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
- The Hermitage, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
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
- United Synagogue of Hoboken, NJ, 64th Anniversary Dinner Dance In Honor of Sam Schleikorn, Sunday, April 12, 1970
- The First 100 Years: United Synagogue of Hoboken Centennial Gala, November 19, 2005
- Symbolism of the Christian Dead
- Holy Communion, Its Nature; A Sermon
- Souvenir of the Adornment by Painting and Statuary of the Church of Our Lady of Grace
- Souvenir of the Redecoration of the Church of Our Lady of Grace, 1941
- Reverend A. Cauvin, Founder, Our Lady of Grace
- Church of Our Lady of Grace 100th Anniversary
- 75th Anniversary of St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hoboken, NJ, 1858-1933
- Hoboken Churches newspaper clippings (bound and unbound)
- Church of Saints Peter and Paul 75th Anniversary (2 copies)
- Biographical Sketch of the Late William Cooper (vestryman at St. Paul’s)
- Trinity Parish, 1853-1903 (5 copies)
- Memorial of Louis Sandford Schuyler, Priest
- Newspaper Tributes to the Memory of Monsignor Charles J. Kelly
- 92nd Anniversary of First Methodist Episcopal Church, 1846-1938
- Little Church Around The Corner
- Golden Jubilee Celebration 1888-1938, Saint Francis Church
- The History of Protestant Nonconformity in Great Britain (1837)
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
- Hoboken Teachers’ Strike, 1975
- Board of Education Minutes, 1912
- Annual Report of the Board of Education: 1889-91, 1906-10, 1912, 1914-19
- Manual of the Board of Education: 1884-85, 1890-91, 1897 (1870-78?)
- The academic assimilation of mainstreamed bilingual students: a case study of bilingual students mainstreamed in the Hoboken, New Jersey school district and the development of a mainstreamed criteria model (thesis)
- Demarest Course of Study
- The Book of Phi Alpha Sigma (medical fraternity)
- Hoboken, NJ Schools
- My Square Mile Life: Personal Narratives from the Eleventh Grade at Hoboken/AJ Demarest High School
- Elementary School News
- Manual of the Board of Education
- Directory of Public Schools for Hudson County, New Jersey
- Board of Education Minutes: 1884-85, 1886-87, 1889-91, 1890-91, 1893, 1895-98, 1899-01, 1902, 1907, 1906-08, 1909-12, 1912, 1914-16, 1917-19
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
- 1866-1870: Statement of the Receipts and Expectations of the City of Hoboken, March 15th, 1866 – March 15th, 1870
- 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 and 1901: City Ordinances of the City of Hoboken
- 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
- Council Minutes, City of Hoboken: 1885-1886, 1901-1903, 1903-1905, 1906-1909, 1909-1911, 1910, 1910-1911, 1911-1912, 1912-1913
- Hoboken Town Gossip, 1/9/1915
- Newspaper Tribute to the Memory of Edward Russ
- Hoboken, NJ newspaper clippings (6556)
- Hoboken, NJ newspaper clippings (6558)
- Evening News and Hoboken (2 copies)
- Hoboken Illustrated
- Hoboken Industrial Exposition 1925
- Hoboken: Reaching Out To Tomorrow (11 copies)
- 150 Years of Hoboken Anniversary Journal (13 copies)
- The Hoboken of Yesterday (18 copies)
- Hoboken Tax Lists, 1902-1927, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1936
- Financial Reports: 1872-1873, 1873-1888, 1888-1894, 1897-1899, 1899-1901, 1901-1906, 1911-1913
- Board of Commissioners: 1892-1894, 1915-1916, 1916-1918, 1919-1921, 1922-1923, 1924, 1926, 1927
- Building Code of the City of Hoboken, New Jersey, 1911 and 1913
- Inventory and Appraisement of Property of the City of Hoboken, NJ, 5/1/1916
- Romance of the Hoboken Ferry
- Hoboken Baby Congress
- Sanitary Code, 1891
- Health and Vital Statistics | Stevens Fund | City of
- Hoboken, 1901-02, 1913
- Board of Health, 1896
- Board of Health Minutes: 1893, 1899, 1901, 1905
- City of Hoboken Board of Trade 1910-1912, 1914-1915, 1916-1917
- Board of Trade Bulletin: 1910-1911 (2 copies), 1910-1912, 1911-1912, 1914-1915, 1916, 1917
- Historic Hoboken (map)
- Hoboken, NJ Early History: Source Directories, 1851-1855
- Hoboken, New Jersey: A Brief History of its Politics by J. Owen Grundy
- Hoboken 50th Anniversary: Golden Jubilee of the Incorporation of the City of Hoboken, March 28, 1905
- Hoboken Deed (typewritten)
- Hoboken: A Collection of Essays (6 copies)
- Hobokenites A-K
- Hobokenites L-Z
- Hoboken: The Land of Plenty (Bobby Berry)
- History of the City of Hoboken, NJ (2 copies)
- Hoboken: Origin of the Name (5 copies)
- Hoboken Centennial newspaper clippings
- Prohibition Hoboken newspaper clippings (1917-1921)
- Tales of Old Hoboken newspaper clippings
- Scribner’s Magazine, July 1895: Life at the Athletic Clubs
- Directory of Public Officials: Hoboken Chamber of Commerce
- A Plea for Justice for the City of Hoboken
- Soldiers Monument Program
- The Great “I Am” And Third-Term Candidate (1880)
- Walking Around Hoboken (2 copies)
- Directory of Public Officials, Education, Civic and Charitable Organizations, Churches and Religious Congregations, etc.
- Pocket Edition History of Hoboken, NJ, together with a history of the Jefferson Trust Company, Clinton and 1st Streets, Hoboken, NJ
- From Hoboken to Cairo
- Portrait of a Mile Square City (3 copies)
- Board of Excise Commissioners of the City of Hoboken: Rules, Regulations and Ordinances governing the licensing of Saloons, Beer Bottlers, Billiard Saloons and Bowling Alleys… (1910)
- Community service newspaper clippings (H 651)
- Hoboken Cooks (2 copies)
- Hoboken Cooks for Kids
- Images of America: Hoboken (3 copies)
- A Guide to the City of Hoboken, 1987 (5 copies)
- Portfolio of Hoboken
- Hoboken: A Romance of New York vol. 1 (1843)
- Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845-1985
- Municipal Yearbook of the City of Hoboken, 1913
- Legendary Locals of Hoboken
- Hoboken Tercentenary (10/4 – 10/12/1930)
- Cemetery Trustees Regular Meetings, 1905-1915 (box labeled Hoboken Cemetery)
- History of Hoboken (issued by the Board of Trade, 1907)
- Hoboken: Details of the Mile Square (2 copies)
- 100 Hoboken Firsts (2 copies)
- Hoboken of Yesterday newspaper clippings
- Directory and Buyer’s Guide of the Hoboken Chamber of Commerce, November 1950
- American City Magazine (Municipal research helps city officials and saves money in Hoboken)
- America’s City Halls
- De Straten en Straatnamen van Hoboken (Belgium)
- Historic Photos of Hoboken
- Hoboken: History and Architecture at a Glance
- Hoboken, NJ Scrapbook
- Steneck Trust Company, Hoboken, NJ Bank Closing
- Hoboken Advertiser (2 copies)
- Hoboken: A City in Transition
- Catalogues
- Assorted booklets
- Hophoghan Hackingh (2 copies)
- Proposed Charter for the City of Hoboken (unsleeved paper)
- Hoboken and the Affluent New Yorkers’ Search for Recreation, 1820-1860
- Going Places: Hoboken, NJ
- Guide to Hoboken and Elysian Fields
- The Bicentennial Comes to Hoboken (4 copies)
- Books of Search Against the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company’s Title Carried Down to the Year 1890
- The Story of Herman Busch and Busch’s Hotel
- Hoboken Centennial
- Hobokenites: A-K, H-Q, Q-Z (three binders; shelved below Stephen Foster)
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
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)
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“Documents relating to the colonial, revolutionary and post-revolutionary history of the state of New Jersey” (Newark, N.J.: Daily Advertiser Printing House, 1880) (43 volumes)
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“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
- Fire Prevention
- Board of Police Commissioners: 1901, 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
- Road to Anarchy: New Jersey State Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
- 131 Clinton Street Fire, 1/20/1979
- 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
- 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
Hoboken Terminal and other Railroads
Hoboken Terminal
- Undated: Erie Lackawanna Terminal Historic Structures Report, Hoboken, NJ
- 1978: Erie Lackawanna Railroad Environmental Assessment Report, June (3 copies)
- 1978: Erie Lackawanna Railroad Improvements Project (Hoboken Division), November
- 1990: Hoboken Transit Study, May 25 (2 copies)
- 1998: Hoboken LRT Station and West Side Alignment Environmental Assessment, November
- 2000: Hoboken Terminal and Yard Rehabilitation Environmental Assessment and Section 4 (F) Evaluation, December (3 volumes)
- 2008: Access to the Region’s Core: Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (March)
- 2018: Pullman Yard Concrete Bumpers, Old Main Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Historic District: Written Historical and Descriptive Data and Photographs
- Over the Rails By Steam: A Railroad Scrapbook
- Ashcroft’s Railroad Directory (1864)
- The Cable Car in America
- Abandoned Railroads of North Jersey (2 copies)
- Pioneer Railroads
- The Modern Railroad
- A Practical Treatise on Railroads (1825)
- New York Subway Hudson River Tunnels, 1911
- Rapid Transit in New York City and Other Great Cities
- Silver Connections (subway)
- Hoboken’s Lackawanna Terminal (2 copies)
- Guide-Book of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and Its Connections Through the Coal-Fields of Pennsylvania (1864)
- Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City
- Great American Railroad Stations
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
- Diamond Jubilee and Charity Ball, St. Mary’s Hospital (1863-1938)
- St. Mary’s Hospital Charity Ball 1936
- St. Mary, Hoboken, NJ, 1969 – Dedication to John J. Grogan (2 copies)
- St. Mary 1974 (2 copies)
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