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Collection
Identifier: MC 739
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
Founded in 1901 as an Orthodox Jewish congregation in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Congregation Poile Zedek became a Conservative congregation for a short period, beginning in 1968, before reverting to Orthodox Judaism. Its Ladies Auxiliary (later Sisterhood) began in 1920, and its large synagogue building on Neilson Street was completed in 1924. The organization's records date from 1917 to 1969 and from 1985 to 1997. They consist of a constitution, minutes, a scrapbook, financial documents...
Collection
Identifier: MC 547
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
The Gaston family resided in Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey. Among the members of the family were Hugh M. Gaston, his spouse Frances Gaston (nee Mallet-Prevost), their daughter Evelyn (who married Augustus VanderVeer), and the latter couple's daughter Elizabeth Kirkpatrick VanderVeer. The papers primarily consist of letters, 1837-1847, exchanged between Hugh M. Gaston and his brothers; letters, 1848-1946 with gaps, received by Frances Gaston and three of her children from other...
Collection
Identifier: MC 1410
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
The current-day Laborers' International Union of North America was founded in 1903 and its New Brunswick Local 156 in 1915. Records of the international and local unions detail their history. (Local 156 was disbanded in 2000.) Based on the collection, and his history as a member, vice president and president of Local 156, John Clancy wrote a thesis and later developed an exhibition at Rutgers University Libraries, Who Built New Brunswick? The History of the...
Collection
Identifier: MC 748
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
The New Jersey Folk Festival is an annual event run as a class by the Rutgers University American Studies Department under the supervision of Professor Angus Gillespie. Although some sound recordings are included, the folk festival's records primarily consist of correspondence, reports, background documents, photographs and notes created by the festival's staff; consequently, the documents in the collection pertain to the folk festival as an event and as a class. The final/area reports in...