Nathan Russell. Real Estate, Documentarian (1890-1917)

                             

 Visit HSOB for more Nathan Russell photos of area homes. 

Bloomfield Church's Days Could be Numbered

 Bloomfield Architect Charles Granville Jones Designed Church. 

Designated for "development" - code word for demise.

Photo Courtesy: Mark Szep

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Bloomfield's George Schwacha

Inside Bloomfield's Tung Sol Factory

Manufacturer of radio tubes

The Franklin Arms

When it had it's historic marker. (1970's?)

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

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

Need a script?

"Our phones don't hunt, so if the 8-number is busy, call the 9-number."

Earlier Foley Field - Two Diamonds.

Also showing the Morris Canal Highway.

The "Fuze" for Special Ordnance

(Ninety-Eight Years Ago Tomorrow)

International Arms and Fuze Company, Inc.

Makers of Special Ordnance

Bloomfield Avenue

Bloomfield, NJ

Their lunchroom is here.

Maps at the HSOB website

The Historical Society of Bloomfield now has maps of Bloomfield online.

1906

Check them out. Find your street (if it existed)

Brookside Before Channelling

Spilled it's banks often?

WPA Project - 1930's

Former Grandeur

Looking east atop of 2 Broad Street

Note: Always click on pictures to see the grand view.

The Oakes Aerial Area

Sometime prior to 1943 when David Oakes' house was torn down. See below

HSOB/R. Rockwell

Bikes and Books

Photo by Dorothy Johnson - 1967

The Salad Bowl!

1967 

Bloomfield's George Schwacha

See it real, at the HSOB Museum

Also see other G. Schwacha reference here: 

Beautiful Brookside Park

Works Progress Administration

1939

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While we're on '41...

With Blackface.

The truck does all the work...

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