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Special Collections in the History of Medicine
http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/speccoll/special_collections.html

The University Libraries' Department of Special Collections contains History of Medicine collections, University Archives, and primary source materials. Special Collections, serving the entire UMDNJ community, is located at the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences on the Newark Campus. Collections focus on U.S. medical history, with special emphasis on the history of the health sciences in New Jersey.

Seton Hall University Libraries
http://library.shu.edu/sc-homepage.htm

The Special Collections Center holds a diverse group of archival materials. Collections include the archives of the University; the collection of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and manuscript collections of several prominent persons in New Jersey history. Several unique book collections are held in the center including the Rare Book Collection; the MacManus Irish History and Literature Collection and the Gerald Murphy Civil War Collection.

The Women's Project of New Jersey, Rutgers University
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/WPNJ.htm

The Women's Project of New Jersey, Inc. (WPNJ) is a nonprofit organization formed in 1984 by a group of scholars, librarians, teachers and community activists to retrieve and disseminate New Jersey women's history. It was incorporated in 1985 in the State of New Jersey and is governed by a board of trustees. Its research and organizational papers are held by Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University.

The Library of New Jersey Historical Society
http://www.jerseyhistory.org/librarymain.html

The Library of the New Jersey Historical Society has collected genealogical material related to the State of New Jersey since the founding of the Society in 1845, and is widely recognized as a valuable resource for genealogists and family historians. The Library has a strong collection of New Jersey local history and family history, as well as vertical files, periodicals, genealogical charts, city directories, Census records, manuscript collections, and other special sources. A description of these holdings is provided below.

The Continental Army, Bibliography for State of New Jersey
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/revbib/nj.htm

This is listing of resources collected through the Historical Records Branch of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/spcol.htm

Among the varied holdings of Special Collections and University Archives are the official records of the University, numerous original letters and documents by noted Americans and foreigners, early New Jersey town records, original manuscripts, diaries from 1746 to 1986, books printed before 1500, seventeenth-century tracts promoting settlements in New Jersey and elsewhere, first and signed editions of many famous literary works, historical maps and newspapers, early prints and photographs, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century almanacs, and museum objects. These collections are described more fully below.

The Thomas A. Edison Papers
http://edison.rutgers.edu/

The original goal of the project was to organize and publish a select edition of the papers of Thomas Alva Edison in two forms-a six-part microfilm publication and a book edition of fifteen to twenty volumes. To date we have published 227 reels (four parts) of microfilm, comprising one-third of a million pages and covering Edison's life from 1847 to 1910; four volumes that detail the first 32 years of Edison's life; and a six-reel collection of film and equipment catalogs from the earliest years of motion pictures. For the present this site will make available a searchable document database linked to document images for Parts I-III (1847-1898) and some of the editorial materials from the image and text publications, with continual additions. In its final form the full digital edition will include the text of the print volumes.

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