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Children with Protest Signs

Date: 1965
Description: Children hold signs that read "We Need A Place To Play" and "We Need a Street to Play On," which is related to the Newark Community Union Project.
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Tom Hayden

Date: 10 1964
Description: Tom Hayden standing in front of building with a small African-American child. Poster on window for "The Trenton Project" and two posters advocating that p...
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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Campbells Soup Strikers

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Description: Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
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Excursion Boat

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Description: A view of an excursion boat, the "Dorianna," loaded with people on lake waters heading toward five young boys waiting on a dock.
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Belvidere Avenue

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Description: A view of Belvedere Avenue. The street is tree-lined, making the homes partially obscured. Men stand and pose in the middle ground, while three groups of c...
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Children's Choir in Flemington Presbyterian Church

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Description: A children's choir stands outside Flemington Presbyterian Church, completed in 1883. The group of children process out of each doorway, holding song books ...
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Women's Marching Band

Date: 1878
Description: Elevated view of the women's marching band from John Wanamaker Commercial Institute performing, with children walking beside them and standing on the side ...
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Switzer Foundation for Girls

Date: 1920
Description: A painting, possibly a portrait of the two founders of the Switzer Foundation for Girls, Margaret and Sarah Switzer. A woman on the left is holding a scrol...
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The Breakers Hotel, from Garden Pier

Date: 1916
Description: View of the Breakers Hotel taken from the Garden Pier. A pavilion and rows of wooden benches are to the left and a sign advertises "Luigi Valeno's Band." T...
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First Avenue

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Description: A row of mostly one-story homes standing along First Avenue. A young child plays in the front yard of a home at left while two men walk down the dirt road ...
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Wriests Beach

Date: 1915
Description: An elevated lifeguard station stands on the sand at Wriests Beach while people sunbathe on the beach and wade in the water. The sign on the lifeguard stati...
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Funchase Amusement Pier

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Description: Crowds walk along the boardwalk at Funchase amusement pier. A building with flags flying from its turrets features a sign that reads "Funchase Skating". T...
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Boating at Manasquan Beach

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Description: Elevated view of a group of children, infants, and adults sitting in rowboats in the water at Manasquan Beach. In the background are rows of dwellings, and...
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Crowded Pier

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Description: Elevated view of adults and children wearing bathing costumes standing on a wooden dock crowded with several varieties of boats. People are swimming in the...
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Boathouses

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Description: View across water towards two boathouses. The one in the center is small with one door, and the other boathouse on the righthas five doors. To the left of ...
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Lake Scene

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Description: Lake scene with children in a rowboat near the Rock Ridge Mountains and Lake. Caption reads: "Rockridge Mountains and Lake, Denville, N.J."
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Narrow Town Street Scene

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Description: Pedestrians pass parked cars along a narrow dirt road lined with shops.
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Kenilworth Place

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Description: View down Kenilworth Place, a residential street. Published by E.W. Cobb, Stationer.
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Number Nine Public School

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Description: View of children playing at the Zabriskie Playground outside Number Nine Public School. The playground is found at the intersection of Mercer and Wayne St...

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