Manuscript Group 1186, Miriam V. Studley Papers, 1853 – 1962
Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs
Manuscript
Group 1186
Miriam
V. Studley
Papers,
1853-1962
0.75
linear feet
Updated
by Stephen Sullivan
Provenance
Note:
This
collection was the gift of Miriam Studley in 1983.
Scope
and Content Note:
The
Miriam V. Studley Papers span the years
1853-1962. The documents in this manuscript group were
collected by Miriam V. Studley, who was both a librarian and
collector. This collection contains specimen pages, interim
and final drafts of the Atlantic City, Camden, Elizabeth,
Hackensack, Paterson and the Oranges and Maplewood sections of
the Federal Writers Project publication New Jersey: A Guide to
its Present and its Past. The collection also includes
genealogical material on the Bowles, Woodruff, Ward, and Brown
families; photographs of the Morris Canal; research notes on New
Jersey eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paper mills; and
correspondence from Henry G. Alsberg, director of Federal Writers
Project, Irene Fuhlbregge, state supervisor of the Works Progress
Administration, and Beatrice Winser, librarian, Newark Public
Library.
Item
List:
Evans,
Henry
Indentures, 1853-1868
6 items
A
memorandum of the family of Daniel Lestrange
who
settled in New Rochelle in the County of Westchester.
1 volume, no date
Wells,
John
Opinion on the estate of Isaac Clason, February 11, 1822
3 pages
Pewsmith,
Joseph
Obituaries,
4 items, 1895
Pine
Family
Papers, approximately 40 items
1860-1933
Photos
newsclippings, correspondence of Stephanie Belle Pine and of her
husband William E. Pine of New Jersey and of their daughter Annie
Phelps Pine
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