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Late 2015~Early 2016

March 10, 2016March 23, 2023 Christie Lutz

An Address of the Representatives of the Religious Society of Friends, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, to their Fellow-Citizens, on Behalf of the Indians. Philadelphia: Friends’ Book Store, 1891.

The Chin Strap: Official Program, 29th Division Association, 1930 Reunion. Asbury Park, NJ .

Fourth Report of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Education Society. 1822.

Glynn, Harry A., ed. Red Pepper: A Peppy Periodical for Peppy People, vol.1, no. 3. Newark, NJ: Red Pepper Publishing Company, 1924.

Goddard, Henry Herbert. The Kallikak Family. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912.

High School Life, Vol. 1 no. 1. Orange, NJ: Literary Board of the Orange High School, December 1890. Read More

New Brunswick Music Scene Archive Featured on NJTV

February 15, 2016October 12, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Christie Lutz

We’re thrilled to have appeared on NJTV News on Friday, February 12th. View the segment or read the transcript here.

The piece features some recent additions to the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive (NBMSA) and a bit of documentary footage of the Court Tavern by friend of the NBMSA Fritch Clark. The segment was filmed here in Special Collections and University Archives’ preservation lab and processing room–where the magic happens.

Snow in the City

January 20, 2016October 12, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Christie Lutz

With the first snowstorm of the season approaching, we reflect on the Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great White Hurricane. The storm buried the East coast from Maryland to Maine as well as the Eastern provinces of Canada. The following images of New Brunswick during the storm are from our New Brunswick Views photograph collection.

George Street, looking north towards Albany Street.

Northwest corner of George and Bayard Streets, south of Church Street.

November

December 12, 2015November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Blume, Judy. In the Unlikely Event. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Cooper, Anna D. The Star-Spangled Banner Pantomime. Belmar, NJ: Edgar S. Werner Co., 1903.

Cramer, Deborah. The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab & an Epic Journey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Doty, Mark. Deep Lane: poems. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Howard, Tim with Ali Benjamin. The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.

Julia Child Sampled Our New Jersey Cookbooks. Why Don’t You?

November 25, 2015March 23, 2023 Christie Lutz

By Tara Maharjan

When I started my Library Science program at Simmons College in Boston, I came across an opportunity to become a Cookbook Librarian at America’s Test Kitchen. The collection is comprised of over 4,000 books ranging from local cookbooks to The Modernist Cuisine. I held the position as a very well fed volunteer for two years. I loved my position but graduate school ended, cookbook librarians are rare, and my passion is archiving. I moved back to my home state of New Jersey and strung together part-time, and sometimes full-time, temporary archiving work until I became a full-time Processing Archivist in Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University.

The Sinclair Jerseyana Cookbook collection came to my attention: forty boxes of cookbooks that needed a finding aid. Finally my interest in cookbooks and my passion for archiving came together! The collection is made up of cookbooks from New Jersey towns, local churches, schools, and organizations, and companies that operated in the great Garden State. Every book is unique. Some have homemade covers, others are professionally bound; some focus on ethnic cuisine, while a few focus specifically on and promote products to be used. Two of my favorite cookbooks with homemade covers are this wood burned cover from the 1976 cookbook by The Christian Community Shrine of St. Joseph, entitled Our Community Cookbook,

and this screen-printed 1973 cookbook entitled Look Who’s Cookin’, by the Somerville Neighborhood Troop 12 from Rolling Hills Girl Scout Council.

Some cookbooks were for a cause.

(Muhlenberg Hospital Auxiliary. Cook Book. Plainfield, NJ: The Auxiliary, 1907.)

Other cookbooks were produced to promote products, such as the 1962 Fun-To-Do Party Book, by the Ballantine Beer Company from Newark, or the Gem Chopper Cook Book (seen below) from Flemington, 1902.

This collection is filled with so many wonderful and unique cookbooks, with dates ranging from 1902-2006, that you just need to check out the collection yourself. Julia Child did in 1992 when she came and received an honorary degree at Rutgers. More information about the collection can be found here.

Congregation Poile Zedek, New Brunswick

November 19, 2015October 12, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Ron Becker

We at Rutgers University Libraries were saddened when on October 23^rd, we learned that Congregation Poile Zedek suffered a terrible loss when fire ravaged their beautiful historic synagogue building damaging the structure and its contents including the loss of most of their sacred Torahs. Founded in 1901, Poile Zedek was part of a once thriving New Brunswick, NJ Jewish community centered in the downtown Hiram Market area. Poile Zedek was one of four synagogues in the neighborhood which included Ahavas Achim, Etz Ahaim, and Ohav Emeth. In their early years, each had a predominance of members who hailed from different parts of Europe. Poile Zedek was Polish, Ahavas Achim was Russian, Ohav Emeth was Hungarian, and Etz Ahaim was Sephardic (Spain and Portugal). The other three congregations are now centered in Highland Park where the majority of the New Brunswick Jewish community migrated. Ahvas Achim suffered a similar tragic fire and rebuilt in 1987 in Highland Park.

We at the Rutgers University Libraries extend our best wishes to the members of Poile Zedek in their desire to rebuild in the wake of this tragedy. One very small consolation is that they had the foresight to donate their congregational records to Special Collections and University Archives in 1987. Consisting of the Constitution, minutes of meetings, financial documents, building committee files and other memorabilia, the materials date from 1917. All the early records are in the Yiddish language. The public is invited to visit our repository to examine this material which is described in detail through the finding aid which can be accessed at

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/poilezedekf.html

September and October 2015

November 9, 2015November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Bischoff, Dan. James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014.

Burger, Eva Smith. The Kirkpatrick Families of Paint Rock Valley and Allied Derrick and Smith Families. Huntsville, AL: n.p., 1984.

Campanelli, Dan and Marty. “So Education Forms the Mind”: Early Female Education in New Jersey, with Special Emphasis on Needlework Instruction. Princeton, NJ: Morven Museum and Garden, 2014.

Carkhuff, Peter J. Wagons Below Cost… Oak Grove, NJ: ca. 1880s.

Ceberio, Robert and Kase, Ron. New Jersey Meadowlands: A History. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2015.

Hurricane Sandy Three Years On

October 29, 2015November 2, 2016 Christie Lutz

Sinclair New Jersey Broadsides Collection

By Christie Lutz

Three years ago today, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on New Jersey, New York and the surrounding region. Since then, a plethora of books have been published that document Sandy’s impact, both physical and emotional. They include powerful photograph collections, meteorological explorations, children’s books, and works of fiction.

A number of these books feature the Jet Star, the Seaside Heights roller coaster that famously fell into the Atlantic when Sandy destroyed the Casino Pier, on their covers. The powerful image of the giant coaster sitting in the ocean became a symbol of Hurricane Sandy. The image is perhaps at its most poignant on the cover of Richard Ford’s collection of Frank Bascombe stories, entitled Let Me Be Frank With You, set in the months following the storm.

Below is a list of Hurricane Sandy-related books in the Sinclair New Jersey Collection.