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Shotgun1334 viewsMobster's shotgun left in getaway car which was abandoned after Dutch Schultz and three of his pals had been ambushed in a Newark restaurant.

Photo by Fred Morgan/NY Daily NewsDec 16, 2017

Recreation of the Assassination Scene1558 viewsDetective Michael T. Beachem reenacts the scene in the Palace Chop House where gangster Dutch Schultz and three of his aides were shot to death.

Photo by Leonard Detrick/NY Daily NewsDec 16, 2017

Dutch Schultz & Max Silverman1786 viewsArthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer (left) and his Bondsman, Max Silverman, leaving court a Newark, New Jersey, October 17, where the notorious gangster is held in $50,000 bail in his fight to escape extradition to New York City for trial on charge of evading the income tax laws.

Photo from BettmannDec 16, 2017

Bernard Rosenkrantz2012 viewsBernard Rosenkrantz lies in operating room after he was shot down with gangster boss Dutch Schultz.

Photo by Windham/NY Daily NewsDec 16, 2017

Albert Stern1479 viewsAlbert Stern, petty, narcotic using gunman, suspected in the murder of Arthur Flegenheimer, shown on a slab in a Newark Morgue, only 24 hours after Schultz had a breathed his last. Stern was found strangled to death in his bed in a Newark, N.J. rooming house. He was 21 years old.

Photo from BettmannDec 15, 2017

In the Morgue1696 viewsBronx Beer Baron Bows Out. He beat many a rap, local, state, and Federal, but Arthur Flegenheimer, known as 'Dutch Schultz' big as he was, could not escape gangland justice. Here he is on a slab in the morgue of a Newark, New Jersey hospital.

Photo from BettmannDec 15, 2017

Newark City Hospital1652 viewsDutch Schultz being wheeled to the Newark City Hospital morgue. He died of wounds inflicted by two gunmen as he sat in a Newark, New Jersey, cafe.

Photo by George RinhartDec 15, 2017

Bernard Rosenkrantz1851 viewsVictim in Schultz Shooting in Hospital. Newark, N.J.: Bernard Rosenkrantz, alleged bodyguard of Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer, in City Hospital for treatment of wounds received when he was shot down by unknown gunmen with Schultz and Leo Franks, in the Palace Bar and Grill on East Park Street here tonight.

Photo from BettmannDec 15, 2017

Removal from the Morgue1506 viewsA keg of political dynamite is what police officials say the murder of 'Dutch' Schultz has uncovered. And while his bullet torn body lies on a slab and his enemies weep crocodile tears, police hunt his slayers. With a gaping bullet an inch wide in its side, the body of Arthur Flegenheimer, thus called 'Dutch' is removed from Newark morgue while the curious stand near, gaping at a fallen dictator.

Photo from BettmannDec 15, 2017

Assassination Scene1734 viewsLeft to right, Officer Mills and Police Chief Harris at scene of Dutch Schultz shooting in Palace Bar and Grill.

Photo from BettmannDec 15, 2017

Assassination Scene1836 viewsA Newark, New Jersey police officer examines a shattered mirror at the scene of the mob assassination of Arthur 'Dutch Schultz' Flegenheimer. Flegenheimer and three of his bodyguards, Otto Berman, Leo Frank, and Bernard Rosenkrantz, were fired upon by two unknown gunmen as they were dining at the steakhouse.Dec 15, 2017

Exterior of Bar1535 viewsPhoto from the NY Daily NewsDec 15, 2017

Bar Interior2169 viewsMachine gunners who mowed down Dutch Schultz and three aids in this Newark bierstube turned their weapons on the Bronx racketeer as he emerged from door at far end of bar where police are congregated.

Photo from the NY Daily NewsDec 15, 2017

Valiant 16435 viewsMembers of the 'Valiant 16' leave Newark in New Jersey on the first leg of their New York to Washington walk to attend President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. They are campaigning for votes for women as part of the Women's Suffrage Movement.

Photo by Paul ThompsonDec 15, 2017

Exterior of Bar1636 viewsDec 15, 2017

Newspaper Headline1467 viewsDec 15, 2017

Recreation of the Assassination Scene by Detective Michael T. Beachem.1466 viewsDec 15, 2017

465 viewsFEBRUARY 28 1932: America's Chinese man of mystery, the almost legendary Mock Duck, national president of the Hip Sing Tong and reputedly the wealthiest of his race in this country, was the target of an assassin in Newark. The Dr. Fu Manchu of real life was shot down as he stepped from his eastern headquarters at 64 Mulberry St., Newark. shortly after 7:30 P.M. The bullet, fired almost pointblank, entered his neck and emerged through his right cheek. Treated at Newark City Hospital, the man whose slightest word is law in the gambling dens of Chinatowns from the Atlantic to the Pacific deserted his habitual Oriental calm and named his assailant as a young hatchet man known as Eng Pong Quong,

Photo by Walter Kelleher/NY Daily NewsDec 15, 2017

368 viewsFrom Scott D. SeligmanDec 15, 2017

499 viewsThomas Edison siting in Market Street Station waiting room before leaving for Florida.

Photo by Fred Morgan/NY Daily NewsDec 15, 2017

Greetings of the Sängerfest, Newark458 viewsNov 07, 2017

An Italian Child's First Impression of America524 viewsMarch 12, 1916Nov 07, 2017

Italians Very Active in Newark's Upbuilding491 viewsSeptember 29, 1907Nov 07, 2017

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Mueller, Marie334 viewsPhoto from Dr. Paul R. AhrMar 28, 2017

Reese, Max Frederik Wilhelm302 viewsPhoto from Jeff RossMar 20, 2017

Reese, Laurits291 viewsPhoto from Jeff RossMar 20, 2017

Reese, Ane Johanna Larsen319 viewsPhoto from Jeff RossMar 20, 2017

Reese, Emil & Max332 viewsPhoto from Jeff RossMar 20, 2017

"Inhaler" Patent289 viewsJan 05, 2017

This Newarker's Inventions of Value to Science390 viewsDecember 17, 1911Jan 05, 2017

Some Newark Poles in Costumes of the Old Country408 viewsMarch 7, 1909Jan 03, 2017

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Sharp, Charles S.368 views1877-1970
Photo from Christina SharpDec 02, 2016

St. Agnes Academy473 viewsPhoto from Judy L. ThomasDec 02, 2016

Avery, Margaret (Maggie) nee Hanratty402 viewsPhoto from Margaret RobinsonDec 01, 2016

Steck, Fred376 viewsFred Steck's Lunch Room at 313 Springfield Avenue (~1890)

Photo from Steve BorresAug 17, 2016

Steck, Charles376 viewsCharles Steck (holding the reins), owned a coal and ice business on South 15th Street. The photo was taken around 1920. His brother, Gus Steck, also owned a coal business and was the father of orchestra leader Gus Steck.

Photo from Steve BorresAug 17, 2016

Rimback, Bridget Quale344 viewsBorn 1859Jul 14, 2016

Lining up for Coffee at the A & P444 views10-02-1942Mar 25, 2016

538 views1836 Newark City DirectoryMar 25, 2016

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515 viewsThis is about 20% of a larger photo from July 4, 1915 showing Mr. & Mrs Thomas Edison and their employees from the Edison Laboratories on a field day at Olympic Park.

From “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

Mothers & Children at City Hall413 viewsFrom “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

429 viewsFrom “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

419 viewsBefore 1923, a girl of 13 working at embroidery in a far corner of a dimly lighted room. The light came from a small gas jet which was high above the girl's head, in the center of the room. She was working on a black dress which was outlined in black pencil. For this dress elaborately embroidered, she received ninety cents. She could embroider one dress in about three or four days if she kept at it steadily. She had been working since 4 P.M., and it was the 7 P.M. She expected to stop at 10:30. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

From “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

Petillo, Mary442 viewsMary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's laboratory management committee. The committee, set up in cooperation with the War Production Board's drive to speed victory, was elected in Mary's plant from a personnel of 1700, 350 of them men. Vice-president of her local, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization, Mary achieved the job of forelady by working working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases formerly discarded--a suggestion now in use at the plant--and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps

From “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

Lewis, Madge388 viewsEmpty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Mrs. Madge Lewis, widow and ex-sales lady, tests old tooth paste and other tubes for metal content in the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This test on an electric iron helps to identify tin and lead tubes from containers made of other metals

From “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016

Gross, Morty399 viewsMorty Gross using Western Electric headset to listen in on Man in the Moon stories, Ritz Apartments, Newark, N.J.
From “Library of Congress”Mar 22, 2016