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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] |
Box
List
Contents
Description |
Box
6 |
Dedications:
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Camden
Overpass Dedication, July 12, 1946 [1 item]. |
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Fort
Dix Access Road Dedication, December 16, 1943 [18 items]. |
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Hackensack
River Bridge, Jersey City - Kearny, June 17, 1954 [2 items].
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McCarter
Highway Dedication, Newark, December 17, 1943 [7 items].
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Newark
- Harrison Rt. 25A Detour, May 27, 1943 [8 items].
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Picatinny
Arsenal Access Road Dedication, October 29, 1943 [11 items].
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Rt.
S. 3 Clifton - Rutherford, Passaic River Bridge, September 12,
1949 [5 items]. |
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Rt.
S. 3 Rutherford, August 6, 1945 [3 items]. |
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Rt.
S. 3 Spur, Clifton Avenue Extension, October 28, 1953 [1 item]. |
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Rt.
4 Parkway, First Section, June 28, 1950 [14 items].
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Rt.
4 Parkway Ground Breaking, November 8, 1946 [17 items]. |
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Rt.
6, Passaic County, December 9, 1943 [17 items]. |
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Rt.
23, Morris, Passaic and Sussex Counties, June 26, 1953 [5 items]. |
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Rt.
24, Phillipsburg, September 25, 1946 [8 items].
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Rt.
25 A, Stickel Memorial Bridge Dedication, Newark-Harrison, May
17, 1949 [23 items].
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Rt.
25 connecting Port Street-Pulaski Skyway, Newark, December 30,
1948 [2 items]. |
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Rt.
25, Cranberry Circle, December 30, 1948 [2 items]. |
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Rt.
25, Elizabeth-Newark, August 28, 1947 [14 items].
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Rt.
25, Port Street, Newark, June 9, 1944 [6 items]. |
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Rt.
25 Ribbon Cutting between Bordentown and Crosswicks Creek Bridge,
May 24, 1950 [2 items]. |
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Rt.
26 Ground breaking, Trenton, April 6, 1948 [6 items].
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Rt.
30, Absecon Boulevard Bridge, Atlantic City, September 27, 1946
[1 item]. |
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Rt.
37, Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, Seaside Heights, May 24, 1950 [10
items].
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Rt.
44-45, Westville - West Deptford Twp., September 17, 1947 [27
items].
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Rt.
78, Bloomsbury, October 30, 1959 [14 items].
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Rt.
80, Denville, October 30, 1959 [4 items]. |
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Rt.
100 Freeway, Ground breaking, 1946 [38 items]. |
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Box
7 |
Dedications:
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Scudders
Falls Bridge, June 22, 1961 [3 items].
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Thomas
A. Edison Bridge, December 14, 1940 [1 item]. |
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Unidentified,
no date [2 items]. |
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Delaware
River Drive, along Delaware in Pahaquarry Township, southwest
of Millbrook in Warren County
[2 items]. |
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Documentation:
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Brielle
Council minutes on Rt. 35, 1949 [3 items]. |
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Detail
of George's Hotel, 1941 [5 items]. |
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Senate,
No. 1, 1946 [6 items]. |
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Senate,
No. 59, 1946 [2 items]. |
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DOT
Logos, no date [19 items].
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DOT
Publications, no date [2 items]. |
Dual
Highway, no date [3 damaged negatives]. |
Erosion
control, unidentified, no date [13 items].
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Events:
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Acting
Governor Merrill Thompson conducts meeting on Rt. 35, 1951 [1
item].
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Auction
Sale, parcels of land, Fernwood, December 13, 1956 [1 item].
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Awards,
unidentified, 1943 [1 item]. |
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Bayard
L. England, vice chairman and treasurer was named Engineer of
the Year, Essex House,
Newark, 1953 [3 items]. |
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Blood typing-State
Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr. is the first person
to be typed by
Dr. Ernest Purcell of McKinley Hospital, 1944 [1 item]. |
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Blue Star
Drive "blueprints," January 5, 1945 [10 items]. |
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Blue Star
Drive Plaque Awards, AASHO, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, N.Y., 1947
[10 items]. |
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Christmas
Exercises, NJ State Highway Department, Trenton 1943-1949 [13
items]. |
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Christmas,
no date [4 items]. |
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Demolition
of Wilkinson-Gaddis Buildings, Rt. 21, 1943 [2 items]. |
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Enlisted
trainees of the ORC receive instructions from Reserve officers
employed by the State
Highway Department on highway equipment, no date [5 items]. |
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Fishing
Grove Tuna Club, Atlantic City [10 items].
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Garden
Club of New Jersey Flower Show, Upper Montclair, 1947-1949 [8
items]. |
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Garden
Club of New Jersey Merit Awards - Roadside Improvement, 1947
[2 items]. |
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Garden
Club of New Jersey Luncheon, Awards for roadside beautification,
Carteret Club, Trenton,
1948 [4 items]. |
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Garden
Club of New Jersey presents Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr.
with award in recognition of
the Commissioner's campaign for promoting attractive landscaping
along N.J. roads, Essex Fells
Country Club, 1946 [3 items]. |
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Garden
Club of New Jersey representatives at Legislative Session, 1945
[3 items]. |
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Government
officials from New South Wales, Australia met with Governor
Robert B. Meyner (not in
photo) to discuss state government, no date [1 item]. |
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I-78 Alignments
proposed, Public Hearing, July 15, 1960 [1 item]. |
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Inspection
by Senators & Assemblymen of major projects in NJ, June 28,
1948 [2 items]. |
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Inspection
tour of Rt. 4 Parkway, July 15, 1949 [1 item]. |
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Installing
new bridge at Mile Hollow, Rt. 39, Bordentown, 1943 [1 item]. |
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Irvington
hearing on Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [8 items]. |
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Luncheon
of National Council of State Garden Clubs at Hotel Biltmore,
N.Y., 1945 [2 items]. |
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Marlin
Tournament, Atlantic City Marina, 1964 [5 items].
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Newark
Origin & Destination Survey, Rt. 25 Passaic River Bridge, 1946
[1 item]. |
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Newark
Snow Meeting, 1961 [13 items]. |
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New Jersey
Turnpike Meeting, Trenton, 1949 [1 item]. |
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Parkway
Tour, 1946 [7 items]. |
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Phillippine
visitors to New Jersey State Highway Department, 1954 [6 items].
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Plowing
for Victory Gardens at Fernwood, 1943 [7 items].
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Port Street
overpass of Central Railroad at Newark Airport, 1943 [7 items]. |
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Removing
Rt. 44 barrier at Verga, July 14, 1948 [1 item]. |
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Ribbon
Cutting, Unidentified, no date [5 items]. |
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Roadside
Improvement Conference, June 28, 1943 [3 items]. |
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Box
8 |
Events:
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Rt.
4 Parkway Hearing, Highway Assembly Room, 1946 [6 items]. |
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Rt.
4 Public Hearing, 1946 [4 items].
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Rutgers
University civil engineering students tour NJ roads, 1949 [20
items].
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Salem
County Freeholders Dinner, Salem Country Club, 1944-1947 [11
items]. |
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Senators
Sterner & Durand inspecting highway construction, no date [8
items]. |
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Serving
process in friendly litigation for issue of Turnpike Authority
bonds, 1949 [3 items]. |
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South
Jersey Highway Tour, 1948 [5 items]. |
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Spencer
Miller Jr. Lecture, Rutgers University,"Landscape & Design and
It's Relation to the Modern
Highway," 1950 [8 items]. |
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Spencer
Miller, State Highway Commissioner & Caxton Brown & W. Richmond
Tracey of Park
Commission View Plan of Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [1 item]. |
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State
Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr. completing purchase
of Wilkinson -- Gaddis Building
on Rt. 21, Newark, 1942 [4 items]. |
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State
Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr. greets Princeton University
civil engineer seniors at
Rt. 27, site of Rt. 4 Parkway crossing, 1948 [2 items]. |
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Statewide
Safety Conference, War Memorial, Trenton 1947 [2 items]. |
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Stevens
Institute civil engineering students inspection of Rt. S-3,
December 1, 1948 [2 items].
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Storm
of 1944, Atlantic City, 1944 [13 items].
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Storm
of 1944, Cape May City, 1944 [25 items inc. 2 B&W copy negatives].
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Storm
of 1944, Harvey Cedars, 1944 [16 items].
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Storm
of 1944, Long Beach, 1944 [5 items].
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Storm
of 1944, Seaside, 1944 [7 items].
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Storm
of 1944, Ship Bottom, 1944 [1 item].
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Storm
of 1962, Sea Isle City, 1962 [68 items inc. 4 B&W copy negatives
in two folders].
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Storm
of 1962, Unidentified, 1962 [11 items].
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Tour
of Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [1 item].
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Trenton
Freeway Hearing, 1948 [11 items].
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Unidentified,
no date [20 items]. |
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W.
Warren Barbour campaign float and band, no date [15 items]. |
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Winter
Storm, Sparta, no date [6 items]. |
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Winter
Storm, unidentified, January 1964 [2 items]. |
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Winter
Storm, unidentified, no date [2 items]. |
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Exhibits:
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Blue
Star Drive, New York Garden Show, no date [1 item]. |
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Convention
of American Association of State Highway officials, Hotel Pennsylvania,
N.Y., 1949
[2 items].
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Garden
State Flower Show, 1945 [2 items]. |
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Girders
mounted on wood, no date [2 items]. |
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Governors
Bear Mountain Conference, no date [1 item]. |
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Interstate
Routes Freeways Dualization & Widening as proposed under Master
Plan, Blue Cross &
Blue Shield Community Corner Window, 1961 [1 item]. |
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Keystone
Automobile Club, no date [1 item].
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Newark's
Forward March, no date [13 items]. |
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Box
9 |
Exhibits:
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New
Jersey League of Municipalities Exhibit, New York City, 1946
[1 item]. |
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New
Jersey Plans For The Future, 33rd Annual Meeting of American
Association of State Highway
Officials, Waldorf - Astoria Hotel, New York, 1947-1948 [6 items].
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New
Jersey State Highway Commission, Atlantic City, no date [3 items]. |
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New
Jersey State Highway Safety Construction Float, Trenton, no
date [15 items]
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New
Jersey State Highway Department, Freeways to Help New Jersey
Grow, 1963 New Jersey State
Fair [2 items]. |
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New
York - New Jersey Metropolitan Recreation Conference, Bear Mountain
Inn, May 8, 1958
[6 items] |
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Parkways
& Freeways of New Jersey, Newark Museum, January 11 - February
15, 1950 [4 items]. |
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Public
Roads Exhibit, American Association of State Highway Officials
33rd Annual Meeting, N.Y.,
1947 [2 items]. |
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Rt.
4 Parkway, Irvington, 1949 [6 items].
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Rt.
4 Parkway, Newark Museum, 1950 [1 item]. |
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Rt.
4 Parkway, State Museum, 1949 [8 items]. |
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State
Highway Exhibit, Tomato Festival, 1939 [1 item]. |
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Trenton
Freeway model in Hunter's Restaurant, Trenton, 1948 [1 item].
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Trenton
State Fair, 1936-1958 [29 items].
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Trenton
Throughway, New Jersey Professional Engineers Meeting, Newark,
1947 [1 item]. |
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Twenty
five Years of Progress 1914 – 1939 [1 item in oversized print
box OV-2]. |
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Unidentified,
no date [11 items]. |
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Flooding
-- see Sea Bright. |
Fritzsche,
O.H. -- see Portraits. |
Gambaccini,
Louis J. -- see Portraits. |
Garden
State Parkway:
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1950-1956
and no date [19 items].
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Woodbridge
exit, 1952 [1 item]. |
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Goldstein,
Sidney -- see Portraits. |
Goodkind,
Morris -- see Portraits. |
Governor
Alfred E. Driscoll:
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Bill
Signing, Palisades Parkway Bill S-104, Chapter 74, April 21,
1947 [7 items].
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Bill
Signing of S-205 - Blue Star roadside rests. Chapter 157, May
19, 1947 [3 items].
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Bill
Signing SJR3 to include all of Rt. 22 in New Jersey for Blue
Star Drive, 1947 [3 items].
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Bill
Signing S-189, Parkway - Freeway area for gasoline service,
October 28, 1948 [5 items].
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Bill
Signing S-373 (Chapter 454) New Jersey Turnpike Authority, October
27, 1948 [2 items]. |
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Dedication
of First Section of New Jersey Rt. 4, June 28, 1950 [4 items].
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Dedication
of New Rt. 25, 1948 [1 item]. |
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Event,
unidentified, no date [1 item]. |
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Formal
opening Rt. S-3 Clifton - Rutherford Passaic River Bridge, September
12, 1949 [6 items].
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Garden
Club of New Jersey Flower Show, 1949 [2 items].
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Garden
State Flower Show, 1947 [4 items].
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Highway
Tour, May 24, 1948 [7 items].
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Opening
Day New Jersey Constitutional Convention, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, 1947 [11 items].
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Second
Inaugural, January 17, 1950 [10 items].
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Governor
Driscoll's Highway Tour at Rt. 25A, May 24, 1948 [1 item].
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Portrait
at his desk, no date [2 items]. -- see also Dedications.
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Governor
Charles Edison:
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Blue
Star Certificate presented to former Governor Edison, 1945 [2
items].
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Opening
of Newark - Harrison Route 25A Detour, May 27, 1943 [1 item].
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Ribbon
Cutting, Bayonne Naval Base Access Road, December 22, 1942 [4
items].
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Starting
Construction at Hudson-Manhattan Bridge on Newark-Kearny Highway,
January 25, 1943 [7 items].
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Unidentified,
no date [1 item]
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Governor
Walter E. Edge:
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Blue
Star Drive Pen Presentation, February 8, 1945 [5 items].
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Governor
Edge inspects line of New Jersey's first Parkway Route 4, August
22, 1946 [11 items].
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Rt.
4 Parkway Bill Signing, April 22, 1946 [14 items].
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Rt.
4 Parkway Ground Breaking, November 8, 1946 [2 items].
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Signing
of New Jersey's Parkway & Freeway Bill, April 3, 1945 [3
items] -- see also Dedications.
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Governor
Robert B. Meyner:
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Bill
signing, July 2, 1954 [1 item].
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Dedication
of Interstate Rt. 80, no date [1 item].
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Meeting
with council of ministers of the Ukraine, State House, 1960
[1 item]. |
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Portrait
of Governor Robert B. Meyner, no date [1 item].
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Rt.
78 Opening Ceremonies, Bloomsbury, October 30, 1959 [3 items].
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Grading
& Paving, 1946-1948 and no date [28 items].
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Groundbreaking
-- see Dedications. |
Group
shots:
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New
Jersey Turnpike, 1949 [1 item]. |
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State
Highway Commission, Camden, 1924 [2 items].
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Unidentified,
1924, 1949 and no date [5 items]. |
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Box
10 |
Harris,
Fran -- see Portraits. |
Highland
Park looking towards Rt. 1, Middlesex Co., no date [2 items]. |
Holland
Tunnel, no date [7 items].
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Howell
-- see Portraits. |
Hurley,
Charles Sr. -- see Portraits. |
Kilpatricks
(?) E.W. -- see Portraits. |
Kramer,
Herman -- see Portraits. |
Landscaping,
no date [11 items].
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Lighthouses,
Los Angeles Harbor, 1961 [3 items]. |
Maintenance:
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Core
Drill, no date [1 item]. |
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Core
Samples, no date [3 items].
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Cracking
Slabs, no date [3 items]. |
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Equipment
workers, 1950 and no date [2 items]. |
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Grass
cutters, 1957 and no date [4 items]. |
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Installing
telephone poles, no date [3 items]. |
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Laboratory
Division test of bitumen - spreading truck measuring equipment
at Fernwood Service
Station, 1947 [2 items].
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Lorain
Shovel & Crane, no date [1 item].
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Maintenance
shed, no date [1 item]. |
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Road
work, Woodbridge, 1939 [1 item]. |
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Road
work, no date [16 items]. |
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Sand
& Cinder Spreader, no date [1 item]. |
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Scalping,
no date [1 item]. |
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Shovel,
no date [2 items].
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Sign
Makers, no date [12 items].
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State
Highway Vehicles, 1940 and no date [16 items].
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Tree
Planting, no date [7 items].
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Truck
& Trailer Compressors, no date [1 item]. |
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White
Line Painting, no date [1 item].
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Maps:
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Alternate
Alignment, Rt. 29, no date [1 item]. |
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Bayonne
Map, 1955 [4 items]. |
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City
of Trenton Proposal, March 29, 1966 [7 items]. |
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Garden
State Parkway, 1946 [1 item]. |
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Interstate
Rt. 78, Composite Plan, June 1963 [2 items] |
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Joint
Study of Arterial Facilities, no date [2 items]. |
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Monmouth
County, no date [2 items]. |
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Newark
Airport Interchange, no date [1 item]. |
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New
Jersey - New York Area Regional Transportation Map, 1946
[4 items]. |
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New
Jersey State Highway System as Legislated, 1947 [2 items]. |
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New
Jersey State Highway Exhibit Map, N.J. League of Municipalities,
New York, 1946 [1 item]. |
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New
Jersey Turnpike, 1949 [1 item]. |
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New
York International Airport 150th Street Approach Road Construction,
no date [2 items]. |
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Parkways
and Freeways Now Legislated in New Jersey, no date [1 item in
oversized print box
OV 1]. |
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Plaza
Improvements and New Ramp Connections between George Washington
Bridge and
Palisades Interstate Parkway, no date [1 item]. |
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Possible
Alignment of Bergen County Expressway, no date [9 items]. |
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Preliminary
Study for Parkway Location, 1946 [1 item]. |
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Proposed
New Highway (East - West link to Rt. 4 Parkway near Pleasantville),
1950[1 item]. |
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Reapproved
alignment I -78, Newark, no date [1 item]. |
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Real
Estate Assessment Survey of Bronx River Parkway, Westchester
County, N.Y., 1932 [4 items]. |
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Route
4 Parkway Alignment Map, 1950 [1 item]. Route 18, no date [4
items]. |
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Route
78, Newark, no date [1 item].
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Route
I-95, no date [15 items]. |
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Route
I-95, Route 295, Pennington Lawrenceville Road, no date [2 items]. |
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Route
100 from Bonhamtown to Elizabeth, no date [1 item].
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Route
130, Official Hearing Map, no date [7 items]. |
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Route
I-195, Howell Township, hearing site, no date [1 item]. |
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Route
295, Section 1W, Township of West Deptford, Gloucester County,
April 13, 1970 [2 items]. |
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State
of New Jersey Road Map, no date [2 items]. |
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System
Map - Existing PATH Stations and Proposed Transfer Stations,
no date [2 items]. |
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Terminal
City, New York International Airport, no date [1 item]. |
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Unidentified,
no date [1 item]. |
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Unidentified
Subway Map, no date [1 item]. |
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Meetings,
1947-1956 [9 items]. |
Miller,
Francis D. -- see Portraits. |
Models:
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Allamuchy
scenic overlook interstate Rt. 80, no date [2 items].
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Interstate
Route 280 and Garden State Parkway, no date [2 items]. |
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Rt.
4 Parkway, 1946 and no date [12 items]. |
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Rt.
17, 1947 and no date [4 items]. |
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Rt.
25, Camden Connection, no date [8 items]. |
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