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Historical Records and Sites Commissions


Consult the Environmental Protection pages linked below for additional records relating to state-owned historic sites. Consult the Federal Records page for Historic American Building Survey holdings.


See also:
Department of Environmental Protection
DEP Predecessor Agencies (excluding New Jersey Geological Survey)
Secretary of State - Records relating to Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Agencies and Programs
Public Record Office
State House Commission and related records
War Memorial Building Commission
Federal Records - Work Projects Administration (WPA), Relief Agencies and related records


Series:
Commission on Historic Sites
Records, 1929-1946
Control #:
SZHIP001
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 box)
Notes:
Includes 1986 correspondence about the records themselves.

Series:
New Jersey Historic Trust
Annual Reports, 1993-1997
Control #:
SZHIR001
Format:
0.3 c.f. (3 reports)

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Interview Transcripts from Grant-Funded Oral History Projects, 1974-2006
Control #:
SZHIS001
Format:
6.72 c.f. (15 boxes)
Arrangement:
Chronological by subseries
Notes:
Transcripts cover a variety of topics; see guide for details.

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Oral History Program: The Political and Government Leaders of Twentieth-Century New Jersey, 1978-1987
Control #:
SZHIS002
Format:
6.5 c.f. (5 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alpha by interviewee
Notes:
Includes bound final transripts, unprocessed transcripts and cassette tapes of interviews.
Restrictions:
Use of tapes may require reformatting at user's expense.

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission/New Jersey Network
"New Jersey Legacy" Film Documentary Series, 1992-1994
Control #:
SZHIS003
Format:
0.15 c.f. (3 video tapes)
Notes:
This series was a co-production of the New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network.
Finding Aid:
Click here!

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Tapes and Transcripts from the Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project, ca. 1979-1980
Control #:
SZHIS004
Format:
13.5 c.f. (14 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by interviewee
Notes:
Material has not been processed.
Restrictions:
Use of tapes may require reformatting at user's expense.

Series:
State Historical Records Advisory Board
Statewide Records Assessment and Reporting Project Final Report and Precis, 1983
Control #:
SZHIU001
Format:
0.25 c.f. (3 reports, 2 typescripts)
Arrangement:
By item
Notes:
Includes published copies and original typed manuscripts of report and precis.
Finding Aid:
Click here!

Series:
Task Force on New Jersey History
Records, 1996-1997
Control #:
SZHIV001
Format:
2.5 c.f. (3 boxes)
Finding Aid:
Click here!


Related records:


Series:
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
Historic Structures Documentation, ca. 1940-1960
Control #:
FINNP001
Format:
1.5 c.f. (3 boxes)
Notes:
Includes post-WPA reports, photographs and drawings.

Series:
Governor Alfred Eastlack Driscoll (1902-1972; served 1947-1954)
Photograph Album of Historic Sites in Burlington City presented by the American Legion, 1950
Control #:
S4900001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 album)

Series:
Department of Transportation
Division of Project Management
Bureau of Environmental Analysis
Trenton Complex Archaeology Reports, 1986-1998
Control #:
STRPM001
Format:
1 c.f. (2 boxes)
Arrangement:
By report number
Notes:
Archaeological survey of Abbott Farm Historic District sites undertaken as a result of highway construction.


~ The collections listed on this page represent 33.02 c.f. of paper records ~



To contact the New Jersey State Archives about research, reference services, records transfers or donations, please email us at njarchives@sos.nj.gov


This page last updated 06/08/2007