THE FACSIMILE: A MIRACLE OF THE AGE

"Telephoto" news photos from around the world in just 7 minutes!  Look how far we have come from the now primitive "facsimile"(Fax) machine of the 1940's!

1934: AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON OLD NOTTINGHAM SQUARE/HAMILTON SQUARE!

It's not easy being an historian! This article took the better part of 2 hours to re-format for viewing on a typical computer screen. It was 37-1/2" "column inches" on the feature page of a 1934 Trenton Times article relating to Hamilton Square. It is one of the best chronicles of Nottingham Square and now Hamilton Square. There is a treasure trove in history converted herewith into digital form for posterity! Enjoy, Nottingham Square students, scholars, and history lovers!

1882: FRANKLIN SCHOOL AREA

I recently came into possession of a rare 1882 wall map of the city of Trenton and parts of Hamilton Township. It is a fascinating map showing the area from today's St. Francis Hospital eastward to Olden Avenue as open land owned by Davit Quintin and Samuel Wilson.

1988: HAMILTON HIGH CLASS OF 1938 50TH REUNION

These were our big brothers and sisters. I knew many in that class including my lifelong friend Webster (Webb) Grimm whom I first met as a young boy of 6 or 7 when he and my older brother Len were involved in a local boys club known as the Lynx Club. (It was my first experience with  a text copying process known as the "Hectograph;" a jell laid in a flat 8-1/2 x 11 pan that receives type from a typewritten page and permeates the gel which results in a duplicate page with purple ink text. Years later I again became acquainted with Webb whe he made one of his visits to Miss Louise ("Ouise" Baird's 1420 Hamilton Avenue apartment, where Judy and I were nightly visitors. Webb was Ouise's insurance agent and Judy and I signed up with Webb for our home insurance which we kept until he retired. Such pleasant memories!