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Publications Available from Special Collections and University Archives The titles listed below are available, postpaid, at the stated prices. Institutions can be billed, but all other orders require pre-payment. Please download and print the order form (8 KB, Adobe PDF document. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, it can be downloaded for free.) Make your check or money order payable to "Rutgers University Libraries", and send it to:
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163 Collection Guides: Manuscripts
A Guide to New Jersey and Other Civil War Manuscripts in the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University.
Detailed holdings guide, in two parts plus extensive indexes, that also includes excerpts from selected materials.
"The manuscripts described here are of all kinds: letters written by soldiers and by wartime civilians;
records of military organizations; soldiers' journals; communications, orders,
and reports of military agencies; material of veterans' organizations;
some historical writings; papers relating to bounties, pensions, and pay; and sundry miscellany.
They tell us much about conditions in the field, and about conditions at home."--from the introduction.
Revolutionary War Manuscripts in Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Guide which identifies and describes original primary sources
and source materials held as reproductions or transcripts, as well as unpublished
secondary sources such as essays and monographs. Most of these items pertain
to war activities in New Jersey. The guide is arranged alphabetically by
main entry. Each item, collection or partial collection is described briefly,
and its inclusive dates, place(s) or authorship and physical bulk are noted.
When an entry involves a number of correspondents, the more prevalent or
illustrious of them are identified. A complete personal name index is appended.
A Guide to Manuscript Diaries and Journals in the Special Collections
Department, Rutgers University. Collection Guides: Printed New Jerseyana
Education and Schools in New Jersey before 1900: A Guide to Pertinent
Resources in the Rutgers University Special Collections and University
Archives.
A catalog of separately published books, pamphlets, event programs
and broadsides, supplemented by selected periodical articles and typescript
compilations. Included are over 600 citations to contemporary publications
such as addresses and sermons, promotional literature, school catalogs,
student publications, courses of study, locally-published textbooks, rules
and regulations, annual reports, alumni publications and proceedings of
educational organizations. Also included are citations to over 300 historical
and commemorative compilations which pertain to the pre-1900 era. Public
and private education (including religious-sponsored institutions, but
generally not Sunday Schools) are covered, as are music education, schools
for young ladies, professional schools, theological seminaries and other
institutions of higher education–except for Princeton and Rutgers Colleges.
Guide to New Jersey Maps in Special Collections and Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
A Union List of New Jersey Annual Publications in the Library Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers University. Reference Books: New Jersey Bibliographies
"Demon Rum": A Bibliography of Publications about Liquor and New Jersey, 1779-1932.
Guide to almost 450 contemporary and historical New Jersey-related
printed sources, especially materials pertaining to the "liquor problem,"
from the eighteenth century through the repeal of Prohibition. Medical,
legal, economic and moral ramifications of the use and abuse of liquor
are explored in the publications identified, including the merits of temperance
(the subject of numerous sermons, lectures, essays, newspapers, magazines
and annual reports) and the value of government regulation (in the form
of statewide prohibition, local option, tavern licensing, taxation, a legal
drinking age and prohibited Sunday sales). Materials pertaining to breweries
in the state are also delineated. Selected annotations and a 22 page index
complete the work.
A Guide to the Literature of New Jersey Place Names.
An annotated and fully indexed bibliography containing 175
entries identifying information sources which pertain to place names in
New Jersey on a local, regional and state-wide basis. Included are government-produced
and privately issued books, book chapters, pamphlets, published articles
and occasional typescripts. Entries describe studies tracing name changes,
derivations and meanings, as well as identify gazetteers and other sources
that include place names, such as lists of post offices (often named for
nearby places) and railroad stations. For entries which represent a separately
published item, at least one library which owns the title is listed.
New Jersey and the American Revolution : A Bibliography.
An essential reference work which includes 3,328 entries and
a detailed 81 page index. Materials cited include books, pamphlets, broadsides,
articles and selected unpublished compilations (e.g., dissertations and
certain reports) pertaining in some reasonable degree to the subject "the
American Revolution and New Jersey." All facets of the war are treated,
including political, economic and military aspects; battles and engagements;
those who served; biography; localities; and related topics (landmarks
and sites, loyalists, medicine, the press, women, etc.).
Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides Printed or Published in New Jersey, 1801-1819.
New Jersey in the American Revolution : A Bibliography of Historical Fiction, from 1784.
The Civil War and New Jersey : A Bibliography. Reference Books: Exhibition Catalogs
Books by John Ross: An Exhibition at the Rutgers University Libraries.
Illustrations of the book artists' works that appeared in a three venue exhibition, plus
contextual essays by Judith K. Brodsky, biographical timelines and lists of selected solo
and group exhibitions that featured the artists.
Adventure and Art: The First One Hundred Years of Printing.
Catalog for a 1998-1999 exhibition of books, woodcuts and illustrated leaves printed between 1455 and 1555 that was curated by Barbara A. Shailor, Leonard Hansen and Michael Joseph. The exhibition featured materials owned by the Rutgers University Libraries, many of which are illustrated, supplemented by items loaned by Leonard Hansen; two additional items were loaned by other institutions. The volume includes contributions by Barbara A. Shailor, Leonard Hansen, and Robert G. Sewell.
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