MANALAPAN, NJ – Monmouth County in the Great Depression is an exhibit that will be on display at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan for the month of October.

 

The display is part of this year’s Archives and History Day, which will be held at the library headquarters on Oct. 10. Keynote speaker is Mark Wasserman, a professor at Rutgers University. Dr. Wasserman will speak about the Great Depression at 11:30 a.m. and registration is not required.

           

Sixty history-related organizations will have table exhibits. The Archives and History Day event also includes a showing of the video, “Jersey Homesteads – In the Architectural Vanguard” (2008), introduced by Ben Johnson, who wrote, produced, narrated and co-directed and co-edited it with Fletcher Grayson of Graymedia.  The video will be screened at 1:30 p.m.

           

Meanwhile, other topics covered will include the S.S. Morro Castle, Jersey Homesteads (renamed Roosevelt in 1945), and WPA projects, among others, with documents and photographs from the Monmouth County Archives, New Jersey State Archives, Newark Public Library, and other repositories.

 

The Jersey Homesteads portion of the exhibit includes photographs taken in the 1930s by Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein, accompanied by excerpts from oral histories on file at Rutgers University Special Collections with Roosevelt residents such as Bernarda Shahn and excerpts from Edwin Rosskam’s book on Roosevelt. 

 

In connection with the exhibit, at 1 p.m. on Oct. 7, photo-historian and Monmouth County Archivist Gary Saretzky will give a lecture on the late Edwin and Louise Rosskam, documentary photographers who lived in Roosevelt for many years. The lecture is free to attend but RSVP is requested to sreilly@co.monmouth.nj.us or 732-308-3771.

 

See the Archives and History Day program on the Archives’ Web site, http://www.visitmonmouth/archives for a complete schedule of events, including the presentation of the annual Jane Clayton Award to Dr. Garry Wheeler Stone of Monmouth Battlefield State Park. The website also has travel directions.

 

 

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