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http://xrl.us/JohnsonHallHackHosp


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http://xrl.us/1837USPostmasterDocument


Seller's description:

Up for auction is a vintage Post Office historical document related to New Jersey postal history, more specifically to Hackensack Post Office, located in Bergen county, New Jersey.  It is an original document sent from the Post Office Department and Amos Kendall Postmaster General, dated January 1837.  Apparently, these were sent out to various local post offices throughout the country, requesting topographical data of the particular local office.  A fire had destroyed all of such records at the main Post Office Department in Washington DC, and the information was being requested of local post offices so that they could recreate the topographical records.  The request states in typeface:

"Sir:  To determine with as much accuracy as possible the relative positions of the several Post Offices in the United States, so that they may be correctly delineated on the maps of the Department, you are requested to fill up the spaces and answer the questions below, and return the same to this Department, care of H.A. Burr.  The recent fire having destroyed all of the information before obtained on this subject, renders your immediate attention to it necessary.  I am, sir, Very respectfully, Amos Kendall, Postmaster General."

Below, this request, are the handwritten responses of the local postmaster, D.D. Demarest.  The responses identify the name, township, county and state, names of the nearest Post Offices and their distances from the subject office along the mail route, and the name of any nearby river, creek or brook and the side of if that the office lies on.  It is then signed by the local postmaster, D.D. Demarest.

There is an interesting passage written by Demarest toward the bottom, where it says:

"Hackensack is a village of about one thousand inhabitants.  The county house is located in Hackensack.  The inhabitants would like to have a ______ main if it should meet your apbrobation".

See the other photo which shows the rear side of document with the handwritten return address,"Hackensack Bergen Co. N.J.".

This document is in excellent condition considering that it is over 170 years old.  It has some bits missing at certain spots around the perimeter, but is otherwise intact, and the ink is very dark and legible.  The document, however, is clearly fragile.

You can also seen the watermark of the paper manufacturer, Amies Philadelphia, through the paper, but I could not get it to show up in the pictures.  Sorry about that.

A fantastic piece of New Jersey postal history!



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http://xrl.us/FuelSvcInc


Seller claims it's from the 1930s.



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http://xrl.us/1929BCBankBill


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http://xrl.us/Hack3DollarBill


Seller's description:

From The Washington Banking Co. in Hackensack, NJ is this good looking $3 note with the portrait of George Washington on the left and on the upper right a vignette of what looks to be a man fighting with a lion. There is a slight stain about the size of a dime on the front but otherwise in really nice condition.



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http://xrl.us/LyricTheatreHack


Seller's description:

This is a lot of two different 14” long by 6 3/4” wide hand fans from the family attic that were apparently distributed to patrons of the Lyric Theatre in Hackensack, NJ sometime post 1900 to the 1930s or 1940s. There is a titled picture printed on light cardboard that is stapled to an approx 11” long piece of light, thin wood. One scene is of a sailing ship passing a steamship at sea and it is titled “457-Old And New”. The second has a scene showing a country road during the summertime but the corner where the title is printed is torn and all that can be seen is the “mmer”, probably from Summer. Both have the notation “The American Art Works, Inc – Coshoton, Ohio” on the lower right corner and a reverse that reads “A Breezy Compliment From The Lyric Theatre – Hackensack, N. J.” and ads for the North Jersey Title Insurance Co and The Hackensack Trust Co. Both have light water stains on the back and the one on the back of the summer scene shows through on the right front while the other does not extend through to the picture side. I'd call the torn one VG and the sea scene EX.


A little research would have told the seller that The Lyric only existed from 1913 to probably 1930.



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I thought the parade would take the same route as last year when it ended after passing a reviewing stand on State St by Passaic St, which I can see from my apartment.

When I got up today, I looked for the stand, but it was too foggy to see anything. By 10am, there was still no reviewing stand, so I went back to look at the ads: "Stepping off on Main St", it said.

Duh!

But from which end? I was hoping it was from my (northern) end, so I could take some cell shots and be back home in time for the Giants game. Hearing the music around noon told me I got my wish.

I started taking pictures from Ward and Main while walking toward the Sears parking lot, which was the staging area.


Picture 1: First shot of the day - smiling cops on horseback 

Picture 2: The poor girls who had to clean up behind the horses with a super pooper scooper 

Picture 3: Is that Bullwinkle with a new wardrobe?

Pictures 4-6: In the Sears parking lot

Picture 7: Cool old Maywood fire vehicle waiting on Clinton Pl near Holy Trinity Church

Picture 8: Parade in (southerly) motion

Picture 9: On the way back to my apartment (background), I came across this poor guy (making a call in the street), who had some car problems and had to pull off onto Ward St. An hour after I saw the end of the parade go by, I also saw his car being taken away. 

Picture 10: Reflections of a photographer 


I went home and had the pictures downloaded before kickoff, so everything worked out well.............and the Giants are kicking KC butt. 



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http://xrl.us/HackCoalRects


Seller's description:

11 Coal, Fuel, Oil, Coke receipts, Hackensack, New Jersey, with the old Hackensack phone number! 10 of these are dated 1948 and 1 is dated 1949. They were folded in half, possibly to fit inside of envelops 60 years ago! Otherwise, they are in perfect condition. If they paid before a certain date stamped on the invoices, they would receive a discount of $.50 per ton! These came out of the estate of Charles Splitdorf who I was told  was known in the car industry.



Charles apparently lived in Maywood.

I don't know why, but this is only a ONE day auction. It'll be done by the time you wake up Saturday morning.



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