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A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1926

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

A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1933

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Sketchbook of artist, Grant Wright, dated 1933.

A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1934

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Weehawken Sketches by artist, Grant Wright, dated 1934.

Behind the Gun

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This colored postcard's Weehawken connection can be found on the back... it was sent from town January 12, 1916.

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Contract for Telephone Service

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Resident Virginia Martin purchased this old telephone contract from 1912 some years back at an estate sale when the property at 13 Clifton Terrace was being sold and has kindly donated it to the Weehawken Historical Commission.2022-09-09 - According…

Grant Wright's Weehawken Sketches - 1933

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Sketches of Weehawken in 1933, by artist Grant Wright.

Grotesque Songs

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Weehawken's role as a generic humorous place name can be traced back to at least November of 1867, when this essay, entitled Grotesque Songs was published in a New York bi-annual magazine called The Galaxy, Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. IV,…

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Hearty Greetings from Clifton Park, Weehawken, NJ

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Undated intaglio (engraved) postcard from Clifton Park, Weehawken.

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Hudson County Map - 1872

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Portion of a map from a folio in the collection of the US Library of Congress entitled History of Land Titles in Hudson County, New Jersey 1609-1871, by Charles H. Winfield. This is a portion of the last of three maps in this folio. The map is…

Hudson County Map - 1881

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Section of a map contained in the Combined atlas of the State of New Jersey and the County of Hudson : from actual survey, official records & private plans / by and under the direction of G. M. Hopkins published by G. M. Hopkins & Co. of…