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Sepia toned photograph of Wm. Peter Brew's Lager Beer delivery wagon. The brewery was located in Union Hill (today's Union City.)

Paid March 1946 water bill in the amount of $6.02 (for the first quarter of the year) issued to Lena Palmitissi of 4532 Park Avenue by the Hackensack Water Company located at 4100 Park Avenue.

Sepia toned 1878 photograph, of the workers of Stobo's Laundry. Alexander Stobo (1807-1878) opened a steam laundry in Weehawken in 1844, located near the old Pennsylvania RR tunnel shaft. He was very successful, enlarged his business and became one…

1929 S.B. Penick Price List and Manual of Crude Drugs. One of the company's plants was located in a 300-foot long building at 1819 Willow Avenue, Weehawken. S. B. Penick was founded in 1914 in North Carolina and currently has its headquarters in…

5" amber glass medicine bottle with cork stopper from Wm. Kyvitz, druggist.
The label reads:

POISON
Wm Kyvitz
Prescription Druggist
Deutscher Apotheker
500 Palisade Avenue, corner Dodd St., Weehawken Heights, NJ

The drugstore opened in…

Promotional matchbook from Robert Reiner Inc., manufacturer of textile machines and accessories (founded 1903), located at 550/64 Gregory Avenue. The matchbook states "It pays to consult us first on your problems and requirements" and has a handy…

Advertising matchbook from the Rendez View Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, located at the intersection of Boulevard East and Pershing Road (today's Charrito's Restaurant)

Promotional matchbook from Christy's Bar, located at 40 Hackensack Avenue in Weehawken.

A photograph of Harry Marek. Harry J. Marek's home and grocery store was located at 52 Chestnut Street in the Shades. Harry Joseph Marek was born in Union City, NJ in 1888. From the collection of Mark Wright.

IOU from the Weehawken Title and Trust Company for $150 to Herman Buckholz and Wife, promising to pay 6% interest after six months.