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Hoboken History, No. 6, Winter 1993

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DescriptionHoboken History, Number 6, Winter 1993 The Magazine of the Hoboken Historical Museum. Booklet. pp. 24 including covers, illustrated. 8-3/8" wide x 11" high. 3 copies. PDF on file. General contents: A Long Wait for the H & M. Two-page illustrated article about the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad. One-page article about appointment of George Kirchengessner as Hoboken City Historian. Letters to Hattie. Four pages with selected transcriptions of 1895 - 1896 letters Hattie Dewey Potter from daughter Katie Potter plus other correspondents, friends of Hattie's (one also named Katie, who lived in NY.) Daughter Katie wrote from Hoboken when she was here as a teenager for her last three years of school. She lived at 732 Bloomfield Street with Mrs and Mrs. E.J. Gardiner. Her mother, a Hoboken native, was then living in Himrods, N.Y. near Seneca Lake. Hattie's mother, Mrs. James Dewey, lived at 48 Third St., Hoboken. Hoboken's Decaying Glory.Three-page article with eight photos by Robert Foster about the condition of decorative cast-iron railings and ornamental pillars. Book Review: Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights. By Daniel Pinkwater. 1 page Murray Pasquale's Memories of the Old Neighborhood. Five pages of recollections of Hoboken from 1910-1980 mostly concerning the 400-500 blocks of Jefferson Street or Adams Street in a street-by-street style with building numbers. 4to booklet

Entry/Object ID

2005.006.0007

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2005.006

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Staff / Produced by

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Produced by Staff

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Museum Collection.

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