Local history
The majority of the resources listed on this page concern collections that have finding aids. For additional materials concerning related subjects, please do a targeted advanced search in our library catalog (view instructions). Please check back regularly, as we continue to add collections to this site:
- Business, industries, and trade
- Local organizations and governments
- Maps
- Printed materials, broadsides, and newspapers
- Regional history collections
- Visual materials
Local organizations and governments
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. For collections pertaining to multiple counties view Regional history collections. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
General
- Bernard Bush collection on the Ku Klux Klan, 1913-2010 (PDF)
- Heritage Quilt Project of NJ records, 1986-2004
- Order of the Founders and Patriots of America New Jersey Society records, 1896-1916
Middlesex County
- Boy Scouts of America, Troop 53, Jamesburg, 1917-1972. Stored off-site
- Middlesex Board of Chosen Freeholders minutes, 1778-1920, 1986-1995
- Middlesex County records, 1683-1929
- Middlesex General Hospital Aid Association records, 1889-1962
- Modern School collection, ca. 1880-2011
- New Brunswick Rotary Club records, 1920-1964
- New Brunswick vertical file collection, 1801-present
- Paul A. Schack collection, 1895-1983
- Piscataway Township records, 1682-1954
- Woodbridge Township records, 1668-1930
Monmouth County
- Borough of Roosevelt historical collection, 1933-1996
- Farmingdale collection, 1890-1995
- Helen-Chantal Pike collection on Asbury Park, NJ, 1850-2007
- Records of the Borough of Roosevelt, 1934-1994
Morris County
Somerset County
- Somerset County Board of Realtors--Somerset County Multiple Listing Service records, 1976-1991. Stored off-site
- Somerset County Cultural Diversity Coalition records, 1994-2011
Union County
Maps
- General information and finding aids in the New Jersey Reading Room
- Guide to New Jersey Maps in Special Collections and University Archives (abbreviated guide, 1986, PDF)
- Search our catalog to identify paper maps (filter to resource type "Maps").
- Digitized New Jersey maps in other repositories: search the library catalog and limit resource type to "Maps"
Printed materials, broadsides, and newspapers
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Broadsides and ephemera
- Newspapers
- Printed materials: search our catalog (view instructions)
Regional history collections
Collections pertain to multiple counties. For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Benjamin B. Cooper papers, 1804-1930
- Charles Hartman collection, 1680-1978
- Robert Morris papers, 1677-1943. Bulk stored off-site
- Charles A. Philhower collection, 1862-1962
Visual materials
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- William F. Augustine Photograph Collection
- Dutch Houses photograph collection, not dated
- Thurlow C. Haunton Jr. New Jersey railroads photograph collection, 1871-201
- New Jersey Bird's Eye Views
- New Jersey portrait collection, undated
- New Jersey postcard collection, 1903-1989
- Pictorial collection
- Helen-Chantal Pike collection on Asbury Park, NJ, 1850-2007
- Neil Ranauro photograph collection of Manville, New Jersey, ca 1940-ca 1980
- Rutgers University Archives photograph collection (R-Photo)
- Stereographs and additional photograph collections and subcollections
- Isaac S. Van DerVeer Photograph Collection (New Brunswick), 1880-1939