Jersey City 1940-1960: The Dan Mcnulty Collection (Jersey City, New Jersey, 1940-1960) (Paperback)

~ (Author) "While Jersey City has change a lot in the years since Dan McNulty took these photographs, it is not completely unrecognizable in its 1940s and..." (more)
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Product Description

Photographer Dan McNulty was a Jersey City resident who spent most of his time working in his family’s funeral home. McNulty’s photography was a mere sideline, but this fact did not affect the high artistic quality of the images of the city that he produced during the 1940s and ’50s. During the two decades of McNulty’s work, Jersey City experienced many changes. The powerful political machine of Mayor Frank Hague was brought down after thirty years

in 1949 by the reform team of John V. Kenny, and this period also saw the end of the city’s success in the railroad industry. In the 1950s, the first large housing projects were constructed in the city; other sweeping developments in this sphere would follow in the 1960s. McNulty documented these changes and others that resulted during this twenty year period through dramatic photographs of vacant railroad terminals, dynamic commercial and residential districts, successful factories and manufacturing plants, and significant WPA projects such as the Jersey City Medical Center and Roosevelt Stadium. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Author Kenneth French is the head librarian of the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Public Library, from whose archives all of the pictures in this collection have been gathered. He is a Jersey City native who has assisted with efforts to save and restore two city buildings, the Loew’s Jersey Theater and the eighteenth-century “Apple Tree

House.” Mr. French is pleased to present this second volume on Jersey City in the Images of America series. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752409093
• ISBN-13: 978-0752409092
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,092,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JERSEY CITY IN PICTURES, PICTURES & MORE PICTURES, July 29, 1999

By A Customer

I WAS LOOKING FOR A BOOK OF PICTURES THAT WERE TAKEN AT THE SAME TIME THAT I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN JERSEY CITY. IT SEEMS THAT EVERY STREET I WALKED AS A CHILD, THE SCHOOLS I ATTENDED, AND THE PLACES I SHOPPED, WERE THERE. IT IS THE CLOSEST THING I HAVE TO A PHOTO ALBUM OF THE CITY IN WHICH I LIVED. IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME, THIS BOOK DELIVERS THAT FEELING. I WISH MR.FRENCH WOULD DO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND THEN ANOTHER. IT WAS OBVIOUSLY WELL THOUGHT OUT WHEN THE PICTURES WERE ARRANGED AND GROUPED. YOU WILL FIND HE HAS IDENTIFIED THE PHOTO'S VERY WELL USING FEW WORDS.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, brought back so many memories, June 18, 1999

By	[e-mail] (River Edge, NJ) - See all my reviews

I thought it was an absolutely wonderful book that you can reread many times and never get bored. I found so many familiar places in the book and it brought back so many wonderful memories.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What went wrong?, May 1, 2006

By	Ian Belcher "ipcostello" (Vacaville, California United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Jersey City 1940-1960: The Dan McNulty Collection (NJ) (Images of America) (Paperback)

This book is full of beautiful photos to remind those who are old enough how nice Jersey City used to be. I guess we can all thank genius Frank Hague for preserving the atmosphere and history of Jersey City...