Glen Ridge Public Library

1001-1050 of 1401 Items

B0892a

Format:Large print

Year: 1950

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Battalion Forum Minstrel Show, May 16, 1950 (See also B0892b for different image)

B0892b

Format:Large print

Year: 1950

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Battalion Forum Minstrel Show, May 16, 1950 (See also B0892a for different image)

B0893-back

Format:Small print

Year: 1943

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Back of B0893: Mayor Charles Griffith (in uniform) and Mrs Susan Griffith beneath the Lackawanna Railroad bridge over the Delaware River, 2/22/43 - During the guarding of the bridges by the NJ State Guard

B0893-front

Format:Small print

Year: 1943

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Mayor Charles Griffith (in uniform) and Mrs Susan Griffith beneath the Lackawanna Railroad bridge over the Delaware River, 2/22/43 - During the guarding of the bridges by the NJ State Guard (See B0893-back)

B0894-back

Format:Small print

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Back of B0894: Colonel Harold Kennard (in uniform) with Mrs Frances Kennard and Mrs Susan Griffith beneath the Lackawanna Railroad bridge over the Delaware River, 2/22/43 - During the guarding of the bridges by the NJ State Guard

B0894-front

Format:Small print

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Colonel Harold Kennard (in uniform) with Mrs Frances Kennard and Mrs Susan Griffith beneath the Lackawanna Railroad bridge over the Delaware River, 2/22/43 - During the guarding of the bridges by the NJ State Guard (see B0894-back)

B0895

Format:Large print

Year: 1965

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All Sports Dinner, 1965 or 1966, speakers table - Annual dinner sponsored by the Battalion Forum, in honor of Glen Ridge High School athletes

B0896

Format:Large print

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Boys' tennis team

B0898

Format:Small print

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Empty train station

B0899

Format:Small print

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Train tracks

B0900

Format:Large print

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Battalion Forum skit “The Forgotten Man” cast photo (in costume), May 22, 1934 – Names on back of photo

B0906

Format:Large print

Year: 1931

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Glen Ridge Municipal Buildings, c1931 – View NE across Bloomfield Ave (at intersection with Herman St) showing the Fire, Police, Municipal and Library buildings – Note: clock not yet added to tower of Municipal Building

B0907

Format:Large print

Year: 1931

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Glen Ridge Municipal Building under construction, May 11, 1931 - View looking SE at basement walls and steel work being erected - Library building in left background

B0908

Format:Large print

Year: 1931

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Glen Ridge municipal buildings under construction, Aug 11, 1931 – Looking NW from sidewalk toward Municipal and Police Buildings – Buildings scaffolded and most of the superstructure is completed, except the tower

B0909

Format:Metal mounted slide

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Map showing the town boundaries of Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, and eastern boundary of Montclair – Indicates portion of Bloomfield that became Glen Ridge in 1895 - Hand drawn by Percy S. Wilson, Jan 29, 1974

B0911

Format:Small print

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A&P grocery store on Herman Street, 1973

B0912

Format:Small print

Year: 1888

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Hand drawn map of Glen Ridge by Ed. S Mitchell in 1888 (3rd page of a 3-page document - See B0912a, b & c for better images)

B0912a

Format:Large print

Year: 1888

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Title page of "Map of Glen Ridge in Essex County" hand drawn by Ed. S Mitchell in 1888 (page 1 of 3-page document - See also B0912b & c)

B0912b

Format:Large print

Year: 1888

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Hand drawn calendar grids for the months of May through September 1888, by Ed. S Mitchell (page 2 of 3-page document - See also B0912a & c)

B0912c

Format:Large print

Year: 1888

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1888 Map of Glen Ridge hand drawn by ES Mitchell - Buildings, land use, industry, railroad, Toney's Brook, and: Bloomfield, Ridgewood, Woodland & Hillside Aves; Clark & Lincoln Sts; Snowden & Appleton Pls (p3 of 3pp doc. - See also B0912a & b)

B0913

Format:Small print

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Letter of Glen Ridge Quarry and Mining Co., with deed description

B0914

Format:Small print

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Moffett's Mill in operation, about 1880

B0915

Format:Small print

Year: 1886

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Sketch of AG Darwin – In 1886 he purchased 40 acres (Gallagher Farm) S of Bloomfield Ave and developed GR as a residential community – He constructed 26 houses, Ridgewood Ave Train Station, and GR Hall (222 Ridgewood Ave) (See B0915-back)

B0915a

Format:Small print

Year: 1886

Description:

Back of B0915: Sketch of AG Darwin – In 1886 he purchased 40 acres (Gallagher Farm) S of Bloomfield Ave and developed GR as a residential community – He constructed 26 houses, Ridgewood Ave Train Station, and GR Hall (222 Ridgewood Ave)

B0916

Format:Small print

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Bloomfield Avenue grade crossing, Lackawanna railroad

B0917

Format:Small print

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School building, Ridgewood and Bloomfield Avenues, 1900

B0918

Format:Small print

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Dodd family group at home where school stands

B0919

Format:Small print

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Belleville Avenue looking east, very early

B0920

Format:Small print

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Old Kyner Farm located on Watchung Ave at GR - Bloomfield line - View of yard, barn and out buildings behind farmhouse - Rear side of farmhouse in background left (see B1119 for front of farmhouse)

B0921

Format:Small print

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Spite fence on Wildwood Terrace

B0922

Format:Small print

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Early view from Meade Terrace, looking north

B0923

Format:Small print

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Fiftieth Anniversary of Glen Ridge party, the Glen

B0924-DUP

Format:Postcard

Year: 1908

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Postcard photo of Lackawanna Station (Ridgewood Ave. Station), in 1908 when it also housed the post office - Shows wooden railing and stair case to track - View SW from across Ridgewood Ave. (Copy of Barrows 924) (Given to GR Historical Society)

B0925

Format:Large print

Year: 1873

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1873 Timetable for Montclair Midland Railway (later the Erie Railroad) – The GR stop is listed as Chestnut Hill, later renamed to Glen Ridge (aka Benson Street Station) - Published in the Mar 22, 1873 issue of the Saturday Gazette

B0926

Format:Large print

Year: 1874

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1874 Timetable for DL&W Railroad, Newark & Essex Branch of Morris & Essex Division (aka Lackawanna), effective June 1, 1874 – The GR stop is listed as Ridgewood, later renamed to Glen Ridge (aka Ridgewood Ave Station)

B0927

Format:Large print

Year: 1974

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3 new police cars, parked in front of Police Station with 2 uniformed policemen, 1974

B0928

Format:Large print

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Mrs McFadden, Ed Warren and Mrs Carpenter holding poster for musical performance by the GR Congregational Church Choirs, posed outside (GR Congregational Church?)

B0929

Format:Small print

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Factory buildings formerly on the S side of Belleville Ave, now Freeman Field House & Hurrell Field - Housed various businesses, including Hayden’s Mill & Edison’s Storage Battery factory - View SE across Belleville Ave, W of Sherman Ave

B0930

Format:Large print

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Portrait of Muriel Robinson, Minister of Music, GR Congregational Church

B0931

Format:Large print

Year: 1974

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Chimney and dormer windows of Lackawanna (aka Ridgewood Ave) Station - Photo by Jeanne Tifft, 1974

B0933

Format:Large print

Year: 1974

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View NW of front and south sides of upper story of GR Library – Photo taken from bottom of stairs S of the Library - Photo by Jeanne Tifft, 1974

B0934

Format:Large print

Year: 1974

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Benson Street Station (Erie Railroad) looking W from railroad tracks on Benson St - Photo by Jeanne Tifft, 1974 (See also GR Heritage book p.32)

B0935-DUP

Format:Photo

Year: 1906

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Glen Ridge High School student body in front of Ridgewood Ave School, c 1906 (Copy of Barrows 935) (Given to GR Historical Society)

B0936-DUP

Format:Article

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Article with photo of RJ Beach house and later Clemens Herschel house (148 Ridgewood Ave.) - Demolished c 1930 for construction of Old Oak Rd. (Copy of Barrows 936) (Given to GR Historical Society)

B0937-DUP

Format:Article

Year: 1890

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Excerpt titled "Glen Ridge and its Points of Interest" with early photo of Glen Ridge Hall & Lackawanna (Ridgewood Ave) Station, and narrative on Glen Ridge, c 1890 (Copy of Barrows 937) (Given to GR Historical Society)

B0938

Format:Small print

Year: 1912

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Temporary footbridge over railroad, 1912

B0939

Format:Small print

Year: 1918

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Ridgewood Avenue, looking north from Snowden Place, about 1918

B0940

Format:Large print

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Dr. Edw. C. Stillwell, 1889 (?) – 1973

B0941

Format:Large print

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Residence of Hall, 272 Ridgewood Avenue - Rudd House (276 Ridgewood Ave) on the right

B0942

Format:Small print

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Henry S. Chapman portrait, on display at the GR Library