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Books, manuscripts, and pamphlets about Greater Bloomfield and vicinity
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680. Includes a rare account of a trip to Aquackanonck (present-day Paterson), including the Passaic River Falls, shortly before Aquackanonk was settled, as well as interesting insights on natives. Genealogy and History of the Daniel Dod Family in Ameica 1646-1940. Dodd, Allison and Folsom, Rev. Joseph Fulford. Bloomfield, NJ, 19__. Available at library of the Historical Society of Bloomfield. [Montclair State paper about the Newark riots of 1745] |
Books, manuscripts, and pamphlets about Bloomfield Township
Bloomfield New Jersey. Edited by Free Public Library of Bloomfield, 1932. Published by The Independent Press, Bloomfield, NJ. Thirtieth anniversary of the Bloomfield Fire Department : including the 1913 fourth of July celebration of the Board of Trade, 1883-1913.
United States: unknown, 1913, 40 pgs. Bloomfield and Montclair cemetery inscriptions before 1800. Anderson, David R.
United States: unknown, 1979, 163 pgs. Fiftieth anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Bloomfield, N.J., 1851-1901. Joseph B Maxfield. New Jersey?: unknown, 1901, 127 pgs. Official program and souvenir book, Bloomfield centennial celebration, June 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Bloomfield, N.J.: unknown, 1912, 65 pgs. History and yearbook commemorating the one hundred and thirty-fifth anniversary, Brookdale Church (Reformed), 1801-1936, Bloomfield, N.J.
New Jersey?: unknown, 1936, 52 pgs. Origin and annals of the "Old Church on the Green" : the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield. Bloomfield, N.J.: S. Morris Hulin, 1901, 88 pgs. Real and ideal Bloomfield: the briefly-told story of church-town, township and incorporated town of to-day. Hulin, Stephen Morris. Bloomfield, N.J.: unknown, 1902, 62 pgs. Biography and genealogical history of the city of Newark and Essex County, New Jersey. A C; Jane Franklin; Abraham Coles; Jonathan Ackerman Coles; et al. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1898, 1219 pgs. The turn of the century: the record of the house of Thomas Oakes and Company. American Historical Society, Inc., 1930. Bloomfield. (Part of Historical collections of the state of New Jersey.) Barber, J. W. and Howe, H. Newark, 1844. The growth of Bloomfield and the Bloomfield Savings Institution, 1871-1921. Bloomfield Savings Institution. Images of America: Bloomfield. Branch, Frederick; Kuras, Jean; and Sceurman, Mark, 2001. (Out of print; available at the Bloomfield Public Library and the Historical Society) Perry, Lawrence. Old First. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. A fictional account of a young woman's path to marriage. Setting is 1871 "Brookfield", a thinly disguised version of Bloomfield. Author once lived at 24 Benson Street in Bloomfield, and in Glen Ridge at the time of publication. | Newsletters, Articles, Directories and Websites
The Town Crier The New Town Crier: Newsletter of the Historical Society of Bloomfield Independent Press Year in Review (tbp) Baldwin's directory of Bloomfield, Montclair, Belleville, Franklin, Caldwell and Verona : containing names, addresses and business addresses, a complete business, street, society and church directory, township officers : a complete map of Essex County for the year ending May 1, 1894. Anonymous. Newark, N.J.: J.H. Baldwin, 1894, 378 pgs. Available on HeritageQuest. |