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West
Jersey Council Members, Attorney Jeffrey Gans, and Chief of Archives
Joseph R. Klett resolve a few outstanding issues relating to the
depository agreement.
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(left
to right) Joseph R. Klett, West Jersey Council President Robert S.
Haines and Clerk Daniel W. Haines review one of the survey books.
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(left
to right) Attorney Jeffrey Gans, West Jersey Council Clerk Daniel
W. Haines, President Robert S. Haines, Council Member Nancy B. Barclay,
Surveyor General William H. Taylor, and Chief of Archives Joseph R.
Klett at the conclusions of the meeting to finalize the depository
agreement.
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Archives
staff and West Jersey Council Members at the end of the first day
of preparing the collection for its relocation to Trenton. |
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Preparing the West Jersey Proprietors Archives for Relocation
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The
West Jersey survey books in the Surveyor General’s Office vault.
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West
Jersey Council President Robert S. Haines (left) and Chief of Archives
Joseph R. Klett (right) review the existing inventory of records kept
in the vault.
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Robert
Haines makes boxes while Archives Technician Janet Jackson begins
inventorying packets of loose surveys.
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West
Jersey Council Member Nancy B. Barclay joins in the box-making fun.
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Surveyor
General William H. Taylor reviews small volumes and documents stored
in map drawers.
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State
Archives Collection Manager Ellen R. Callahan and Archivist Gregory
J. Gill begin measuring and wrapping the bound volumes.
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Archives
Chief Joseph Klett boxes packets of loose surveys.
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Ellen
Callahan and William Taylor package miscellaneous bundles of loose
papers.
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Janet
Jackson boxing and inventorying.
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Archivists
Vivian Thiele (left) and Ellen Callahan (right) inventory and prepare
housings for booklets.
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Joseph
Klett (left) and William Taylor (right) review bundles of loose papers.
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Principal
Photographer Joanne M. Nestor wraps bound volumes.
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Ellen
Callahan reviewing inventories.
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Joseph
Klett (left) and West Jersey Council Clerk Daniel W. Haines examine
and describe the Duke of York’s 1664 grant to Berkeley and Carteret.
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Checking
the inventory.
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Checking
it twice.
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Checking
it thrice.
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The West Jersey Archive Goes to Trenton
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Archives
Collection Manager Ellen R. Callahan begins the move of boxed, rolled
maps.
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West
Jersey Council President Robert S. Haines transporting an armful of
maps.
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West
Jersey Council Clerk Daniel W. Haines (left) and Surveyor General
William H. Taylor (right) join in.
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Ellen
Callahan transporting wrapped, bound volumes.
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Robert
Haines at the doorway of the Surveyor General’s Office.
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William
Taylor heavy laden with maps.
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Archives
Technician Janet Jackson and Archivist Gregory J. Gill moving boxes
out of the Surveyor General’s Office.
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The
boxes arrive at the State Archives’ loading dock.
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Ellen
Callahan, Archives Chief Joseph R. Klett, and West Jersey Council
Clerk Daniel W. Haines check the inventory once more for good measure.
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Catherine
Stearns Medich and the rolled maps, inventoried and boxed by her and
Ellen Callahan the previous week.
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Daniel
Haines (left) and Joseph Klett (right) examine the large parchment
documents as they arrive in the Archives vault.
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The
hand-off of the Concessions and Agreements.
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Joseph
Klett (left) shows Daniel Haines (right) New Jersey’s original
Bill of Rights.
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Joseph
Klett examines a 1677 deed signed and sealed by William Penn and others,
safely transported to the State Archives’ vault.
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