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Record Group: Department of Transportation
Series: Photographs filed by Subject, 1920s-1970s
Accession #: 1989.004, 1994.034
Series #:  STR00001
Guide Date:  2001 (JMN); rev. 5/2008 (JMN)
Volume: 12 c.f. [25 boxes]

Contents


Box List


Box 1

Accidents

Box 2 Bids to Bridges: Edison Bridge
Box 3 Edison Bridge to Bridges Rt. 6 Overpeck Creek
Box 4 Bridges: Seaside Heights Bridge to Charts: U. S. Motor Vehicle Registration
Box 5 Construction: Bridge and Dredge operations to Dedications: Broadway
Box 6 Dedications: Camden Overpass to Dedications: Rt. 100
Box 7 Dedications: Scudder's Falls Bridge to Event: Roadside Improvement Conference
Box 8 Events: Rt. 4 Parkway Hearing to Exhibits: Newark's Forward March
Box 9 Exhibits: NJ League of Municipalities to Group Shots: Unidentified
Box 10 Highland Park to Models: Rt. 25
Box 11 Models: Rt. 100 to Portraits: O'Hara
Box 12 Portraits: Reed to Early Roads
Box 13

Roads: Absecon Boulevard to Unidentified

Box 14 Roads, Unidentified, no date to Routes: Rt. 4
Box 15 Routes: Rt. 4, 1944 to Rt. 4, 1949
Box 16 Routes: Rt. 4, 1950 to Rt. 24
Box 17 Routes: Rt. 25A, 1943 to Rt. 25, 1947
Box 18 Routes: Rt. 25, 1948 to Rt. 30
Box 19 Routes: Rt. 31 to Rt. 95
Box 20 Routes: Rt. 100 to Unidentified
Box 21 Safety Devices
Box 22 Scenic to U.S. Dept. of Transportation: Projects, I-295
Box 23 Negatives: Bridges to Snow Equipment at Fernwood
OV-1 Bridges Unidentified to Unidentified Photographs, oversized
OV-2 Exhibits to Renderings, oversized
Contents
(For enlarged view of selected images click on thumbnails below.)


Description

Box 1

Accidents:
 

Rt. 25, Newark at junctions of Rt. 21, 25 and Rt. 29 [1 item]

 

Rt. 130, Merchantville, October 13, 1960 [1 item].

 

Unidentified, 1922 and no date [39 items].
        


Aerials:
 

Access to Fort Dix, 1943 [24 items].


 

Camden, no date [17 items].
       


 

Cliffwood, no date [1 item].

 

Department of Transportation Complex, Ewing Twp., no date [2 items].

 

Garden State Parkway, Section 5, 1952 [1 item].


 

Garden State Parkway, Telegraph Hill area of North Asbury Park, no date [1 item].

 

Garden State Parkway, no date [1 item].

 

Interchanges, Rt. 1 at Milltown Road, no date [1 item].

 

Jersey City, no date [15 items].


 

Kaighn Ave., Airport Circle, Camden, no date [2 items].

 

Lincoln Tunnel Helix, 1959 [1 item].

 

Newark Toll Booths, Turnpike, Newark Airport & Route 1, no date [1 item].

 

New Jersey Turnpike, unidentified, no date [1 item].

 

Newark Airport Interchange, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 1 Extension in Jersey City, ca. 1929, aerial view of Tonnelle Circle looking west [2 items].

 

Rt. 1 & 130 at Milltown Circle, ca. 1930's [2 items].


 

Rt. S. 3 Clifton, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 4, (old) 1932, no date [7 items].

 

Rt. 4 Parkway, no date [3 items].

 

Rt. 4 Parkway underpass of PRR in Iselin. Temporary supports for express
trains [1 item].

 

Rt. 4 and Rt. 25, no date [3 items].

 

Rt. 4 and 33, Traffic Circle, Freehold [1 item].

 

Rt. 4 & Grand Avenue looking toward George Washington Bridge, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 4 and Teaneck Road, no date [4 items].

 

Rt. 6, 1940 [4 items].

 

Rt. 6, Dover, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 9 and Rt. 33 Traffic Circle, no date [1 item].

 

Rts. 17 and 4 Cloverleaf at Paramus (?), no date [1 item].

 

Rts. 21, 1 & 22, no date [4 items].

 

Rt. 25 and Bayway Avenue, Elizabeth, September 13, 1947 [1 item].

 

Rt. 25, Newark, N. Elizabeth, November 15, 1946 [1 item].

 

Rt. 25, no date [2 items].

 

Rt. 25 & 35 (?), no date [2 items].

 

Rts. 33 & 34, Collingswood Park, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 35 looking North from Smith Street, Perth Amboy, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 35 looking South over South Amboy, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 39 & Rt. 40, Red Lion, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 42 and Rt. 50 Cloverleaf, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 78, Bridge over Plainfield Avenue and Green Brook near the Watchung Reservation, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. I-80 and Rt. 46 and Rt. 23, no date [2 items].

 

Rt. 130 and Georges Road, no date [2 items].

 

Rt. 130 and Rt. 42 Freeway interchange looking West, Delaware River in background, Market Street from lower left up, 1957 [1 item].

 

Rt. 537 & Monmouth Road, Millstone Twp., Monmouth County & Ocean County, Jackson Twp., no date
[1 item].

 

Top view of Clover-leaf near Woodbridge, no date [5 items].


 

Traffic Circle, north end of Edison Bridge, view looking north, April 26, 1940 [1 item].

 

Trenton, no date [2 items].

 

Unidentified, 1940 [1 item].

 

Unidentified, May 5, 1971 [18 items].

 

Unidentified, no date [88 items in two folders].

Baumann, Fred -- see Portraits.
Beautification and Landscape Planting:
 

Oliver Super 77 working on Garden State Parkway, September 1957 [2 items].

 

Unidentified roads, no date [15 items].

Box 2

Bids:

 

Rt. 4, 1946 [5 items].

 

Rt. 4, 6 & 25, 1950 [2 items].

 

Rt. 23, State Highway Commissioner Ransford J. Abbott, Senator Alfred B. Littell, of Sussex and
Edward W. Kilpatrick at opening of bids for Rt. 23 new eastbound lanes, Charlottesburg to Smith
Mills, Passaic County, November 1, 1951 [2 items].

 

Rt. 26, Trenton Freeway, 1948 [8 items].

 

Rt. 26, Trenton Freeway from Perry Street to Greenwood Avenue, 1949 [4 items].

 

Rt. 28, 1948 [7 items].

 

Rt. 100, 1946 [19 items].

Bill -- see Governor Driscoll & Edge.
Blue Star Drive -- see Routes
Bridges:
 

Absecon Boulevard Bridge --see also Dedications.

 

Atlantic City, Absecon Boulevard, 1944 [3 items].

 

Belmar Bridge, 1938 [14 items].
      

 

Ben Franklin Bridge, Camden, no date [2 items].

 

Black's Creek, Bordentown, 1943 [2 items].

 

Brielle-Point Pleasant Bridge, 1946-1949 [36 items].
     


 

Brigantine Bridge, Atlantic City, 1944 [1 item].

 

Burlington Bridge, no date [1 item].


 

Cheesequake Creek Bridge, no date [1 item].


 

Covered Bridges, 1961 and no date [3 items].

 

Edison Bridge, 1940, 1941 and no date [269 items in 6 folders].
        


Box 3

Bridges:
 

Edison Bridge, no date [63 items]. See also Negatives in Box 23.

 

Fort Dix, 1943 and no date [4 items].

 

Garden State Parkway - Rt. 4 Parkway at Lake Ave., 1949 [1 item].

 

Garden State Parkway - Rt. 4 Parkway Section 5 - Middlesex Reservoir, 1949 [1 item].

 

George Washington Bridge, 1931 and no date [45 items].
     


 

Glen Avenue Bridge, no date [1 item].

 

Grassy Sound Bridge - Rt. S. 49, Wildwood, 1948 [2 items].

 

Hackensack River Bridge, 1954 [7 items].


 

Hackensack River Bridge, no date [21 items] -- see also Dedications.
 

 

Inman Avenue Bridge, Garden State Parkway, 1949 [1 item].

 

Manahawkin Bridge, Rt. 72, no date [2 items].

 

Manasquan River Bridge, 1938, 1946, 1949, 1950 and no date [21 items].
    

 

Mantua Creek, Rt. 44, no date [12 items].

 

Newark - Harrison Bridge, 1943 [1 item].

 

Newton Creek Bridge, no date [1 item].

 

Oldsman Creek, Rt. 44, Nortonville, no date [2 items].

 

Passaic River Bridge, (Old Rt. 6), no date [27 items].
        

 

Passaic River Bridge, 1940-1949 and no date [60 items in 2 folders].
       


 

Passaic - Wallington Bridge, 1944 [5 items].

 

Phillipsburg Bridge, (Old) Rt. 28, no date [8 items].
  

 

Portland-Columbia Bridge (Delaware Water Gap) Rt. 611, 1953 [1 item].

 

Raccoon Creek Bridge, Rt. 44, Bridgeport, no date [13 items].

 

Rahway River Bridge, no date [3 items].

 

Raritan River Bridge, no date [14 items].

 

Rt. 3, Seacaucus - Hackensack River, no date [3 items].

 

Rt. 6, Erie Railroad, Bergen Co., 1954 [2 items].

 

Rt. 6, Overpeck Creek, Bergen Co., 1954 [2 items].

 

Rt. 6 spanning Passaic River, showing junction of Rts. 3 and 6, 1940 [1 item].

Box 4

Bridges:
 

Seaside Heights, Rt. 37 (old), 1950 and no date [8 items].


 

Shark River Inlet Bridge, no date [2 items].

 

Stickel Bridge, Rt. 25A, 1944-1957 and no date [83 items].
    


 

Thomas A. Edison Bridge -- see Edison Bridge & Dedication.

 

Unidentified, 1941 and no date [52 items in 2 folders; 1 print in oversized print box OV-1].
 

 

Under Construction, 1946-1950 and no date [50 items].


 

Victory Bridge, Rt. 4, 1932 [3 items].
    

 

Victory Circle Overpass, no date [1 item].

 

Wittpenn Bridge, no date [2 items].


Buildings & Grounds:
 

Gloucester City Hall, 1943 [2 items].


 

New Jersey Floor Covering Building, 1948 [1 item].

 

New Jersey State Highway Building, 1950 [7 items].
  

 

New Jersey State Highway Building. Laying cornerstone, 1950 [9 items].
  

 

New Jersey State Highway Department Maintenance Facility, Unidentified, no date [9 items].


 

Somerville Court House, no date [1 item].


 

State House and State House Annex, 1945 and no date [7 items].

 

State owned garages, no date [1 item].

 

Unidentified, no date [2 items].

 

Wilkinson Gaddis Building, 1942 [3 items].


Camden:

 

Circle, 1946-1947 and no date [8 items].
  

 

Aerials, 1934-1948 and no date [23 items].

 

11th Street at Linden, 1947 [1 item].

Charts:
 

Adjusted Appropriations for Highway Construction, 1930-1949 [1 item].

 

Annual Hudson River and Upper Bay Vehicle Traffic Demand, 1928-1975 [1 item].

 

Chart showing relation between net cost and gain in tax receipts of affected area along the
Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County, 1910-1932 [3 items].

 

Chart showing rise in Real Estate Assessments along Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County, 1910-1932 [4 items].

 

Components of Rt. 4 Parkway Traffic in East Orange, 1946 [1 item].

 

Current Program Covered in Bill S-200, 1946 [1 item].

 

New Jersey State Highway Department Financial Statement 1949-1950
Estimated Assets [1 item].

 

New Jersey State Highway Department Financial Statement 1949-1950
Estimated Liabilities [1 item].

 

New Jersey Motor Vehicle Registration 1906-1980 [1 item]

 

New Jersey Twenty Five Years of Progress, 1914-1939 [1 item in OV-2].

 

Progress Chart Showing Status of Completion for Post War Projects, no date [2 items].

 

Proposed Highway Projects 1947-1948 [1 item].

 

Traffic Increase Route 25 Union - Essex County Line 1925-1970 [1 item].

 

Traffic Using Route 4 Parkway in East Orange (Between Central & Park Ave.) 1948 [1 item].

 

Traffic Volumes Route 25 at Union - Essex County Line, no date [1 item].

 

U.S. Highway No. 1 New Jersey, 1946 [2 items].

 

U.S. Motor Vehicle Registration 1900-1980 [1 item].

Box 5

Construction:
 

Bridge & Dredge operations over Rio Grande, Wildwood, 1948 [1 item].

 

Bridge at Black's Creek, Bordentown, 1943 [2 items].

 

Brielle - Pt. Pleasant - Manasquan River, 1949 [2 items].


 

Camden Airport Circle Overpass, 1946 [7 items].
 

 

Fort Dix Access Road, 1942 [4 items].


 

Garden State Parkway over Rt. 280, 1965 [4 items].


 

Hudson - Manhatten Bridge on Newark - Kearny Highway, 1943
[1 item].

 

Industrial Avenue, Air Associates, Bendix, Bergen County, 1942
[1 item].

 

Rt. 1, Slab Moving, 1935,1939 and no date [12 items].
 

 

Rt. S. 3, 1943-1948 and no date [69 items in 3 folders].


 

Rt. 4 Bridge construction, Paterson-Warren Point, Erie RR, 1947 [1 item].


 

Rt. 4 Parkway underpass of PRR in Iselin. Temporary supports for express trains, 1949 [1 item].

 

Rt. 29, 1947 [4 items].

 

Rt. 44, 1946, 1947 [8 items].


 

Rt. 95, no date [1 item].

 

Rt. 100, 1946, 1947 [13 items].


 

Rt. 611, no date [1 item].

 

Unidentified, no date [41 items].

Conventions, Highway, Atlantic City, 1952 and no date [24 items].
Coombs, Joseph A., -- see Portraits.
Curbs, Unidentified, no date [3 items].
Dedications
 

Absecon Boulevard Bridge, Atlantic City, September 27, 1946 [7 items].


 

Blue Star Drive, Rt. 29, Mountainside, November 10, 1944 [9 items].


 

Blue Star Memorial Byways, Pinelands Garden Club, no date [2 items].


 

Blue Star Memorial Dedication, Hunterdon County, April 23, 1946 [9 items].
    

 

Blue Star Memorial Highway Tablet, N.J., Rt. 29 - Vaux Hall Road Jct., Union Township,
Union County, May 26, 1950 [7 items].

 

Blue Star Memory Book, no date [4 items].

 

Broadway, Gloucester City Dedication, December 14, 1943 [15 items].



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Boxes 1-5
Boxes 6-10
Boxes 11-15
Boxes 16-20
Boxes 21-OV

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