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Purpose


The State Historical Records Advisory Board was established in 1975 to serve as the central advisory body for historical records planning in the state, and as a conduit and review body for grant projects funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in support of archival and records management programs. The Division of Archives and Records Management provides necessary administrative support for board, and its director serves as the board's coordinator. Members are representatives of public and private archival and research institutions, appointed by the Governor to three year terms under authority of the Code of Federal Regulations (36 C.F.R. 1206.30-.34)

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Board Meetings, Conferences and Events

November 2003
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Strategic Plan


In October 2001, the board published its Strategic Plan to Improve the Preservation, Collection, and Use of New Jersey Historical Records, culminating a sixteen-month planning process, funded principally by NHPRC. The project collected data on record repositories throughout the state, conducted public hearings and focus-group sessions for interested parties, and ultimately produced a five-year strategic plan for improving the conditions and access of historical records in the state. The plan now guides the board in formulating priorities for its own future grant applications to the NHPRC and in reviewing proposals submitted by New Jersey archives and manuscripts repositories.

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New Jersey Records Projects Funded 1976-2005


The board carried out three NHPRC grants in its own right. A Statewide Needs Assessment Project (1981-82), which surveyed records accessibility and storage conditions in libraries, historical societies, and government, business, and nonprofit organizations. In 1998, NHPRC grant funds were used to produce a strategic plan for SHRAB to ensure preservation and access to state historical records. More recently, SHRAB has received support for administrative expenses for two years (2004-2006).

All other NHPRC grants reviewed by SHRAB were received by individual repositories, enabling them to process specific collections of archival materials, as follows:

New Jersey State Historical Records Advisory Board, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org/links/shrab.html
$9,985 in support of the board's administrative expenses for one year.
(2005)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$82,675 for preserving the Papers of Thomas A. Edison.
(2005)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$45,150 for preserving the Stanton/Anthony Papers.
(2005)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers
$114,717 for preserving the papers of Thomas Jefferson.
(2005)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd
$121,096 to appraise, arrange, and describe 28 collections, totaling 1,146 linear feet, of personal papers of economists and demographers, and the organizational records of institutions involved in international development and finance, monetary policy, population reserach, public finance, economic policy and business.
(2005-034)

New Jersey State Historical Records Advisory Board, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org/links/shrab.html
$19,970 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for two years.
(2004-015)

The Newark Museum Association, Newark, NJ
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/archive/index.asp
$51,500 for its Institutional Records Processing Project to arrange, describe, and make available museum records dealing with exhibitions, collections, educational outreach, and marketing.
(2003-003)

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
http://www.jerseyhistory.org
$188,220 to arrange, describe, and catalog 435 manuscript collections documenting the state's economic and social transformation, 1750-1860.
(99-083)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$73,556 for a project to arrange and describe the records of Frances R. Grant and Robert Alexander, two individuals involved in U.S. non-government organizations in Latin America.
(98-076)

Inventory to the Paper of Robert J. Alexander
Inventory to the papers of Frances R. Grant

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/
$43,500 to host an archival administration fellowship.
(98-046)

New Jersey State Historical Records Advisory Board, Trenton, NJ http://www.njarchives.org/links/shrab.html
$33,100 to produce a strategic plan (Strategic Plan to Improve the Preservation, Collection, and Use of the New Jersey Historical Records) for ensuring preservation and access to state historical records.
(98-003)

Project Website

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/
$55,206 for an 18-month project to organize, describe, catalog, and provide more effective access to three major collections and seven smaller collections (comprising 631 linear feet) in its Seeley G. Mudd Library relating to Cold War era liberalism. The major collections include the Fund for the Republic Archives, Freedom House Archives, and the records of Franklin Book Programs, Inc.
(97-084)

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
http://www.jerseyhistory.org
$41,322 for a one-year project to preserve, arrange, describe, and publicize 60 collections relating to the history of health care in New Jersey. The collections, comprising approximately 160 feet of records, cover a time span of more than 250 years dating from the mid-18th century.
(97-061)

The New Jersey Historical Society created the following products:

Guide to Health Care and Social Welfare Manuscript Collections at the New Jersey Historical Society. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, June 1998

Finding aids and container lists for the following collections:

Academy of Medicine of New Jersey Archives, 1775-1961
Blue Shield of New Jersey Records, 1940-1988
J. Henry Clark Papers, 1836-1914
Congar Family Papers, 1787-1876
Cooper Family Papers, 1865-1922
Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins Collection, 1762-1893
De Zeng Family Papers, 1729-1925
Ebenezer Elmer Papers, 1776-1785
William Elmer Records Books, 1837-89
Gabriel Grant Papers, 1854-1907
Howe Family Papers, 1844-1934
Sanford B. Hunt Papers, 1834-1892
Dr. John James Hervey Love Papers, 1862-1864
Kinney Family Papers, 1783-1900
Medical Society of New Jersey Records, 1766-1887
McDowell Family Papers, 1792-1966
Newark Female Charitable Society
Orange Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (NJ) Records, 1882-1982
Mary Philbrook Papers, 1843-1954
Edward A. Pierson Papers, 1796-1872
Shippen Family Papers, 1750-1775
Stanford Pharmacy Records, 1853-1905
Terrill Funeral Home, Irvington, NJ, Records, 1901-1946
William Turk Papers, 1824-1835
Dr. Felix Vann Papers
Whittier House Social Settlement (Jersey City NJ) Records, 1894-1974

Requests for information about these products and other finding aids may be directed to:

New Jersey Historical Society Library
52 Park Place
Newark, NJ, 07102-4302

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$87,013 to arrange and describe four collections that document the involvement of women in twentieth-century public life: the League of Women Voters of New Jersey (73 cubic feet, 1913-1990), the Consumers League of New Jersey (56 cubic feet, 1896-1979), the New Jersey Welfare Council (61 cubic feet, 1919-1987), and Mary Roebling (103 cubic feet, 1906-1993).
(96-077)

Project Website


Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$55,723 to arrange and describe the records of four New Jersey utopian communities: Jersey Homesteads, Farmingdale, the Modern School, and Free Acres. The records, dating from 1893 to the present, total approximately 81 cubic feet. In addition to processing the collections, project staff will enter records into RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
(95-047)

Project Website

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, created finding aids for the following collections:

Modern School Collection, ca. 1880-1974. New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 1996.
Perrone, Fernanda H. A Guide to the Farmingdale Collection, 1890-1995. New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 1996.
Perrone, Fernanda H. A Guide to the Free Acres Association Collection, 1892-1996. New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 1996.
Perrone, Fernanda H. A Guide to the Roosevelt (N.J.) Collection, 1934-1993 and the Borough of Roosevelt Historical Collection, 1933-1996. New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 1996.

Further details regarding these guides are available from:

Ronald Becker
Head, Special Collections, Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers, The State University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(908) 932-7006

Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ
http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/
$149,106 for a two-year project to establish a records management program for the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and to survey, arrange, and describe approximately 6,000 feet of archival records (ca. 1945-present) currently housed at Princeton and at ACLU headquarters in New York.
(93-062)

Project Website

The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University created the following products:

American Civil Liberties Union Archives, 1917-1995. Princeton, NJ: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, 1996
American Civil Liberties Union Washington, D.C. Office Records, 1948-1970
Excerpts from the Diaries of Osmond K. Fraenkel Relating to the American Civil Liberties Union, 1933-1968
Primer, Ben, ed. American Civil Liberties Union: The Roger Baldwin Years, 1917-1950, A Microfilm Edition. Princeton, NJ: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, 1996

Further details concerning these finding aids are available from:

Ben Primer
University Archivist
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Princeton University
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08544-2009
(609) 258-3242

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
$83,918 to process the records of the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine, and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, 1949 to date.
(91-136)

New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org
$40,900 to develop four units of a series of training modules in archival and records management theory, methodology, and law for state and local government officials. The modules will integrate a professionally produced videotape, printed workbooks, and personal instruction.
(89-015)

New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org
$19,238 to encourage development of municipal records programs throughout the state. The project will prepare and distribute a manual for local officials and conduct seminars on the administration of municipal records.
(85-126)

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
http://www.ets.org
$5,510 to process the papers of psychologist and educator Gertrude Hildreth. The project will evaluate the usefulness of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology publication, Appraising the Records of Science and Technology: A Guide, for appraising social science collections.
(85-114)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
http://www.ias.edu
$3,634 for consultation to survey the institute's historical documents and to plan an archival program. Since its founding in 1930, the institute has sponsored major research in the social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics.
(85-086)

New Jersey State Historical Records Advisory Board, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org/links/shrab.html
$25,000 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken.
(81-123)

William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
http://www.wpunj.edu
$1,408 to arrange, describe, and microfilm the papers of William Paterson, New Jersey's first attorney general and a member of the United States Supreme Court.
(81-055)

Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, NJ
http://www.monmouth.com/~mcha3/archives.html
$17,050 to arrange and describe the association's manuscript collections.
(80-054)

New Jersey State Library, Archives and History Bureau, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org
$9,932 to continue its survey of New Jersey county records of historical value and to develop improved county records programs.
(79-121)

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
http://www.jerseyhistory.org
$31,215 for a two-year joint project with the Newark Public Library to survey and selectively accession into New Jersey repositories records of business firms and labor organizations in Newark.
(78-078, 79-095)

Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
http://www.npl.org
$15,553 to preserve photographs in the New Jersey Picture Collection and to prepare a reference microfilm and finding aid to the photos.
(78-066)

New Jersey State Library, Archives and History Bureau, Trenton, NJ
http://www.njarchives.org
$20,500 to survey county records of historical value in New Jersey and to develop improved programs for county records in the State.
(78-052)

Subtotal (Records Projects): $1,445,697

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Contact Information:
Joseph Klett, Deputy SHRAB Coordinator
225 West State Street
P.O. Box 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
609.292.6260
609.292-9105 (fax)
E-mail:joseph.klett@sos.state.nj.us

 
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