Items

• Doctors Pharmacy Eye Dropper and Box

  3-1/2" long glass eye dropper, with rubber disc and tip. Comes in cardboard box, with corrugated paper to protect glass, with instructions on one side. Label reads: The Doctors Pharmacy Sol Susselman, PhG , Nat Bronfman, BS Ph Date: 4-1-58 The address of the pharmacy was 2500 Palisade Ave,, cor. Dodd St., Weehawken, N.J. Phones: Union 5 9813, 7 9688 A pharmacy, operated by a Herman Wouters opened on this site in 1896.
• North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, NJ

  Color photo postcard of North Hudson Hospital, located between Clifton and Columbia Terraces on Park Avenue. Mailed June 24, 1914 from Weehawken. Published by Souvenir Postcard Company, printed in New York. From the collection of Tony Bodtmann.
• S.B. Penick & Company Price List

  1929 S.B. Penick Price List and Manual of Crude Drugs. One of the company's plants was located in a 300-foot long building at 1819 Willow Avenue, Weehawken. S. B. Penick was founded in 1914 in North Carolina and currently has its headquarters in Newark, NJ. The company carried all types of botanicals, mostly as dried herbs, roots or in powder form. In 1937, the factory in Weehawken was destroyed by a huge fire, with losses of over $500,000. Fortunately, no one was killed, but 40 of the workers, fire fighters and local residents were injured.
• Medicine bottle - Wm Kyvitz, Druggist

  5" amber glass medicine bottle with cork stopper from Wm. Kyvitz, druggist. The label reads: POISON Wm Kyvitz Prescription Druggist Deutscher Apotheker 500 Palisade Avenue, corner Dodd St., Weehawken Heights, NJ The drugstore opened in 1896.
• North Hudson Hospital

  9" x 11" black and white photograph of North Hudson Hospital, taken from Union City side of Park Avenue and 43rd Street.
• North Hudson Hospital ca. 1905

  Photograph of the original North Hudson Hospital, published in the 1905 Union City Chamber of Commerce anniversary book.
• Weehawken's First Ambulance - 1969

  This color photo shows the members of the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad with their shiny new Cadillac ambulance in 1969, when the squad was born.
• Pictures from the North Hudson Hospital

  These photos show the medical professionals of the North Hudson Hospital (predecessor to today's Palisades Medical Center) located on Park Avenue in Weehawken. From an anniversary publication of Palisades Medical Center., in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• New First Aiders - WVFAS (Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad)

  News clipping (undated) about the formation of the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad in 1969. The caption reads: NEW FIRST AIDERS - Weehawken's Volunteer First Aid Squad, the only one of its kind in Hudson County, installed its first officers at the Union Club in Hoboken. They are, from left, John Gallo, secretary; Joseph Lavoie, president; Edward Aymar, vice president; and Ralph Auletto, captain. Group operates towns ambulance service.
• Fire Training for North Hudson Hospital

  Black and white photograph, circa 1970. According to George Browne, who got this picture from Dennis Cosgrove, who got it from Sean Sullivan, it shows Weehawken Fire Department Captain Joe Fredericks on the left and Chief Robert Cahill on the right. It looks like this is a training session for North Hudson Hospital nurses in dealing with bed fires (or maybe spontaneous combustion?). The picture also includes former Mayor Stanley Iacono (who used to live on Shippen Street) who served when mayor Krause left office in 1966. So the picture is probably in the late 1960s. Also in the picture on left is school nurse Evelyn O'Neil who was a nurse in Webster School in the 1950s and later in other schools until at least the early 1980s. According to Weehawken Tax Collector Joe Fredricks (son of the Fire Captain in the picture), this drill took place around 1970-1972.
• North Hudson Hospital, Park Avenue, Weehawken

  Colored photo postcard showing the North Hudson Hospital some time around the turn of the 20th century. The hospital was located on Park Avenue, between Clifton and Columbia Terraces.
• September 11 Commemorative EMS Patch

  This patch was presented to the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad on September 14, 2002 for its assistance to the Jersey City Medical Center's EMS response to the events of September 11, 2001. From the collection of Tom Cheplic.
• Advertisement - Dr. Richard J. Waters, Osteopathic Physician

  Advertisement from the October, 1918 edition of the Orange and Blue, which was a publication of Union Hill High School. Dr. Richard J. Waters was an osteopathic physician practicing at 965 Boulevard East at 3rd Street (corner of 47th Street.)
• North Hudson Hospital, Union Hill, N.J.

  Colored photo postcard of the original North Hudson Hospital, located on New York Avenue near 44th Street in present day Union City. Note the people sitting on the porch and the horse and buggy (ambulance?) in front. Thanks to Lou Lavin for information on this image. Postmarked August 10, 1909 from Hoboken, NJ. John C. Voigt Post Card Company, Jersey City, NJ.
• North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, N.J.

  An early black and white photo postcard of the North Hudson Hospital looking from across Park Avenue in Union City - note the lack of landscaping around the building. This would date the photo to about 1911, when the construction on the building was just completed. Postmarked from Weehawken.
• 5833 - North Hudson Hospital, Union Hill NJ

  Undivided black and white photograph postcard of the original North Hudson Hospital, which was located in Union City, NJ. Postmarked June 27, 1908.
• Carnival for North Hudson Hospital

  Artist drawn undivided postcard commemorating a carnival held to raise money to build the North Hudson Hospital on BullsFerry Road (now Park Avenue) between Clifton and Columbia Terraces. The Carnival was held on July 29 through August 3, 1907 at Schuetzen Park in Union, (now North Bergen) NJ. Postmarked August 1, 1907 from West Hoboken.
• Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad Patch

  1976 - 1990 patch of Weehawken's volunteer emergency medical services organization. Thanks to Lt. Jeff Fulcher of the Weehawken PD for this image! Some additional information from WVFAS VP, Tom Cheplic: According to Life Member Bill Applegate, the designer of the NYC skyline patch was former squad member Ray Diaz. The change from the original Indian Head logo occurred somewhere around 1976 or 1977 as Ray had left the squad to go away to school by the end of the decade. This patch remained in place through the 1980s. By 1990, Life Member Bob Schwartz was designing the new patch which was just a more current version of the original. While Bob was as proud of the view as the next person, he felt that the skyline patch really didn't represent the squad well so he went back to basics. Thanks, Tom!
• Gold Cross: Birth of a First Aid Squad

  May 1970 cover story from Gold Cross - the official magazine of the New Jersey State First Aid Council describing the formation and very first call of the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad. Includes a very cool picture of the squad and its ambulance. Thanks to Craig Stewart for sending in this item!
• Annual Report of the National Board of Health - 1879

  This extract from an 1879 book called Annual Report of the National Board of Health (pages 169 - 214) contains all sorts of information about the lives, health and demises of North Hudson residents in the late 1870s. This section is entitled 'Appendix H: Schedules of Questions for a Sanitary Survey of Hudson County, NJ and Bayonne, NJ.' I have not included the Bayonne section in the interest of brevity. I will be scanning it in and would be happy to email it to anyone interested. Email me if you would like a copy. Worth a read...  
• OpSail EMS Commemorative Patch

  Special patch issued to all of the Emergency Medical Units that participated in OpSail 2000 - including the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad.
• Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad Patch

  A jacket patch from the WVFAS with the original Squad logo.
• North Hudson Hospital

  Undated photo postcard of North Hudson Hospital on Bulls Ferry Road (Park Avenue, between Clifton and Columbia Terraces).