Although Valentine’s Day has come and gone, we in the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project office wanted to share a few Valentine’s images from New Jersey’s historic newspapers. The February 10, 1920 edition of the Perth Amboy Evening News featured…
Category: Blasts from the Past!
New Year’s, Newspaper!
Happy new year from everyone working on the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project! 2018 was a productive year for the NJDNP and we hope to publish many more exciting posts on our blog in 2019. In the spirit of the…
‘Tis the season to be saving! Christmas Savings Clubs in NJ Newspapers
Christmas may be “the most wonderful time of the year” but, regardless of what you celebrate, the holiday season has also been a time of financial burden. In December 1909, lawyer turned banker Merkel Landis, treasurer of the Carlisle Trust…