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Late Fall 2016-Winter 2017 Acquisitions

February 21, 2017February 21, 2017 Christie Lutz

Alvarez, Ann. The Mass Grave at the First Reformed Church. New Brunswick, NJ. East Brunswick Historical Society, 2008.

American Whig Society. Catalogue of the American Whig Society. Princeton, NJ: Published by the order of the Society, Princeton University, 1865.

Bowman, Bill. Murderer of the Year: A True Story. PJB Creatives, Inc., 2009.

Boyd, William Henry. Boyd’s Newark Business Directory. Newark, NJ: A.J. Dennis & Co., 1857

Brown, Mercy. Loud is How I Love You: A Hub City Romance. New York: InterMix Books, 2016.

Clark, Rhonda L. and Miller, Nicole Wedemeyer. Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2016.

Cohen, Ronny. From Homer to Hopper: American Visions in 19th and 20th Century Art. Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery. Princeton, NJ: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Co., 1990 .

Degrassi, Carol. City of Somers Point: Before and After (Vol. 1). Somers Point, NJ: Somers Point Historical Society, 2004.

Directory of the City of Trenton 1854/1855. Trenton, N.J. : J.M. Clark, R.H. Moore, J.O. Raum, 1855.

Forgosh, Linda B. Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2016.

Friends of New Netherland and New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Reflections on the World: The Writings of Howard G. Hageman. Albany: New Netherland Publishing, 1993.

Fuentes, Marissa J. and White, Deborah Gray. Scarlet and Black Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Green, Howard L. and Associates, Inc. Telephone Survey of Food Store Shopping Habits, Opinions, and Attitudes in Kings Marketing Area. Troy, MI. May 5,1989.

Green, Howard L. and Associates, Inc. In-Store Survey Results for Nine Kings Super Markets. Troy, MI. January 26, 1990.

Green Book Street Directory of Trenton and Adjacent Territory, Historic Places of Interest and General Information. Trenton, NJ: L.B. Prince, 1932.

Hajdu, David. Love for Sale: Pop Music in America. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2016.

Havens, Mark. Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2016.

Havens, Jessie L. Cold Case: Hall-Mills Murderer Revisited. Bridgewater, NJ: Heritage Trail Association, 2016.

Jardim, Edward A. The Ironbound: An Illustrated History of Newark’s “Down Neck.” Frenchtown, NJ: Stone Creek Publications, 2016.

Karcher, Joseph T. A Municipal History of the Township of Sayreville, 1876-1920. Boston: Meader Publishing Company, 1953.

Kem-Lec-Mek: The Annual of the Students, College of Engineering. Newark, NJ: Newark Technical School, 1926.

Ketler, William H. Chronic Kicker on Politics. Camden, NJ: Outlook Company, 1900.

Listokin, David, Dorothea Berkhout and James W. Hughes. New Brunswick, New Jersey: The Decline and Revitalization of Urban America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Lloyd, Carli and Coffey, Wayne. When Nobody was Watching My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Lurie, Maxine N. and Richard Veit. Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Masur, Louis P. Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

McCarthy. George M. The Evolution of a Sentiment. Jersey City, NJ: G.M. McCarthy, 1905.

Monmouth County Planning Board. Study of Population: Monmouth County. Court Street and Lafayette Place, Freehold, NJ, April, 1974.

Monmouth County Planning Board. Economic Base Abstract for Monmouth County. March, 1976.

Monmouth County Planning Board. Monmouth County Planning Area 6: Land Use. Freehold, NJ. July,1976

Monmouth County Planning Board. Monmouth County Planning area 4: Land Use. Freehold, NJ. August,1977.

Monmouth University. 19th Century Maritime Art: Our History in Paintings. Pollak Gallery, October 13- 23, 2011. West Long Branch, NJ: Monmouth University, 2011.

Moss, Sandra W. Poliomyelitis: Newark 1916, “The Grip of Terror.” Xlibris, 2016.

Myers, Gordon. Yankee Doodle Fought Here: Being an Historic Musical-Narrative Featuring the Songs and Words of People who Lived in 18th Century America. Newfield, NJ: D.P.R. Publishers, 1975.

National Jewish Committee on Scouting. The Ner Tamid Guide for Boy Scouts and Explorers. New Brunswick, NJ, 1961.

Negron, Rosina. Comparison and General Analysis of Support Systems for Heritage Sites in New Jersey, California and Puerto Rico. Philadelphia: Managing Heritage for Sustainability, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

New Jersey National Guard, Cavalry Regiment, 102nd. First Squadron of Cavalry NJ: Essex Troop: 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Border Campaign, 1916-1917. West Orange, NJ: 102nd Cavalry Regiment Association, 2016.

New Jersey State Highway Department, Bureau of Public Information. Development of the State Highway System: New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: 1960.

New York Shipbuilding Corporation. Safety Rules and Regulations. Camden, NJ: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, 1941.

Nutt, Charles W. Life Happens: How Catholic Baby Boomers Coped with a Changing World. Vineland, NJ: Anlo Communications, L.L.C., 2009.

Passaic County Tuberculosis and Health Association. Annual Report. Paterson, NJ: Passaic County Tuberculosis and Health Association, 1947.

Rabig, Julia. The Fixers: Devolution, Development & Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Rosenfelt, David. Blackout. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2016.

Shea, Hunter. The Jersey Devil. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2016.

Somerset County Planning Board. Draft: Somerset County Planning Board Housing Trends Assessment Report. Somerville, NJ: 2016.

Stewart, Kelly Loyd. An Illustrated History of the Society of The Cincinnati in The State of New Jersey. The Society of the Cincinnati in The State of New Jersey, 2014

Sullivan, Jaime Primak and Eve Adamson. The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl: Adventures in life and Love in the Heart of Dixie. New York: Touchstone, 2016.

Trenton, New Jersey Department of Housing and Development. Preservation Guidelines. Trenton, NJ: City of Trenton, Department of Housing and Development, 1979.

Ventresca, Yvonne. Black Flowers, White Lies. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016.

Wacker, Peter O. Etching The Rural Landscape in Early New Jersey. 2000.

Webster, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. New York: White and Sheffield, 1842.

Woodbury, David O. A Measure for Greatness: A Short Biography of Edward Weston. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1949.

Zampini, Daniel James. After it Rains. Haverhill, MA: Fireborn Publishing, 2016

New Brunswick Music Scene Archive Anniversary Exhibit

January 5, 2017March 23, 2023 Christie Lutz

An exhibit of materials commemorating the one-year anniversary of the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive is on display now in the Special Collections and University Archives Gallery at Alexander Library.

Reflecting the history of the city’s independent music since the 1980s, the display features a wide variety of objects—from records and tapes to zines, flyers, and other ephemera—that were donated from the personal collections of those involved in the scene over the years. Highlights include issues of Jersey Beat and New Brunswick Underground, flyers for shows held at the Court Tavern and the Melody Bar, and recordings from local acts such as The Blasés and The Weeping Cysts.

The gallery is open during Special Collections and University Archives’ regular operating hours.

For more information about the exhibit or the archive (including donating materials), contact New Jersey regional studies librarian Christie Lutz.

22nd Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium

November 2, 2016November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Slicing the Air, Carved Board Book, by Asha Ganpat

From Here to . . . There: Concept and Technique in Artists’ Books, the 22nd annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium will be held on November 4, 2016 at the Alexander Library, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ. The Symposium, which runs from 8:45 am until 5:00 pm will feature 7 individual book artists, and 1 collaborative pair of artists, presenting on their artists’ books, as well as 2 morning workshops, 2 readings from artists’ books during the lunchtime seminar, and an onsite work, a “registry project,” conducted by Asha Ganpat. The day will conclude in our traditional book artists jam, at which all attendees will be able to share their own work. Lunch and refreshments are included in the price of admission ($45 for general admission; $15 for Rutgers staff and faculty; students free.

For more information see

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/bookarts/symp22.html

New Brunswick Music Scene Archive One-Year Anniversary Symposium

October 22, 2016March 23, 2023 Christie Lutz

The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive will mark its one-year anniversary with a panel discussion and exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. on October 27, 2016 at Alexander Library.

Panelists include Brandon Stosuy, editor in chief of Kickstarter’s The Creative Independent and former editor at Pitchfork; Amy Saville, vocalist and

guitarist of New Brunswick-based Prosolar Mechanics and author of the Hub City Romance series; Kelli Kalikas, studio co-owner and show promoter at In the West recording studio in New Brunswick; and John Terry, former New Brunswick basement show promoter, record label owner, and musician. The event is free and open to the public.

Search all across the country and you are unlikely to find many research collections like the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive. In fact, only a handful of other academic institutions nationwide have begun to preserve in their archives the musical history of their local communities. But a collection such as this seems perfectly fitted to the Hub City, where acts such as Screaming Females and the Gaslight Anthem got their starts in underground venues before moving on to national and international stages.

Since its inaugural symposium last October, the archive has been enthusiastically received by those with connections to the New Brunswick music scene.

“There was a groundswell of interest,” said Christie Lutz, the archive’s co-founder and New Jersey regional studies librarian for Special Collections and University Archives. “We received many, many emails from people who wanted to donate material or share their stories from when they were involved with music in New Brunswick.”

Sometimes a flyer would arrive in the mail without warning or someone would drop by the library unannounced with a handful of records to donate. But many items—patches from the jacket of Ronen Kauffman, author of New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye; or a series of elaborate zine mailers published by the Court Tavern in its heyday—came as a surprise for other reasons.

“These were unexpected because the nature of the materials makes them unlikely to be found in other archives or simply because we had no idea they even existed,” noted Frank Bridges, a doctoral student and part-time lecturer at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information, who partnered with Lutz to establish the archive. “Ultimately, they help paint a fuller picture of a vibrant era in the city’s history.”

Lutz hopes that the anniversary symposium will build on the momentum the archive has enjoyed since its launch and deepen the conversation around both the collection and the scene.

“This year’s panelists represent very different perspectives than last year’s. Amy can speak to being a woman in a male-dominated scene in the 90s and to writing fiction about New Brunswick. Brandon has done a host of things from running a label to promoting bands, but his roots trace back to his days at Rutgers, DJing at WRSU and editing Inside Beat. And Kelli can speak about running a studio in the city—who comes in to record? How is she perceived as a woman doing this job?”

And while the process of formally accessioning, arranging, and describing the materials is a long one, Lutz already sees a number of opportunities for research and further programming. She imagines a digital humanities project that maps points of interest across the city, examinations of women and people of color in the scene, or collaborations with other special collections in the state to tell the story of New Jersey music more broadly.

“I’m excited to see what the future has in store,” she said.

July-August 2016 New Acquisitions

September 19, 2016October 31, 2016 Christie Lutz

American Whig Society. Catalogue of the American Whig Society. Princeton, NJ: Published by the order of the Society, Princeton, NJ, 1859.

ARCH2. This is the Story of Emark: A Production of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Metuchen, NJ: ARCH2 Inc.

Berkey, Joan. Early Wood Architecture of Cumberland County. (DVD). Greenwich, NJ: Cumberland County Historical Society, 2013.

Bicentennial Farm Awards. New Jersey: 1988

Braisted, Todd W. Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2016.

June 2016 Acquisitions

July 21, 2016November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Airships: U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. New York: Grolier Craft Press, 1929.

Celebrating Our 125th Anniversary: Hopewell Borough, 1891-2016. Hopewell Borough, NJ: 125th Anniversary Committee, 2016.

Choroszewski, Walter. Somerset: A Celebration of Communities. North Branch, NJ: Aesthetic Press, 2007.

Church of the Guardian Angel. Commemorating Our 10th Anniversary: Church of the Guardian Angel in Allendale Souvenir Program, May 27, 1964. Allendale, NJ: Church of the Guardian Angel, 1964.

City of Cape May Historic Preservation Commission. Design Standards. Cape May, NJ: Cape May Historic Preservation Commission, 2002.

The Collage Journal: the First Decade, 2005-2015. Hunterdon, NJ: Hunterdon Art Museum, 2015. Read More

Hamilton

July 11, 2016October 13, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Christie Lutz

Two-hundred and twelve years ago today, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr faced each other in a duel on the cliffs of Weehawken, New Jersey.

Among our Sinclair New Jersey Collection holdings, we have a handful of postcard views and other images depicting the Weehawken dueling grounds, which have seen some changes over the years. The 1810 image below depicts a bucolic scene, with boats gliding by on the Hudson River.

This postcard, mailed in 1919, features the boulder on which Alexander Hamilton purportedly rested his head after being mortally wounded by Burr. The site depicted here is not the precise site of the duel, however. The boulder was moved from its original spot to make way for train tracks. And today, the bust of Hamilton sits upon a pedestal, with the boulder sitting behind it.

While Alexander Hamilton himself has been the focus of recent interest, Special Collections and University Archives also holds the X-Burr Collection, a collection of books on Aaron Burr that were donated to Rutgers by the Aaron Burr Society. Below is the title page from one of the books in the collection, authored shortly after the duel by Lysander, the pseudonym of federal judge Willam P. Van Ness. Van Ness was a friend of Burr’s who served as his second in the duel.

May Acquisitions

June 17, 2016November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Atlantic County, NJ. Called to Duty: Recollections of Atlantic County Veterans. Atlantic County: Atlantic County Government, 2002.

Bond, Gordon. Wicked Woodbridge and Crazy Carteret: Vice in New Jersey’s Oldest Township. Staunton, VA: American History Press, 2015.

Booker, Cory. United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good. New York: Ballantine Books, 2016.

Centennial Book Committee (Mendham, NJ). Reflections on a Community: Mendham Borough, The Centennial, 1906-2006. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers, 2007.

Church of the Guardian Angel. Church of the Guardian Angel, Allendale, New Jersey. South Hackensack, NJ: Custombook, Inc., ca. 1960.