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Clipping from an unidentified newspaper stamped September 24, 1934. This story describes the platform of the Republican Party of Weehawken's claim that the committee to commemorate the Town's anniversary was exploiting the occasion for political…

Medal commemorating the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of Weehawken Township in 1934. Front shows a sailing ship (the Half Moon), an Indian and Pilgrim. On reverse, the following wording: WEEHAWKEN PURCHASED FROM THE INDIANS BY THE DUTCH. THE…

Clipping from an unknown newspaper, hand dated 1934 in ink, describing the preparations for the 75th anniversary of the Town, celebrated on September 28, 1934. This item is in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

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 medal issued in honor of Weehawken's 75th Anniversary in 1934 hanging from a striped silk ribbon.

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…

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.  

Sketchbook by artist Grant Wright, dated 1934.

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.