Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township (N.J.)
Author
Pub. Date
1913-2007.
Language
English
Description
The Garden Club of Morristown Records spans the years 1913-2007. The bulk of the material dates from 1970-2003. The records consist of minutes of the executive committee and member meetings, annual reports, budgets and treasurer's reports, awards and medals, scrapbooks, membership lists, newspaper clippings and club bulletins.
Pub. Date
1959
Language
English
Description
The Concerned Citizens of the Second Ward Records (CCSW) was founded in 1978 to promote the interests of Morristown’s Second Ward, including redevelopment of the Goldere Junkyard site, construction of affordable housing, and the creation of Patriot’s Path park through the neighborhood. The records are comprised primarily of textual materials, including notes, correspondence, agendas, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, publicity and reports....
Author
Pub. Date
1928-2007.
Language
English
Description
The Monday Reading Club provided a social and intellectual tradition for the ladies of Morristown, New Jersey. The documents in this collection include By-laws, correspondence, newspaper clippings, membership and historical information, reading records and photographs. Specifically, this collection also contains information on the 60th and 70th anniversaries, an incomplete list of early members and the clubs' 2007 termination letter.
Author
Pub. Date
1877
Language
English
Description
The records of the Women’s Employment Society date from 1877 to 1980. They include minutes from both general member and board member meetings of the Society, correspondence between Society members and each other, as well as business partners and attorneys, brief financial records, press materials about the Society, and business information such as price lists.
Author
Pub. Date
1898-2001.
Language
English
Description
The Visiting Nurse Association records contain historical files, meeting minutes, annual reports, and general office files including newsletters, information about the Centennial Celebration of 1998, correspondence, public relations and fundraising information. Also, the records contain information on the early nursing staff and photographs from as early as 1884 to the early 1990's.
Pub. Date
1693
Language
English
Description
The Ford Papers (1693-1979) document the personal lives of a prominent Morris County family. A diversity of interests and activities of the Ford family and related families are reflected by the materials found in the collection. Most of the collection involves the Ford family itself (especially the Rev. Edwin Shephard Ford) spanning the period from the late seventeenth-century to contemporary times. It documents the genealogical history of the Ford...
Author
Pub. Date
1921-
Language
English
Description
The Modern Mondays Reading Club was founded as a book club in the 1920's in the Morristown area of Northern New Jersey. Like-minded women with a love of literature gathered on a monthly basis to discuss books, poetry, philosophy and religion. The records of the Modern Mondays Club include meeting minutes, program guides, program reports (book reports), membership lists, correspondence, a few newspaper clippings, two photographs, Constititions and...
Pub. Date
1925
Language
English
Description
This collection consists of the administrative and working papers of the Home Garden Club of Morristown, which date from to its founding in 1925 to the present. The records are organized into seven main series: Administration, Board and President Files, Club Activity, Committees, Awards, Photographs, and Slides. Administration papers are comprised of by-laws, histories of the organization, and annual reports, or "yearbooks", summarizing the Club's...
Pub. Date
1834
Language
English
Description
The collection consists primarily of printed materials including correspondence, programs, newsletters, sermons, and ephemera. One sermon of note is "The Convocation at Miletus", written by Archbishop George Washington Doane and given in 1834 at St. Peter's Church. The papers also include transcribed excerpts of the diary kept by the Church's first permanent rector, Reverend Benjamin Holmes.
Author
Pub. Date
1956-2006.
Language
English
Description
The records of the Zonta Club of the Morristown Area include meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, bulletins, newsletters, program booklets, and photographs. As a member of Zonta International, a worldwide service organization of professional women, the Morristown Area Chapter is dedicated to serving social organizations and women's groups in the Morris County area with volunteer time, financial assistance and benefit events.
Author
Pub. Date
1930-1999.
Language
English
Description
The records of the American Association of University Women- Morristown branch include meeting minutes, bulletins, reports and newsletters. Other items in the collection include historical, presidential, national organization and, program files. Two guest books, five scrap books and slides provide contextual details.
Author
Pub. Date
1869-1988.
Language
English
Description
The material in the collection documents the professional, financial and social activities of one of the oldest fire companies in operation in Morristown today. These records provide insight in to the nature of volunteer firefighting in the late 19th and 20th centuries and also highlight the organization's place in the larger community. Types of material included in the collection are minutes, roll books and fire registers, correspondence, subject...
Pub. Date
1791
Language
English
Description
The records of this collection consist primarily of printed materials that include governing records, published sermons, programs, epehemera, original artwork and artifacts. Among the governing records are a few deeds and legal papers. Of particular interest are several published Church histories that were printed during various anniversaries. A November 9, 1941 sermon by Rev. Thomas S. Mutch offers a unique glimpse into the soul searching that occured...
Pub. Date
1967-1981.
Language
English
Description
Recorded interviews with Caroline Rose Foster (1877-1979) who owned Fosterfields in Morris Township, and who was a major benefactor of the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, and with her friends and employees: B. Lucille Able, Earl Beach, Beatrice Black, Barbara Hoskins, Joseph Hovance, Frank T. Murphy, Frances Murray, Theresa Murray, Russell Myers, Elizabeth Papps, Jean Thompson Patterson, Mildred Simms, Clayton Smith, Ruth...
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Recorded interviews conducted by Cheryl Turkington with long-time residents of Irish descent in Morristown, N.J from 1999 to 2004. The individuals in this collection shared their recollections of Morristown in formal recorded interviews that began in 1999 and were conducted by Library archivist Cheryl Turkington. The interviews are part of a larger Irish history project conducted by Turkington that culminated in the publication of her book, "Ordinary...
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