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Record Group:	Department of Transportation
Series:	Photographs filed by Subject, 1920s-1970s
Accession #:	1989.004, 1994.034
Series #:	STR00001
Guide Date:	2001 (JMN); rev. 5/2008 (JMN)
Volume:	12 c.f. [25 boxes]

Box List

Contents

Description

Box 6

Dedications:

	Camden Overpass Dedication, July 12, 1946 [1 item].
	Fort Dix Access Road Dedication, December 16, 1943 [18 items].
	Hackensack River Bridge, Jersey City - Kearny, June 17, 1954 [2 items].
	McCarter Highway Dedication, Newark, December 17, 1943 [7 items].
	Newark - Harrison Rt. 25A Detour, May 27, 1943 [8 items].
	Picatinny Arsenal Access Road Dedication, October 29, 1943 [11 items].
	Rt. S. 3 Clifton - Rutherford, Passaic River Bridge, September 12, 1949 [5 items].
	Rt. S. 3 Rutherford, August 6, 1945 [3 items].
	Rt. S. 3 Spur, Clifton Avenue Extension, October 28, 1953 [1 item].
	Rt. 4 Parkway, First Section, June 28, 1950 [14 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway Ground Breaking, November 8, 1946 [17 items].
	Rt. 6, Passaic County, December 9, 1943 [17 items].
	Rt. 23, Morris, Passaic and Sussex Counties, June 26, 1953 [5 items].
	Rt. 24, Phillipsburg, September 25, 1946 [8 items].
	Rt. 25 A, Stickel Memorial Bridge Dedication, Newark-Harrison, May 17, 1949 [23 items].
	Rt. 25 connecting Port Street-Pulaski Skyway, Newark, December 30, 1948 [2 items].
	Rt. 25, Cranberry Circle, December 30, 1948 [2 items].
	Rt. 25, Elizabeth-Newark, August 28, 1947 [14 items].
	Rt. 25, Port Street, Newark, June 9, 1944 [6 items].
	Rt. 25 Ribbon Cutting between Bordentown and Crosswicks Creek Bridge, May 24, 1950 [2 items].
	Rt. 26 Ground breaking, Trenton, April 6, 1948 [6 items].
	Rt. 30, Absecon Boulevard Bridge, Atlantic City, September 27, 1946 [1 item].
	Rt. 37, Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, Seaside Heights, May 24, 1950 [10 items].
	Rt. 44-45, Westville - West Deptford Twp., September 17, 1947 [27 items].
	Rt. 78, Bloomsbury, October 30, 1959 [14 items].
	Rt. 80, Denville, October 30, 1959 [4 items].
	Rt. 100 Freeway, Ground breaking, 1946 [38 items].

Box 7

Dedications:

	Scudders Falls Bridge, June 22, 1961 [3 items].
	Thomas A. Edison Bridge, December 14, 1940 [1 item].
	Unidentified, no date [2 items].
	Delaware River Drive, along Delaware in Pahaquarry Township, southwest of Millbrook in Warren County [2 items].

Documentation:

	Brielle Council minutes on Rt. 35, 1949 [3 items].
	Detail of George's Hotel, 1941 [5 items].
	Senate, No. 1, 1946 [6 items].
	Senate, No. 59, 1946 [2 items].

DOT Logos, no date [19 items].

DOT Publications, no date [2 items].

Dual Highway, no date [3 damaged negatives].

Erosion control, unidentified, no date [13 items].

Events:

	Acting Governor Merrill Thompson conducts meeting on Rt. 35, 1951 [1 item].
	Auction Sale, parcels of land, Fernwood, December 13, 1956 [1 item].
	Awards, unidentified, 1943 [1 item].
	Bayard L. England, vice chairman and treasurer was named Engineer of the Year, Essex House, Newark, 1953 [3 items].
	Blood typing-State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr. is the first person to be typed by Dr. Ernest Purcell of McKinley Hospital, 1944 [1 item].
	Blue Star Drive "blueprints," January 5, 1945 [10 items].
	Blue Star Drive Plaque Awards, AASHO, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, N.Y., 1947 [10 items].
	Christmas Exercises, NJ State Highway Department, Trenton 1943-1949 [13 items].
	Christmas, no date [4 items].
	Demolition of Wilkinson-Gaddis Buildings, Rt. 21, 1943 [2 items].
	Enlisted trainees of the ORC receive instructions from Reserve officers employed by the State Highway Department on highway equipment, no date [5 items].
	Fishing Grove Tuna Club, Atlantic City [10 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey Flower Show, Upper Montclair, 1947-1949 [8 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey Merit Awards - Roadside Improvement, 1947 [2 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey Luncheon, Awards for roadside beautification, Carteret Club, Trenton, 1948 [4 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey presents Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr. with award in recognition of the Commissioner's campaign for promoting attractive landscaping along N.J. roads, Essex Fells Country Club, 1946 [3 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey representatives at Legislative Session, 1945 [3 items].
	Government officials from New South Wales, Australia met with Governor Robert B. Meyner (not in photo) to discuss state government, no date [1 item].
	I-78 Alignments proposed, Public Hearing, July 15, 1960 [1 item].
	Inspection by Senators & Assemblymen of major projects in NJ, June 28, 1948 [2 items].
	Inspection tour of Rt. 4 Parkway, July 15, 1949 [1 item].
	Installing new bridge at Mile Hollow, Rt. 39, Bordentown, 1943 [1 item].
	Irvington hearing on Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [8 items].
	Luncheon of National Council of State Garden Clubs at Hotel Biltmore, N.Y., 1945 [2 items].
	Marlin Tournament, Atlantic City Marina, 1964 [5 items].
	Newark Origin & Destination Survey, Rt. 25 Passaic River Bridge, 1946 [1 item].
	Newark Snow Meeting, 1961 [13 items].
	New Jersey Turnpike Meeting, Trenton, 1949 [1 item].
	Parkway Tour, 1946 [7 items].
	Phillippine visitors to New Jersey State Highway Department, 1954 [6 items].
	Plowing for Victory Gardens at Fernwood, 1943 [7 items].
	Port Street overpass of Central Railroad at Newark Airport, 1943 [7 items].
	Removing Rt. 44 barrier at Verga, July 14, 1948 [1 item].
	Ribbon Cutting, Unidentified, no date [5 items].
	Roadside Improvement Conference, June 28, 1943 [3 items].

Box 8

Events:

	Rt. 4 Parkway Hearing, Highway Assembly Room, 1946 [6 items].
	Rt. 4 Public Hearing, 1946 [4 items].
	Rutgers University civil engineering students tour NJ roads, 1949 [20 items].
	Salem County Freeholders Dinner, Salem Country Club, 1944-1947 [11 items].
	Senators Sterner & Durand inspecting highway construction, no date [8 items].
	Serving process in friendly litigation for issue of Turnpike Authority bonds, 1949 [3 items].
	South Jersey Highway Tour, 1948 [5 items].
	Spencer Miller Jr. Lecture, Rutgers University,"Landscape & Design and It's Relation to the Modern Highway," 1950 [8 items].
	Spencer Miller, State Highway Commissioner & Caxton Brown & W. Richmond Tracey of Park Commission View Plan of Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [1 item].
	State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr. completing purchase of Wilkinson -- Gaddis Building on Rt. 21, Newark, 1942 [4 items].
	State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller Jr. greets Princeton University civil engineer seniors at Rt. 27, site of Rt. 4 Parkway crossing, 1948 [2 items].
	Statewide Safety Conference, War Memorial, Trenton 1947 [2 items].
	Stevens Institute civil engineering students inspection of Rt. S-3, December 1, 1948 [2 items].
	Storm of 1944, Atlantic City, 1944 [13 items].
	Storm of 1944, Cape May City, 1944 [25 items inc. 2 B&W copy negatives].
	Storm of 1944, Harvey Cedars, 1944 [16 items].
	Storm of 1944, Long Beach, 1944 [5 items].
	Storm of 1944, Seaside, 1944 [7 items].
	Storm of 1944, Ship Bottom, 1944 [1 item].
	Storm of 1962, Sea Isle City, 1962 [68 items inc. 4 B&W copy negatives in two folders].
	Storm of 1962, Unidentified, 1962 [11 items].
	Tour of Rt. 4 Parkway, 1949 [1 item].
	Trenton Freeway Hearing, 1948 [11 items].
	Unidentified, no date [20 items].
	W. Warren Barbour campaign float and band, no date [15 items].
	Winter Storm, Sparta, no date [6 items].
	Winter Storm, unidentified, January 1964 [2 items].
	Winter Storm, unidentified, no date [2 items].

Exhibits:

	Blue Star Drive, New York Garden Show, no date [1 item].
	Convention of American Association of State Highway officials, Hotel Pennsylvania, N.Y., 1949 [2 items].
	Garden State Flower Show, 1945 [2 items].
	Girders mounted on wood, no date [2 items].
	Governors Bear Mountain Conference, no date [1 item].
	Interstate Routes Freeways Dualization & Widening as proposed under Master Plan, Blue Cross & Blue Shield Community Corner Window, 1961 [1 item].
	Keystone Automobile Club, no date [1 item].
	Newark's Forward March, no date [13 items].

Box 9

Exhibits:

	New Jersey League of Municipalities Exhibit, New York City, 1946 [1 item].
	New Jersey Plans For The Future, 33rd Annual Meeting of American Association of State Highway Officials, Waldorf - Astoria Hotel, New York, 1947-1948 [6 items].
	New Jersey State Highway Commission, Atlantic City, no date [3 items].
	New Jersey State Highway Safety Construction Float, Trenton, no date [15 items]
	New Jersey State Highway Department, Freeways to Help New Jersey Grow, 1963 New Jersey State Fair [2 items].
	New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Recreation Conference, Bear Mountain Inn, May 8, 1958 [6 items]
	Parkways & Freeways of New Jersey, Newark Museum, January 11 - February 15, 1950 [4 items].
	Public Roads Exhibit, American Association of State Highway Officials 33rd Annual Meeting, N.Y., 1947 [2 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway, Irvington, 1949 [6 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway, Newark Museum, 1950 [1 item].
	Rt. 4 Parkway, State Museum, 1949 [8 items].
	State Highway Exhibit, Tomato Festival, 1939 [1 item].
	Trenton Freeway model in Hunter's Restaurant, Trenton, 1948 [1 item].
	Trenton State Fair, 1936-1958 [29 items].
	Trenton Throughway, New Jersey Professional Engineers Meeting, Newark, 1947 [1 item].
	Twenty five Years of Progress 1914 – 1939 [1 item in oversized print box OV-2].
	Unidentified, no date [11 items].

Flooding -- see Sea Bright.

Fritzsche, O.H. -- see Portraits.

Gambaccini, Louis J. -- see Portraits.

Garden State Parkway:

	1950-1956 and no date [19 items].
	Woodbridge exit, 1952 [1 item].

Goldstein, Sidney -- see Portraits.

Goodkind, Morris -- see Portraits.

Governor Alfred E. Driscoll:

	Bill Signing, Palisades Parkway Bill S-104, Chapter 74, April 21, 1947 [7 items].
	Bill Signing of S-205 - Blue Star roadside rests. Chapter 157, May 19, 1947 [3 items].
	Bill Signing SJR3 to include all of Rt. 22 in New Jersey for Blue Star Drive, 1947 [3 items].
	Bill Signing S-189, Parkway - Freeway area for gasoline service, October 28, 1948 [5 items].
	Bill Signing S-373 (Chapter 454) New Jersey Turnpike Authority, October 27, 1948 [2 items].
	Dedication of First Section of New Jersey Rt. 4, June 28, 1950 [4 items].
	Dedication of New Rt. 25, 1948 [1 item].
	Event, unidentified, no date [1 item].
	Formal opening Rt. S-3 Clifton - Rutherford Passaic River Bridge, September 12, 1949 [6 items].
	Garden Club of New Jersey Flower Show, 1949 [2 items].
	Garden State Flower Show, 1947 [4 items].
	Highway Tour, May 24, 1948 [7 items].
	Opening Day New Jersey Constitutional Convention, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1947 [11 items].
	Second Inaugural, January 17, 1950 [10 items].
	Governor Driscoll's Highway Tour at Rt. 25A, May 24, 1948 [1 item].
	Portrait at his desk, no date [2 items]. -- see also Dedications.

Governor Charles Edison:

	Blue Star Certificate presented to former Governor Edison, 1945 [2 items].
	Opening of Newark - Harrison Route 25A Detour, May 27, 1943 [1 item].
	Ribbon Cutting, Bayonne Naval Base Access Road, December 22, 1942 [4 items].
	Starting Construction at Hudson-Manhattan Bridge on Newark-Kearny Highway, January 25, 1943 [7 items].
	Unidentified, no date [1 item]

Governor Walter E. Edge:

	Blue Star Drive Pen Presentation, February 8, 1945 [5 items].
	Governor Edge inspects line of New Jersey's first Parkway Route 4, August 22, 1946 [11 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway Bill Signing, April 22, 1946 [14 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway Ground Breaking, November 8, 1946 [2 items].
	Signing of New Jersey's Parkway & Freeway Bill, April 3, 1945 [3 items] -- see also Dedications.

Governor Robert B. Meyner:

	Bill signing, July 2, 1954 [1 item].
	Dedication of Interstate Rt. 80, no date [1 item].
	Meeting with council of ministers of the Ukraine, State House, 1960 [1 item].
	Portrait of Governor Robert B. Meyner, no date [1 item].
	Rt. 78 Opening Ceremonies, Bloomsbury, October 30, 1959 [3 items].

Grading & Paving, 1946-1948 and no date [28 items].

Groundbreaking -- see Dedications.

Group shots:

	New Jersey Turnpike, 1949 [1 item].
	State Highway Commission, Camden, 1924 [2 items].
	Unidentified, 1924, 1949 and no date [5 items].

Box 10

Harris, Fran -- see Portraits.

Highland Park looking towards Rt. 1, Middlesex Co., no date [2 items].

Holland Tunnel, no date [7 items].

Howell -- see Portraits.

Hurley, Charles Sr. -- see Portraits.

Kilpatricks (?) E.W. -- see Portraits.

Kramer, Herman -- see Portraits.

Landscaping, no date [11 items].

Lighthouses, Los Angeles Harbor, 1961 [3 items].

Maintenance:

	Core Drill, no date [1 item].
	Core Samples, no date [3 items].
	Cracking Slabs, no date [3 items].
	Equipment workers, 1950 and no date [2 items].
	Grass cutters, 1957 and no date [4 items].
	Installing telephone poles, no date [3 items].
	Laboratory Division test of bitumen - spreading truck measuring equipment at Fernwood Service Station, 1947 [2 items].
	Lorain Shovel & Crane, no date [1 item].
	Maintenance shed, no date [1 item].
	Road work, Woodbridge, 1939 [1 item].
	Road work, no date [16 items].
	Sand & Cinder Spreader, no date [1 item].
	Scalping, no date [1 item].
	Shovel, no date [2 items].
	Sign Makers, no date [12 items].
	State Highway Vehicles, 1940 and no date [16 items].
	Tree Planting, no date [7 items].
	Truck & Trailer Compressors, no date [1 item].
	White Line Painting, no date [1 item].

Maps:

	Alternate Alignment, Rt. 29, no date [1 item].
	Bayonne Map, 1955 [4 items].
	City of Trenton Proposal, March 29, 1966 [7 items].
	Garden State Parkway, 1946 [1 item].
	Interstate Rt. 78, Composite Plan, June 1963 [2 items]
	Joint Study of Arterial Facilities, no date [2 items].
	Monmouth County, no date [2 items].
	Newark Airport Interchange, no date [1 item].
	New Jersey - New York Area Regional Transportation Map, 1946 [4 items].
	New Jersey State Highway System as Legislated, 1947 [2 items].
	New Jersey State Highway Exhibit Map, N.J. League of Municipalities, New York, 1946 [1 item].
	New Jersey Turnpike, 1949 [1 item].
	New York International Airport 150th Street Approach Road Construction, no date [2 items].
	Parkways and Freeways Now Legislated in New Jersey, no date [1 item in oversized print box OV 1].
	Plaza Improvements and New Ramp Connections between George Washington Bridge and Palisades Interstate Parkway, no date [1 item].
	Possible Alignment of Bergen County Expressway, no date [9 items].
	Preliminary Study for Parkway Location, 1946 [1 item].
	Proposed New Highway (East - West link to Rt. 4 Parkway near Pleasantville), 1950[1 item].
	Reapproved alignment I -78, Newark, no date [1 item].
	Real Estate Assessment Survey of Bronx River Parkway, Westchester County, N.Y., 1932 [4 items].
	Route 4 Parkway Alignment Map, 1950 [1 item]. Route 18, no date [4 items].
	Route 78, Newark, no date [1 item].
	Route I-95, no date [15 items].
	Route I-95, Route 295, Pennington Lawrenceville Road, no date [2 items].
	Route 100 from Bonhamtown to Elizabeth, no date [1 item].
	Route 130, Official Hearing Map, no date [7 items].
	Route I-195, Howell Township, hearing site, no date [1 item].
	Route 295, Section 1W, Township of West Deptford, Gloucester County, April 13, 1970 [2 items].
	State of New Jersey Road Map, no date [2 items].
	System Map - Existing PATH Stations and Proposed Transfer Stations, no date [2 items].
	Terminal City, New York International Airport, no date [1 item].
	Unidentified, no date [1 item].
	Unidentified Subway Map, no date [1 item].

Meetings, 1947-1956 [9 items].

Miller, Francis D. -- see Portraits.

Models:

	Allamuchy scenic overlook interstate Rt. 80, no date [2 items].
	Interstate Route 280 and Garden State Parkway, no date [2 items].
	Rt. 4 Parkway, 1946 and no date [12 items].
	Rt. 17, 1947 and no date [4 items].
	Rt. 25, Camden Connection, no date [8 items].

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