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1760 Runaway Wives As a British colony, New Jersey was subject to English Common Law and its women, especially married women, were subject to the limitation of rights familiar to women in England.
1770 Gravestone for the Infant Children of Isaac and Hannah Arnett.
1800 Letter from Gavin Scott of Elizabethtown to his brother in Alnwich, England, 1800.
1828 The Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson. Ann and Rufus Johnson were 14 and 15 years old respectively when New Jersey enacted gradual manumission in 1804.
1845 The Lincoln Children, a portrait painted by Susan Waters.
1866 Lily Martin Spencer (1822-1902) painting, "War Spirit at Home," one of the most popular paintings of the mid-19th century.
1869 Strawberry Fields, Burlington County, 1869, a Harper's Weekly newspaper illustration.
1878 Cranberry
Bog, Ocean County Pickers at Work; a newspaper illustration from Harper's
Weekly, November 10, 1878.
1885 Morris Canal Workers, 1885, an illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
c. 1910 Marietta Boggio Botto and her family, c. 1910.
1913 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Flynn recalls strike assemblies and women's meetings, 1913.
1917 Delivery room at Newark After World War I, especially in urban areas, pregnant women increasingly opted for giving birth under the care of a female or male physician in a hospital, rather than at home attended by a midwife or family doctor.
1921 Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), an expert in scientific management.
1926 Strikers' Children's Kitchen, Passaic, 1926. Photograph of children outside a relief kitchen during the Passaic woolen strike.
c. 1927 Nellie
Morrow Parker (1902-), the first African American school teacher in Bergen
County.
1942 World War II Ration Book and Stamps, 1942.