Wednesday, June 5, 1918, broke crystal clear and cold in Newark, N.J., the early morning sun raking over this city of 414,000. The thermometer read 66 degrees at dawn.

It was a glorious morning for Carl and Helen Viard. The couple had married the previous afternoon in the dining room of...

Broad Street cut a long and meandering path through Newark in 1918, stretching from Mount Pleasant Cemetery, at the city’s northernmost end, to Mount Olivet Cemetery, at the city’s southern end, just yards from the Elizabeth city line.

In 1995, the street still shows hints of its former...

Wednesday, March 5, 1930, the four 595-foot-high steel lattice towers of the George Washington Bridge dominated every view from the south- and west-facing windows of the 15-story Harkness Pavilion at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Work on the bridge had begun in 1928, the year...

It is tempting to believe that winter in New Jersey begins soon after Thanksgiving and that, by January, one is immersed in the coldest season. But really, November and December are just as likely to be mild, especially among the rolling hills and lakes of north-central New Jersey. And in some...

By the time the Gotham Silk Hosiery Co. Inc. in Dover, N.J., told its 500 employees on March 17, 1932, that it was shutting down for at least three weeks due to a lack of business, such news was hardly news at all.

Thirty days into Lent, the Christian season of penitence and fasting,...