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Bridgegate

September 9, 2015October 13, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Christie Lutz

As we mark the second anniversary of “some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” we take a look at the magisterial George Washington Bridge during an earlier, more innocent time.

Images below from George Washington Bridge Over the Hudson River at New York: built and owned by the Port of New York Authority, fabrication and erection of towers and floor by McClintic-Marshall Corporation. Bethlehem, Pa. : McClintic-Marshall Corp., 1932. (Sinclair New Jersey Rare Books Collection)

While the towers, floor and girders were fabricated by McClintic-Marshall, a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel, the bridge’s cables were made by Trenton’s John A. Roebling’s Sons. Special Collections holds the Roebling Family Papers and related collections. The Sinclair New Jersey Collection includes numerous books on the Roebling family and business as well as company catalogs and brochures.

43rd Annual Gathering of the Friends of the Modern School

September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 Christie Lutz

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Rutgers University Brower Commons, Rooms A and B

12:00-4:00pm

The Modern School, located in Piscataway, NJ, was a liberal and progressive school. Influenced by modern educational theorists such as Friedrich Froebel, the founder of Kindergarten and the anarchist Francisco Ferrer, who established a modern school in Barcelona in 1901, the modern school’s pedagogy focused on individual needs and free thinking. As the centerpiece of the alternative Ferrer Colony in Piscataway, the Modern School made a significant contribution to the interpretation and implementation of progressive educational ideals.

Please join us for discussions on the history of anarchism and education in practice in New Jersey.

Luncheon Buffet (with a fee of $20) at Noon*

Program begins at 1pm. Each lecture will be followed by a short q & a session.

Francisco Ferrer: The Anarchist Behind the Modern School. Mark Bray, PhD. Candidate in Modern and European History, Rutgers University.

Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Karen Avrich, writer and editor, daughter of anarchist historian Paul Avrich.

The Stelton Colony: A Personal Appreciation, a film by Robert Rosen, former Dean, UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television.

*Those who do not wish to pay for lunch may attend the lectures for free, beginning at 12:45.

For more information, contact

Fernanda Perrone: hperrone@rci.rutgers.edu or 848.932.6154.

So long, summer…

August 21, 2015October 12, 2016 Christie Lutz

By Christie Lutz

While it’s the beginning of the blog, it’s the end of summer. In New Jersey the shift to autumn means we start to vacate our beaches and boardwalks. Summer itself is ephemeral—so before Labor Day arrives, take a long, last look at just a few items of our ephemera that capture long-ago summers spent down the shore.

July 2015

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Charlton, Lloyd and Terry. Boonton, USA: Stories of a Small Town. n.p.: n.p., 2010.

Horner, Albert D. Pinelands: New Jersey’s Suburban Wilderness. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2015.

Merriam, Eve. The Nixon Poems. New York: Atheneum, 1970.

Modica, Glenn R. Cadwalader Heights: The History of an Olmsted Neighborhood, Trenton, New Jersey. n.p.: n.p., 2009.

Snedeker, Clifton, ed. Progress: The Monthly Publication of the Three Middlesex County Vocational schools and Continuation Schools. Vol. 8, no. 4. New Brunswick, NJ: n.p., February, 1924.

April-May 2015

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Begin-Kruysman, Lisa. Around the World in 1909: Harriet White Fisher and her locomobile. Staunton, VA: American History Press, 2014.

Clifford, Joe, ed. Trouble in the heartland : crime fiction inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen. United States: Gutter Books, 2014.

Contemporary Poets of South Jersey, no. 1 [United States] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1980?]

Dorr, Nell. Life Dance. Allendale, NJ: Alleluia Press, 1975.

Gigantino, James. The American Revolution in New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014.

Welcome!

February 5, 2015October 12, 2016 Christie Lutz

Welcome to What Exit?, a blog about New Jerseyana from Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. The heart of our New Jersey holdings is the Sinclair New Jersey Collection, named for Donald Arleigh Sinclair, curator emeritus of Special Collections. It is the largest, most comprehensive collection of New Jersey materials in the state and one of the finest collections of state and local history in the country. The approximately 67,000 monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and serials in the collection cover broad subject areas. Topics represented include state, county and municipal history, genealogy, religion, business, government, law, education, literature, medicine, agriculture, technology and bibliography. Due to its breadth and depth, the collection is an indispensable resource for research on any aspect of New Jersey, past or present.