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

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

This is a small black and red button with 'Weehawkin' (with an i instead of an e) and a white ribbon hanging down, undated. It's been suggested that this was a spirit button for Team Weehawken because of the colors, and despite the spelling.

Article from the Tuesday Morning, January 20, 1835 edition of the New York Sun describing a prize fight in Weehawken: Agreeable to arrangements two notorious boxers accompanied by about two hundred select spectators, proceeded on Saturday last to…

Song lyrics from the rousing ditty 'Isabella With the Gingham Umbrella, or The Barber's daughter of Weehawken, as sung by Tony Pastor.' Published by H. De Marsan of New York City, date unknown.  

This article appeared in the Northern Hudson County Recognition Number and Industrial Guide published by the Chamber of Commerce of Northern Hudson County in 1939 or 1940. The last paragraph reads: Weehawken invites discriminating residents...who…

From the February, 1976 issue of DC Comics' Weird War, this story shows Weehawken 700 years 'after the Bomb' as a medieval kingdom with its own Emperor.  

Sketches of Weehawken in 1933, by artist Grant Wright.

Sketchbook of artist, Grant Wright, dated 1933.

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