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Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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100 years old and still going - Murray, Helga and Lyle Roberts 186
1003 Putnam Avenue 88
100-Year -Old Building 184
1083 Hillside Avenue is an English Tudor cottage built in 1929 207
1100 Putnam 98
1100 Watchung Avenue 92
1106 Myrtle Avenue 86
1108 Putnam 98
1129 Prospect Avenue Residence of Helen Cook Nasmith 195
1148 Martine Avenue. Colonial Revival mixed - built around 1906 227
1203 Putnam 98
1214 Putnam 98
1220-1224 Watchung Avenue 85
127 East Ninth Street, the Manley House built circa 1870 226
1300 Prospect Avenue 92
1317 Putnam Avenue 93
1414 Watchung Avenue 93
144 East Seventh Street 89
16 Evergreen Avenue 215
1777 Eder Vermeule House - recent photo façade 20
1846 Randolph Building - A turn-of-the-century view of the 28
1869 - Plainfield 68
1886 Colonial Revival -- the largest single family residence in Plainfield 202
1942 four generation photograph 144
19th Century American painting to be the Drake Children 15
202 West Eighth Street 89
209 West Eighth Street 92
213-216 Putnam 98
216 West Eighth Street 89
316 West 6th Street 87
327 East Seventh Street 89
400 Franklin Place 88
404 West 7th Street 87
420 Stelle Avenue 92
423 West Eighth Street 91
435 West Eighth Street 235
439 East 6th Street 86
441-447 West 6th Street 88
452 West Eighth Street 90
500 Stelle Avenue 92
512 West Fifth 98

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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520 Central Avenue 87
530 West Fifth 98
531 West Eighth Street 88
563 West Eighth Street 93
60 Netherwood Avenue 93
606-614 New Street 89
60th Annual Track and Field Meet 126
615 Central Avenue 85
645 West Seventh Street, 1926 Allison & Kerr Residence 216
653 Ravine Road 85
72 Netherwood Avenue 93
726 Kensington Avenue 85
778 Belvidere 98
789 Belvidere Avenue 90
792 Belvidere 98
810 Belvidere 98
810 Central Avenue 92
815 Field Avenue 189
827 Madison Avenue a Van Wyck Brooks Historic District house 202
828 Arlington Avenue 86
911 East 77th Street 85
920 Hillside Avenue 93
925 Woodland Avenue 91
930 Hillside Avenue 93
935 Central Avenue 86
935 Prospect Avenue 85
937 Hillside Avenue 86
940 Central Avenue 88
963 Hillside Avenue 90
970 Hillside Avenue 90
975 Hillside Avenue 90
980 Hillside Avenue 92
996 Hillside Avenue 93
999 Hillside Avenue - residence 95
A & P supermarket at 333-337 West Front Street 71
Abrams, Morris 140
Ackerman Memorial Garden 138
Ackerman, Ernest A., Representative 131
Ackerman, Ernest R. 99
Ackerman, J. 101
Ackerman, William 51
Acknowledging the cheers of the crowd in Melbourne 128

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Adam C. Blair's Metropolitan Livery & Boarding Stables 124
Adams, Alanzo 100
Adams, Alex, builder 68
Adams, Henry M, 60
Adams, Judi 115
Ads! 171
After Santa's visit 64
Ah, the days when snow was a joyous event 145
Al Munoz Remembered - Plainfield Today - April 23, 1987 102
Albanese, Licia 112
Albert Hall 201
Alfred Munoz, a modern-day genre painter 103
Alfred University 72
Alice Tully Hall 110, 111
All American Schoolboy Track Team 128
All American Swimming Team 128
All Souls Church 140
Allen, Joseph C. 71
Allie Maidens Jazz Syncopators prepare for a toe-tapping evening 106
Altantic Trust Co. 72
Aluminum Plate and Press Company, The 80
Amateur Championship 123
Amateur theatrical - cast, circa 1910 116
American Commission to Negotiate Peace 60
American Eagle
iv
American Foursquare on Watchung Avenue 191
American Indian artifacts 32
American Motor Car Co. 82
American Six 82
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 71
American Vacuum Cleaner 80
America's Industrial Revolution 44
Amphion Theater 117
Ancient Order of Hibernians 137
And during the hazy, lazy days of summer 124
And there was always the excitement of a derailment 77
Anderson - citation 66
Anderson, Doug 112
Anderson, J.C., Dr. 152
Anna Lucasta 153
Anna Webster and Nathan Vail 16
Announcement of one of Plainfield's first automobile shows 58

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Annual Children's Program, An 112
Anthony Roman Dylewski in front of Daleska Manor 221
Antique and Custom Car Show - Vintage entry 79
Applause 115
Architect Ebenezer Roberts selected lacy, Carpenter Gothic trim 94
Area Reference Center 99
Arioso Chamber Music Group, The 110
Armat School for Graphic Arts, The 100
Armstrong's Drug Store 80
Arne, Gerry & Johnann - circa 1870 French Mansard residence 189
Arnold, Benedict 148
Art Class session 101
Artist's rendering of the interior of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 135
Arts Council of New Jersey 112
Arts Musica Antigua, The 111
As It Was When 112
Ashburn, Caroll 117
Aspen School of Music 112
Aspinall, Barbara, Reverend, The 136
Astor Theater, The 117
At the Terry Well on Rahway Road Continentals and British 22
Atlantic City Casinos 120
Atlantic Safe Deposit Co. 72
Augenblick and Gruneisen 74
Augustine Herrmann and his horse. Credit-Cop by Harold Morse 7
Aunt Jean, Mother and Aunt Gus in 1880's tennis outfits 122
Auntie Mame 113
Australian singer Marjorie Lawrence 105
Auto Bus Company 55
Automobile Parade 57
Autumn in the Sierras 101
Avrum Ramie Raymond Haness - 1898-1986 212
Ayer and Pedrick 80
Ayers, William C. 67
Babcock, George 80
Babcock, George H. 49, 71, 137
Babcock, Harriet 49
Babock Building, corner of Front Street and Madaison Avenue 71
Babock, Mrs. 137
Babock's Factory 137
Bach 110
Backyard photo session, circa 1910 147

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Bagwell, John D., Rev. 43
Baha, Abul, Persian prophet 100
Bailey's or P.T. Barnuum's 45
Baker, Dr. 110
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 108
Baldwin, Mr. 145
Baltimore Orioles 121
Bantle, John G. 73
Baptiste, T. James, Reverend, The 141
Barber & Howe's History 28
Barbershop Group and the Sweet Adelines 108
Barclay, John 8
Barkalew, Mr. 136
Barlow and Cook Schools 131
Barlow, Dewitt 108
Barlow, Michael L., The Reverend 139
Barnes, Catherine 153
Barnes, Mills 153
Barry, David, builder 68
Barrymoore, Ethel 117
Baseball Hall of Fame 121
Baton Rouge School System 112
Battle Hymn of the Republic, The 106
Battle of Bull Run 35
Bavier, Stuart, Mrs. 131
Beautiful Things - 1838 East Second Street - Scotch Plains, NJ 184
Beethoven 106
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 110
Beetles, The 105
Before Seventh Street and Putnam Avenue were paved 157
Bells of St. Mary, The 104
Belvidere 98
Belvidere Avenue & Charlotte Road - Corner 91
Ben Franklin Dairy Store 241
Benet, Steven Vincent 115
Benny, Jack 117
Bergquist, Joseph E., Reverend The 141
Berkeley Avenue home of Gary and Katherine Mann 215
Bernhardt, Sarah 117
Best wishes from the Turner Clan 223
Beth Tefilah Isho Yental 140
Bethel Chapel 134

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
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Bethel Church 104
Bethel Presbyterian Church 134, 152
Bethel Tefelas Yental 140
Bethel Young People, The 108
Bethlehem Bach Choirs 108
Bicket, Emeritus Willard 139
Bicycle Club team after winning its game with the Smokers 121
Bicycle shop of Frank L. C. Martin, Park Avenue in 1895 120
Bierley, Paul E. 146
Bierstadt, Albert 101
Big White Rats Carnival 117
Bihler, Charles 110
Bill Evans Trio, The 112
Bill Garrett 237
Bill Garrett, Bob Chanda, Mary Chanda, Emilia Carlson, Lila David, Maureen and
Rosemary Haness 236
Bill, Rosemary and Christine Friedrich 234
Billiard parlor held as much fascination for Plainfield youth 128
Billups, Ray 105
Birdseye, Clarence 59
Bishop, Elizabeth 31
Black Bank Teller 152
Black History Month 100
Black Rock 105
Black, Joe 126
Blackburn, Kim 100
Blair, Adam C. 123
Blair, Jerry 35
Blair's 112
Bleeker, A. J. 67
Blendinger, Dorothy 107
Blendinger, Fred 107, 108
Bliss, C. John, Reverend 145
Blondyn Plains 143
Blondyn Plains purchase 7
Blue Army of our Lady of Fatima 138
Blue Hills 18, 22, 25, 28, 33, 50, 60
Blue Hills Fort 19
Blue Hills neighborhood 7
Blue Ridge Mountains 59
Blume, Judy 102
Board of Education 72

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Board of Trade, The 75
Bob Chanda, Lila Davis 237
Bobacock and Wilcox 71
Bogelow, Arthur C., Professor 104
Bohems and Lederers, The - partners 140
Boice Estate Lumber 43
Boice Homestead in East Front Street 133
Boice, Anna 41
Boice, Helen R., Miss 131
Boice, Hollander Jacob 51
Boice, Rachel, Mrs. 41
Boice-Runyon Coal Company 41
Boise, Howard W., Inc. 44
Boise's Stationary 117
Bosch Magneto Co. 83
Bosch Magneto Co. - citation 80
Bostelmann, Louis 108
Bourke-White, Margaret 101
Boyce, Richy 105
Boyd Family - Charlie, Debbie, Chucky, and Chauncey 230
Boyd's Plainfield Directory 51
Boynton Beach 55
Boys at the Bank, circa 1893 150
Bradeis Creative Arts Citation 108
Brahm's Requiem 110
Bramnick Family: Jon, Patricia, Brent, and Abigail 204
Brass Quintet 110
Brass Quintet 110
Brewer, Edward 111
Brewer, Virginia 111
Briant, John 136
Brick hat factory at the rear of French's Mill 16
Broadcast Music, Inc. 108
Broadnax, Anna 152
Brodie, Lynwood 105
39, 40, 101, 105, 115, 146,
Brooks, Van Wyck
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Brooks, Van Wyck - Pulitzer Prizewinner 38
Brotherhood of Carpenters, The 68
Brothers Wiggins and Best 136
Broughton, James 113
Brown, Arthur 111

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Brown, Flloyd 139
Brown, Marshall 154
Brown, Theodore S. 34
Brown, William - history of New Jersey 71
Brubeck, Dave 110
Bruce, Mary Evelyn 111
Bryan, William Jennings 50
Bryant School 131
Bucknell University 106
Buhot, Alden Bethel 75
Buhot, Johanna 75
Bull Run 38
Bungalow Is An Exact Replica of a Model In New York's Greatest 55
Bungalow of 1900-1930 93
Burnside, General 35
Burton, William E. 146
Bus, competition for the trolley line 62
Business Men's Association of Plainfield 74
Business Men's Association Shop : Plainfield 189
But folks continued to buy cars anyway 79
Butterfield, W. J. 117
Byrd Expedition 59
C. Frank and Dorothe A. Sheeley - June 28, 1924 197
Cadmus, Jasper G. 70
Caesar - Documentation of African born 14
Calkins, Leighton, Plainfield Mayor 57
Calvary Baptist Church 104, 139, 141, 152
Camp Kilmer 107
Campbell, Milt 100, 126, 154
Candee, Seth, Mrs. 113
Canoune, Annie Louise 48
Canter, Walter 111
Cape Cod 101
Carey, Andrew 152
Carey, Tinis J., Chief of Police 51
Carlson, John 100
Carlson, John F. 100
Carlson, Mildred 110
Carlton College 112
Carmel, Samuel 108
Carnegie Hall 108
Carnegie Recital Hall 112

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railroad 72
Carpenter Residence - 825 Field Avenue and Velvet 190
Carpenter, Gloria 152
Carpenter, Russel C. 152
Carpenters and Joiners Union 69
Carteret, George 7
Caruso 105
Case, Charles L. 73
Case, Howard 106, 110
Casino 116, 132
Cathie, Shirley 108
Cathie, Shirley, Dr. 133
Cayer, Elizabeth 132
Cedar Brook 15, 49, 84
Cedar Brook Farm 8, 11, 12, 25, 49, 50, 51
Cedar Brook Farm 11
Cedar Brook Parks 55
Cedar Creek Settlement 8
Cedarbrook Park 112, 125
Census figures for 1980, published in The Courier-News, June 23 58
Center Jersey Times 72
Central Baptist 134
Central Building and Loan Association 74
Central Jersey July Fourth Celebration, The 125
Central New Jersey 99
Central New Jersey Times, The 35, 43, 139
Central Railroad of New Jersey 65
Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) 65, 67, 148
Central Reformed Church 139
Century-Plainfield Tire Co. - citation 80
Cesar 30
Cesar 31
Chamber groups, choral, orchestral 112
Chamber of Commerce 71
Champion, Audrey 115
Chanda Family: Thorndike, Maryellen, Teddy, Crackers and Bob 198
Chapot & Sons 80
Charles Warner Wendell 205 West Ninth Street 227
Charles, Ric Chorale 110
Chase-Manhattan 31
Checking the score. Paul Runyon 128
Chevrolet Motor Co. 82

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Chevrolet, Gaston 82
Chevrolet, Louis 57, 82
Chevrolet, Martha 75
Chicago World's Fair 73
Children Are Our Future 174
Children's Corner Nursey School 139
Children's Room 99
China-San Francisco 48
Chinese porcelains and Cloisonne 99
Choir, pastor and choir director of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 135
Choral Society 143
Chorus of Nurses at Muhlenberg Hospital 108
Christmas Time 104
Church and Music 110
Church Of 1832 136
Church of Our Saviour 138
Church that Ebenezer L. Roberts designed on Crescent Avenue 135
Cioffis: Billy, Kristin, Brian and Beau 223
City Beautiful - Ad 80
City Council Jon Bramnick 174
City Hall
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City Hall - interior in Classical Revival style 56
City Hall (top center) - 1926 view of Plainfield 57
City Hotel - finally Queen City Hotel built in 1850 29
City National Bank (in Plainfield) 36, 72
City of Churches 134
City of Plainfield, N.J. Centennial 242
City, State and National Register Historic Places 161
Civil Rights and polictical problems 152
Civil Service Examination 152
Civil War - To the right 74
Civil War - Civic Growth 34
34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45,
Civil War (The)
65, 84, 89, 100
Civil War veterans 49
Clang, clang, clang went this thoroughly modern trolley 62
Clara Louise Tea Shop 151
Clark, Harriet Mandane 71
Clark, Hobart, Reverend, The 140
Class picture, a happy tradition throughout our schooldays 130
Clawson Building 219
Clawson Farm 72

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Clayton 68, 73
Clayton's 1882 History of Union County 67
Clayton's History 70, 145
Cline, Edward 75
Clipper, H.S., Dr. 139
Closson, James L. 49
Closson, James, T. 72
Cobb, Ty 121
Cochran Jean Carter - citation 110
Cochran, Jean Carter 102
Cochran, Jean Carter 1944 - citation 136
Cock, William R. 53
Coe, Philemon E., 138
Cohan, George M. 117
Cole, Isaac 59
Coleman Residence on Forest Hill Road 225
Coles, Abraham Ackerman 101
Colgan, Harold V., Monsignor 137
Collier family and residence, 140 Sixth Street in 1891 238
Collier, Asa 121
Colonial crafts 32
Colonial Revival Style 161
Columbus Landing on San Salvadore
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Combe, Yvonne 108
Command Performance 113
Common Council 41, 42
Common Council in the mayor's office - February 17, 1917 159
Community Cultural Center 34
Commuter's Day Festivities 57
Compliments of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Siccardi 195
Compliments of the E. Parham Wanzer residence 225
Composition by one-time resident Dolia Loran - charcoal drawing 101
Compton's Ice Cream Saloon 45
Cone family residence: 669 West Seventh Street 208
Cone, Cynthia 137
Congratulations Plainfield from the Esposito family on Prospect Ave. 207
Congregation Children of Israel 140
Congregation Ohavey Zadek 140
Congregational Church 73
Congregational Church
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Congregational Nursey School 139
Congregational parsonage on land donated by Jacob Kirkner 140

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Congressional Medal of Honor 38, 100
Conover, Loraine 110
Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange 72
Coods, Henry 108
Cook was originally known as the Netherwood School 131
Cook, Frederic W. 55, 131
Cook's Lumber Yard 76
Cooley,Grace Webster, Miss 132
Coon, Matthew 27
Coopersmith, Lee, Cantor 140
Coriell, Elisha 41
Coriell, William McDowell 50
Coriell's Ferry 41
Coriells, Huguenot 50
Cornell, Phil 115
Corner E. Front Street Plainfield
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Cornwell, George 108
Counihan., W. J. 116
Country Chairman, The 116
Courain, Alice and Beth - home in Plainfield. Corner of Fourth & Darrow 157
40, 41, 43, 57, 60, 72, 73, 80,
104, 106, 110, 112, 115, 117,
Courier News (Courier-News, The)
121, 129, 131, 146, 148
Court of Errors and Appeals 83
Covert, Luke 50
Cozzoli, Frank 75
Crane and Tracy families resided at Cranehurst 229
Crane, Marjorie 108
Cranehurst Mews -- 721 Field Avenue 204
Crescent Area Neighborhood Association 160
Crescent Area Neighborhood Association (image) 160
Crescent Avenue Church 105, 108, 110, 112, 136
Crescent Avenue Historic District 100
Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church 68, 134
Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church- after the fire of 1931 135
Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, New Jersey ii, 165
Crescent Choir 110
Crescent Concerts 110
Crescent Historic District 160
Crescent Historic District 94, 160
Crescent Oval 120

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
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Crescent Wheelman, The 120
Crescents 121
Crockett family - David and Beth 215
Cultural and Heritage Commission - Allen Stuart - Chairman 168
Cunard Steamers 68
Cunningham, John 65
Custer's Exploits 69
Cutting ice on the pond in the depths of winter 48
Czar Nicholas of Russia 100
Daily Advertiser 43
Daily Press, The 43, 76, 121
Dame Durden's Cookbook 39
Dame Durden's Cookbook - ladies First Baptist Church 1n 1890 39
Dan Robert's Uncle Livery 75
Dancing round the Maypole a traditional rite of spring 115
Daniels, Bill 154
Daniels, Harry H. 75
Daniels, John W. 75
Dave, Regina and Katy Englert 189
David Frost Show 112
Davis, Miles 112
Day, Charles 82
Days Before the tube in Plainfield 102
de Frost, Lee 83
De Leeuw, Adele and Cateau - of Plainfield 102
de Medina, Cecelia, Mrs. 146
de Medina, Duke 146
De Revere, George B. 44
Death of General Sedgewick 100
Deerfield Academy 132
DeFreitas, C., Dr. 153
Delany, Olive, Miss 131
DeLeeuw, Adele 102
DeLeeuw, Cateau 102
Delmonico House 196
Dempsey, Jack 106
Department of Recreation 125
Department of Recreation - Plainfield's first 145
Desnoyers, Albert Henry 74
Detroit Tigers 121
Detwiller, Charles 99
Detwiller, Charles, Jr., AIA 137

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
Publication Date: 1987
Call Number: PR 974.936 P69
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Detwiller, Frederic C. 31, 34
Di Giovanni domain 208
Dibbs, Lydia 49
Dictionary of Scientific Biography - citation 83
Dime Savings Institution in East Front Street 37
Dime Savings Institution, Inc. 37
Distinguished Alumni Award 112
Dixon's Ice Cream Parlor 45
Doane, Thaddeus - Fire Chief 61
Doane, Thaddeus O. 42, 121
Dobbin Ramble 156
Dockstader's Minstrels in the music hall 115
Doctors and nurses with feathered friend 54
Dodge, David L. 49
Doll's House 115
Donald Martino - band and orchestra 108
Donna Vose and Gregory Palermo, MD 218
Doorways to the Past - A Tercentennial Tour 156
Doreen and William Kruse 1009 Hilside Avenue, Plainfield, N.J. 209
DosPasos, John 115
Dotte Pollard 237
Dotte Pollard, Rosemary Haness, Marueen Merrow, Mary V. Griswold and Tom
Ricketts 236
Dotte Pollard's Sheepwalk 819 Field Avenue circa 1880 197
Double Door 113
Double Dutch Tournment 125
Doughboy Schorb poses before leaving for France 145
Douglass College 111
DownBeat Readers 112
Downtown face of Plainfield eary in the 20th century 70
Dr. Endicott, northerly corner of Park Avenue - Home 157
Dr. John Carter Sutphen's home and medical office circa 1830-1850 41
Dr. Merton and Mary Vic Griswold at their residence 920 Woodland Ave. 223
Dracula 113
Dragonette, Jessica 117
Drake Business College 55
Drake House 21, 31, 32, 100, 137
Drake House
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Drake House - floorplan in various stages of development 33
Drake House 1746 Museum 163
Drake House as it looked circa 1800 when the Drakes lived here 30

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Drake House Museum - 602 West Front street 163
Drake House Museum, 1746 30, 32
Drake House, and how it grew 32
Drake Mill 31
Drake, Daniel 31, 33
Drake, Isaac - Drake House 11,12
Drake, Isaac 's Will Dated January 3, 1736 14
Drake, Isaac, Jr. 31
Drake, Isaac, Sr., Will 30
Drake, John 31
Drake, Nathaniel 14, 19
Drake, Nathaniel's Will 33
Drakes 34
Drama Tourament, The 113
Dramatic Guild of the Foothill Playhouse, The 113
Drawing of the Battle of the Short Hills 32
Drawing of The Eagle 66
Dreier, Garrett 140
Dreier, Harry 140
Druse, Ken 102
Ducret School of Fine and Industrial Arts 100
Dufford, George S. 41
Duke Ellington at post-concert reception at Neighborhood House 114
Dunavan, Carly C. 131
Dunn & Sons - 320 Park Avenue, Plainfield 167
Dunn, Elston M. 35
Dunn, Joel 34
Durant, Dorothy 110
Durrah, F.F., M.D. 152
Dutch Immigrant Adrian 33
E.M. Bird - He has none of the characteristics 81
Eagle, The 65
Early-mid 19th century homestead on the Hand family farm 51
East Front Street at the head of Park Avenue 69
East Front Street, near Park Avenue 73
Eddy, Henry 101
Edgewood 72
Edsall,s Emporium 71
Edward, Maze 116
Eliza Elvira Kenyon First Lady of Plainfield 103
Elizabeth Port 67
Elizabeth, The, Plainfield and Central Traction Company 148

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Elizabethtown 67
Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad 65
Elizabeth-Town Point 65
Elks' Annual Auto Parade 82
Elks' Club House 57
Elks' Week Merriment 57
Elkwood Hall 116
Ellington, Duke 105, 110
Elm Street Courts, The 122
Emelia and Isaac S. Manjoe 222
Emerson and Channing's Transcendentalism 101
Emperor of Austria 100
Empire Parlor 32
Endicott, Dr. 76
Enterprises of Plainfield Ltd. A Corporation 208
Erskin, John 108
Esther Harness - Movement, laughter and nostalgia 211
Estil, Mr. 38
Ethel Barrymore Theater 117
Eugenie, Empress 146
European campaigns 101
Evans, Bill 112
Evans, George, Mrs. 39
Evans, Harry 112
Evans, Monas 140
Evans, Rosemary 108
Evans, Violet 108
Even the Drpression failed to dampen Plainfields enthusiasm 127
Evening News, The 43, 45, 51
Evergreen Café 210
Evergreen School 112
Expirimental Theater Workshop 113
Exterior and interior views of Plainfields Quaker Meetinghouse 26
F.L.C. Martin - F.L.C. once delt in cycles 81
F.L.C. Martin Auto Company - 1911 advertisement 78
Fairchild School for Boys 26
Fairfax Courthouse 35
Fairleigh Dickerson University 110
Fantastics, The 115
Farson, Negley 101
Father of Free Public Schools in New Jersey, The 129
Faure 110

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Faylor, Freeman 125
Federal and Greek Revival style homes 84
Feltville, Dam 51
Fensterstock, Jennie 74
Fernstone 505 West Eighth Street built by Harman family in 1892 228
Fiddler On The Roof 113
Fields, Hazel 153
Fields, Lee 105
Fifth Army Band, The 112
Fimiani, Louis, F., Monsignor 138
Fiorello 115
Fire Department horses were trained to back into the carriages 42
Fire Engine Company No. 1 42
First Baptist Church
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First Baptist Church (AKA Shingle Church), The 39, 106, 134, 139
First Baptist Church of the Green Brook, circa 1818 134
First Calvary Baptist Church, The 141
First Christian Assembly 142
First Church of Christ Scientist 141
First Congregational Church 139
First International Organist Convention In Toronto, Canada 110
First Methodist Church 141
First Methodist Episcopal Church
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First National 37, 36
First Park Baptist Church 104, 111, 134
First Park Baptist Church - gracious interior 135
First Presbyterian Church
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First Presbyterian Church (of Plainfield) 134
First Presbyterian Church, The 101, 134
First Unitarian Society of Plainfield 139
First Unitarian Society of Plainfield 166
First United Medodist Church - yesterday and today. 136
First United Methodist Church 136
First United Methodist Church Sesquicentennial Program 1982 - citation 136
First-Park Baptist Church - beautiful spire of 134
Fish, Ferdinand 75
Fishing Derby 125
Fisk, Charles J. 72
Fitz Randolph House, circa 1717 12
Fitz-Hugh, Mr. 143
FitzRandolph's 112
Fitzsimmons, Bob 117

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Flanagan, Cecil 125
Fledgling business venture 151
Flitz, Dick 113, 115
Floersch, Peter 44
Flowering of New England, The 101
Flynn, John J. 59
Flynn, William 53
Fontenbleau School of Music 108
Force, Albert 43
Force, William 43
Force's Hotel 70
Ford, Henry 106, 123
Fort, Franklin J. 43
Fort, Leslie 43
Fort, R. Leslie 145
Foster Residence 190
Fountain, Gordon 59
Fourth National Bank 37
Fox, Viola 153
Franck, Caesar 110
Frank L. C. Martin Cycle Co., The 76
Freeman, Walter H. 121
French Huguenot Family 41
French School of Music, The 108
French, John H. 33
French, Phineas M. 33
French's City Mill of 1846 16
French's Mill 69
Freshman, The 117
Frick Building 80
Friends of the Library, The 99
Friends of the Plainfield Public Library 183
Frock-coated Republican 115
Frontenac Special 82
Frontispiece of the literary section of 1930 edition of Tempora 103
Front-Somerst-Park intersection - Below 74
Frucht, Zigmund 140
Fullerton, Robert 8, 57
Fusco Family, resideing on Berkeley Avenue 220
Gainfas, J. 74
Gallery at Quaker Station 144 North Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 180
Gallery, The 99, 100

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Gannett, Frank E. 43
Gannett, Lewis 115
Garden, Charlotte 110
Garden, Dr. 110
Gardner's Meat Stand 69
Garner House 225
Garrett Family Album 192
Gavett, Alexander 99
Gavit's glass and china shop 151
Gazelle Engine Company No. 1 42
General Sterling - House built at 829 First Place 38
General Sterling House, The 151
George A. Troy - Founder of Troy's Lock Co. 169
George D. Webster House, which stood at 429 West Second Street 157
George Ebert and Jim Morris and Hans' home 201
George Marriner Maull, Director, Plainfield Symphony 109
George O. Stevens Oil Company 145
George with Mr. Hand's horse Sindut 62
Georgia Peach 121
Georgian Classic Revival Colonial Mansion 233
Gesang-und-Turn-Verein 105
Gesner, Charles 115
Gethsemane Lutheran Church 140, 141
Gibson, D. S., Reverend, The 141
Gilbert and Johnson 104
Gilbert and Sullivan Symphonic and Operatic Music 112
Gilbert Farm 49
Gilbert, Alexander 49, 99
Gilbert, William 101
Gilded Age, The 84
Gilded Lady, The 117
Gilmore, Patrick 146
Gin Game 115
Gingerbread House 224
Gingerbread Journey 156
Gingles, Jinks 105
Girl on Boat
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Gish, Dorothy 117
Gish, Lillian 117
Glass Menagerie, The 115
Glenn, Thomas Allen 148
Glenoaks 196

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Glick Brothers 74
Glick, William 74
Gloden Gloves 126
Gloekler Building on the northwest corner of Front 68
Goddard, Elsie 112
Goddard, Harriet 112
Goddard, Margaret, Miss 100
Godey's Lady Book 40
God's Book 104
Goins, Clen 105
Golden Bantam Corn 55
Golden Eagle 1833, and American Flamingo, 1838
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Goldman, Gerald A. 140
Goldman, Virginia 101
Goldstein, Harris 140
Goldstein, Sarah K. 113
Golf Digest Magazine 123
Gonzales, Edward 108
Good Friday Concert 110
Gordon, Barbara, Karen, Jennifer, Diane and Barb Fuller 191
Gordon, John Dr, 8
Gordon, Thomas 8,9,10
Grace Church 105, 138, 139
Grace Church Mission 138
Grace Church's Mumford Memorial Rectory 139
Grace Episcopal Church 53, 101, 104, 138
Grace Episcopal Church - an early view 138
Grace Episcopal Church - Sunday Class 138
Grace Evangel Church 142
Grace Methodist of North Plainfield 136
Grainger, Percy 108
Grammy Awards 112
Grand Old Man 68
Grant Avenue Community Center 112, 116, 117, 125
Grant Avenue Community Center 174
Grant Avenue Community Center - Musical Programs 110
Grant Avenue Presbyterian Church 134
Grant, Ulysses, S., General 148
Great Century (100 mile) Newark to Philadelphia race 76
Great Danes Starry Night and Delilah 196
Great Depression 57, 107
Great Ring of Canada, The 100

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Great Train Robbery, The 117
Grecian Bend 40
Greek Revival/Italianate residence, The 42
15, 25, 30, 45, 49, 84, 134,
Green Brook
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Green Brook Family School 26
Greene, Ralph 154
Griffith, D.W. 117
Griswold, Vicki 104, 112, 115
Grocery ad from the Plainfield Courier-News of June 6, 1901 75
Groszmann, Waldemar N. 32
Gruneisen, Henry 74
Guaranty Trust Company 37
Guide: Midsummer Night's Dream - citation 112
Guion Family 136
Gus Nasmith, Jr. 130
Gutman, Samuel 140
Guy Goins; Nancy Plum. Nancy's Frame Shoppe 182
H & H Hairdressers, Inc. 171
H. Douglas Davis, president of The Plainfield Trust Company 151
Hackenberg, Marine 106
Hackensack River 68
Hadley Airport 55
Hadley Airport - The early days of air travel 62
Haedrick, Ken 102
Haegman, Florence 110
Hall, David Prescott 102
Hall, Egerton E., Father 153
Hall, Florence Howe 101
Halloway, Harriet, Miss 112
Halsey, Melvin 153
Hampton, Walter 112
Hancock, John Wesley 136
Hand Bell Festival 110
Hand, David 50
Hand, Sam, builder 68
Hand, William, Captain 35
Handel 110
Handel's Messiah (concert) 111
Hang in there, Baby 62
Hannon, James 105
Hansen, James C. 74

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Happy Birthday 104
Harberger, John S. 31, 137
Hardison, Inge 153
Harmony Engine Company 42
Harned Academy 55
Harned, E. N. 55
Harper, Kathleen 110
Harper, Kay 110
Harper, Richard S. 110
Harriott, Vail and Co. 67
Harris, Arthur 59
Harris, Charles P., Dr. 141
Harry and Carole Jenkins - residence 207
Hart, Charles A. , Dr. 53
Hartridge School 112
Hartridge school bus, dubbed The Ladies Bus 133
Harvey, William, Dr. 110
Harvey, William, Reverend, The 136
Hatridge Board 132
Hatridge School 132
Hatridge, Emelyn Battersby, Miss 132
Hauge, Frank, Jr. 83
Hawthorne (Nathaniel) 38
Hayes, Helen 100
Hayes, Roland W. 108
Heathstone and Hedgrows 156
Hedden, Albert 151
Hedden, Frank 151
Heermann, Augustine 6, 148
Heideloff, Henry 34
Helen H. Miller Council Member 1982-1984 235
Helen, Mygatt and Noss, Edith 151
Helfenbeim, Ladiaus 108
Hemingway, Ernest 115
Henry M. Demarest, Sr. in his best bib and tucker 147
Henry, Dorothy 151
Henry, M. Maxson, Mrs. 131
Henry, Warren 151
Heritage Society 112
Hersey Hat Manufacturing Company 74
Hetfield, Levi 129
Hey, cabbie! Taxi service in the days before the city's motorized fleet 124

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Hickson, Pat 115
Higgins Home for Funerals 180
Higgins Jacob 68
Higgins, John, builder 68
High School, Whittier, Franklin, Washington, Bryant Lincoln, Irving) 130
High up in the tower - the carillon keyboard at Grace Church 105
Highlander Girl Pipers parading down front Street (Left) 114
Hillhaven, circa 1898 Raymond Haness - Esther Haness - Sal Guadagnino, Jr.
Rosemary Haness with
Hillside Avenue - the estate-like, single-family homes 161
Hillside Avenue Historic District 161
Hillside Avenue Historic District 95, 161
Hillside Avenue Historic District - Candlelight Tour 156
Hillside Avenue Historic District - Carlson Home 213
Hillside Avenue Historic District Association (image) 161
Hillside Cemetery 49, 100, 148
Hillside Tennis and Golf Club Inc. 123
Hillside Tennis Club, circa 1890 - Hippies of the 122
Hilltop - the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Alcorn 186
Hires, Charles E. 45
Hiss, Mary Rose 110
Historical Society, The 32
History of Plainfield - Reprinted from the Courier News, 1963 243
Hobson, C.G. 152
Hobson's Drug Store 152
Hoffman, Ray E. 44, 148
Hoffman, Red 123
Holt, Clyde 108
Homer, Winslow 99
Homes on the Central Railroad of New Jersey for New York Business Men 65
Homesteads 17
Hone Painting & Restoration 184
Honegger 110
Honeyman 75, 82
Honeyman, A. Van Doren 8
Hooker, Louis (Lou) 108, 110, 112
Hooker, Ralph Moreton 59, 143
Hooper, Arthur F. 131
Hope Chapel 134
Hope Common 122
Hopkins, Yvonne 112
Hopman, J. P. 80

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Hopple, William H. 82
Horesman's Association 123
Horne, Prentice C. 132
Horsewoman - 20th century 125
Howard and Louise Colodne - Home of 202
Howard, L. F. 73
Howard, William Gerald, Dr. 141
Howe, Julia Ward 101
Hubbard , Frank J. 137
Hubbard Junior High School 131
Hubbard School 110
Hubbard, J. F. 80
Hull, Benjamin - 1701 143
Human Labor - the immense value 14,15
Humperdink 106
Hunton, Gail 42
Hurley-Gardner Family 196
Hurry, Frances 132
Husted, Harold R. 134
Hyde Estate gatehouse still stands at what is now North Drive 72
Hyde Mansion on the side of first Watchung Mountain 72
Hyde, Charles 72, 110
Hyden 110
Illinois Central Railroad 49
Illinois Central Railroad 49
Imes, W. L., Rev. 108
Immoral 104
Impact of Westminister Choir College 108
In 1909 the Daily News published a little book of cartoons 81
In 1926, The Plainfield Trust Company (United National Bank) 36
In 1942, Mills Barnes gathered all the black graduates of Plainfield HS 153
In Excellsis Gloria 110
Indoor Gardening 102
Industrial Directory of New Jersy 80
Industry in the Queen City 82
Inman Avenue Campus 132
Inness, George 101
Institute of Radio Engineers 83
Insurance broker Roger F. Murray and architect A.L. C. Marsh 121
Intermedio 43
International Correspondence School 55
International Motor Company 80, 82

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Iroquois Hotel 44
Irvington-Newark area 31
Ivanowski, Sigismund 100
Ivins, Clinton F. 123
Ivins, DeWitt Clinton 123
J.D. Loizeaux Lumber Co. - Plainfield, N.J. 171
J.O.Y. (Journeys of Yesteryear) 189
J.P. Van Eps - shop of watch-maker 68
Jacob M. Stiger farmhouse (c 1869) 195
Jacobean architecture 91
Jaeger, Charlotte 108
Janes, Edmund S., Reverend 136
Janis and David Chaskin residing on Berkeley Avenue 216
Janke family - A young matron 146
January Thaw 113
Jazz Alive 112
Jazzmobile: Bill Taylor and Trio 112
Jeffers, Lance 153
Jeffrey Cartwright and Tracey Thayer, Michael and Peter Cartwright 202
Jehovah's Witnesses 142
Jenkins, Olin L., Dr. 42, 75-76
Jerome C. Harris Jr., City Administrator 159
Jesperson, Joanne 111
Jewish Community Center 113
Jim, Maureen, Kiersten, and Jimmy Merrow's 1930 Dutch Colonial 200
Jimmie Mc Donough the Fire Department's champion knitter 58
Job Male
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Job Male Library on the corner of Park Avenue 69
Job Male Public Library and Art Gallery 68
John A. Grady and Tess 232
John A. Stella family - John A., Aurelia, John C., Matthew and Krista 234
John Brown's Body 115
John F. Hartman and Steve M. Cardino residence 220
John H. Vincent Chapel 136
John Pepe golf 125
John Taylor Johnston Estate - Gate Lodge 66
John Taylor Johnston Estate - Gatehouse
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John Taylor Johnston Estate in East Front Street 66
John W. Murray (1834-1918), Captain New York Volunteers 148
Johnson and Gilbert 104
Johnson family home: Henry, Jan, Jill 194
Johnson, A. Frederick 143

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Johnson, Frederick A. 57
Johnston, John Taylor 65, 66, 67, 99
Johnston's Drive 66
Jones, Evan 67, 68
Jones', Evan Park House 44
Jones, Ifor 108
Jones, Joe 154
Jones, Joseph N., Dr. 152
Jordan, Stanley 112
Joseph and Mari Bonini 960 Cedarbrook Road 208
Joseph Bonds Pricster and Moses 221
Josten's - Joe Verniero P.O. Box 43053 Upper Montclair N.J. 07043 244
Judge James Verdon - home and barn on Somerst Street 137
Judkins Colonial Home 171
Julliard School of Music 108
July 4, 1914, parade in East Front Street 124
Junior League of Plainfield 50
Kadish, Louis 74
Kaminski, Henry T., Reverend 138
Kanona and Prattsburg Railroad 72
Keaton, Buster 117
Kelleher Residence on West Eight Street 217
Keller, Wee Willie William 121
Keller's Cleaning Shop, Inc. 75
Kempy 113
Kennedy, John F. - Memorial 111
Kenny Sanitary Manufacturing Co. 80
Kenny, David T. 80
Kensington Avenue gang 192
Kensington Hotel in North Avenue 45
Kensington Hotel, The 44
Kent, Faye Barnaby 110
Kenyon Gardens 55
Kenyon Players, The 112, 113
Kenyon, Eliza Elvira 44, 55
Kenyon, Eliza Elvira, Miss - First Lady of Plainfield 101
Kenyon's Machine Shop 80
Kestenbaum, Martin 113
keyboard of a piano 104
Kilbride, Percy 117
King, Charles 49
King, Fannie 41

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King, King and Goldsack, Attorneys At Law 173
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Adult Reading Room, Plainfield Public Library 99
King, William 131
Kingdom Hall 142
King's Daughters Day School 133
King's Daughters Day School - Before 1967 - 1967 - 1987 179
Kinney, W. B. 49
Kinsey, Jonathan - a hatter 33
Kirby, Adele H., Miss 37, 102
Kirk, William T. 78
Kirkner, Jacob 72, 139
Kitty, James and Daniel Lynch, residing on Belvidere Avenue 217
Kiwanis Club 125
Kliner, J. B. 145
Knickerbocker Holiday 117
Knight, Richard 125
Krajewski, Joseph 125
Kreins' Symphony Club 108
Kreins, Christian 108
Kreisler, Fritz 107
Krisberg, Norman 113
Kueter, Paul 111
Kunsman, Dr. 104
L.L. Manning & Son 35, 141, 145
Labor Day 120
Ladies' and an Apprentices' Library 99
Lady in Repose
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Laing 80
Laing Farm 68
Laing, Allen B. 79
Laing, Benjamin 26
Laing, Edward 57
Laing, Jacob, G. farm 67
Laing, John 136
Laing, John W. 41
Laing's Hotel 69
Laing's Hotel - Built in 1828 24
Laing's Hotel and Thorn's Masion House 44
Lakawana and Leigh Valley Railroads 67
Lamb Studios of New York 138
Lambert, Hayes 154
Lampkin Farmhouse 13

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Landing of Columbus at San Salvador 101
Lane, Linita 117
Lane, Louis 75
Lannoly, Jacques 105
Lapsley, Howard G. - Historian 27, 49
Larabee, W. H. 51
Larson-Brown Invitational Track Meet, The 125
Last Week of Zingarra's Gypsy Camp 205 Park Avenue 242
Late19th Century, former H.C. Fuller House 220
Lathrop, F. S. 67
Lattimore, Everett C. 154
Laufer, Judith 115
Lawrence -Collins House (front view) 234
Lawrence-Collins Home (back view) 234
Le Fever, Charles 139
Leach, Benny 44
Leads and Supporting Players 65
League of Women Voters of Plainfield 222
Leal, John 132
Leal's School School for Boys, The 132
Learning for Life 134
Lee Mills, battle in Virginia 38
Lee, Robert E., General 148
LeFevre, Miss 112
Leffler, Blaine - Courier News Reporter 104
Legend of Sleepy Hollow 50
Leidy, George 121
Lenox, Levi 50
Levant, Oscar 108
Leviathan 80
Lewis, Henry 112
Liberty of Deed 83
Liberty Theater 117, 122, 128, 129
Liberty Theatre, the first air-conditioned movie house in Union County 118
Library and City Hall 100
Lie, Jonas 100, 140
Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal 237
Life Magazine 101
Lift Up Thine Eyes Unto The Hills 100
Lillianthal 140
Lily GreenLeaves Restaurant 181

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Lincoln Center 112
Lincoln, Abraham 67
Lincoln, Abraham - campaign 34
Lincoln, Abraham - President 35
Linn Boyd Benton, notherly corner of Park and Crescent - Home of 157
Lister, Henry K. 76
Little League 120
Little League Teams 125
Little Theater Trophy 153
Liverpool Chapel Organ 110
Livingstone, Mary 117
Liz Urquhart - First Ward Councilwoman 1987-1991 235
Lloyd, Harold 117
Lobby of Oxford Theatre featuring Mary Pickford in Suds 117
Local thespians on the boards 'round 1927 116
Located on the secon floor of City Hall the Assessor's Office 159
Located on Watchung Avenue Just north of Front Street 157
Lockwood, Charlotte Garden 110
Locomobile 79
Lohr, Bob 106
Lohr, Dorothy 106
Loizeauz, Joshua 108
Long, Marguerite 108
Looking east on Front Street toward Laing's Hotel 52
Looking Over the Cliff Winslow Homer
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Loosli, Demetria 113
Louis Hooker, Director, New Jersey Schola Cantorum 109
Lovely, lively Gothic Revival 85
Lowry, Robert , D.D., Rev 134
Lowry, Robert, Dr. 106
Luddy, James, builder 68
Lybeck Residence on Belvidere Avenue 221
Lyndon, Johnson, President 35
Lyric Theater 117
M.P. Moller and Co. 110
Macabeaus, Jacob 111
MacDonald Diary 39
MacDonald, Mrs. 39
MacIntosh, Alexander Campbell 75
MacIntrye, George 78
Mack, Connie 121
Macy's 151

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Madame Butterfly 117
Madden, Jeanne 117
Mademoiselle Ynonne (seated) and Madame Michele Seguin 111
Madison House 29, 70
Madison Square Garden 121
Madison-Park site downtown Plainfield - pre-demolition view of the 59
Magnetic Telegraph Company 42
Mail carriers in front of the old Post Off 61
Maimone, Pat 111
Main House, Pinecone, Acorn and Mushroom - dormatories 132
Male Animal, The 113
Male, Job 67, 68, 99, 134, 140, 160
Male, Job - Bible 140
Male, Job - Mayor 51
Male, Joe 146
Maltby, Charles S. 59
Manhattan Bank 31
Manhattan School of Music 108, 112
Mann, George H. 129
Manning Granite Works 26
Manning, James, Dr. 51
Manning, John 26
Manning, Randolph 50
Manning, Samuel 24, 26
Manning-Steele Plantation- 18th century 197
Mansion House 75
Map of 1685 9
Map of Plainfield in 1832 - The oldest known 26-27
Map prepared by Captain Cornelius Vermeule in 1778 20
Marcia Bomanansky 237
Mario, Queena 108
Market and Fulton Bank 49
Markle, Ronald R. 137
Marr, David 123
Marsh, Elston M., Hon. 129
Martin Co., The 79
Martin Express & Van Company replaced horse-drawn livery service 76
Martin, Emma, Miss 75
Martin, F. L. C. 57
Martin, Frank 78
Martin, Frank L. C., Wheelman 76
Martin, Horace 125

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Martin, Kenneth 117
Martin, Louis 108
Martin, Mr. 76
Martine Family 104
Martine, Daniel 49, 50
Martine, Ella 49
Martine, James 8, 49
Martine, Senator James - Cartoon from Just for Fun 50
Martino, Donald 108
Marx, Fleix 140
Marx, Mrs. 140
Mary Ellen Chanda 237
Mary Ellen Chanda, Bob Chanda 237
Massett, Mrs. 146
Master Mundy, of later date, looking just a tad more comfortable 147
Mathewsen, June 113
Mathewson, F.S. Matty - Courier News 145
Maull, George Marriner 108
Maureen Merrow 237
Maxson, Dr. 130, 131
Maxson, Henry, Dr. 137
Maynard, Alice 152
McClelland, George B., General 50
McColgan, Brian 113
McCoy, Chink 125
McCracken, Leonard 82
McCutcheon, Charles, Mr. 143
McDaniel, Keith 101
McDonald, Jenkins Bertha 42
McDonalds - Entrepreneur Tom Washington 183
McDonough, James S., Father 137
McKenney, Dorothy 50
McKenzie School 132
McKinney, Tom 100
McQuillan's 950 Hillside Avenue 224
Me Nobody knows, The 113
Me y Pablo Maria Mijares, acrylic on canvas, 24", 1986 103
Meadowlands 120
Mechanics Baseball Club 121
Medford, Alice 153
Meeting House, Mills and Merchants 23
Melbourne Cricket Grounds 126

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Memorial Day 120
Memories of grandmother's kitchen 149
Memories of life's happiest moments 150
Men and Children Everywhere 110
Mendelsohn 106, 110
Mendelsohn Glee Club 108
Merchandise ad from the Plainfield Courier-News of June 6, 1901 75
Messiah Lutheran Church 141
Metropolitan Museum of Art 66
Metropolitan Open, The 123
Metropolitan Opera Company 108
Metropolitan Opera House 104, 112
Mets 121
Meyers, Joseph 75
Meyers, Nathan 75
Meyers, Samuel 75
Michael Wroble and Blondyn at the Fitz-Randolph Farmhouse 187
Michael Wroble and Whiskey and Sherry his 1925 Dutch Colonial 227
Midsummer Night's Eve 112
Midsummer Pageant 112
Mijares, Maria 100
Miller, Duer Alice 102
Miller, Thomas E. S., Reverend, The 134
Millous, Pierre 139
Mills Barnes, Elizabeth Morse, Cindy Cone and Catherine Barnes. Bill Hetfield,
Dotte Pollard, Marilyn Carpenter, Harold Morse, Ned Taylor and Emilia Carlson 236
Milne, Alexander 83
Milt Campbell, world high hurdle recorder holder 128
Mintz, Mr. 140
Mirandi, Joseph J., Reverend, The 138
Miron's Furniture Store 44
Mirrage Proposal, A 113
Miss Adele Hope Kirby, Plainfield High School graduate 103
Miss Smith of the Plainfield Smiths 154
Misses Scribner and Newton's School for Young Ladies and Little Girls 132
Mitchell, Elizabeth 140
Mitchell, John W., Reverend, The 139
Mitchell, John, builder 68
Mobile Meals 134
Modern Machine and Tool Company 75
Modern Pioneer Award 82

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Moldenke's Castle
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Moment, Dr. 110
Monday Afternoon Club 48, 101, 112
Monday Afternoon Club Magazine 50
Monday Afternoon Club's Kenyon Players 113
Monroe Avenue Methodist Church 136
Montgomery Ward Catalogue, The 39
Moody, Lewis W., III 139
Mooney, Hilda 113
Moore, Brenda 111
Moorland Branch Y.M.C.A. 152
Morning Gayety 100
Morrision, William 43
Morrison, George W. 43
Morrison, Thomas 43
Morse, Beverly 111
Morse, Elizabeth 110
Moses, Tim 115
Motorcycle corps member 149
Mount Olive Baptist Church 43, 139, 152
Mount Olive Baptist Church - 116 year of service 164
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church 141
Mozart 106, 110
Mozart Piano Concerto in D-Minor 111
Mr. & Mrs. Tucker Johnson's homes - April 25, 1895 and 1930 188
Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Greco - 1210 Denmark Road 235
Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Barnes - 123 East Ninth Street - Home of 200
Mr. Hand's horse and sulky at 207 East Seventh Street in May of 1889 62
Mr. K. L. Cook, from the files of Paul R. Collier 144
Mr. Leal's School for Boys, forerunner of Wardlaw Hartidge School 132
Mrs. Clark's birthday party, February, 1927 64
Mrs. Marguerite Traynor Collier She loved all creatures 238
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
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Mt. Saint Mary Academy 117
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church 152
Muhlemberg Operating Room Staff, 1934 192
Muhlenberg Hospital 68, 110, 120, 138, 153
Muhlenberg Hospital
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Muhlenberg Hospital - Nurses Chorus 109
Muhlenberg Hospital - Role in the Community 53
Muhlenberg Hospital - Woman's Auxillary 101
Muhlenberg Place 123

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Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center, Inc. 53
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, Reverend, The 53, 138
Mullin, Tommy 121
Mumford Memorial Rectory 139
Mumford, T. J. 78
Municipal Courtroom 101
Munoz, Alfred 59, 100, 102
Munoz, Alfred M. - citation 57
Muppet Band 141
Murray, Mae 117
Music for Youth Program 110
Music -for-Youth Program 111
Musical Tour of Historic Homes 156
Musicians and singers in concert 107
Mutnick, Joseph 75
Mutnick, Joseph, Jr. 75
N.A.A.C.P. 152
N.E. Singleton Residence 200
N.J. A Mobile Art Gallery 100
N.J. Schola Cantorum 111
N.J. Schola Cantorum, Music Inc. 110
N.Y. Times obit - citation 66
Nancy Taylor School of Business 55
Nancy's Frame Shoppe 99, 100
Nat all baseball games were played on the diamond 122
Nathaniel Drake House, The 30
National Academy 100
National Academy of Design in N.Y. 100
National Association of Letter Carriers 177
National Association of Manufacturers 82
National Bank Act 36
National Council of State Garden Clubs 138
National Endowment for the Arts 108
National Institute of Arts and Letters 108
National Register of Historic Places 137
National Vita-phone Company 82
Naval Consulting Board 83
Ned Taylor: a cherubic youngster in 1915 150
Negley, James Scott 38
Negro Spiritual 110
Nehemiah, Renaldo, Skeets 126
Neher, Otto 79, 80

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Neighborhood House 110, 125
Neighbors 117
Netherwood 65
Netherwood Area 98
Netherwood Fire Station 42
Netherwood Heights 49
Netherwood Hotel (later Truell Hall)
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Netherwood Hotel (later Truell Hall) 45
Netherwood Hotel, The 44, 68, 72
Netherwood Reformed Church 141
Netherwood Section of Plainfield 50
Netherwood Union Chapel and School 138
Nevius Building 117
New Brunswick Traction Company 148
New England Conservatory of Music 108
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The 108
New Jersey Ballet Co. 110
New Jersey Blues 35
New Jersey Brigade 35
New Jersey Council on the Arts 108
New Jersey Garden State Opera Company 112
New Jersey Legislature 28
New Jersey Motor Carriage Co. 79
New Jersey Railroad and Transport Co. 68
New Jersey Schola Cantorum 110
New Jersey Schola Cantorum concert at Crescent Avenue 113
New Jersey Schola Cantorum, Inc. 171
New Jersey State Council on the Arts 108
New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding 113
New Jersey State Letter Carrier's Association 35, 39
New Jersey Theater Forum, The 115
New Jersey Youth Symphony 108
New Jersey's Patriotic Spirit 35
New Orleans and Northwestern Railway 72
New Providence Circuit 136
New York & New Jersey Telephone Company 42
New York Automobile Show 82
New York Clientele 67
New York Gazett - September 25, 1769 17
New York Herald Tribune 67
New York Industrialists 104
New York Markets 67

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New York Philharmonic 104, 108
New York Stock Exchange 72
New York Times, The 112
New York University School of Law 75
New Yorker Joseph Webster Sandford met Plainfield's Minni Murray
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Newark News 80, 123
Newcorn, William 140
Newman's Grocery store 151
Next to food, fashion ruled Victorian lady's life 40
Nicholas, Donald, Sr., Reverend The 139
Nickleodeon Theater 116
Night Scene in Taxco, Mexico
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NJ Library Development Plan 99
No Virginia 117
Nocera, Grace 108
Nocera, Rosine 108
Non-domenational Bible Truth Hall 139
Norman Wolf Jr., residing at 714 Dixie Lane 214
Norment, Elizabeth 153
North Avenue from Watchung Avenue in 1895 77
North Avenue Historic Area 156
North Avenue Historic District 96
North Avenue in its commercial heyday 73
North Carolina, Expedition 35
Northwest Mounties 123
Noss, Edith and Mygatt, Helen 151
Nostalgic Americans looked back to their roots inspiration 92
Now is the time to take pictures for next year. All-year-round 238
Now the site of Grace Church's Ackerman Memorial Garden 157
Now, The 104
Number Belonging 130
Nursey/Day School, The 133
O"Brien, Pat 117
Of Pride and Plainfield 57
Off to the war. Recruits walking down Front Street 58
Oh, a hundred years is a very long time 110
Oh, how we danced to the mellow of music of the Big Band era. 113
Oh, those wonderful Plainfield homes 63
Ok Billy 112
O'Keefe, Paul 113
Old Fair Grounds and Race Track on Park Avenue 124
Old Hope Chapel, The 122

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Old Neighborhood House Chorus, The 108
Old Pearl White Serials, The 117
Old St. Mary's School formerly Washington School 138
Old Stillman Music Hall 117
Old View Of Cedar Brook Farm with single dormer in 1717 wing 11
Old York Road 16, 25, 42
Oldring, Rube 121
Oldsmobile 79
Oliver 113
Oliver and Carrie Brown residing at 1326 Evergreen Avenue 187
On state in Plainfield 117
On the site of today's City Federal Savings & Loan Association 62
Once more, with gusto! 111
One for Helen 112
One of Plainfield's Painted Ladies 49
One of the early boards of directors of First National Bank 35
Oom-pah, oom-pah, oom-pah! 109
Oops! The horseless carriage replaced the horse 78
Oops, again! 78
Operation Lamplight 132
Ora and Emily Coates with firstborn Andrew Pearce Coates in 1908 148
Oratorio Choir 110
Orff's Carmena Burana 110
O'Rourke, Jeremiah 137
Orthodox Judaism 140
Osman Brothers, The 105
Otterson House 132
Our 1920's home -- 1133 Prospect Avenue 194
Our 20th century eastbound railroad station 67
Our first hospital building in Muhlenberg Place 52
Our first hospital in Muhlenberg Place 53
Our Home - 738 Kensington Avenue 192
Our present staff, representing 162 years of locksmithing 169
Our Public Works Department out in force 61
Out for a morning run in 19th century Plainfield 62
Out of the country 104
Outlined Area - Recommended Historic District 98
Owners Michael F. Shugrue and Carl Barth with their Akita 206
P.C.S. rehearsal for soloists Bob Weidman, tenor 113
P.M. Demarest's sidewalk grocery display in Front Street 70
Pacard, Les Fils De Georges 105
Paderewski - pianist 100

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Painting of The Gardner Museum Music Room 102
Palisades 117
Palmer, Christina 110
Panama Canal 100
pantry for Star-Fish, a Catholic, Jewish and Protestant emergency relief 137
Paoli, Robert 104, 108, 110, 111
Paramount (former Plainfield Theater) 117
Paramount Theatre - grand opening 119
Paramount Theatre curtain, circa 1928, a great way to advertise 118
Parcifal 110
Parent Teachers Association 131
Parish Players 168
Parish Players , The (oldest community theater in New Jersey) 113, 115, 140
Parish Players production of 1983 140
Park Avenue Baptist Church 104, 134
Park Avenue Baptist Church
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Park Avenue Baptist Church (of Plainfield) 134
Park Hotel
ii
Park Hotel Annex 116, 132
Park Hotel, The 44
Park House, The 68, 140
Park Terrace residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Willard 194
Park-Madison project 57
Party favors for everyone, back in the 1930's 64
Passion for Bread, A. 102
Past Rediscovered, The 84
Path through the Wood, A 101
Patterns vie with one another to decorate the Victorian Queen Anne 88
Paul J. Okeeffe family residence 195
Paul R. Collier Photographic Expert 238
Paul Revere Collier (1886-1951) 238
Pauper People 129
Peabody Award 112
Pedrick and Ayer 80
Peffer, Ernest M. 131
Penrose, Frank 151
Penrose, Ruth Hedden 151
Peoli's, John - "Peanut John" stand 35, 37
Pepe, John 125
Perhaps from an ornately encased radio in such a livingroom as this 119
Perkins, Max 38
Perkins, Maxwell 115

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Perkins, Mrs. 38
Perlmutter, M. 74
Perrine, Harry 49, 148
Perry, Anna 49
Perry, Archie 49
Perry, Dolly 49
Perry, John 49
Perry, Martha 49
Perry, William 49
Persinger, Louis 108
Person, Nelly 74
Personal Recollections 143
Peruti, Carl Della - Solid Brass 108
Peter Garby & Company - Mercantile firm 6
Peterson, Claus 55
Peterson, Nancy 111
Peterson's Farm 55
Petrovec House 937 Oakwood Place Plainfield, N.J. 07060 231
Pfiffer, Helene 108
Philadelphia Museum of Art 101
Philco sold by Simcoe & Sommer 241
Philip Swain, Practical Guilder 99
Phillips, Dixon C. 132
Phillips, Percy 125
Phlinfield Symphony Society 106
Pickford, Mary 117
Picnic (Detail)
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Picture Frame, Mirror and Art Store 99
Pidgway, David M. 53
Pilgrim Covenant Church 141
Pinch Gut 143
Pingry School 132
Pioneers of the 1920's - our Visiting Nurse Association 133
Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church 137
Pittis Estate Commercial Property Management 177
Pittis Family 120
Pittis House 145
Pittis, A. P. 51
Pittis, Albert D. 143
Pittis, Albert, Dr. 104
Pittis, Bertram H. 104
Pittis, Walter F. 104

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Piwowar family on Myrtle Avenue - Greetings from 208
Plaindfield's Visiting Nurse Association 133
Plainfield - History of officially begins 8
Plainfield 1874 46-47
Plainfield Arts Council 113
Plainfield Bank, The 36
Plainfield Bicycle Club - the wives of the members 121
Plainfield Board of Education 71
Plainfield Business College, The 55
Plainfield Choral Society 110, 111
Plainfield Choral Society 111
Plainfield Choral Society in the old P.H.S. 118
Plainfield Classical Institute, The 26
Plainfield Classical Seminary 26
Plainfield Color Stars 125
Plainfield Colored Stars in 1930 - players 126
Plainfield Community Church 141
Plainfield Community Church on a sunny day - membership, 1985 141
Plainfield Concert Society 107
Plainfield Country Club 122
Plainfield Country Club circa 1895 123
Plainfield Country Club in the Roaring Twenties 123
Plainfield Country Day School 132
Plainfield Courier, The 43, 44
Plainfield Courier-News 123
Plainfield Courier-News -cartoon, June 6. 1901 64
Plainfield Crescents Baseball Club 121
Plainfield Cultural and Heritage Commission 101, 112, 113
Plainfield Cycling Culb 120
Plainfield Daily Press, The 40, 59, 68, 120
Plainfield Dog Frisbee Contest 125
Plainfield Driving Association 123
Plainfield Driving Park 123
Plainfield Electric company, The 76
Plainfield Electrical Supply Co. 108 North Avenue 241
Plainfield Fire Company 42
Plainfield Foundation 108
Plainfield Herald 28
Plainfield High auditorium - Full house 130
Plainfield High School 110, 120, 128
Plainfield High School
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Plainfield High School Auditorium 107, 108

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Plainfield High School Football Team - 1916 County Champs 126
Plainfield Historical Scrapbook 115
Plainfield Historical Society 137
Plainfield in 1869 68
Plainfield Iron and Brass Foundry, The 80
Plainfield Lady Cyclists 120
Plainfield Latin School, The 55
Plainfield Library 72, 110
Plainfield Library
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Plainfield Library - Interior 100
Plainfield Lodge 885, B P O Elks 116
Plainfield Music Club 104
Plainfield Musical Club, The 111, 112
Plainfield National Bank 37
Plainfield Negro History Club, The 152, 153
Plainfield News, The 43
Plainfield Players 117
Plainfield Public Library, The 72, 99, 104, 110
Plainfield R.R. Station (eastbound)
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Plainfield Recreation Commission 153
Plainfield Republican, The 43
Plainfield Rip VanWinkle 110
Plainfield Rotary Club 125
Plainfield Savings Bank 37
Plainfield School Cardinals, The 125
Plainfield School Society 26
Plainfield Seminary 45, 101
Plainfield Sign Company 74
Plainfield Star, The 43
Plainfield Street Railway Company 77
Plainfield Symphony 106, 107, 110, 112
Plainfield Symphony 168
Plainfield Symphony in concert at Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 107
Plainfield Symphony Society, Inc. 107, 108
Plainfield Theater 116
Plainfield Theatre
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Plainfield Times, The 69
Plainfield Times, The (Robinovitz, David) 43
Plainfield Today 57, 104
Plainfield Today (Johnson, Henry C. & Johnson, Jan M 43
Plainfield Trolley Company 148
Plainfield Trust Company, The 36, 37, 41, 60

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Plainfield Union 28
Plainfield Union & General Advertiser 28
Plainfield YMCA
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Plainfield Youth Baseball League 125
Plainfield YWCA
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Plainfielders love a parade - then and now 64
Plainfield-North Plainfield Historical Society 147
Plainfield's Jersey Oaks 125
Plainfield's champion basketball tean of 1928-29 127
Plainfield's downtown appearance before large display windows 241
Plainfield's finest with new motorcycles in front of city hall/parade 61
Plainfield's Grand Old Man 68
Plainfield's growing economy could support a second daily 43
Plainfield's handsome present-day library 100
Plainfield's World War I Home Guard snaps to attention 144
Platt, George 152
Platts' Place 224
Players, The 110
Playground Commission 125
Playwrights - A listing - Paul R. Collier 240
Plianfield Riding Club 123
Plum, Nancy 100
Police Chief Daniel Kiely 61
Polison, J. G. 74
Pollard, Dorothe - narative history 60
Pond Co. 80
Pond Machine Tool Co. 80, 152
Pond Tool 80
Pond, D.W., Mrs. 140
Pop Thorn's bicycle shop 151
Pope's Ochestra 106
Population Graph (page 58) 33
Porgy and Bess 112
Porter, FitzJohn, General 38
Portrait of Nathaniel Drake, Jr. 14
Potter Printing Press Works 73, 80
Potter, Charles 80
Potter, Mr. 71, 80
Poulenc 110
Pound, Theodore 145
Powell, John 111
Pratt Institute 82

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Pre-1920 buses of the Buburban Transit Company 76
Presbyterian Church 45
Presbyterian Hymnal 106
Preservation in the Making 155
Presley, Elvis 105
Princeton University 104
Private Lives 115
Probasco, J. B., Dr. 76
Probasco, Maria Boice 51
Proctor, F. F. 116
Proctor's (Oxford) Theater 117
Proctor's Theater 116
Professional Associates Realty 176
Propose Netherwood Historic District 166
Proposed Historic Districts 98
Proscenium Players, The 113
Prussing, Steve 108
Public Service Company 75
Pulitzer Prize for Literature 101
Putnam Avenue District 98
Quaker Friends 112
Quaker heritage 59
Quaker Meeting House 84, 112, 134
Quaker Meetinghouse 25
Quaker School 26
Quaker Village, A. 84
Quakers 30
Queen Anne Dining Room 32
Queen City 76
Queen City Hotel 44
Queen City Hotel 29
Queen City Wheelman 120
Quest Over 1060 Central Avenue 90
Quiet in the House 115
Quinn, Brendan H., Reverend, The 138
Raceway to French's Mill, looking from Tier's Pond 17
Rachmaninoff, Sergei 107
Raffo, Seno" - Italian consul 44
Railroad employees at Plainfield's westbound station 67
Railroad's Annual Report, The 66
Randolph Building 36
Randolph Farmhouse, The 1323 13

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Randolph, Caroline Fitz 132
Randolph, Edmund 148
Randolph, Edward Fitz 19, 23, 24
Randolph, Ephraim Fitz 51
Randolph, Fitz 27
Randolph, Jacob Fitz, Elder 134
Randolph, Louis Van Syckel Fitz 27, 72
Randolph, Louis, V. R. 49
Randolph-Cooley Collegiate Brochure 132
Raphael's Sistine Madonna 137
Raritan Creek known by the name Mankackkewachky 6
Rawson, Marion Nicholl 151
Rayburg household 227
Re:Person I know 112
Read, Mary Lee 108
Reade, Walter 117
Receding waters left Stewart's Wheelwright Shop stranded 52
Recreation Commission of Plainfield 108, 113, 115
Reed Theater Cup 113
Reed, Marcy 111
Reform Hall 141
Reid, James 154
Relations between Indians and European 7
Remember when the Pony Man came around in summer time 192
Remembered with Love: Letters to My Sister 102
Renovation of old Plainfield houses 48
Repp, Clinton Burgess 82
Reproduction of original and current city seals 41
Residence of Carey Coale family- photo circa 1913 226
Residence of Dona C. Bass, Esq. and James R. Perry 206
Residence of Dr. George Lane 203
Residence of Joseph and Christine Casaleiz 205
Residence of Linda and Brann Northcutt, circa 1910 193
Residence of Phineas M. French (1859-1901) 16
Residence, barn and milkhouse on the Peterson Farm 55
Residences of William and Elizabeth Hetfield 199
Resurrection 138
Retail Grocer's Protective Association 75
Rethberg, Elizabeth 107
Rettan, Dorithy (usually spelled Rutan) 30, 31
Rev. Joseph Stockbridge House in 1837 34
Revere House, The 44

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Revuelto, Manuel, Reverend, The 138
Reynolds House 214
Reynolds residence on Belvidere Avenue. 208
Ric Charles Chorus, The 108
Rice Family 116
Richard L. Taylor 159
Richardson Romanesque train station 96
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad 72
Richner, Thomas 111
Ricketts, Thomas E. 137
Ricketts, Thomas E. - Calendar Covering Over A Century 30
Ricord's history of Union County 72
Riedler Residence 1040 Hillside Avenue 227
Riley, Sibbie, Queen 49
River Mist 100
Roanoke Island, Battle 35
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 53
Roberts, Ebenezer L. 134
Robinson, Alson H. 140
Rockwell, George W. 75
Rodgers, Clark 67
Rodgers, Michael 67
Rodgers, N. Pendelton 78
Rodgers, Nathan 67
Rodman, Mason, The Reverend 138
Rogers Family - Greetings From 185
Rogers, Marion R., Ray 126
Rogers, Woodrow , Woody 122
Romantic Victorians expressed their sentiments with lacey
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Romantic, robust Italianate styling of the Civil war decades 87
Rorem 110
Rorem, Ned 111
Rosembaum's Department Store 74
Rosenbaum, Henry 74
Rosenbaum, Samuel 74, 136
Ross, Don 123
Rotary Club of Plainfield 126
Rothberg, Kalman 140
Rotogravure 61
Route of the Old York Road 17
Roy and Anna Marie Johansen - 1200 Denmark Road 197
Rubicam, Dom 115

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Runyon, Charles M. 75
Runyon, Frank W. 43
Runyon, General 35
Runyon, Harry Chase 143
Runyon, Mary 106
Runyon, Sarah 41
Rushmore Dynamo Works 82
Rushmore, Dynamo Company, The 80, 82
Rushmore, Isaac W. 82
Rushmore, Mr. 151
Russell, George 112
Russell, Lillian 117
Rutanm Dorithy 30, 31
Rutgers University 153
Rutgers University Choirs 110
Ruth, Babe 106
Rutland) Vermont Union Whig - citation 66
Ryshkewitch Family 215
Sabbath Recorder, The 43
Sabbath Ringers, The 137
Sabbath School 71
Sagerbund Hall 108
Saint Marks 152
Saint Mary's Commercial School 55
Saklatvala Estate 117
Salvation Army, The 141
Samber, Moshe, Rabbi 141
Samptown Baptist Cemetery 143
Samuels, Joe A. , Reverend, The 137
Sanborn, Marian 107
Sanctuary Choir, The 110
Sanderson, Harry 116
Sandford, William, Mrs. 131
Sanford Residence 190
Sara Jane and Kate Spaulding - 732 Dixie Lane - built in 1911 190
Sauer Motor Car Co. 80, 82
Saunders, James 152
Savings Bank of Central Jersey 37
Savory Suppers & Fashionable Feasts 39
Schanz Building - September 6, 1905 36
Schepflin, Bladwin and Tweedy & Co. clothing firm 70
Schepflin, Mr. 145

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Schloss, Emanuel 140
Schloss, Moses 140
Schloss, William 140
Schneider, Edward, Reverend, The 139
School days, school days, dear old Golden Rules days 130
School Junior: Jeffrey Millwater, Sophomore at Plainfield HS 113
School of Sacred Music 110
Schubert 110
Schwab, M. - the traveling optician and oculist 69
Schwed Brothers 140
Schwed, Charles 75
Schwed, Herman 140
Schwed, Ike 140
Scotch Place Dam on Surprise Lake 51
Scotch Plains Baptist Church 31
Scott Drug Ltd. 172
Scott Printing Works 73
Scott, Julian, Colonel 38, 49, 51, 100
Scott, Veronica 108
Scott, Walter 73
Scottish John 41
Scott's Patent Press 80
Scott's Press Works 80
Scrapbook Notes, Collins, Muriel 112
Seale, Linda 140
Second Baptist Church 134
Second Empire Style (1860-1880) 86
Second Presbyterian Church (SEE ALSO: Crescent Avenue Presbyterian) 34, 134
Second Street Youth Center 125
Sectional Group 4 Title 126
Seguin, Michele, Madame 108
Seidel, Alex 100
Self Portrait by Riva Helfond (1941) 100
Serebrier, Jose 108
Servants brought from Europe 14
Servel Easy 241
Sessions, Dale, R., Reverend, The 134
Seven Keys to Baldpate 113
Seventh Day Baptist Church 43, 71, 72, 104, 136, 137, 139
Seventh Day Baptist Church iii, 166
Severe Ice Storm, January l, 1948 192

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Shaded Outline Area - Recommended Historic District 98
Shadow of Darkness 139
Shadow of Darkness, The 138
Shakespare Gardens 112
Shakespeare 112
Shape of the Industry, The 80
Shattuck, Levi H. 65
Shepherd, Charles 68
Shepherd, Johnston and Goodwin, the firm of 68
Shiloh Baptist Church 141, 152
Ship in Construction
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Shippen, Peggy 148
Shitehead, Charles 123
Siccardi, J. J. 117
Sickles, General 35
Silbert, fWalter 108
Silver Medal at the American Institution 71
Sim, Randolph, Capt. 27
Six Second Powell 125
Skating on the Green Brook near Tier's Pond 48
Slavery - Permanent 14, 34
Sleeper, Harriet 132
Smalley, Newton B. - North Plainfield Mayor 116
Smalley, William, North Plainfield Mayor 57
Smalley's Butcher shop 151
Smiley 74, 80
Smiley, F. T. 8, 143
Smiling for the camera, the 1912 graduating class of Plainfield HS 131
Sminck, Charles S., Councilman 59
Smith, Cornelius, builder 68
Smith, Joshua 152
Smith, Thomas 35
Smith's Lager Saloon 69
Snyder Brothers 113
Soldier's Plot 49
Somerset Street awash during the flood of 1889 52
Sometimes posing for pictures can be fun 147
Songbird of the Air 117
Sonmans, Peter 7,11
Sound of Music 113
Sousa Band 146
Sousa, John Phillip 146

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South, E. W., Dr. 42
Southeast corner of Front Street and Park Avenue turn of the Century 37
Southeastern Louisiana University 112
Southwest façade of Grace Church 139
Spanish-language weekly 43
Speert, Arnold, Dr. 112
Spencer, Fred, Jr. 120
Spicer and Hubbard 80
Spicer Manufacturing Co. 80
Sport of Kings 123
Springtime for Henry 113
St Peter's Lutheran Church 141
St. Bernard's Parish - Priests, Staff, and People 166
St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church 138, 141
St. James Presbyterian Church 112
St. Marks Church 153
St. Mark's Episcopal Church 138
St. Mark's Temple Sholom 141
St. Mary's Area 98
St. Mary's Church 138
St. Mary's Church benefactor John Harberger 137
St. Mary's Commercial School 137
St. Mary's R.C. Church 165
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church 31. 137
St. Mary's Stony Hill 137
St. Stanislaus 141
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 138
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 138
Standard Aero Co., The 82
Standing Alone
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Standpipe Plainfield Water Supply Co.
ii
Star Ledger, The 104
Starched collars and old lace for a pre World War I performance 105
Starpointe Savings Bank 37
Starpointe Savings Bank 175
State and National Register of Historic Places 160
State Association 75
State School Fund for Pauper Children 129
State Trust Company, The 36, 37
Stedge-Fowler, Joyce, Reverend, The 134
Stedman, Clarence Edmund 49, 50
Stedman, Elizabeth - Quaker poetess 49

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Stella 153
Stelle Building 42
Stelle Farmhouse - Vintage photo 13
Stelle Farmhouse 1808-1855 13
Stelle, Benjamin 66
Stelle, R. M. 76
Stelle's Grove 45
Stender, Albert 44
Sterling Creations 182
Sterling, General 38
Sterling, William H. 38
Steuben Glass 100
Stevens, John P., Jr. 132
Stillman Gardens 117
Stillman Map of 1832 -Detail 74
Stillman Music Hall 116, 117, 146
Stillman Music Hall playbill featuring Effie Ellsler as Bessie 117
Stillman School 129, 131
Stillman School - Victorian exuberance of 131
Stillman School, the first public school in Plainfield 130
Stillman Theater 116
Stillman, Charles H. Dr. 67, 72, 129, 137, 143
Stillman, T. B. 67
Stillman, William M. 116
Stine, William 34
Stockbridge, Joseph A. 34
Stolz 106
Stone Residence 132
Stony Brook 112
Stony Brook
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Storey of the Bible 136
Stout, Chauncey 43
Strand 242
Strand Theater 117
Stravensky 110
Stuart Allen and Carol Terminelli with Max and Natashia 218
Stuphen, Dr. 41
Stuphen, John C. 42
Stuphen, John Carter, Dr. 41
Stuyvesant, Peter 6
Styne, Herbert A. 131
Suburban Symphony 110

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Summer Fury 113
Summer Olympic Games 126
Summer Residence of Richard and Elizabeth Kamis 210
Summer Resort To Wall Street Suburb 44
Suratt, Nellie, Mrs. 154
Susan Williams' Savory Suppers & Fashionable Feasts 29
Susan, Arthur and Adam Green - 7020 Sleepy Hollow Lane 190
Sutphen House 41, 42
Swain, Philip 99, 100, 145
Swain, Philip - Picture Frame, Mirror and Art Store 67
Swain, Walter 100
Swain, Walter, Jr. 100
Swain's Art Store 99, 100
Swains Art Store & Gallery 145
Swain's Gallery 99
Swain's New Jersey"s Oldest Art Gallery 181
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Gethsemane 141
Symphony Hall in Newark 110
Tallamy, Bertram F. 32
Talmadge House Burned 1969 714 Belvidere Avenue 88
Taub, Deborah 111
Taub, Harry 74
Taub, Robert 108
Tauzuko, Mayo 108
Taylor Made Piano- A Jazz History 112
Taylor, Charlie 125
Taylor, Dr. 112
Taylor, Edward W. 143
Taylor, Edward W., Reflections of Old Plainfield, 1976 - citation 45
Taylor, Gloria 159
Taylor, J. P. Welles 147
Taylor, Ned 125
Taylor, Richard L., Mayor 151, 159
Taylor, Richard Marcus 159
Taylor, Tina 115
Teale, Oscar 136, 137
Tehekolf, Anton 113
Telephone linemen at work after the storm 62
Temple Beth El (Conservative) 140, 141
Temple Players 113
Temple Sholom (Reformed) 140
Temple Sunday School 113

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Ten Little Indians 113
Tennis attire of the 1920's 122
Tepper Bros. 31 Complete Departments - A Safe Place to Shop 242
Tepper, Adolph 74
Tepper, Max 74
Terril Road Bible Chapel 139
Teubner, Johanna 105
Texaco 241
Thaddeus O. Doane 82
Thatcher, George 116
Thatcher, Theater 117
The Battle Hymn of the Republic 101
The Chestnuts Eliza Elvira Kenyon's Seminary for Young Ladies 103
The Choir Window at Seventh Day Baptist Church, donor's wife
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The Choristers 108
The Christmas Carol Lady 108
The Clark Rogers House circa 1870 217
The happiest of days at the turn of the century 64
The Mayors' Corner 170
The scope of of his work was boundless 238
The, The 104
Then, home to show everyone the wedding presents 64
Thirteen Stars On A Field of Blue 21
This home once stood behind the Park Hotel on Arlington Avenue 157
This is the way we went to school-and church, railroad station 125
This old house stood in West Front Street-King's Daughters Day School 25
Thomas Brokaw, Jr. President and Carol A. Brokaw, Vice President 208
Thomas Furniture Company 172
Thompson Printing Co. 171
Thorn, E.P. 70
Thorn, Jacob 29
Thorn's Masion House 44
Tier, John 49, 134
Tier, John, Sr. 45
Tier, Mrs. 45, 49
Tier's Dam 123
Tier's Pavillion 123
Tier's Pond 45, 48, 120, 151
Tier's Pond - ice cream pavilion 48
Tiffany, Louis Comfort 138
Tilden, Samuel J., estate 72
Tilden, William P., Reverend, The 140

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Tillotson, James, Mr. & Mrs. 108
Time to Wake Up 113
Times-Triubne, The 104
Today it's blue jeans, but this was the standard outfit for spring 147
Tom Ricketts, Dotte Pollard, Maureen Merrow, Mary V. Griswold and Michael
Wroble 236
Tourel, Jeanie 112
Tracey, Susan 111
Treadwell, Louise 117
Treasures Lost or Altered 158
Trexler, Richard 143
Trickett, Homer, Reverend, The 134
Trinity Church
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Trinity Reformed Church 139, 141
Trinity Reformed Dutch Church 139
Troy's Lock Company 36
Truell Court 106
Truell Inn 44, 140
Tub in Plainfield 59
Tweed 99
Tweedy Girls 40
Tweedy sisters in the parlor of their home 40
Tweedy, Isabel, Miss 40
Tweedy, Miss 40
Tweedy, Mr. 145
Twenty-Six Churches that accelerated during the last thirty years 142
Tyler, Colonel 38
Tyler, Mason W. 73
Tylers, The 100
U.S. Army cavalryman poses for a World War I patriotic poster 144
U.S. Golf Association 123
U.S. Patent Office 73
Union Baptist Church 139
Union County - History of 8
Union County Bank 36
Union County Board of Freeholders 51
Union County College's Plainfield Center 133
Union County Cultural Hertiage Commission 113
Union Theological Seminary 110
Unitarian Church 68, 113, 115
Unitarian Church on Park Avenue 100
United Church of Christ Congregational 139

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United National Bank 37, 41
United National Bank 178
United Nations Assembly 112
United Orthodox Synagogue 140
United Presbyterian Church 134
United secretary-general Trygve Lie 140
University of Medicine and Dentistry 53
University of the City of New York 66
Upton, Kathleen 105, 108, 110
Urban League, The 152
Vail Family 112
Vail, John 10, 45
Vail, Mrs. 35
Vail, Nathan 51
Vail, Wallace 35
Vail's Grove 45
Valley Players, The 113
Van Boskerck, Major 38
Van Ness, J. K. Count 78
Van Werckhoven grant 6
Van Wyck Brooks - Boyhood home circa 1893 186
Van Wyck Brooks Historic District 50, 74, 162
Van Wyck Brooks Historic District 97, 156
Van Wyck Brooks Historic District Association (image) 162
Van Wyck Brooks Historic District Presents 156
Van Wyck Broooks Historic District, largest and most diversified 162
VanBoskerk, Maude 108
Vanderbeck, A., Mr. 70
Vanderbeck, Ethelyn 75
Vanderbeek Building 37, 123
Vanderbeek Building, corner of Park and North Avenues 124
Vanderbeek, Andrew 123
Vaughn, Susan 111
Verdon, James, Judge and Mrs. 137
Vermeule Farmland 19
Vermeule, Cornelius Clarkson 19, 21, 22, 23
Vermeule, Frederick 26
Vermeule, Manning 25, 27, 33
Vermeule, Mary Emma 33
Victor E.D. King 215
Victorian Vernacular architecture repeats preceding designs 89
Vincent, John H., Dr.Hurlbut, Jesse L, Dr. 136

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Visble Heritage 156
Visscher, Nicholas. Movi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nee Non Partis 7
Vivaldi 110
Voice, The (Blackshear, Warren D.) 43
Voices of the Departed Soul 146
Voluntary Hospitals of America 53
Volunteer Symphony Orchestra, A. 107
Voorhees Popular Drug and Medicine Store - opposite Pond's Bakery 69
Wagner 106
Wall Street Suburb, A 132
Wall Street Suburb, The 84
Wallace House, now the C.W. Davis residence in the Hillside Ave 213
Waller, Monk 125
Walter Scott Press Works 80
Waltz for Debbie 112
Want A Happy Married Life?Domestic Science C. Classes A Good Start 131
War Between the States 49
Wardlaw baseball players sat for a portrait (but not a moment longer) 132
Wardlaw Country Day School 132
Wardlaw, Charles Digby 132
Wardner, Sara, Mrs. 131
Warren Chapel 134
Warren, Dale 151
Warwick River 38
Washington Bedroom and Eastlake library 32
Washington family - A studious young member 146
Washington Hall 116
Washington Rock 41
Washington School 55
Washington School 137
Washington, George 18, 19, 21, 41, 148
Washington's Headquarters in Plainfield 163
Watchung Avenue
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Watchung Avenue and East Sixth Street 157
Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church 134
Watchung Indian Ledgen 112
Watchung Mountain 59
Water Power of Green Brook 33
Watercolor (Detail)
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Watkins, Frank 125
Watson, Lawrence 152
Watumpka Falls 112

Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights
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Watumpka Indian 112
Wawdlaw-Hatridge Shool 132, 133
Way of the Transgressor, The 101
We attempted to enlist all of these 1930's Plainfielders 239
We Only Get Once Chance To Be The Best That We Can Be. 237
WEAM Radio Station 117
Webb, Kenneth 113
Webster Mill 15
Webster, Anna 51
Webster, William 45
Webster, Zachariah 27
Webster-Martine House, 1717 193
Webster's 112
Weldy, Robert 140
Wells, Dr. 38
Wells, Henry B. 140
Wera Broadcast, A. 111
WERA Radio Station 117
Wesley Methodist Church 136
West 7th Street Mansion Of Clarice Carlton, Holland, Now Demolished 86
West Eight Street - an early 20 century view of 60
West End Civic Association, The 31
West Fifth 98
West Front St. Plainfield
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West Front Street, looking east to the Park Avenue intersection 73
West Point 111
West Point Military Academy 100
Westebd Fire Dept-Pfd
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Westminster Choir College 110, 111
Westminster College 112
Wetumpka Falls
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What grace! What lace! 149
What Preservation Might Have Saved 157
What the well-dressed tennis player wore in Plainfield about 1880 122
When a baseball diamond was added to the Crescent Oval 121
White Cliffs of Dover, The 102
White, Alfred Presto 152
White, Catherine K. - Attorney at Law 172
White, Harr, K. 140
White, William 48
Whitelegg, R. O. 110
Whitford, Lucy 131

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Whitney, May Vincent 143
Whittier School 131, 137
Who's Who In American Women 110
Wifey 102
Willard Storage Battery Service 75
William (Plainfield) 66
William G. Wigton home -- copy of the Longfollow House 216
William Patterson College 112
William, Vernal 152
Williams, Johnny 125
Williams, Susan 39
Williams, Susan, 1985 - citation 45
Williams, Wilmore 125
Williamson, Piatt 145
Wilson, James 129
Wilson, John 25, 26, 245
Wilson, Woodrow, President 44, 50, 106
Wimer, Wade, J. 131
Windham, Henry, Hotel Waldorf 44
Winding Line
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Windows of Faith 139
Winter at Round-Out Valley or River Mists 101
Wirrer, Gottfried 82
Wolff, Kay 106
Wolff, Ralph 104, 106
Wolff, Ruth 104
Wolff, Thomas 115
Wollf, Eileen 104
Woman's Auxillary of Muhlenberg Hospital 101
Woman's Function in the Banking World 102
Wood shingles, stone, terra - fanciful combination of patterned 97
Wood, William Filmore 154
Woodbury's Bridge 35
wooden shingles across the surface of the house 90
Wooden's Grove 45
Workman pause and pose during construction of the City Hall dome 56
World Series 120
World War I 104
World War I - unidentified actors 144
World War II 101, 104, 108
World War II - wedding 141
World Wide Church, A. 102

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Publication Date: 1987
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World's Greatest Athlete 128
Wormley, R.C., Dr. 152
Worship and Music 110
Worth, T., the harness and saddlemaker 69
Wyckoff, Francis 35
Wynn, Deno 105
Y.M.C.A. 59
Y.M.H.A. 140
Y.W.C.A 115, 152
Yale 66
Yates and Porterfield 48
Yates, Joseph Washburn, Hon. 48
Yen, George 140
Yetman, Evelyn 153
Yokes, Emmitt 108
Yorkshireman Sam Pollard (1892-1972) 207
You Can't Take It With You 113
Young man's dream of an evening at the theatre 118
Young Mens Christian Association 59
Young Mens Hebrew Association 140
Young Paint and Varnish Co. 171
Young upper-and middle-class professionals 161
Young Womens Christian Association 152
Young Women's Christian Association 242
Young Women's Christian Association - 1907-1987 181
Youngster of an earlier day 148
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 115
Youthful musicians round the 1930's 106
Yvonne Hopkins, soprano, Metropolitan Opera House (Above) 114
YWCA'S Red Middies of 1929 142
Zephyr Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 42
Zephyr Hook and Ladder wagon 43
Zooey, Ellen, Hilary, and Pete Nalven, residing on Richmond Street 223