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News clipping from an unidentified newspaper (probably the Observer) which describes a radio broadcast in which a comedian recounted the history of Weehawken. The clipping is stamped Oct 27, 1939.

A hand written and drawn booklet prepared for the 1976 US Bicentennial Celebration by the Weehawken Historical Society.

Clipping from an unidentified newspaper stamped September 28, 1934 describing poet James Restine and his poem "Weehawken Heights."

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

Clipping from the Hudson Observer, July 29, 1935. Describes the search for a long lost pond in the Valley behind King's Bluff. It was found by E. Robert Grauert, son of Mayor Emile Grauert. Much is made of the younger Grauert's besting of Weehawken…

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…

Clipping from the Hudson Observer, marked November 28, 1950 with a highly suspect "Legend of Weehawken" involving a "Chief Wee Hawk," an Indian burial ground in The Shades, and honest to goodness chain dragging Lenni-Lenape ghosts.

Sketchbook by artist Grant Wright, dated 1934.

Booklet containing the text of President Wilson's address to Congress on April 2nd, 1917. Printed and sold under the auspices of the West Hoboken-Weehawken Council for the benefit of the Boy Scouts of America.  

Front page article from The New York Mirror: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts - Saturday, April 20, 1833. It begins: To speak of Weehawken to a New-Yorker is to conjure up before his mind's eye a world of aggreeable…