Basin View. Great Falls - Paterson New Jersey

Cigar Bill From Our Chemist - Bloomfield "Centre"

Keyler's also seen here. 

Ogden & Cadmus 1908 Letter

Election day expenses - Republican Club

Bloomfield's George Schwacha again

The Latest Schwacha

Don't Miss - Tuesday May 22, 2018 (7:30) Historical Society Presentation

Click here for information

Below: The International Arms & Fuze Company Lunchroom.

Godinger Pepper Mill

Large Print. Edward Hopper "House on Pamet River" - 1934

Image size: 12.5 x 18 in.

Bloomfield Stables

Mark Sceurman via HSOB

Caged Image

Fresh Fruit Left, Canned, Right

Hacksaw Justice For Any Shoplifters.

Early Grocery Market Perhaps 1930. 

63 Park Avenue - 1922 - The E.R. Peckens Home.

"...where Baby Maurice Weaver is living with his mother."

A Bird's-Eye View

Art Deco Athletics

Bloomfield High School main entrance steps.

Our "Pit"

Modern gyms can be bland, antiseptic, utilitarian. Here is our 1920's Bloomfield High School Gymnasium"The Pit"

Color photos by Jerry Simon

Pittsburgh View 1817

The Latest Schwacha

Bloomfield's George Schwacha

Flatbrookville, Sussex County Area

Here's a story of Flatbrookville from 2015 by NJ Herald's Wayne McCabe.

Funding ideas needed for the Church on the Green

Our 1796 Church needs help. 

Money yes. But ideas are needed to raise the money

Long Island Discovery - The Courtland Smith Map of Long Island - 1961

Latest acquisition is going "Home" to the Bretscher household in Rockville Center, Long Island.

This is the 1961 version of the original 1933 edition of Courtland Smith’s perennially popular map.

Pictorial map of Long Island, from Brooklyn and Queens to the Hamptons and Montauk. Landmarks such as Montauk Lighthouse, the beach at Southampton, and the Fire Island Light are shown. The Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound are decorated with various pictorial illustrations including a striped bass, swordfish, spouting whale, and the Sag Harbor Whaler ship. Other decorations include an Art Deco wind figure and compass rose. An intricate border is decorated at the top with underwater scenes; on the sides with famous sites such as Birthplace of John Howard Payne, East Hampton, and Jones Beach; and with historical events, such as the settlement of Brooklyn and building of Brooklyn Bridge. The key indicates radio stations, state parks, ferry lines, small light houses, and mainland.

Save the Date - March 27th 2018

Historical Society Gears up for an Exciting Spring

Did you know that the first batting cage, catcher’s mask and even professional baseball itself, originated in New Jersey? On March 27 at 7:30pm in Bloomfield Civic Center, 84 Broad St, the HSOB will present historian Linda Barth speaking about her book “A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone.”

Learn about the New Jerseyans who brought sound and music to movies and built the very first drive-in theater, the vacuum cleaner, plastic and Band-Aids, ice cream cones and M&Ms. Barth's book will be available for sale at the event, which is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Contact 973-743-8844 or info@hsob.org for information about membership and upcoming meetings.

Aviation for Young Readers

When we still had organ grinders and Blimps.

1944

The Company You Keep - 150 Years With New York Life

Fine Coffee Table Book from 1995. 

Detailed history of New York Life Insurance Company with numerous historic pictures. 

Ampere, NJ - Our Neighbor

Townsend Lawn Mowers

Mower Pictures HERE

Washington and his mother

...and their cow. 

Cadmus Lore - 1912

Newark Airport - 1940