Browse Items (26 total)

Article on the Weehawken Centennial from the Hudson Dispatch of June 8, 1959. The full page includes text and photographs. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

This document is a transcription of the mentions of Weehawken in a book called The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498 - 1909. This amazing book is a day by day diary of the history of Manhattan and contains information on Weehawken as a ferry…

Commemorative envelope from the Weehawken Township Centennial in 1959. From the collection of Steve Dorio.

Song sheet parodying a popular song of the day, mentions Weehawken. LYRICS - MOTHER WOULD wallop me. A PARODY on Mother would comfort me. Written for Pony Smith, the famous personator of Burnt-Cork eccentricities, by John Casten Cross. Wounded and…

A nineteenth century song sheet - Isabella, with the gingham umbrella, or, The barber's daughter of Weehawken, as sung by Tony Pastor. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham Street, N. Y. [n. d.] LYRICSISABELLA, WITH THE GINGHAM UMBRELLA. Or the…

Sketchbook by artist, Grant Wright, made for his friend and historical colleague, Lt. Edward Kirk.

Sketchbook by artist Grant Wright, dated 1934.

Weehawken Sketches by artist, Grant Wright, dated 1934.

Sketchbook of Weehawken by artist, Grant Wright, dated 1926. This is the earliest sketchbook in the Commission's collection.

Sketchbook of artist, Grant Wright, dated 1933.