
Children's Homes and Welfare Services
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance. Please note that access to most of these materials is restricted.
- Essex County Jewish Welfare collection (Jewish Counseling and Service Agency records), ca 1890-ca 1961. Stored off-site
- New Brunswick Children's Aid Society (Children's Industrial Home of New Brunswick) records, 1878-1937
- Passaic Home and Orphans Asylum Association records, 1882-1978
- Sheltering Arms Children's Service records, 1823-1966. Stored off-site
Family history
General
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Account books: see business, industries and trade
- Publications about particular families: do a targeted advanced search in our library catalog and limit the libraries to Special Collections-University Archives (view instructions)
- City directories
- Genealogical resources
- Personal and family names in the card catalog: see additional on-site resources
Rutgers University
- Rutgers University alumni biographical files: Classes of 1774-1922, 1923-1939, 1940-1949, 1950-1954, 1955-1994,
- Rutgers University alumni papers and collections, 1795-2008
- Rutgers University faculty files (R-Bio-Faculty)
- Rutgers University faculty papers, 1826-2010
- Rutgers University yearbook collection, 1871-2005
- Rutgers University (general): finding aids searchable across collections
Family papers
Please note that collections listed below are those with a finding aid or container list only. For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. For additional family papers view the guide to the manuscript collection of the Rutgers University Library (searchable PDF, 1964) and do a targeted advanced searchfor surnames in the library catalog, limiting the library to Special Collections--University Archives (view instructions). Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Atkinson family papers, 1863-1946. Bulk stored off-site
- Brick, Gertrude N. papers, ca. 1763-1984
- Brooks family papers, 1861-1924
- Cooper, Benjamin B. papers, 1804-1930. Stored off-site
- De Yoe, Willard L. papers, 1858-1962. Stored off-site
- Gaston family papers, 1808-1960. Stored off-site
- Herbert family papers, 1825-1908
- Morris, Robert papers, 1677-1943
- Rue-Holmes-Meiers family papers, 1695-1958
- Schenck, Ferdinand Schurman papers, 1820-1881
- Strong, Alan H. papers, 1732-1931. Stored off-site
- Ten Eyck family papers, 1725-1920
- Terradell family papers, 1873-1983
- Voorhees, Peter A. papers, 1772-ca. 1930. Stored off-site
- Wells, Julia (Wells family) papers, 1738-1953. Stored off-site
Personal papers
Collections in the Rutgers University Archives
Manuscript collections
General
- Guide to the manuscript collection of the Rutgers University Library (searchable PDF, 1964)
- Guide to manuscript diaries and journals (searchable PDF, 1980)
- Advanced search for surnames in the library catalog (view instructions)
Individual collections
Please note that these are collections with a finding aid or container list only. For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Ardrey, Robert papers, 1955-1980
- Barboza-Clark, Frances papers, 1970-2002
- Bayard, Nicholas papers, 1640-1800
- Beck, Lewis C. papers, 1814-1853
- Bishop, Louis F., Jr. papers, 1901-1986. Stored off-site<
- Brick, Gertrude N. papers, ca 1763-1984
- Brodhead, John Romeyn papers, 1613-1888
- Brown, Allen Henry papers 1820-1907
- Cobett, William papers, 1792-1835
- Cooper, Benjamin B. papers, 1804-1930. Stored off-site
- Darcy, Timothy Johnes papers, 1811-1900
- De Leeuw, Adele papers, 1913-1987. Stored off-site
- De Yoe, Willard papers, 1858-1962. Stored off-site
- Dokes, Carol E. and Robert B. papers, 1922-2000
- Dyckman, Mary L. papers, 1903-1982
- Elmer, William papers, 1808-1879
- Frelinghuysen, Joseph papers 1733-1948. Bulk stored off-site
- Harger, Eone papers, 1956-1982. Stored off-site
- Holmes, John S. papers, 1750-1877
- Lindsley, Philip papers, 1839-1887
- Marvin, Dorothy papers. Stored off-site
- Neilson, Julius papers, 1876-1920
- Richardson, Roy Mundy Davidson papers, 1905-1968
- Schenck, Ferdinand Schurman papers, 1820-1881
- Sharp, Thelma Parkinson papers, 1874-1976
- Stanton, Theodore H. collection, 1865-1925
- Alan H. Strong papers, 1732-1931. Stored off-site
- Sykes, George papers, 1835-1878
- Voorhees, Peter A. papers, 1772-ca. 1930. Stored off-site
- Voorhees, Tracy Stebbins papers, 1890-1974
- Ward, Marcus L. papers, ca 1782-1884
- Wells, Julia papers, 1738-1953. Stored off-site
- Weyl, Walter E. papers, 1873-1919
Religious institutions
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance. A guide to original and copied records of religious organizations, largely New Jersey churches is available in the reading room.
- Bound Brook Presbyterian Church records, 1805-1903
- Califon Methodist Church records, 1891-1936
- Congregation Adas Israel records, 1939-1986
- Congregation Ahavath Achim B'nai Israel, Irvington records, 1920-1986
- Congregation B'Nai Jacob, Passaic, NJ records, 1908-1979
- Congregation Knesseth Israel records, 1921-1987
- Congregation Poile Zedek, New Brunswick records, 1917-1968
- Congregation Sharri Shalom, South Brunswick records, 1955-1979
- Temple Beth El records, 1920-1985