Series I: Photographs, 1882-1951

This series consists of over 220 photographs, relating to the NCH, assembled by Dr. Samuel Berg. The series includes pictures of horse-drawn ambulances, the 1882 Alms House, the hospitals' first X-Ray machine, hospital facilities, and members of the house staff from 1907 through 1951. In addition, there are 14 identified portraits of the Newark City Hospital Medical Board and Newark Physicians in 1883, which were originally matted in a single frame. On March 3, 1981, the portraits were removed from the frame, cleaned, and placed in acid free folders (Box 6, Folders 1-14). [For biographical information on the physicians in these images see: Shaw, William H., Comp. History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey. Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1884. 2 vols.]

Negatives are available for some prints. Due to the different accessions, photographs can be found in boxes 1-4, 6, and 10.

In 1989, a grant from the New Jersey State Library enabled the UMDNJ Archives to take certain steps towards preserving the historical photographs of the Berg Collection. The photographs were conserved by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts; conservation measures included the production of copy negatives and archivally processed, fiber based prints.