Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page 100 years old and still going - Murray, Helga and Lyle Roberts 186 1003 Putnam Avenue 88 100-Year -Old Building 184 1083 Hillside Avenue is an English Tudor cottage built in 1929 207 1100 Putnam 98 1100 Watchung Avenue 92 1106 Myrtle Avenue 86 1108 Putnam 98 1129 Prospect Avenue Residence of Helen Cook Nasmith 195 1148 Martine Avenue. Colonial Revival mixed - built around 1906 227 1203 Putnam 98 1214 Putnam 98 1220-1224 Watchung Avenue 85 127 East Ninth Street, the Manley House built circa 1870 226 1300 Prospect Avenue 92 1317 Putnam Avenue 93 1414 Watchung Avenue 93 144 East Seventh Street 89 16 Evergreen Avenue 215 1777 Eder Vermeule House - recent photo façade 20 1846 Randolph Building - A turn-of-the-century view of the 28 1869 - Plainfield 68

1886 Colonial Revival -- the largest single family residence in Plainfield 202 1942 four generation photograph 144 19th Century American painting to be the Drake Children 15 202 West Eighth Street 89 209 West Eighth Street 92 213-216 Putnam 98 216 West Eighth Street 89 316 West 6th Street 87 327 East Seventh Street 89 400 Franklin Place 88 404 West 7th Street 87 420 Stelle Avenue 92 423 West Eighth Street 91 435 West Eighth Street 235 439 East 6th Street 86 441-447 West 6th Street 88 452 West Eighth Street 90 500 Stelle Avenue 92 512 West Fifth 98 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page 520 Central Avenue 87 530 West Fifth 98 531 West Eighth Street 88 563 West Eighth Street 93 60 Netherwood Avenue 93 606-614 New Street 89 60th Annual Track and Field Meet 126 615 Central Avenue 85 645 West Seventh Street, 1926 Allison & Kerr Residence 216 653 Ravine Road 85 72 Netherwood Avenue 93 726 Kensington Avenue 85 778 Belvidere 98 789 Belvidere Avenue 90 792 Belvidere 98 810 Belvidere 98 810 Central Avenue 92 815 Field Avenue 189 827 Madison Avenue a Van Wyck Brooks Historic District house 202 828 Arlington Avenue 86 911 East 77th Street 85 920 Hillside Avenue 93 925 Woodland Avenue 91 930 Hillside Avenue 93 935 Central Avenue 86 935 Prospect Avenue 85 937 Hillside Avenue 86 940 Central Avenue 88 963 Hillside Avenue 90 970 Hillside Avenue 90 975 Hillside Avenue 90 980 Hillside Avenue 92 996 Hillside Avenue 93 999 Hillside Avenue - residence 95 A & P supermarket at 333-337 West Front Street 71 Abrams, Morris 140 Ackerman Memorial Garden 138 Ackerman, Ernest A., Representative 131 Ackerman, Ernest R. 99 Ackerman, J. 101 Ackerman, William 51 Acknowledging the cheers of the crowd in Melbourne 128 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Adam C. Blair's Metropolitan Livery & Boarding Stables 124 Adams, Alanzo 100 Adams, Alex, builder 68 Adams, Henry M, 60 Adams, Judi 115 Ads! 171 After Santa's visit 64 Ah, the days when snow was a joyous event 145 Al Munoz Remembered - Plainfield Today - April 23, 1987 102 Albanese, Licia 112 Albert Hall 201 Alfred Munoz, a modern-day genre painter 103 Alfred University 72 Alice Tully Hall 110, 111 All American Schoolboy Track Team 128 All American Swimming Team 128 All Souls Church 140 Allen, Joseph C. 71 Allie Maidens Jazz Syncopators prepare for a toe-tapping evening 106 Altantic Trust Co. 72 Aluminum Plate and Press Company, The 80 Amateur Championship 123 Amateur theatrical - cast, circa 1910 116 American Commission to Negotiate Peace 60 American Eagle iv American Foursquare on Watchung Avenue 191 American Indian artifacts 32 American Motor Car Co. 82 American Six 82 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 71 American Vacuum Cleaner 80 America's Industrial Revolution 44 Amphion Theater 117 Ancient Order of Hibernians 137 And during the hazy, lazy days of summer 124 And there was always the excitement of a derailment 77 Anderson - citation 66 Anderson, Doug 112 Anderson, J.C., Dr. 152 Anna Lucasta 153 Anna Webster and Nathan Vail 16 Announcement of one of Plainfield's first automobile shows 58 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Annual Children's Program, An 112 Anthony Roman Dylewski in front of Daleska Manor 221 Antique and Custom Car Show - Vintage entry 79 Applause 115 Architect Ebenezer Roberts selected lacy, Carpenter Gothic trim 94 Area Reference Center 99 Arioso Chamber Music Group, The 110 Armat School for Graphic Arts, The 100 Armstrong's Drug Store 80 Arne, Gerry & Johnann - circa 1870 French Mansard residence 189 Arnold, Benedict 148 Art Class session 101 Artist's rendering of the interior of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 135 Arts Council of New Jersey 112 Arts Musica Antigua, The 111 As It Was When 112 Ashburn, Caroll 117 Aspen School of Music 112 Aspinall, Barbara, Reverend, The 136 Astor Theater, The 117 At the Terry Well on Rahway Road Continentals and British 22 Atlantic City Casinos 120 Atlantic Safe Deposit Co. 72 Augenblick and Gruneisen 74 Augustine Herrmann and his horse. Credit-Cop by Harold Morse 7 Aunt Jean, Mother and Aunt Gus in 1880's tennis outfits 122 Auntie Mame 113 Australian singer Marjorie Lawrence 105 Auto Bus Company 55 Automobile Parade 57 Autumn in the Sierras 101 Avrum Ramie Raymond Haness - 1898-1986 212 Ayer and Pedrick 80 Ayers, William C. 67 Babcock, George 80 Babcock, George H. 49, 71, 137 Babcock, Harriet 49 Babock Building, corner of Front Street and Madaison Avenue 71 Babock, Mrs. 137 Babock's Factory 137 Bach 110 Backyard photo session, circa 1910 147 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Bagwell, John D., Rev. 43 Baha, Abul, Persian prophet 100 Bailey's or P.T. Barnuum's 45 Baker, Dr. 110 Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 108 Baldwin, Mr. 145 Baltimore Orioles 121 Bantle, John G. 73 Baptiste, T. James, Reverend, The 141 Barber & Howe's History 28 Barbershop Group and the Sweet Adelines 108 Barclay, John 8 Barkalew, Mr. 136 Barlow and Cook Schools 131 Barlow, Dewitt 108 Barlow, Michael L., The Reverend 139 Barnes, Catherine 153 Barnes, Mills 153 Barry, David, builder 68 Barrymoore, Ethel 117 Baseball Hall of Fame 121 Baton Rouge School System 112 Battle Hymn of the Republic, The 106 Battle of Bull Run 35 Bavier, Stuart, Mrs. 131 Beautiful Things - 1838 East Second Street - Scotch Plains, NJ 184 Beethoven 106 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 110 Beetles, The 105 Before Seventh Street and Putnam Avenue were paved 157 Bells of St. Mary, The 104 Belvidere 98 Belvidere Avenue & Charlotte Road - Corner 91 Ben Franklin Dairy Store 241 Benet, Steven Vincent 115 Benny, Jack 117 Bergquist, Joseph E., Reverend The 141 Berkeley Avenue home of Gary and Katherine Mann 215 Bernhardt, Sarah 117 Best wishes from the Turner Clan 223 Beth Tefilah Isho Yental 140 Bethel Chapel 134 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Bethel Church 104 Bethel Presbyterian Church 134, 152 Bethel Tefelas Yental 140 Bethel Young People, The 108 Bethlehem Bach Choirs 108 Bicket, Emeritus Willard 139 Bicycle Club team after winning its game with the Smokers 121 Bicycle shop of Frank L. C. Martin, Park Avenue in 1895 120 Bierley, Paul E. 146 Bierstadt, Albert 101 Big White Rats Carnival 117 Bihler, Charles 110 Bill Evans Trio, The 112 Bill Garrett 237 Bill Garrett, Bob Chanda, Mary Chanda, Emilia Carlson, Lila David, Maureen and Rosemary Haness 236 Bill, Rosemary and Christine Friedrich 234 Billiard parlor held as much fascination for Plainfield youth 128 Billups, Ray 105 Birdseye, Clarence 59 Bishop, Elizabeth 31 Black Bank Teller 152 Black History Month 100 Black Rock 105 Black, Joe 126 Blackburn, Kim 100 Blair, Adam C. 123 Blair, Jerry 35 Blair's 112 Bleeker, A. J. 67 Blendinger, Dorothy 107 Blendinger, Fred 107, 108 Bliss, C. John, Reverend 145 Blondyn Plains 143 Blondyn Plains purchase 7 Blue Army of our Lady of Fatima 138 Blue Hills 18, 22, 25, 28, 33, 50, 60 Blue Hills Fort 19 Blue Hills neighborhood 7 Blue Ridge Mountains 59 Blume, Judy 102 Board of Education 72 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Board of Trade, The 75 Bob Chanda, Lila Davis 237 Bobacock and Wilcox 71 Bogelow, Arthur C., Professor 104 Bohems and Lederers, The - partners 140 Boice Estate Lumber 43 Boice Homestead in East Front Street 133 Boice, Anna 41 Boice, Helen R., Miss 131 Boice, Hollander Jacob 51 Boice, Rachel, Mrs. 41 Boice-Runyon Coal Company 41 Boise, Howard W., Inc. 44 Boise's Stationary 117 Bosch Magneto Co. 83 Bosch Magneto Co. - citation 80 Bostelmann, Louis 108 Bourke-White, Margaret 101 Boyce, Richy 105 Boyd Family - Charlie, Debbie, Chucky, and Chauncey 230 Boyd's Plainfield Directory 51 Boynton Beach 55 Boys at the Bank, circa 1893 150 Bradeis Creative Arts Citation 108 Brahm's Requiem 110 Bramnick Family: Jon, Patricia, Brent, and Abigail 204 Brass Quintet 110 Brass Quintet 110 Brewer, Edward 111 Brewer, Virginia 111 Briant, John 136 Brick hat factory at the rear of French's Mill 16 Broadcast Music, Inc. 108 Broadnax, Anna 152 Brodie, Lynwood 105 39, 40, 101, 105, 115, 146, Brooks, Van Wyck 151 Brooks, Van Wyck - Pulitzer Prizewinner 38 Brotherhood of Carpenters, The 68 Brothers Wiggins and Best 136 Broughton, James 113 Brown, Arthur 111 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Brown, Flloyd 139 Brown, Marshall 154 Brown, Theodore S. 34 Brown, William - history of New Jersey 71 Brubeck, Dave 110 Bruce, Mary Evelyn 111 Bryan, William Jennings 50 Bryant School 131 Bucknell University 106 Buhot, Alden Bethel 75 Buhot, Johanna 75 Bull Run 38 Bungalow Is An Exact Replica of a Model In New York's Greatest 55 Bungalow of 1900-1930 93 Burnside, General 35 Burton, William E. 146 Bus, competition for the trolley line 62 Business Men's Association of Plainfield 74 Business Men's Association Shop : Plainfield 189 But folks continued to buy cars anyway 79 Butterfield, W. J. 117 Byrd Expedition 59 C. Frank and Dorothe A. Sheeley - June 28, 1924 197 Cadmus, Jasper G. 70 Caesar - Documentation of African born 14 Calkins, Leighton, Plainfield Mayor 57 Calvary Baptist Church 104, 139, 141, 152 Camp Kilmer 107 Campbell, Milt 100, 126, 154 Candee, Seth, Mrs. 113 Canoune, Annie Louise 48 Canter, Walter 111 Cape Cod 101 Carey, Andrew 152 Carey, Tinis J., Chief of Police 51 Carlson, John 100 Carlson, John F. 100 Carlson, Mildred 110 Carlton College 112 Carmel, Samuel 108 Carnegie Hall 108 Carnegie Recital Hall 112 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railroad 72 Carpenter Residence - 825 Field Avenue and Velvet 190 Carpenter, Gloria 152 Carpenter, Russel C. 152 Carpenters and Joiners Union 69 Carteret, George 7 Caruso 105 Case, Charles L. 73 Case, Howard 106, 110 Casino 116, 132 Cathie, Shirley 108 Cathie, Shirley, Dr. 133 Cayer, Elizabeth 132 Cedar Brook 15, 49, 84 Cedar Brook Farm 8, 11, 12, 25, 49, 50, 51 Cedar Brook Farm 11 Cedar Brook Parks 55 Cedar Creek Settlement 8 Cedarbrook Park 112, 125 Census figures for 1980, published in The Courier-News, June 23 58 Center Jersey Times 72 Central Baptist 134 Central Building and Loan Association 74 Central Jersey July Fourth Celebration, The 125 Central New Jersey 99 Central New Jersey Times, The 35, 43, 139 Central Railroad of New Jersey 65 Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) 65, 67, 148 Central Reformed Church 139 Century-Plainfield Tire Co. - citation 80 Cesar 30 Cesar 31 Chamber groups, choral, orchestral 112 Chamber of Commerce 71 Champion, Audrey 115 Chanda Family: Thorndike, Maryellen, Teddy, Crackers and Bob 198 Chapot & Sons 80 Charles Warner Wendell 205 West Ninth Street 227 Charles, Ric Chorale 110 Chase-Manhattan 31 Checking the score. Paul Runyon 128 Chevrolet Motor Co. 82 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Chevrolet, Gaston 82 Chevrolet, Louis 57, 82 Chevrolet, Martha 75 Chicago World's Fair 73 Children Are Our Future 174 Children's Corner Nursey School 139 Children's Room 99 China-San Francisco 48 Chinese porcelains and Cloisonne 99 Choir, pastor and choir director of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 135 Choral Society 143 Chorus of Nurses at Muhlenberg Hospital 108 Christmas Time 104 Church and Music 110 Church Of 1832 136 Church of Our Saviour 138 Church that Ebenezer L. Roberts designed on Crescent Avenue 135 Cioffis: Billy, Kristin, Brian and Beau 223 City Beautiful - Ad 80 City Council Jon Bramnick 174 City Hall iii City Hall - interior in Classical Revival style 56 City Hall (top center) - 1926 view of Plainfield 57 City Hotel - finally Queen City Hotel built in 1850 29 City National Bank (in Plainfield) 36, 72 City of Churches 134 City of Plainfield, N.J. Centennial 242 City, State and National Register Historic Places 161 Civil Rights and polictical problems 152 Civil Service Examination 152 Civil War - To the right 74 Civil War - Civic Growth 34 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, Civil War (The) 65, 84, 89, 100 Civil War veterans 49 Clang, clang, clang went this thoroughly modern trolley 62 Clara Louise Tea Shop 151 Clark, Harriet Mandane 71 Clark, Hobart, Reverend, The 140 Class picture, a happy tradition throughout our schooldays 130 Clawson Building 219 Clawson Farm 72 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Clayton 68, 73 Clayton's 1882 History of Union County 67 Clayton's History 70, 145 Cline, Edward 75 Clipper, H.S., Dr. 139 Closson, James L. 49 Closson, James, T. 72 Cobb, Ty 121 Cochran Jean Carter - citation 110 Cochran, Jean Carter 102 Cochran, Jean Carter 1944 - citation 136 Cock, William R. 53 Coe, Philemon E., 138 Cohan, George M. 117 Cole, Isaac 59 Coleman Residence on Forest Hill Road 225 Coles, Abraham Ackerman 101 Colgan, Harold V., Monsignor 137 Collier family and residence, 140 Sixth Street in 1891 238 Collier, Asa 121 Colonial crafts 32 Colonial Revival Style 161 Columbus Landing on San Salvadore i Combe, Yvonne 108 Command Performance 113 Common Council 41, 42 Common Council in the mayor's office - February 17, 1917 159 Community Cultural Center 34 Commuter's Day Festivities 57 Compliments of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Siccardi 195 Compliments of the E. Parham Wanzer residence 225 Composition by one-time resident Dolia Loran - charcoal drawing 101 Compton's Ice Cream Saloon 45 Cone family residence: 669 West Seventh Street 208 Cone, Cynthia 137 Congratulations Plainfield from the Esposito family on Prospect Ave. 207 Congregation Children of Israel 140 Congregation Ohavey Zadek 140 Congregational Church 73 Congregational Church ii Congregational Nursey School 139 Congregational parsonage on land donated by Jacob Kirkner 140 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Congressional Medal of Honor 38, 100 Conover, Loraine 110 Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange 72 Coods, Henry 108 Cook was originally known as the Netherwood School 131 Cook, Frederic W. 55, 131 Cook's Lumber Yard 76 Cooley,Grace Webster, Miss 132 Coon, Matthew 27 Coopersmith, Lee, Cantor 140 Coriell, Elisha 41 Coriell, William McDowell 50 Coriell's Ferry 41 Coriells, Huguenot 50 Cornell, Phil 115 Corner E. Front Street Plainfield iv Cornwell, George 108 Counihan., W. J. 116 Country Chairman, The 116

Courain, Alice and Beth - home in Plainfield. Corner of Fourth & Darrow 157 40, 41, 43, 57, 60, 72, 73, 80, 104, 106, 110, 112, 115, 117, Courier News (Courier-News, The) 121, 129, 131, 146, 148 Court of Errors and Appeals 83 Covert, Luke 50 Cozzoli, Frank 75 Crane and Tracy families resided at Cranehurst 229 Crane, Marjorie 108 Cranehurst Mews -- 721 Field Avenue 204 Crescent Area Neighborhood Association 160 Crescent Area Neighborhood Association (image) 160 Crescent Avenue Church 105, 108, 110, 112, 136 Crescent Avenue Historic District 100 Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church 68, 134 Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church- after the fire of 1931 135 Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, New Jersey ii, 165 Crescent Choir 110 Crescent Concerts 110 Crescent Historic District 160 Crescent Historic District 94, 160 Crescent Oval 120 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Crescent Wheelman, The 120 Crescents 121 Crockett family - David and Beth 215 Cultural and Heritage Commission - Allen Stuart - Chairman 168 Cunard Steamers 68 Cunningham, John 65 Custer's Exploits 69 Cutting ice on the pond in the depths of winter 48 Czar Nicholas of Russia 100 Daily Advertiser 43 Daily Press, The 43, 76, 121 Dame Durden's Cookbook 39 Dame Durden's Cookbook - ladies First Baptist Church 1n 1890 39 Dan Robert's Uncle Livery 75 Dancing round the Maypole a traditional rite of spring 115 Daniels, Bill 154 Daniels, Harry H. 75 Daniels, John W. 75 Dave, Regina and Katy Englert 189 David Frost Show 112 Davis, Miles 112 Day, Charles 82 Days Before the tube in Plainfield 102 de Frost, Lee 83 De Leeuw, Adele and Cateau - of Plainfield 102 de Medina, Cecelia, Mrs. 146 de Medina, Duke 146 De Revere, George B. 44 Death of General Sedgewick 100 Deerfield Academy 132 DeFreitas, C., Dr. 153 Delany, Olive, Miss 131 DeLeeuw, Adele 102 DeLeeuw, Cateau 102 Delmonico House 196 Dempsey, Jack 106 Department of Recreation 125 Department of Recreation - Plainfield's first 145 Desnoyers, Albert Henry 74 Detroit Tigers 121 Detwiller, Charles 99 Detwiller, Charles, Jr., AIA 137 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Detwiller, Frederic C. 31, 34 Di Giovanni domain 208 Dibbs, Lydia 49 Dictionary of Scientific Biography - citation 83 Dime Savings Institution in East Front Street 37 Dime Savings Institution, Inc. 37 Distinguished Alumni Award 112 Dixon's Ice Cream Parlor 45 Doane, Thaddeus - Fire Chief 61 Doane, Thaddeus O. 42, 121 Dobbin Ramble 156 Dockstader's Minstrels in the music hall 115 Doctors and nurses with feathered friend 54 Dodge, David L. 49 Doll's House 115 Donald Martino - band and orchestra 108 Donna Vose and Gregory Palermo, MD 218 Doorways to the Past - A Tercentennial Tour 156 Doreen and William Kruse 1009 Hilside Avenue, Plainfield, N.J. 209 DosPasos, John 115 Dotte Pollard 237 Dotte Pollard, Rosemary Haness, Marueen Merrow, Mary V. Griswold and Tom Ricketts 236 Dotte Pollard's Sheepwalk 819 Field Avenue circa 1880 197 Double Door 113 Double Dutch Tournment 125 Doughboy Schorb poses before leaving for France 145 Douglass College 111 DownBeat Readers 112 Downtown face of Plainfield eary in the 20th century 70 Dr. Endicott, northerly corner of Park Avenue - Home 157 Dr. John Carter Sutphen's home and medical office circa 1830-1850 41

Dr. Merton and Mary Vic Griswold at their residence 920 Woodland Ave. 223 Dracula 113 Dragonette, Jessica 117 Drake Business College 55 Drake House 21, 31, 32, 100, 137 Drake House iv Drake House - floorplan in various stages of development 33 Drake House 1746 Museum 163 Drake House as it looked circa 1800 when the Drakes lived here 30 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Drake House Museum - 602 West Front street 163 Drake House Museum, 1746 30, 32 Drake House, and how it grew 32 Drake Mill 31 Drake, Daniel 31, 33 Drake, Isaac - Drake House 11,12 Drake, Isaac 's Will Dated January 3, 1736 14 Drake, Isaac, Jr. 31 Drake, Isaac, Sr., Will 30 Drake, John 31 Drake, Nathaniel 14, 19 Drake, Nathaniel's Will 33 Drakes 34 Drama Tourament, The 113 Dramatic Guild of the Foothill Playhouse, The 113 Drawing of the Battle of the Short Hills 32 Drawing of The Eagle 66 Dreier, Garrett 140 Dreier, Harry 140 Druse, Ken 102 Ducret School of Fine and Industrial Arts 100 Dufford, George S. 41 Duke Ellington at post-concert reception at Neighborhood House 114 Dunavan, Carly C. 131 Dunn & Sons - 320 Park Avenue, Plainfield 167 Dunn, Elston M. 35 Dunn, Joel 34 Durant, Dorothy 110 Durrah, F.F., M.D. 152 Dutch Immigrant Adrian 33 E.M. Bird - He has none of the characteristics 81 Eagle, The 65 Early-mid 19th century homestead on the Hand family farm 51 East Front Street at the head of Park Avenue 69 East Front Street, near Park Avenue 73 Eddy, Henry 101 Edgewood 72 Edsall,s Emporium 71 Edward, Maze 116 Eliza Elvira Kenyon First Lady of Plainfield 103 Elizabeth Port 67 Elizabeth, The, Plainfield and Central Traction Company 148 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Elizabethtown 67 Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad 65 Elizabeth-Town Point 65 Elks' Annual Auto Parade 82 Elks' Club House 57 Elks' Week Merriment 57 Elkwood Hall 116 Ellington, Duke 105, 110 Elm Street Courts, The 122 Emelia and Isaac S. Manjoe 222 Emerson and Channing's Transcendentalism 101 Emperor of Austria 100 Empire Parlor 32 Endicott, Dr. 76 Enterprises of Plainfield Ltd. A Corporation 208 Erskin, John 108 Esther Harness - Movement, laughter and nostalgia 211 Estil, Mr. 38 Ethel Barrymore Theater 117 Eugenie, Empress 146 European campaigns 101 Evans, Bill 112 Evans, George, Mrs. 39 Evans, Harry 112 Evans, Monas 140 Evans, Rosemary 108 Evans, Violet 108 Even the Drpression failed to dampen Plainfields enthusiasm 127 Evening News, The 43, 45, 51 Evergreen Café 210 Evergreen School 112 Expirimental Theater Workshop 113 Exterior and interior views of Plainfields Quaker Meetinghouse 26 F.L.C. Martin - F.L.C. once delt in cycles 81 F.L.C. Martin Auto Company - 1911 advertisement 78 Fairchild School for Boys 26 Fairfax Courthouse 35 Fairleigh Dickerson University 110 Fantastics, The 115 Farson, Negley 101 Father of Free Public Schools in New Jersey, The 129 Faure 110 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Faylor, Freeman 125 Federal and Greek Revival style homes 84 Feltville, Dam 51 Fensterstock, Jennie 74 Fernstone 505 West Eighth Street built by Harman family in 1892 228 Fiddler On The Roof 113 Fields, Hazel 153 Fields, Lee 105 Fifth Army Band, The 112 Fimiani, Louis, F., Monsignor 138 Fiorello 115 Fire Department horses were trained to back into the carriages 42 Fire Engine Company No. 1 42 First Baptist Church iii First Baptist Church (AKA Shingle Church), The 39, 106, 134, 139 First Baptist Church of the Green Brook, circa 1818 134 First Calvary Baptist Church, The 141 First Christian Assembly 142 First Church of Christ Scientist 141 First Congregational Church 139 First International Organist Convention In Toronto, Canada 110 First Methodist Church 141 First Methodist Episcopal Church iii First National 37, 36 First Park Baptist Church 104, 111, 134 First Park Baptist Church - gracious interior 135 First Presbyterian Church ii First Presbyterian Church (of Plainfield) 134 First Presbyterian Church, The 101, 134 First Unitarian Society of Plainfield 139 First Unitarian Society of Plainfield 166 First United Medodist Church - yesterday and today. 136 First United Methodist Church 136 First United Methodist Church Sesquicentennial Program 1982 - citation 136 First-Park Baptist Church - beautiful spire of 134 Fish, Ferdinand 75 Fishing Derby 125 Fisk, Charles J. 72 Fitz Randolph House, circa 1717 12 Fitz-Hugh, Mr. 143 FitzRandolph's 112 Fitzsimmons, Bob 117 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Flanagan, Cecil 125 Fledgling business venture 151 Flitz, Dick 113, 115 Floersch, Peter 44 Flowering of New England, The 101 Flynn, John J. 59 Flynn, William 53 Fontenbleau School of Music 108 Force, Albert 43 Force, William 43 Force's Hotel 70 Ford, Henry 106, 123 Fort, Franklin J. 43 Fort, Leslie 43 Fort, R. Leslie 145 Foster Residence 190 Fountain, Gordon 59 Fourth National Bank 37 Fox, Viola 153 Franck, Caesar 110 Frank L. C. Martin Cycle Co., The 76 Freeman, Walter H. 121 French Huguenot Family 41 French School of Music, The 108 French, John H. 33 French, Phineas M. 33 French's City Mill of 1846 16 French's Mill 69 Freshman, The 117 Frick Building 80 Friends of the Library, The 99 Friends of the Plainfield Public Library 183 Frock-coated Republican 115 Frontenac Special 82 Frontispiece of the literary section of 1930 edition of Tempora 103 Front-Somerst-Park intersection - Below 74 Frucht, Zigmund 140 Fullerton, Robert 8, 57 Fusco Family, resideing on Berkeley Avenue 220 Gainfas, J. 74 Gallery at Quaker Station 144 North Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 180 Gallery, The 99, 100 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Gannett, Frank E. 43 Gannett, Lewis 115 Garden, Charlotte 110 Garden, Dr. 110 Gardner's Meat Stand 69 Garner House 225 Garrett Family Album 192 Gavett, Alexander 99 Gavit's glass and china shop 151 Gazelle Engine Company No. 1 42 General Sterling - House built at 829 First Place 38 General Sterling House, The 151 George A. Troy - Founder of Troy's Lock Co. 169 George D. Webster House, which stood at 429 West Second Street 157 George Ebert and Jim Morris and Hans' home 201 George Marriner Maull, Director, Plainfield Symphony 109 George O. Stevens Oil Company 145 George with Mr. Hand's horse Sindut 62 Georgia Peach 121 Georgian Classic Revival Colonial Mansion 233 Gesang-und-Turn-Verein 105 Gesner, Charles 115 Gethsemane Lutheran Church 140, 141 Gibson, D. S., Reverend, The 141 Gilbert and Johnson 104 Gilbert and Sullivan Symphonic and Operatic Music 112 Gilbert Farm 49 Gilbert, Alexander 49, 99 Gilbert, William 101 Gilded Age, The 84 Gilded Lady, The 117 Gilmore, Patrick 146 Gin Game 115 Gingerbread House 224 Gingerbread Journey 156 Gingles, Jinks 105 Girl on Boat i Gish, Dorothy 117 Gish, Lillian 117 Glass Menagerie, The 115 Glenn, Thomas Allen 148 Glenoaks 196 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Glick Brothers 74 Glick, William 74 Gloden Gloves 126 Gloekler Building on the northwest corner of Front 68 Goddard, Elsie 112 Goddard, Harriet 112 Goddard, Margaret, Miss 100 Godey's Lady Book 40 God's Book 104 Goins, Clen 105 Golden Bantam Corn 55 Golden Eagle 1833, and American Flamingo, 1838 i Goldman, Gerald A. 140 Goldman, Virginia 101 Goldstein, Harris 140 Goldstein, Sarah K. 113 Golf Digest Magazine 123 Gonzales, Edward 108 Good Friday Concert 110 Gordon, Barbara, Karen, Jennifer, Diane and Barb Fuller 191 Gordon, John Dr, 8 Gordon, Thomas 8,9,10 Grace Church 105, 138, 139 Grace Church Mission 138 Grace Church's Mumford Memorial Rectory 139 Grace Episcopal Church 53, 101, 104, 138 Grace Episcopal Church - an early view 138 Grace Episcopal Church - Sunday Class 138 Grace Evangel Church 142 Grace Methodist of North Plainfield 136 Grainger, Percy 108 Grammy Awards 112 Grand Old Man 68 Grant Avenue Community Center 112, 116, 117, 125 Grant Avenue Community Center 174 Grant Avenue Community Center - Musical Programs 110 Grant Avenue Presbyterian Church 134 Grant, Ulysses, S., General 148 Great Century (100 mile) Newark to Philadelphia race 76 Great Danes Starry Night and Delilah 196 Great Depression 57, 107 Great Ring of Canada, The 100 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Great Train Robbery, The 117 Grecian Bend 40 Greek Revival/Italianate residence, The 42 15, 25, 30, 45, 49, 84, 134, Green Brook 145 Green Brook Family School 26 Greene, Ralph 154 Griffith, D.W. 117 Griswold, Vicki 104, 112, 115 Grocery ad from the Plainfield Courier-News of June 6, 1901 75 Groszmann, Waldemar N. 32 Gruneisen, Henry 74 Guaranty Trust Company 37 Guide: Midsummer Night's Dream - citation 112 Guion Family 136 Gus Nasmith, Jr. 130 Gutman, Samuel 140 Guy Goins; Nancy Plum. Nancy's Frame Shoppe 182 H & H Hairdressers, Inc. 171 H. Douglas Davis, president of The Plainfield Trust Company 151 Hackenberg, Marine 106 Hackensack River 68 Hadley Airport 55 Hadley Airport - The early days of air travel 62 Haedrick, Ken 102 Haegman, Florence 110 Hall, David Prescott 102 Hall, Egerton E., Father 153 Hall, Florence Howe 101 Halloway, Harriet, Miss 112 Halsey, Melvin 153 Hampton, Walter 112 Hancock, John Wesley 136 Hand Bell Festival 110 Hand, David 50 Hand, Sam, builder 68 Hand, William, Captain 35 Handel 110 Handel's Messiah (concert) 111 Hang in there, Baby 62 Hannon, James 105 Hansen, James C. 74 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Happy Birthday 104 Harberger, John S. 31, 137 Hardison, Inge 153 Harmony Engine Company 42 Harned Academy 55 Harned, E. N. 55 Harper, Kathleen 110 Harper, Kay 110 Harper, Richard S. 110 Harriott, Vail and Co. 67 Harris, Arthur 59 Harris, Charles P., Dr. 141 Harry and Carole Jenkins - residence 207 Hart, Charles A. , Dr. 53 Hartridge School 112 Hartridge school bus, dubbed The Ladies Bus 133 Harvey, William, Dr. 110 Harvey, William, Reverend, The 136 Hatridge Board 132 Hatridge School 132 Hatridge, Emelyn Battersby, Miss 132 Hauge, Frank, Jr. 83 Hawthorne (Nathaniel) 38 Hayes, Helen 100 Hayes, Roland W. 108 Heathstone and Hedgrows 156 Hedden, Albert 151 Hedden, Frank 151 Heermann, Augustine 6, 148 Heideloff, Henry 34 Helen H. Miller Council Member 1982-1984 235 Helen, Mygatt and Noss, Edith 151 Helfenbeim, Ladiaus 108 Hemingway, Ernest 115 Henry M. Demarest, Sr. in his best bib and tucker 147 Henry, Dorothy 151 Henry, M. Maxson, Mrs. 131 Henry, Warren 151 Heritage Society 112 Hersey Hat Manufacturing Company 74 Hetfield, Levi 129 Hey, cabbie! Taxi service in the days before the city's motorized fleet 124 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Hickson, Pat 115 Higgins Home for Funerals 180 Higgins Jacob 68 Higgins, John, builder 68 High School, Whittier, Franklin, Washington, Bryant Lincoln, Irving) 130 High up in the tower - the carillon keyboard at Grace Church 105 Highlander Girl Pipers parading down front Street (Left) 114 Hillhaven, circa 1898 Raymond Haness - Esther Haness - Sal Guadagnino, Jr. Rosemary Haness with Hillside Avenue - the estate-like, single-family homes 161 Hillside Avenue Historic District 161 Hillside Avenue Historic District 95, 161 Hillside Avenue Historic District - Candlelight Tour 156 Hillside Avenue Historic District - Carlson Home 213 Hillside Avenue Historic District Association (image) 161 Hillside Cemetery 49, 100, 148 Hillside Tennis and Golf Club Inc. 123 Hillside Tennis Club, circa 1890 - Hippies of the 122 Hilltop - the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Alcorn 186 Hires, Charles E. 45 Hiss, Mary Rose 110 Historical Society, The 32 History of Plainfield - Reprinted from the Courier News, 1963 243 Hobson, C.G. 152 Hobson's Drug Store 152 Hoffman, Ray E. 44, 148 Hoffman, Red 123 Holt, Clyde 108 Homer, Winslow 99 Homes on the Central Railroad of New Jersey for New York Business Men 65 Homesteads 17 Hone Painting & Restoration 184 Honegger 110 Honeyman 75, 82 Honeyman, A. Van Doren 8 Hooker, Louis (Lou) 108, 110, 112 Hooker, Ralph Moreton 59, 143 Hooper, Arthur F. 131 Hope Chapel 134 Hope Common 122 Hopkins, Yvonne 112 Hopman, J. P. 80 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Hopple, William H. 82 Horesman's Association 123 Horne, Prentice C. 132 Horsewoman - 20th century 125 Howard and Louise Colodne - Home of 202 Howard, L. F. 73 Howard, William Gerald, Dr. 141 Howe, Julia Ward 101 Hubbard , Frank J. 137 Hubbard Junior High School 131 Hubbard School 110 Hubbard, J. F. 80 Hull, Benjamin - 1701 143 Human Labor - the immense value 14,15 Humperdink 106 Hunton, Gail 42 Hurley-Gardner Family 196 Hurry, Frances 132 Husted, Harold R. 134 Hyde Estate gatehouse still stands at what is now North Drive 72 Hyde Mansion on the side of first Watchung Mountain 72 Hyde, Charles 72, 110 Hyden 110 Illinois Central Railroad 49 Illinois Central Railroad 49 Imes, W. L., Rev. 108 Immoral 104 Impact of Westminister Choir College 108 In 1909 the Daily News published a little book of cartoons 81 In 1926, The Plainfield Trust Company (United National Bank) 36 In 1942, Mills Barnes gathered all the black graduates of Plainfield HS 153 In Excellsis Gloria 110 Indoor Gardening 102 Industrial Directory of New Jersy 80 Industry in the Queen City 82 Inman Avenue Campus 132 Inness, George 101 Institute of Radio Engineers 83 Insurance broker Roger F. Murray and architect A.L. C. Marsh 121 Intermedio 43 International Correspondence School 55 International Motor Company 80, 82 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Iroquois Hotel 44 Irvington-Newark area 31 Ivanowski, Sigismund 100 Ivins, Clinton F. 123 Ivins, DeWitt Clinton 123 J.D. Loizeaux Lumber Co. - Plainfield, N.J. 171 J.O.Y. (Journeys of Yesteryear) 189 J.P. Van Eps - shop of watch-maker 68 Jacob M. Stiger farmhouse (c 1869) 195 Jacobean architecture 91 Jaeger, Charlotte 108 Janes, Edmund S., Reverend 136 Janis and David Chaskin residing on Berkeley Avenue 216 Janke family - A young matron 146 January Thaw 113 Jazz Alive 112 Jazzmobile: Bill Taylor and Trio 112 Jeffers, Lance 153 Jeffrey Cartwright and Tracey Thayer, Michael and Peter Cartwright 202 Jehovah's Witnesses 142 Jenkins, Olin L., Dr. 42, 75-76 Jerome C. Harris Jr., City Administrator 159 Jesperson, Joanne 111 Jewish Community Center 113 Jim, Maureen, Kiersten, and Jimmy Merrow's 1930 Dutch Colonial 200 Jimmie Mc Donough the Fire Department's champion knitter 58 Job Male iv Job Male Library on the corner of Park Avenue 69 Job Male Public Library and Art Gallery 68 John A. Grady and Tess 232 John A. Stella family - John A., Aurelia, John C., Matthew and Krista 234 John Brown's Body 115 John F. Hartman and Steve M. Cardino residence 220 John H. Vincent Chapel 136 John Pepe golf 125 John Taylor Johnston Estate - Gate Lodge 66 John Taylor Johnston Estate - Gatehouse iii John Taylor Johnston Estate in East Front Street 66 John W. Murray (1834-1918), Captain New York Volunteers 148 Johnson and Gilbert 104 Johnson family home: Henry, Jan, Jill 194 Johnson, A. Frederick 143 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Johnson, Frederick A. 57 Johnston, John Taylor 65, 66, 67, 99 Johnston's Drive 66 Jones, Evan 67, 68 Jones', Evan Park House 44 Jones, Ifor 108 Jones, Joe 154 Jones, Joseph N., Dr. 152 Jordan, Stanley 112 Joseph and Mari Bonini 960 Cedarbrook Road 208 Joseph Bonds Pricster and Moses 221 Josten's - Joe Verniero P.O. Box 43053 Upper Montclair N.J. 07043 244 Judge James Verdon - home and barn on Somerst Street 137 Judkins Colonial Home 171 Julliard School of Music 108 July 4, 1914, parade in East Front Street 124 Junior League of Plainfield 50 Kadish, Louis 74 Kaminski, Henry T., Reverend 138 Kanona and Prattsburg Railroad 72 Keaton, Buster 117 Kelleher Residence on West Eight Street 217 Keller, Wee Willie William 121 Keller's Cleaning Shop, Inc. 75 Kempy 113 Kennedy, John F. - Memorial 111 Kenny Sanitary Manufacturing Co. 80 Kenny, David T. 80 Kensington Avenue gang 192 Kensington Hotel in North Avenue 45 Kensington Hotel, The 44 Kent, Faye Barnaby 110 Kenyon Gardens 55 Kenyon Players, The 112, 113 Kenyon, Eliza Elvira 44, 55 Kenyon, Eliza Elvira, Miss - First Lady of Plainfield 101 Kenyon's Machine Shop 80 Kestenbaum, Martin 113 keyboard of a piano 104 Kilbride, Percy 117 King, Charles 49 King, Fannie 41 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page King, King and Goldsack, Attorneys At Law 173 King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Adult Reading Room, Plainfield Public Library 99 King, William 131 Kingdom Hall 142 King's Daughters Day School 133 King's Daughters Day School - Before 1967 - 1967 - 1987 179 Kinney, W. B. 49 Kinsey, Jonathan - a hatter 33 Kirby, Adele H., Miss 37, 102 Kirk, William T. 78 Kirkner, Jacob 72, 139 Kitty, James and Daniel Lynch, residing on Belvidere Avenue 217 Kiwanis Club 125 Kliner, J. B. 145 Knickerbocker Holiday 117 Knight, Richard 125 Krajewski, Joseph 125 Kreins' Symphony Club 108 Kreins, Christian 108 Kreisler, Fritz 107 Krisberg, Norman 113 Kueter, Paul 111 Kunsman, Dr. 104 L.L. Manning & Son 35, 141, 145 Labor Day 120 Ladies' and an Apprentices' Library 99 Lady in Repose i Laing 80 Laing Farm 68 Laing, Allen B. 79 Laing, Benjamin 26 Laing, Edward 57 Laing, Jacob, G. farm 67 Laing, John 136 Laing, John W. 41 Laing's Hotel 69 Laing's Hotel - Built in 1828 24 Laing's Hotel and Thorn's Masion House 44 Lakawana and Leigh Valley Railroads 67 Lamb Studios of New York 138 Lambert, Hayes 154 Lampkin Farmhouse 13 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Landing of Columbus at San Salvador 101 Lane, Linita 117 Lane, Louis 75 Lannoly, Jacques 105 Lapsley, Howard G. - Historian 27, 49 Larabee, W. H. 51 Larson-Brown Invitational Track Meet, The 125 Last Week of Zingarra's Gypsy Camp 205 Park Avenue 242 Late19th Century, former H.C. Fuller House 220 Lathrop, F. S. 67 Lattimore, Everett C. 154 Laufer, Judith 115 Lawrence -Collins House (front view) 234 Lawrence-Collins Home (back view) 234 Le Fever, Charles 139 Leach, Benny 44 Leads and Supporting Players 65 League of Women Voters of Plainfield 222 Leal, John 132 Leal's School School for Boys, The 132 Learning for Life 134 Lee Mills, battle in Virginia 38 Lee, Robert E., General 148 LeFevre, Miss 112 Leffler, Blaine - Courier News Reporter 104 Legend of Sleepy Hollow 50 Leidy, George 121 Lenox, Levi 50 Levant, Oscar 108 Leviathan 80 Lewis, Henry 112 Liberty of Deed 83 Liberty Theater 117, 122, 128, 129

Liberty Theatre, the first air-conditioned movie house in Union County 118 Library and City Hall 100 Lie, Jonas 100, 140 Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal 237 Life Magazine 101 Lift Up Thine Eyes Unto The Hills 100 Lillianthal 140 Lily GreenLeaves Restaurant 181 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Lincoln Center 112 Lincoln, Abraham 67 Lincoln, Abraham - campaign 34 Lincoln, Abraham - President 35 Linn Boyd Benton, notherly corner of Park and Crescent - Home of 157 Lister, Henry K. 76 Little League 120 Little League Teams 125 Little Theater Trophy 153 Liverpool Chapel Organ 110 Livingstone, Mary 117 Liz Urquhart - First Ward Councilwoman 1987-1991 235 Lloyd, Harold 117 Lobby of Oxford Theatre featuring Mary Pickford in Suds 117 Local thespians on the boards 'round 1927 116 Located on the secon floor of City Hall the Assessor's Office 159 Located on Watchung Avenue Just north of Front Street 157 Lockwood, Charlotte Garden 110 Locomobile 79 Lohr, Bob 106 Lohr, Dorothy 106 Loizeauz, Joshua 108 Long, Marguerite 108 Looking east on Front Street toward Laing's Hotel 52 Looking Over the Cliff Winslow Homer i Loosli, Demetria 113 Louis Hooker, Director, New Jersey Schola Cantorum 109 Lovely, lively Gothic Revival 85 Lowry, Robert , D.D., Rev 134 Lowry, Robert, Dr. 106 Luddy, James, builder 68 Lybeck Residence on Belvidere Avenue 221 Lyndon, Johnson, President 35 Lyric Theater 117 M.P. Moller and Co. 110 Macabeaus, Jacob 111 MacDonald Diary 39 MacDonald, Mrs. 39 MacIntosh, Alexander Campbell 75 MacIntrye, George 78 Mack, Connie 121 Macy's 151 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Madame Butterfly 117 Madden, Jeanne 117 Mademoiselle Ynonne (seated) and Madame Michele Seguin 111 Madison House 29, 70 Madison Square Garden 121 Madison-Park site downtown Plainfield - pre-demolition view of the 59 Magnetic Telegraph Company 42 Mail carriers in front of the old Post Off 61 Maimone, Pat 111 Main House, Pinecone, Acorn and Mushroom - dormatories 132 Male Animal, The 113 Male, Job 67, 68, 99, 134, 140, 160 Male, Job - Bible 140 Male, Job - Mayor 51 Male, Joe 146 Maltby, Charles S. 59 Manhattan Bank 31 Manhattan School of Music 108, 112 Mann, George H. 129 Manning Granite Works 26 Manning, James, Dr. 51 Manning, John 26 Manning, Randolph 50 Manning, Samuel 24, 26 Manning-Steele Plantation- 18th century 197 Mansion House 75 Map of 1685 9 Map of Plainfield in 1832 - The oldest known 26-27 Map prepared by Captain Cornelius Vermeule in 1778 20 Marcia Bomanansky 237 Mario, Queena 108 Market and Fulton Bank 49 Markle, Ronald R. 137 Marr, David 123 Marsh, Elston M., Hon. 129 Martin Co., The 79 Martin Express & Van Company replaced horse-drawn livery service 76 Martin, Emma, Miss 75 Martin, F. L. C. 57 Martin, Frank 78 Martin, Frank L. C., Wheelman 76 Martin, Horace 125 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Martin, Kenneth 117 Martin, Louis 108 Martin, Mr. 76 Martine Family 104 Martine, Daniel 49, 50 Martine, Ella 49 Martine, James 8, 49 Martine, Senator James - Cartoon from Just for Fun 50 Martino, Donald 108 Marx, Fleix 140 Marx, Mrs. 140 Mary Ellen Chanda 237 Mary Ellen Chanda, Bob Chanda 237 Massett, Mrs. 146 Master Mundy, of later date, looking just a tad more comfortable 147 Mathewsen, June 113 Mathewson, F.S. Matty - Courier News 145 Maull, George Marriner 108 Maureen Merrow 237 Maxson, Dr. 130, 131 Maxson, Henry, Dr. 137 Maynard, Alice 152 McClelland, George B., General 50 McColgan, Brian 113 McCoy, Chink 125 McCracken, Leonard 82 McCutcheon, Charles, Mr. 143 McDaniel, Keith 101 McDonald, Jenkins Bertha 42 McDonalds - Entrepreneur Tom Washington 183 McDonough, James S., Father 137 McKenney, Dorothy 50 McKenzie School 132 McKinney, Tom 100 McQuillan's 950 Hillside Avenue 224 Me Nobody knows, The 113 Me y Pablo Maria Mijares, acrylic on canvas, 24", 1986 103 Meadowlands 120 Mechanics Baseball Club 121 Medford, Alice 153 Meeting House, Mills and Merchants 23 Melbourne Cricket Grounds 126 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Memorial Day 120 Memories of grandmother's kitchen 149 Memories of life's happiest moments 150 Men and Children Everywhere 110 Mendelsohn 106, 110 Mendelsohn Glee Club 108 Merchandise ad from the Plainfield Courier-News of June 6, 1901 75 Messiah Lutheran Church 141 Metropolitan Museum of Art 66 Metropolitan Open, The 123 Metropolitan Opera Company 108 Metropolitan Opera House 104, 112 Mets 121 Meyers, Joseph 75 Meyers, Nathan 75 Meyers, Samuel 75 Michael Wroble and Blondyn at the Fitz-Randolph Farmhouse 187 Michael Wroble and Whiskey and Sherry his 1925 Dutch Colonial 227 Midsummer Night's Eve 112 Midsummer Pageant 112 Mijares, Maria 100 Miller, Duer Alice 102 Miller, Thomas E. S., Reverend, The 134 Millous, Pierre 139

Mills Barnes, Elizabeth Morse, Cindy Cone and Catherine Barnes. Bill Hetfield, Dotte Pollard, Marilyn Carpenter, Harold Morse, Ned Taylor and Emilia Carlson 236 Milne, Alexander 83 Milt Campbell, world high hurdle recorder holder 128 Mintz, Mr. 140 Mirandi, Joseph J., Reverend, The 138 Miron's Furniture Store 44 Mirrage Proposal, A 113 Miss Adele Hope Kirby, Plainfield High School graduate 103 Miss Smith of the Plainfield Smiths 154 Misses Scribner and Newton's School for Young Ladies and Little Girls 132 Mitchell, Elizabeth 140 Mitchell, John W., Reverend, The 139 Mitchell, John, builder 68 Mobile Meals 134 Modern Machine and Tool Company 75 Modern Pioneer Award 82 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Moldenke's Castle ii Moment, Dr. 110 Monday Afternoon Club 48, 101, 112 Monday Afternoon Club Magazine 50 Monday Afternoon Club's Kenyon Players 113 Monroe Avenue Methodist Church 136 Montgomery Ward Catalogue, The 39 Moody, Lewis W., III 139 Mooney, Hilda 113 Moore, Brenda 111 Moorland Branch Y.M.C.A. 152 Morning Gayety 100 Morrision, William 43 Morrison, George W. 43 Morrison, Thomas 43 Morse, Beverly 111 Morse, Elizabeth 110 Moses, Tim 115 Motorcycle corps member 149 Mount Olive Baptist Church 43, 139, 152 Mount Olive Baptist Church - 116 year of service 164 Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church 141 Mozart 106, 110 Mozart Piano Concerto in D-Minor 111 Mr. & Mrs. Tucker Johnson's homes - April 25, 1895 and 1930 188 Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Greco - 1210 Denmark Road 235 Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Barnes - 123 East Ninth Street - Home of 200 Mr. Hand's horse and sulky at 207 East Seventh Street in May of 1889 62 Mr. K. L. Cook, from the files of Paul R. Collier 144 Mr. Leal's School for Boys, forerunner of Wardlaw Hartidge School 132 Mrs. Clark's birthday party, February, 1927 64 Mrs. Marguerite Traynor Collier She loved all creatures 238 Mt. Olive Baptist Church ii Mt. Saint Mary Academy 117 Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church 152 Muhlemberg Operating Room Staff, 1934 192 Muhlenberg Hospital 68, 110, 120, 138, 153 Muhlenberg Hospital iii Muhlenberg Hospital - Nurses Chorus 109 Muhlenberg Hospital - Role in the Community 53 Muhlenberg Hospital - Woman's Auxillary 101 Muhlenberg Place 123 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center, Inc. 53 Muhlenberg, William Augustus, Reverend, The 53, 138 Mullin, Tommy 121 Mumford Memorial Rectory 139 Mumford, T. J. 78 Municipal Courtroom 101 Munoz, Alfred 59, 100, 102 Munoz, Alfred M. - citation 57 Muppet Band 141 Murray, Mae 117 Music for Youth Program 110 Music -for-Youth Program 111 Musical Tour of Historic Homes 156 Musicians and singers in concert 107 Mutnick, Joseph 75 Mutnick, Joseph, Jr. 75 N.A.A.C.P. 152 N.E. Singleton Residence 200 N.J. A Mobile Art Gallery 100 N.J. Schola Cantorum 111 N.J. Schola Cantorum, Music Inc. 110 N.Y. Times obit - citation 66 Nancy Taylor School of Business 55 Nancy's Frame Shoppe 99, 100 Nat all baseball games were played on the diamond 122 Nathaniel Drake House, The 30 National Academy 100 National Academy of Design in N.Y. 100 National Association of Letter Carriers 177 National Association of Manufacturers 82 National Bank Act 36 National Council of State Garden Clubs 138 National Endowment for the Arts 108 National Institute of Arts and Letters 108 National Register of Historic Places 137 National Vita-phone Company 82 Naval Consulting Board 83 Ned Taylor: a cherubic youngster in 1915 150 Negley, James Scott 38 Negro Spiritual 110 Nehemiah, Renaldo, Skeets 126 Neher, Otto 79, 80 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Neighborhood House 110, 125 Neighbors 117 Netherwood 65 Netherwood Area 98 Netherwood Fire Station 42 Netherwood Heights 49 Netherwood Hotel (later Truell Hall) iv Netherwood Hotel (later Truell Hall) 45 Netherwood Hotel, The 44, 68, 72 Netherwood Reformed Church 141 Netherwood Section of Plainfield 50 Netherwood Union Chapel and School 138 Nevius Building 117 New Brunswick Traction Company 148 New England Conservatory of Music 108 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The 108 New Jersey Ballet Co. 110 New Jersey Blues 35 New Jersey Brigade 35 New Jersey Council on the Arts 108 New Jersey Garden State Opera Company 112 New Jersey Legislature 28 New Jersey Motor Carriage Co. 79 New Jersey Railroad and Transport Co. 68 New Jersey Schola Cantorum 110 New Jersey Schola Cantorum concert at Crescent Avenue 113 New Jersey Schola Cantorum, Inc. 171 New Jersey State Council on the Arts 108 New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding 113 New Jersey State Letter Carrier's Association 35, 39 New Jersey Theater Forum, The 115 New Jersey Youth Symphony 108 New Jersey's Patriotic Spirit 35 New Orleans and Northwestern Railway 72 New Providence Circuit 136 New York & New Jersey Telephone Company 42 New York Automobile Show 82 New York Clientele 67 New York Gazett - September 25, 1769 17 New York Herald Tribune 67 New York Industrialists 104 New York Markets 67 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page New York Philharmonic 104, 108 New York Stock Exchange 72 New York Times, The 112 New York University School of Law 75 New Yorker Joseph Webster Sandford met Plainfield's Minni Murray i Newark News 80, 123 Newcorn, William 140 Newman's Grocery store 151 Next to food, fashion ruled Victorian lady's life 40 Nicholas, Donald, Sr., Reverend The 139 Nickleodeon Theater 116 Night Scene in Taxco, Mexico i NJ Library Development Plan 99 No Virginia 117 Nocera, Grace 108 Nocera, Rosine 108 Non-domenational Bible Truth Hall 139 Norman Wolf Jr., residing at 714 Dixie Lane 214 Norment, Elizabeth 153 North Avenue from Watchung Avenue in 1895 77 North Avenue Historic Area 156 North Avenue Historic District 96 North Avenue in its commercial heyday 73 North Carolina, Expedition 35 Northwest Mounties 123 Noss, Edith and Mygatt, Helen 151 Nostalgic Americans looked back to their roots inspiration 92 Now is the time to take pictures for next year. All-year-round 238 Now the site of Grace Church's Ackerman Memorial Garden 157 Now, The 104 Number Belonging 130 Nursey/Day School, The 133 O"Brien, Pat 117 Of Pride and Plainfield 57 Off to the war. Recruits walking down Front Street 58 Oh, a hundred years is a very long time 110 Oh, how we danced to the mellow of music of the Big Band era. 113 Oh, those wonderful Plainfield homes 63 Ok Billy 112 O'Keefe, Paul 113 Old Fair Grounds and Race Track on Park Avenue 124 Old Hope Chapel, The 122 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Old Neighborhood House Chorus, The 108 Old Pearl White Serials, The 117 Old St. Mary's School formerly Washington School 138 Old Stillman Music Hall 117 Old View Of Cedar Brook Farm with single dormer in 1717 wing 11 Old York Road 16, 25, 42 Oldring, Rube 121 Oldsmobile 79 Oliver 113 Oliver and Carrie Brown residing at 1326 Evergreen Avenue 187 On state in Plainfield 117 On the site of today's City Federal Savings & Loan Association 62 Once more, with gusto! 111 One for Helen 112 One of Plainfield's Painted Ladies 49 One of the early boards of directors of First National Bank 35 Oom-pah, oom-pah, oom-pah! 109 Oops! The horseless carriage replaced the horse 78 Oops, again! 78 Operation Lamplight 132 Ora and Emily Coates with firstborn Andrew Pearce Coates in 1908 148 Oratorio Choir 110 Orff's Carmena Burana 110 O'Rourke, Jeremiah 137 Orthodox Judaism 140 Osman Brothers, The 105 Otterson House 132 Our 1920's home -- 1133 Prospect Avenue 194 Our 20th century eastbound railroad station 67 Our first hospital building in Muhlenberg Place 52 Our first hospital in Muhlenberg Place 53 Our Home - 738 Kensington Avenue 192 Our present staff, representing 162 years of locksmithing 169 Our Public Works Department out in force 61 Out for a morning run in 19th century Plainfield 62 Out of the country 104 Outlined Area - Recommended Historic District 98 Owners Michael F. Shugrue and Carl Barth with their Akita 206 P.C.S. rehearsal for soloists Bob Weidman, tenor 113 P.M. Demarest's sidewalk grocery display in Front Street 70 Pacard, Les Fils De Georges 105 Paderewski - pianist 100 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Painting of The Gardner Museum Music Room 102 Palisades 117 Palmer, Christina 110 Panama Canal 100 pantry for Star-Fish, a Catholic, Jewish and Protestant emergency relief 137 Paoli, Robert 104, 108, 110, 111 Paramount (former Plainfield Theater) 117 Paramount Theatre - grand opening 119 Paramount Theatre curtain, circa 1928, a great way to advertise 118 Parcifal 110 Parent Teachers Association 131 Parish Players 168 Parish Players , The (oldest community theater in New Jersey) 113, 115, 140 Parish Players production of 1983 140 Park Avenue Baptist Church 104, 134 Park Avenue Baptist Church ii Park Avenue Baptist Church (of Plainfield) 134 Park Hotel ii Park Hotel Annex 116, 132 Park Hotel, The 44 Park House, The 68, 140 Park Terrace residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Willard 194 Park-Madison project 57 Party favors for everyone, back in the 1930's 64 Passion for Bread, A. 102 Past Rediscovered, The 84 Path through the Wood, A 101 Patterns vie with one another to decorate the Victorian Queen Anne 88 Paul J. Okeeffe family residence 195 Paul R. Collier Photographic Expert 238 Paul Revere Collier (1886-1951) 238 Pauper People 129 Peabody Award 112 Pedrick and Ayer 80 Peffer, Ernest M. 131 Penrose, Frank 151 Penrose, Ruth Hedden 151 Peoli's, John - "Peanut John" stand 35, 37 Pepe, John 125 Perhaps from an ornately encased radio in such a livingroom as this 119 Perkins, Max 38 Perkins, Maxwell 115 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Perkins, Mrs. 38 Perlmutter, M. 74 Perrine, Harry 49, 148 Perry, Anna 49 Perry, Archie 49 Perry, Dolly 49 Perry, John 49 Perry, Martha 49 Perry, William 49 Persinger, Louis 108 Person, Nelly 74 Personal Recollections 143 Peruti, Carl Della - Solid Brass 108 Peter Garby & Company - Mercantile firm 6 Peterson, Claus 55 Peterson, Nancy 111 Peterson's Farm 55 Petrovec House 937 Oakwood Place Plainfield, N.J. 07060 231 Pfiffer, Helene 108 Philadelphia Museum of Art 101 Philco sold by Simcoe & Sommer 241 Philip Swain, Practical Guilder 99 Phillips, Dixon C. 132 Phillips, Percy 125 Phlinfield Symphony Society 106 Pickford, Mary 117 Picnic (Detail) iv Picture Frame, Mirror and Art Store 99 Pidgway, David M. 53 Pilgrim Covenant Church 141 Pinch Gut 143 Pingry School 132 Pioneers of the 1920's - our Visiting Nurse Association 133 Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church 137 Pittis Estate Commercial Property Management 177 Pittis Family 120 Pittis House 145 Pittis, A. P. 51 Pittis, Albert D. 143 Pittis, Albert, Dr. 104 Pittis, Bertram H. 104 Pittis, Walter F. 104 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Piwowar family on Myrtle Avenue - Greetings from 208 Plaindfield's Visiting Nurse Association 133 Plainfield - History of officially begins 8 Plainfield 1874 46-47 Plainfield Arts Council 113 Plainfield Bank, The 36 Plainfield Bicycle Club - the wives of the members 121 Plainfield Board of Education 71 Plainfield Business College, The 55 Plainfield Choral Society 110, 111 Plainfield Choral Society 111 Plainfield Choral Society in the old P.H.S. 118 Plainfield Classical Institute, The 26 Plainfield Classical Seminary 26 Plainfield Color Stars 125 Plainfield Colored Stars in 1930 - players 126 Plainfield Community Church 141 Plainfield Community Church on a sunny day - membership, 1985 141 Plainfield Concert Society 107 Plainfield Country Club 122 Plainfield Country Club circa 1895 123 Plainfield Country Club in the Roaring Twenties 123 Plainfield Country Day School 132 Plainfield Courier, The 43, 44 Plainfield Courier-News 123 Plainfield Courier-News -cartoon, June 6. 1901 64 Plainfield Crescents Baseball Club 121 Plainfield Cultural and Heritage Commission 101, 112, 113 Plainfield Cycling Culb 120 Plainfield Daily Press, The 40, 59, 68, 120 Plainfield Dog Frisbee Contest 125 Plainfield Driving Association 123 Plainfield Driving Park 123 Plainfield Electric company, The 76 Plainfield Electrical Supply Co. 108 North Avenue 241 Plainfield Fire Company 42 Plainfield Foundation 108 Plainfield Herald 28 Plainfield High auditorium - Full house 130 Plainfield High School 110, 120, 128 Plainfield High School iii Plainfield High School Auditorium 107, 108 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Plainfield High School Football Team - 1916 County Champs 126 Plainfield Historical Scrapbook 115 Plainfield Historical Society 137 Plainfield in 1869 68 Plainfield Iron and Brass Foundry, The 80 Plainfield Lady Cyclists 120 Plainfield Latin School, The 55 Plainfield Library 72, 110 Plainfield Library iv Plainfield Library - Interior 100 Plainfield Lodge 885, B P O Elks 116 Plainfield Music Club 104 Plainfield Musical Club, The 111, 112 Plainfield National Bank 37 Plainfield Negro History Club, The 152, 153 Plainfield News, The 43 Plainfield Players 117 Plainfield Public Library, The 72, 99, 104, 110 Plainfield R.R. Station (eastbound) iii Plainfield Recreation Commission 153 Plainfield Republican, The 43 Plainfield Rip VanWinkle 110 Plainfield Rotary Club 125 Plainfield Savings Bank 37 Plainfield School Cardinals, The 125 Plainfield School Society 26 Plainfield Seminary 45, 101 Plainfield Sign Company 74 Plainfield Star, The 43 Plainfield Street Railway Company 77 Plainfield Symphony 106, 107, 110, 112 Plainfield Symphony 168 Plainfield Symphony in concert at Crescent Avenue Presbyterian 107 Plainfield Symphony Society, Inc. 107, 108 Plainfield Theater 116 Plainfield Theatre iv Plainfield Times, The 69 Plainfield Times, The (Robinovitz, David) 43 Plainfield Today 57, 104 Plainfield Today (Johnson, Henry C. & Johnson, Jan M 43 Plainfield Trolley Company 148 Plainfield Trust Company, The 36, 37, 41, 60 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Plainfield Union 28 Plainfield Union & General Advertiser 28 Plainfield YMCA ii Plainfield Youth Baseball League 125 Plainfield YWCA ii Plainfielders love a parade - then and now 64 Plainfield-North Plainfield Historical Society 147 Plainfield's Jersey Oaks 125 Plainfield's champion basketball tean of 1928-29 127 Plainfield's downtown appearance before large display windows 241 Plainfield's finest with new motorcycles in front of city hall/parade 61 Plainfield's Grand Old Man 68 Plainfield's growing economy could support a second daily 43 Plainfield's handsome present-day library 100 Plainfield's World War I Home Guard snaps to attention 144 Platt, George 152 Platts' Place 224 Players, The 110 Playground Commission 125 Playwrights - A listing - Paul R. Collier 240 Plianfield Riding Club 123 Plum, Nancy 100 Police Chief Daniel Kiely 61 Polison, J. G. 74 Pollard, Dorothe - narative history 60 Pond Co. 80 Pond Machine Tool Co. 80, 152 Pond Tool 80 Pond, D.W., Mrs. 140 Pop Thorn's bicycle shop 151 Pope's Ochestra 106 Population Graph (page 58) 33 Porgy and Bess 112 Porter, FitzJohn, General 38 Portrait of Nathaniel Drake, Jr. 14 Potter Printing Press Works 73, 80 Potter, Charles 80 Potter, Mr. 71, 80 Poulenc 110 Pound, Theodore 145 Powell, John 111 Pratt Institute 82 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Pre-1920 buses of the Buburban Transit Company 76 Presbyterian Church 45 Presbyterian Hymnal 106 Preservation in the Making 155 Presley, Elvis 105 Princeton University 104 Private Lives 115 Probasco, J. B., Dr. 76 Probasco, Maria Boice 51 Proctor, F. F. 116 Proctor's (Oxford) Theater 117 Proctor's Theater 116 Professional Associates Realty 176 Propose Netherwood Historic District 166 Proposed Historic Districts 98 Proscenium Players, The 113 Prussing, Steve 108 Public Service Company 75 Pulitzer Prize for Literature 101 Putnam Avenue District 98 Quaker Friends 112 Quaker heritage 59 Quaker Meeting House 84, 112, 134 Quaker Meetinghouse 25 Quaker School 26 Quaker Village, A. 84 Quakers 30 Queen Anne Dining Room 32 Queen City 76 Queen City Hotel 44 Queen City Hotel 29 Queen City Wheelman 120 Quest Over 1060 Central Avenue 90 Quiet in the House 115 Quinn, Brendan H., Reverend, The 138 Raceway to French's Mill, looking from Tier's Pond 17 Rachmaninoff, Sergei 107 Raffo, Seno" - Italian consul 44 Railroad employees at Plainfield's westbound station 67 Railroad's Annual Report, The 66 Randolph Building 36 Randolph Farmhouse, The 1323 13 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Randolph, Caroline Fitz 132 Randolph, Edmund 148 Randolph, Edward Fitz 19, 23, 24 Randolph, Ephraim Fitz 51 Randolph, Fitz 27 Randolph, Jacob Fitz, Elder 134 Randolph, Louis Van Syckel Fitz 27, 72 Randolph, Louis, V. R. 49 Randolph-Cooley Collegiate Brochure 132 Raphael's Sistine Madonna 137 Raritan Creek known by the name Mankackkewachky 6 Rawson, Marion Nicholl 151 Rayburg household 227 Re:Person I know 112 Read, Mary Lee 108 Reade, Walter 117 Receding waters left Stewart's Wheelwright Shop stranded 52 Recreation Commission of Plainfield 108, 113, 115 Reed Theater Cup 113 Reed, Marcy 111 Reform Hall 141 Reid, James 154 Relations between Indians and European 7 Remember when the Pony Man came around in summer time 192 Remembered with Love: Letters to My Sister 102 Renovation of old Plainfield houses 48 Repp, Clinton Burgess 82 Reproduction of original and current city seals 41 Residence of Carey Coale family- photo circa 1913 226 Residence of Dona C. Bass, Esq. and James R. Perry 206 Residence of Dr. George Lane 203 Residence of Joseph and Christine Casaleiz 205 Residence of Linda and Brann Northcutt, circa 1910 193 Residence of Phineas M. French (1859-1901) 16 Residence, barn and milkhouse on the Peterson Farm 55 Residences of William and Elizabeth Hetfield 199 Resurrection 138 Retail Grocer's Protective Association 75 Rethberg, Elizabeth 107 Rettan, Dorithy (usually spelled Rutan) 30, 31 Rev. Joseph Stockbridge House in 1837 34 Revere House, The 44 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Revuelto, Manuel, Reverend, The 138 Reynolds House 214 Reynolds residence on Belvidere Avenue. 208 Ric Charles Chorus, The 108 Rice Family 116 Richard L. Taylor 159 Richardson Romanesque train station 96 Richmond and Allegheny Railroad 72 Richner, Thomas 111 Ricketts, Thomas E. 137 Ricketts, Thomas E. - Calendar Covering Over A Century 30 Ricord's history of Union County 72 Riedler Residence 1040 Hillside Avenue 227 Riley, Sibbie, Queen 49 River Mist 100 Roanoke Island, Battle 35 Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 53 Roberts, Ebenezer L. 134 Robinson, Alson H. 140 Rockwell, George W. 75 Rodgers, Clark 67 Rodgers, Michael 67 Rodgers, N. Pendelton 78 Rodgers, Nathan 67 Rodman, Mason, The Reverend 138 Rogers Family - Greetings From 185 Rogers, Marion R., Ray 126 Rogers, Woodrow , Woody 122 Romantic Victorians expressed their sentiments with lacey i Romantic, robust Italianate styling of the Civil war decades 87 Rorem 110 Rorem, Ned 111 Rosembaum's Department Store 74 Rosenbaum, Henry 74 Rosenbaum, Samuel 74, 136 Ross, Don 123 Rotary Club of Plainfield 126 Rothberg, Kalman 140 Rotogravure 61 Route of the Old York Road 17 Roy and Anna Marie Johansen - 1200 Denmark Road 197 Rubicam, Dom 115 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Runyon, Charles M. 75 Runyon, Frank W. 43 Runyon, General 35 Runyon, Harry Chase 143 Runyon, Mary 106 Runyon, Sarah 41 Rushmore Dynamo Works 82 Rushmore, Dynamo Company, The 80, 82 Rushmore, Isaac W. 82 Rushmore, Mr. 151 Russell, George 112 Russell, Lillian 117 Rutanm Dorithy 30, 31 Rutgers University 153 Rutgers University Choirs 110 Ruth, Babe 106 Rutland) Vermont Union Whig - citation 66 Ryshkewitch Family 215 Sabbath Recorder, The 43 Sabbath Ringers, The 137 Sabbath School 71 Sagerbund Hall 108 Saint Marks 152 Saint Mary's Commercial School 55 Saklatvala Estate 117 Salvation Army, The 141 Samber, Moshe, Rabbi 141 Samptown Baptist Cemetery 143 Samuels, Joe A. , Reverend, The 137 Sanborn, Marian 107 Sanctuary Choir, The 110 Sanderson, Harry 116 Sandford, William, Mrs. 131 Sanford Residence 190 Sara Jane and Kate Spaulding - 732 Dixie Lane - built in 1911 190 Sauer Motor Car Co. 80, 82 Saunders, James 152 Savings Bank of Central Jersey 37 Savory Suppers & Fashionable Feasts 39 Schanz Building - September 6, 1905 36 Schepflin, Bladwin and Tweedy & Co. clothing firm 70 Schepflin, Mr. 145 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Schloss, Emanuel 140 Schloss, Moses 140 Schloss, William 140 Schneider, Edward, Reverend, The 139 School days, school days, dear old Golden Rules days 130 School Junior: Jeffrey Millwater, Sophomore at Plainfield HS 113 School of Sacred Music 110 Schubert 110 Schwab, M. - the traveling optician and oculist 69 Schwed Brothers 140 Schwed, Charles 75 Schwed, Herman 140 Schwed, Ike 140 Scotch Place Dam on Surprise Lake 51 Scotch Plains Baptist Church 31 Scott Drug Ltd. 172 Scott Printing Works 73 Scott, Julian, Colonel 38, 49, 51, 100 Scott, Veronica 108 Scott, Walter 73 Scottish John 41 Scott's Patent Press 80 Scott's Press Works 80 Scrapbook Notes, Collins, Muriel 112 Seale, Linda 140 Second Baptist Church 134 Second Empire Style (1860-1880) 86 Second Presbyterian Church (SEE ALSO: Crescent Avenue Presbyterian) 34, 134 Second Street Youth Center 125 Sectional Group 4 Title 126 Seguin, Michele, Madame 108 Seidel, Alex 100 Self Portrait by Riva Helfond (1941) 100 Serebrier, Jose 108 Servants brought from Europe 14 Servel Easy 241 Sessions, Dale, R., Reverend, The 134 Seven Keys to Baldpate 113

Seventh Day Baptist Church 43, 71, 72, 104, 136, 137, 139 Seventh Day Baptist Church iii, 166 Severe Ice Storm, January l, 1948 192 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Shaded Outline Area - Recommended Historic District 98 Shadow of Darkness 139 Shadow of Darkness, The 138 Shakespare Gardens 112 Shakespeare 112 Shape of the Industry, The 80 Shattuck, Levi H. 65 Shepherd, Charles 68 Shepherd, Johnston and Goodwin, the firm of 68 Shiloh Baptist Church 141, 152 Ship in Construction i Shippen, Peggy 148 Shitehead, Charles 123 Siccardi, J. J. 117 Sickles, General 35 Silbert, fWalter 108 Silver Medal at the American Institution 71 Sim, Randolph, Capt. 27 Six Second Powell 125 Skating on the Green Brook near Tier's Pond 48 Slavery - Permanent 14, 34 Sleeper, Harriet 132 Smalley, Newton B. - North Plainfield Mayor 116 Smalley, William, North Plainfield Mayor 57 Smalley's Butcher shop 151 Smiley 74, 80 Smiley, F. T. 8, 143 Smiling for the camera, the 1912 graduating class of Plainfield HS 131 Sminck, Charles S., Councilman 59 Smith, Cornelius, builder 68 Smith, Joshua 152 Smith, Thomas 35 Smith's Lager Saloon 69 Snyder Brothers 113 Soldier's Plot 49 Somerset Street awash during the flood of 1889 52 Sometimes posing for pictures can be fun 147 Songbird of the Air 117 Sonmans, Peter 7,11 Sound of Music 113 Sousa Band 146 Sousa, John Phillip 146 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page South, E. W., Dr. 42 Southeast corner of Front Street and Park Avenue turn of the Century 37 Southeastern Louisiana University 112 Southwest façade of Grace Church 139 Spanish-language weekly 43 Speert, Arnold, Dr. 112 Spencer, Fred, Jr. 120 Spicer and Hubbard 80 Spicer Manufacturing Co. 80 Sport of Kings 123 Springtime for Henry 113 St Peter's Lutheran Church 141 St. Bernard's Parish - Priests, Staff, and People 166 St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church 138, 141 St. James Presbyterian Church 112 St. Marks Church 153 St. Mark's Episcopal Church 138 St. Mark's Temple Sholom 141 St. Mary's Area 98 St. Mary's Church 138 St. Mary's Church benefactor John Harberger 137 St. Mary's Commercial School 137 St. Mary's R.C. Church 165 St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church 31. 137 St. Mary's Stony Hill 137 St. Stanislaus 141 St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 138 St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 138 Standard Aero Co., The 82 Standing Alone i Standpipe Plainfield Water Supply Co. ii Star Ledger, The 104 Starched collars and old lace for a pre World War I performance 105 Starpointe Savings Bank 37 Starpointe Savings Bank 175 State and National Register of Historic Places 160 State Association 75 State School Fund for Pauper Children 129 State Trust Company, The 36, 37 Stedge-Fowler, Joyce, Reverend, The 134 Stedman, Clarence Edmund 49, 50 Stedman, Elizabeth - Quaker poetess 49 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Stella 153 Stelle Building 42 Stelle Farmhouse - Vintage photo 13 Stelle Farmhouse 1808-1855 13 Stelle, Benjamin 66 Stelle, R. M. 76 Stelle's Grove 45 Stender, Albert 44 Sterling Creations 182 Sterling, General 38 Sterling, William H. 38 Steuben Glass 100 Stevens, John P., Jr. 132 Stillman Gardens 117 Stillman Map of 1832 -Detail 74 Stillman Music Hall 116, 117, 146 Stillman Music Hall playbill featuring Effie Ellsler as Bessie 117 Stillman School 129, 131 Stillman School - Victorian exuberance of 131 Stillman School, the first public school in Plainfield 130 Stillman Theater 116 Stillman, Charles H. Dr. 67, 72, 129, 137, 143 Stillman, T. B. 67 Stillman, William M. 116 Stine, William 34 Stockbridge, Joseph A. 34 Stolz 106 Stone Residence 132 Stony Brook 112 Stony Brook iii Storey of the Bible 136 Stout, Chauncey 43 Strand 242 Strand Theater 117 Stravensky 110 Stuart Allen and Carol Terminelli with Max and Natashia 218 Stuphen, Dr. 41 Stuphen, John C. 42 Stuphen, John Carter, Dr. 41 Stuyvesant, Peter 6 Styne, Herbert A. 131 Suburban Symphony 110 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Summer Fury 113 Summer Olympic Games 126 Summer Residence of Richard and Elizabeth Kamis 210 Summer Resort To Wall Street Suburb 44 Suratt, Nellie, Mrs. 154 Susan Williams' Savory Suppers & Fashionable Feasts 29 Susan, Arthur and Adam Green - 7020 Sleepy Hollow Lane 190 Sutphen House 41, 42 Swain, Philip 99, 100, 145 Swain, Philip - Picture Frame, Mirror and Art Store 67 Swain, Walter 100 Swain, Walter, Jr. 100 Swain's Art Store 99, 100 Swains Art Store & Gallery 145 Swain's Gallery 99 Swain's New Jersey"s Oldest Art Gallery 181 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Gethsemane 141 Symphony Hall in Newark 110 Tallamy, Bertram F. 32 Talmadge House Burned 1969 714 Belvidere Avenue 88 Taub, Deborah 111 Taub, Harry 74 Taub, Robert 108 Tauzuko, Mayo 108 Taylor Made Piano- A Jazz History 112 Taylor, Charlie 125 Taylor, Dr. 112 Taylor, Edward W. 143 Taylor, Edward W., Reflections of Old Plainfield, 1976 - citation 45 Taylor, Gloria 159 Taylor, J. P. Welles 147 Taylor, Ned 125 Taylor, Richard L., Mayor 151, 159 Taylor, Richard Marcus 159 Taylor, Tina 115 Teale, Oscar 136, 137 Tehekolf, Anton 113 Telephone linemen at work after the storm 62 Temple Beth El (Conservative) 140, 141 Temple Players 113 Temple Sholom (Reformed) 140 Temple Sunday School 113 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Ten Little Indians 113 Tennis attire of the 1920's 122 Tepper Bros. 31 Complete Departments - A Safe Place to Shop 242 Tepper, Adolph 74 Tepper, Max 74 Terril Road Bible Chapel 139 Teubner, Johanna 105 Texaco 241 Thaddeus O. Doane 82 Thatcher, George 116 Thatcher, Theater 117 The Battle Hymn of the Republic 101 The Chestnuts Eliza Elvira Kenyon's Seminary for Young Ladies 103 The Choir Window at Seventh Day Baptist Church, donor's wife iii The Choristers 108 The Christmas Carol Lady 108 The Clark Rogers House circa 1870 217 The happiest of days at the turn of the century 64 The Mayors' Corner 170 The scope of of his work was boundless 238 The, The 104 Then, home to show everyone the wedding presents 64 Thirteen Stars On A Field of Blue 21 This home once stood behind the Park Hotel on Arlington Avenue 157 This is the way we went to school-and church, railroad station 125 This old house stood in West Front Street-King's Daughters Day School 25 Thomas Brokaw, Jr. President and Carol A. Brokaw, Vice President 208 Thomas Furniture Company 172 Thompson Printing Co. 171 Thorn, E.P. 70 Thorn, Jacob 29 Thorn's Masion House 44 Tier, John 49, 134 Tier, John, Sr. 45 Tier, Mrs. 45, 49 Tier's Dam 123 Tier's Pavillion 123 Tier's Pond 45, 48, 120, 151 Tier's Pond - ice cream pavilion 48 Tiffany, Louis Comfort 138 Tilden, Samuel J., estate 72 Tilden, William P., Reverend, The 140 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Tillotson, James, Mr. & Mrs. 108 Time to Wake Up 113 Times-Triubne, The 104 Today it's blue jeans, but this was the standard outfit for spring 147 Tom Ricketts, Dotte Pollard, Maureen Merrow, Mary V. Griswold and Michael Wroble 236 Tourel, Jeanie 112 Tracey, Susan 111 Treadwell, Louise 117 Treasures Lost or Altered 158 Trexler, Richard 143 Trickett, Homer, Reverend, The 134 Trinity Church iii Trinity Reformed Church 139, 141 Trinity Reformed Dutch Church 139 Troy's Lock Company 36 Truell Court 106 Truell Inn 44, 140 Tub in Plainfield 59 Tweed 99 Tweedy Girls 40 Tweedy sisters in the parlor of their home 40 Tweedy, Isabel, Miss 40 Tweedy, Miss 40 Tweedy, Mr. 145 Twenty-Six Churches that accelerated during the last thirty years 142 Tyler, Colonel 38 Tyler, Mason W. 73 Tylers, The 100 U.S. Army cavalryman poses for a World War I patriotic poster 144 U.S. Golf Association 123 U.S. Patent Office 73 Union Baptist Church 139 Union County - History of 8 Union County Bank 36 Union County Board of Freeholders 51 Union County College's Plainfield Center 133 Union County Cultural Hertiage Commission 113 Union Theological Seminary 110 Unitarian Church 68, 113, 115 Unitarian Church on Park Avenue 100 United Church of Christ Congregational 139 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page United National Bank 37, 41 United National Bank 178 United Nations Assembly 112 United Orthodox Synagogue 140 United Presbyterian Church 134 United secretary-general Trygve Lie 140 University of Medicine and Dentistry 53 University of the City of New York 66 Upton, Kathleen 105, 108, 110 Urban League, The 152 Vail Family 112 Vail, John 10, 45 Vail, Mrs. 35 Vail, Nathan 51 Vail, Wallace 35 Vail's Grove 45 Valley Players, The 113 Van Boskerck, Major 38 Van Ness, J. K. Count 78 Van Werckhoven grant 6 Van Wyck Brooks - Boyhood home circa 1893 186 Van Wyck Brooks Historic District 50, 74, 162 Van Wyck Brooks Historic District 97, 156 Van Wyck Brooks Historic District Association (image) 162 Van Wyck Brooks Historic District Presents 156 Van Wyck Broooks Historic District, largest and most diversified 162 VanBoskerk, Maude 108 Vanderbeck, A., Mr. 70 Vanderbeck, Ethelyn 75 Vanderbeek Building 37, 123 Vanderbeek Building, corner of Park and North Avenues 124 Vanderbeek, Andrew 123 Vaughn, Susan 111 Verdon, James, Judge and Mrs. 137 Vermeule Farmland 19 Vermeule, Cornelius Clarkson 19, 21, 22, 23 Vermeule, Frederick 26 Vermeule, Manning 25, 27, 33 Vermeule, Mary Emma 33 Victor E.D. King 215 Victorian Vernacular architecture repeats preceding designs 89 Vincent, John H., Dr.Hurlbut, Jesse L, Dr. 136 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Visble Heritage 156 Visscher, Nicholas. Movi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nee Non Partis 7 Vivaldi 110 Voice, The (Blackshear, Warren D.) 43 Voices of the Departed Soul 146 Voluntary Hospitals of America 53 Volunteer Symphony Orchestra, A. 107 Voorhees Popular Drug and Medicine Store - opposite Pond's Bakery 69 Wagner 106 Wall Street Suburb, A 132 Wall Street Suburb, The 84 Wallace House, now the C.W. Davis residence in the Hillside Ave 213 Waller, Monk 125 Walter Scott Press Works 80 Waltz for Debbie 112 Want A Happy Married Life?Domestic Science C. Classes A Good Start 131 War Between the States 49 Wardlaw baseball players sat for a portrait (but not a moment longer) 132 Wardlaw Country Day School 132 Wardlaw, Charles Digby 132 Wardner, Sara, Mrs. 131 Warren Chapel 134 Warren, Dale 151 Warwick River 38 Washington Bedroom and Eastlake library 32 Washington family - A studious young member 146 Washington Hall 116 Washington Rock 41 Washington School 55 Washington School 137 Washington, George 18, 19, 21, 41, 148 Washington's Headquarters in Plainfield 163 Watchung Avenue iii Watchung Avenue and East Sixth Street 157 Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church 134 Watchung Indian Ledgen 112 Watchung Mountain 59 Water Power of Green Brook 33 Watercolor (Detail) iv Watkins, Frank 125 Watson, Lawrence 152 Watumpka Falls 112 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Watumpka Indian 112 Wawdlaw-Hatridge Shool 132, 133 Way of the Transgressor, The 101 We attempted to enlist all of these 1930's Plainfielders 239 We Only Get Once Chance To Be The Best That We Can Be. 237 WEAM Radio Station 117 Webb, Kenneth 113 Webster Mill 15 Webster, Anna 51 Webster, William 45 Webster, Zachariah 27 Webster-Martine House, 1717 193 Webster's 112 Weldy, Robert 140 Wells, Dr. 38 Wells, Henry B. 140 Wera Broadcast, A. 111 WERA Radio Station 117 Wesley Methodist Church 136 West 7th Street Mansion Of Clarice Carlton, Holland, Now Demolished 86 West Eight Street - an early 20 century view of 60 West End Civic Association, The 31 West Fifth 98 West Front St. Plainfield ii West Front Street, looking east to the Park Avenue intersection 73 West Point 111 West Point Military Academy 100 Westebd Fire Dept-Pfd iv Westminster Choir College 110, 111 Westminster College 112 Wetumpka Falls iii What grace! What lace! 149 What Preservation Might Have Saved 157 What the well-dressed tennis player wore in Plainfield about 1880 122 When a baseball diamond was added to the Crescent Oval 121 White Cliffs of Dover, The 102 White, Alfred Presto 152 White, Catherine K. - Attorney at Law 172 White, Harr, K. 140 White, William 48 Whitelegg, R. O. 110 Whitford, Lucy 131 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page Whitney, May Vincent 143 Whittier School 131, 137 Who's Who In American Women 110 Wifey 102 Willard Storage Battery Service 75 William (Plainfield) 66 William G. Wigton home -- copy of the Longfollow House 216 William Patterson College 112 William, Vernal 152 Williams, Johnny 125 Williams, Susan 39 Williams, Susan, 1985 - citation 45 Williams, Wilmore 125 Williamson, Piatt 145 Wilson, James 129 Wilson, John 25, 26, 245 Wilson, Woodrow, President 44, 50, 106 Wimer, Wade, J. 131 Windham, Henry, Hotel Waldorf 44 Winding Line i Windows of Faith 139 Winter at Round-Out Valley or River Mists 101 Wirrer, Gottfried 82 Wolff, Kay 106 Wolff, Ralph 104, 106 Wolff, Ruth 104 Wolff, Thomas 115 Wollf, Eileen 104 Woman's Auxillary of Muhlenberg Hospital 101 Woman's Function in the Banking World 102 Wood shingles, stone, terra - fanciful combination of patterned 97 Wood, William Filmore 154 Woodbury's Bridge 35 wooden shingles across the surface of the house 90 Wooden's Grove 45 Workman pause and pose during construction of the City Hall dome 56 World Series 120 World War I 104 World War I - unidentified actors 144 World War II 101, 104, 108 World War II - wedding 141 World Wide Church, A. 102 Publication Title: Plainfield 300 Years 1684-1984, Historical Highlights Publication Date: 1987 Call Number: PR 974.936 P69 Image or Text Page World's Greatest Athlete 128 Wormley, R.C., Dr. 152 Worship and Music 110 Worth, T., the harness and saddlemaker 69 Wyckoff, Francis 35 Wynn, Deno 105 Y.M.C.A. 59 Y.M.H.A. 140 Y.W.C.A 115, 152 Yale 66 Yates and Porterfield 48 Yates, Joseph Washburn, Hon. 48 Yen, George 140 Yetman, Evelyn 153 Yokes, Emmitt 108 Yorkshireman Sam Pollard (1892-1972) 207 You Can't Take It With You 113 Young man's dream of an evening at the theatre 118 Young Mens Christian Association 59 Young Mens Hebrew Association 140 Young Paint and Varnish Co. 171 Young upper-and middle-class professionals 161 Young Womens Christian Association 152 Young Women's Christian Association 242 Young Women's Christian Association - 1907-1987 181 Youngster of an earlier day 148 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 115 Youthful musicians round the 1930's 106 Yvonne Hopkins, soprano, Metropolitan Opera House (Above) 114 YWCA'S Red Middies of 1929 142 Zephyr Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 42 Zephyr Hook and Ladder wagon 43 Zooey, Ellen, Hilary, and Pete Nalven, residing on Richmond Street 223