magnum Photographers)

Poetry

  • Fanny, With Other Poems (2 copies)
  • Solo Verse (2 copies)
  • Birds of Hoboken: Poems
  • Poems by Whittier
  • Robert Frost: A Bibliography 1913-1974
  • The Ballad of John Castner
  • Book of New York Verse
  • Poems of New Jersey (Eugene Musgrove)
  • Patriotic Poems of New Jersey
  • Hoboken and Other Poems

Police and Fire Departments

  • Board of Police Commissioners: 1901, 1902,  1903-04, 1904, 1905
  • Souvenir Programme of the Ceremonies Upon the Unveiling of the Firemen’s Monument, May 30, 1891
  • Bureau of Police/Bureau of Fire/Public School Catalogue 1886, 1916, 1924
  • Bureau of Police Department of Public Safety 1921
  • Road to Anarchy: New Jersey State Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
  • 131 Clinton Street Fire, 1/20/1979
  • Fire Prevention
  • Fires and Fire Department newspaper clippings
  • Fires and Fire Department newspaper clippings: bound
  • National Board of Fire Underwriters Report on Hoboken, 1914
  • National Board of Fire Underwriters Report on Hoboken, 1933 (2 copies)
  • National Board of Fire Underwriters Report on Hoboken, 1959
  • Partners: Police and Public
  • Rules and Regulations: Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Police, City of Hoboken, 1924 
  • Tremendous Fire in New York City, 1835

Ports and Port Authority

  • Study of the Port of New York Authority
  • Via Port of New York Authority
  • Port Authority of New Jersey, June 1940
  • Port of New York: 1922, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932
  • Port of New York: 1941
  • Harbor and Haven: An Illustrated History of the Port of New York
  • Report on a Drydock at the Port of New York, May 1940
  • United States Maritime Commission
  • Hoboken Waterfront newspaper clippings
  • The Maritime Association of the Port of New York/New Jersey and the Steamship Agents Owners Operators Directory of the Major U.S. Ports
  • The Hackensack River Vertical Lift Bridges Historical District: Engineering, Navigation, and Commerce in the Port of New York

Railroads, Hoboken Terminal, NYC Subway, and PATH

Hoboken Terminal, DL&W, Erie, and Erie Lackawanna

General Railroads

NYC Subway and PATH

Ships and Ocean Liners

  • First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs (2 copies)
  • Destination Hoboken: The Great Ocean Liners (2 copies)
  • Guide Through North America: Souvenir of the North German Lloyd, Bremen, NY (2 copies)
  • Clipper Ship Prints by Currier and Ives
  • History of the U.S.S. Leviathan
  • Pilot Lore From Sail to Steam
  • Ships Locator (2 copies)
  • Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners 1860-1994
  • Passenger Ships Owned by the US Government
  • Fifty Famous Liners
  • Morton Allen Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals

Stevens Family

  • Ladies of Castle Stevens
  • John Stevens: An American Record (2 copies)
  • Calendar of the Stevens Papers: Vol. 1 1664-1750, Vol. 2 1751-1777
  • Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Stevens Family Papers
  • Castle Stevens of Yesterday (photo album)
  • Hoboken, New Jersey written by Richard Stevens in the 1890s

Stevens Hoboken Academy

  • Stevens Hoboken Academy Focus
  • Hoboken Academy 1860-1905 (Announcement and other formations collected)
  • Reminisces of the Hoboken Academy
  • 91st Annual Commencement, Stevens Hoboken Academy, 6/14/1951
  • The Sentry (yearbook): 1908, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 [Jersey City Public Library has missing volumes]

Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Songs of Stevens: Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Stevens Alumni Association 2011 Alumni Directory
  • Morton Memorial: A History of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (1905)
  • Inventory of Program Offerings at New Jersey Institutions of Higher Education
  • Biographical Notice of President Henry Morton of the Stevens Institute of Technology
  • History of Stevens Institute of Technology: A Record of Broad-Based Curricula and Technogenesis
  • Stevens Institute of Technology: Exterior and Interior Views 
  • Stevens Indicator, July 28th, 1911
  • Stevens 75th Anniversary, October 31, 1945
  • Biographical Sketch of the Late John Henry Cuntz (Stevens alumnus) 
  • Catalogue of the Lieb Memorial Collection of Vinciana

St. Mary’s Hospital/Hoboken University Medical Center

Theatre and Performing Arts

  • Recreation Center Musicals: Feb. 27th, 1948 and Feb. 25th, 1949, Joseph Brandt School, 9th and Garden Streets, Hoboken, NJ (1948-49)
  • The Drama, v. 19 Feb. 1929 no. 5
  • Gayety Theatre Newspaper Clippings, 1910-1923
  • Gayety Theatre Playbills, 1910-1914
  • Hudson Theatre News
  • Hoboken Theatres
  • Magazine and Daily Review: Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey
  • Concert, Waldheim-Stevens Forum
  • Hoboken Forum Programs, 1920-1921
  • Phillip Waldheim-Stevens Forum: Arts and Crafts Exhibit
  • Waldheim-Stevens Forum Newspaper Clippings

Tunnels

  • Hudson Dispatch: Lincoln Tunnel Edition, December 1937
  • Holland Tunnel, Historical Number (2 copies)
  • Tunnel Day, Jersey City, July 19, 1969

Waterfront-Hoboken

  • Undated: A Plan For The Hoboken Waterfront (Coalition For A Better Waterfront)
  • 1905: Department of Docks and Ferries Annual Report, City of Hoboken
  • 1947: The Development of the Hoboken Piers, September 15
  • 1949: Marine Terminal Survey of the New Jersey Waterfront, February 10th
  • 1980: Market Analysis and Development Programs for Designated Waterfront Redevelopment Districts in Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey, February
  • 1984: Hudson Waterfront Walkway Plan and Design Guidelines and Addendum, March
  • 1985: River City (2 copies)
  • 1985: Urban Waterfronts 
  • 1987: Urban Waterfronts 
  • 1987: Guidelines for Waterfront Development, August
  • 1989: Building Design Guidelines for the Waterfront at Hoboken, November
  • 1990: Port Authority Facility Condition Survey Program, January
  • 1992: Hudson Waterfront Walkway, Plan and Design Guidelines
  • 1993: Waterfront Development Projects Status Report
  • 1996: Reclaiming the Waterfront, August

WTC Site/Oculus

  • 2004: Permanent WTC PATH Terminal Draft Environmental Impact Statement
  • 2004: Permanent WTC PATH Terminal Draft Environmental Impact Statement Appendices
All Hoboken Public Library locations will be closed from 4pm on November 27 through December 1. We will reopen with regular hours on December 2.
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