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Robert Reiner, owner of a Weehawken based business during the first part of the 20th Century, was (and is) a celebrity in his home town of Nurtingen, Germany. This article appeared in the local newspaper, the Nurtinger Zeitung on October 25, 2003 and…

Sepia toned photograph of girls at the Lincoln School, circa 1895. Row 3 (top) -- Mary Burns , ? the teacher , --- MacFadden Row 2 (middle) -- Laura Banks, Lucie Bruker, Ida Wright, Ida Pankowski Row 1 (bottom) -- Jessie Wright, Barbara Geary, Bertha…

Black and white photograph (1937) of Simon Lake, submarine inventor against the background of the Palisades in Weehawken.

Undated newspaper clipping. Caption: This scene atop the Palisades greeted your eye more than 11 years ago if you looked up the Grauert Causeway. On the brink of the cliff you would have seen the unique studio of Karl Bitters, noted sculptor. He was…

This photographic post card shows the entire staff of the Weehawken Post Office in November, 1903. A helpful person has handwritten the names of the workers. Many thanks to Leon Yost for this scan of a remarkable piece of Weehawken history!

William Lachenauer sent this image to the Time Machine with the following message: "Attached please find a newspaper clipping circa 1941 of the St. Lawrence Junior Boys Club. I scanned both the photograph contained within the paper and the back of…

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…

'Biographical sketch of Simon Kelly from Genealogical History Of Hudson And Bergen Counties New Jersey, published in 1900 and edited by Cornelius Burnham Harvey. Reprinted on GetNJ.Com. Link provided by Lauren Sherman of the Weehawken Historical…

This is a reproduction of an engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of April 14, 1888. It shows fishermen planting poles in the Hudson River bottom in order to string nets.

Color photo of Dr. Kaufman's 6th grade class in front Roosevelt School. Thanks to Time Machine User Craig Berteele for this photo and information: Row 1 Robert Garvey, Monica Ehm, Harry Raupp, , Jackie Totaro, Steve Levine, Kathleen Kelly, Mark…