Middlesex County (N.J.)

Abstract: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (1919 - 2001) represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until 1982. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1953 through 1956. A member of the Democratic Party, Williams held leadership positions on the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the Special Committee on Aging, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Select Committee on Small Business, among others. The Williams papers consist of legislative working files and...

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...

Abstract: The Somerset County Multiple Listing Service began in 1964 as a project of the Somerset County Board of Realtors. It produced standardized real estate listings, one per reproduced sheet, for use by real estate offices that were members of the County Board. The records in this collection consist of a set of these listings, grouped by municipality, for the years 1976 to 1991. The listings describe houses, condominiums and vacant land offered for sale in most of Somerset County, New Jersey (but...