Items

• West Hoboken Honor Men for the National Army

  Undated 8" x 10" black and white photograph of men posed outside U.S. army enlistment center, West Hoboken, NJ. A number of Army officers are seen with the civilian recruits dressed in suit jackets and hats, or shirtsleeves. New recruits sport badges on their shirts or jackets. Unstated is that the men (volunteers or draftees) were to go to Camp Dix for basic training. Also of interest is a printed placard on the garage door at the left: Leave Your Books Here We'll Get Them For the Soldiers "Over There" Hudson Observer War Book Campaign Damage to upper right, lower left and lower right corners of photograph.
• Photographs of Henry Reuterdahl

  Black and white photograph of artist Henry Reuterdahl and photograph of him in his studio. Born in Sweden in 1870, Reuterdahl died in 1925 in Washington, DC and is buried at Arlington Cemetery. He was a Lieutenant in the US Navy and is best known for his paintings of Navy warships. He also designed posters to support the war effort during World War I. He painted landscapes as well, including Winter in Weehawken. Reuterdahl bought Karl Bitter's home and atelier atop the Palsades (the site of current day Hamilton Park), after Bitter died in a trolley accident in 1915. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and the American Watercolor Society and exhibited his work in the 1913 Armory Show, although he was not considered a modernist. He also taught at the Art Students League of New York.
• Photos - US Army Participates in Opening of Lincoln Tunnel

  Two photos of US Army soldiers participating in the 1937 opening of the Lincoln Tunnel (according to the handwritten captions on the back of the pictures, it was 1936). These items are in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Pro Patria Medal - World War II

  These medals were awarded by the Town of Weehawken to residents who served in World War II. This particular medal does not have a name engraved upon it. Reverse text reads: From the citizens of Weehawken, New Jersey to (left blank) in grateful recognition of services in World War II. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Society.
• WW I Tents and Soldiers in Weehawken

  Black and white undated photo showing a group of World War I vintage tents and soldiers at the bottom of the Hackensack Water Company reservoir adjacent to Highwood Avenue. Photo donated to the WHC by Weehawken resident Carlota Barreda.
• Iwo Jima: This is Weehawken

  This black and white photo shows US Marines on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima during World War II with a little piece of Weehawken in the Pacific Theater. According to Time Machine user Pat Keegan, the Marine on the left is her uncle, Weehawken native son Charlie Shortt. Pat also informs us that the photo was taken by famed photographer Joe Rosenthal, who shot the iconic flag raising photo on Iwo Jima.
• Recruiting Broadside - Calcium Light Regiment

  Recruiting broadside for a Civil War regiment which had a recruiting office in Palisade Gardens, Weehawken. The text of the broadside reads: The Best Regiment Yet! The Union of the States for the Sake of the Union. "Then Conquer we must, for our case it is just, and this be our motto: In God is our trust." The Calcium Light! Sharp-Shooters! This Regiment, under the command of Colonel Robert Grant Is now being organized for the United States Service by special order of the war department. The uniform, the pay and the rations are to be the same as in the regular army. The pay is $13 per month and $100 bounty upon honorable discharge at the end of the war. If the soldier is killed, this bounty of $100. together with his pay, due to that time is paid to his family, heirs, or assigns. The pay & rations commence from the date of enlistment. Clothing furnished immediately. Recruiting offices 400 Broome St. N.Y. Ninth Avenue between 42d & 43d Sts N.Y. Cor. Hudson & Canal Sts., N.Y. Edge Laboratory, Jersey City. 102 Fulton St. N.Y. Palisade Garden, Weehawken. Recruits Immediately forwarded to the camp of instruction at Scarsdale Regimental Headquarters, 400 Broome Street, New York Purcell & Dalton Steam Job Printers and engravers 428 Broome St. New York. As Company E of the 102nd New York, the Calcium Light Sharpshooters were recruited in New York City 1861 and served in a consolidated regiment that received its unit designation in March 1862. Known primarily as the Van Buren Light Infantry, the regiment saw its first hard action at Cedar Mountain, where 115 were killed, lost or wounded, with equally severe subsequent losses at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in the Eastern Theater. Transferred south in 1864, the 102nd participated in the Battle Above the Clouds, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Georgia, and was with Sherman throughout the Atlanta Campaign and the "March." The regiment got its name for its innovative use of very bright Calcium lights to allow its sharpshooters to better see their targets.
• Photograph: Weehawkenite at West Point - 1927

  Black and white photo, dated 6-1-1927 Caption: Outstanding candidates for West Point's highest honor. The four outstanding cadets of the 1927 graduating class at the United Military Academy from whom the 'Honor Man' of the Class of 1927 will be chosen. Left to right : Edward G. Daly, 21 year old, of Laramie, Wyoming ; Hans W. Holmer, 26 years old, of Medfor, Oregon ; Harold A. Kurstedt, 24 years old, of Weehawken, N.J. and Donald C. Hawkins, 21 years old, of Cleveland, Ohio.
• Pro Patria Medal - WW II

  Medal on ribbon fob, given to Weehawken residents who served in World War II. On reverse: From the citizens of Weehawken, New Jersey to (left blank) in grateful recognition of services in World War II.
• The Ericsson Devil and the Weehawken

  This engraving (first published in an 1863 edition of Harper's Weekly) shows the USS Weehawken, a Civil War armored ship, fitted with a new fangled device for the clearing of mines from the harbor of Charleston, SC.
• NavSource Online - CM-12 Weehawken

  More information on the USS Weehawken, a World War II mine laying ship. Contributed by Bernie Zempolich.
• Model Kit - USS Weehawken

  For just $274.95, you can buy a kit to build a model of the Civil War monitor USS Weehawken. Another link from Bernie Zempolich, the official WTM scourer of the web for all things Weehawken.
• USS Weehawken (1863-1863)

  This US Navy page has the complete, short history of the Union monitor USS Weehawken. The ship was launched in January 1863, saw combat that year and was lost in a storm in December of 1863, taking 30 officers and men to the briny deep. The page also includes links to nice engravings of the ship. Thanks to Bernie Zempolich for finding this gem and bringing it to the Time Machine!
• The USS Weehawken

  The history of the USS Weehawken, a minelayer that served in World War II (the Big One).
• The Monitor Weehawken

  A brief history of the Civil War battleship Weehawken.
• USS Weehawken CM-12 in 1943

  Black and white photo of the USS Weehawken (CM-12), originally the SS Estrada Polma, a car ferry built in 1920 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was acquired by the United States Navy on 15 June 1942; renamed Weehawken on 18 July 1942; converted to a minelayer by the Bethlehem Steel Co. at Hoboken, New Jersey; designated CM-12; and commissioned on 30 September 1942, Lt. Cmdr. Ralph E. Mills, USNR, in command."
• World War II Service Medal

  Medal issued by Weehawken to persons who served in World War II. The front of the medal reads "Pro Patria" up top and the reverse of the medal reads "From the citizens of Weehawken, N.J. to (blank space for name) in grateful recognition of services in World War II."
• SS Alexander Hamilton Nuclear Sub Launching Cover

  Postal cover from the launching of the nuclear submarine SS Alexander Hamilton on August 18, 1962 from Groton, CT.
• Colonel Berdan and His Sharpshooters

  From Harper's Weekly - August 24, 1861... an article and two illustrations describing a shooting exhibition by a Colonel Berdan and "his famous sharp shooting regiment" at Weehawken. Click on the links for more information about Berdan and his Sharpshooters.
• Ship Board Postal Cover - USS Weehawken

  Commemorative cover sent from the US Navy ship USS Weehawken (a harbor tug, since decommissioned) in Honolulu, Hawaii, October 23, 1987.
• Stamped Envelopes from the Nuclear Submarine Alexander Hamilton

  These envelopes bear the commemorative cachet of the nuclear missile submarine SSBN-617, otherwise known as the USS Alexander Hamilton. They are postmarked 1973, and 1965.
• Queen of the Pershing Rifles

  This photograph has the following caption: Philadelphia: Enthroned on a mortar and holding her badge of office, pretty Judy Wagner, 17 of Weehawken, NJ is surrounded by admiring cadets from the Pennsylvania Military College drill team who named her "Queen of PMC's Pershing Rifles..." See the back of the photo for more info...  
• The Weehawken's Fearful Accident

  An article by Dana M. Wegner on the sinking of the Civil War ironclad ship Weehawken - from Civil War Times Illustrated - December 1972.
• Engraving - The Civil War Monitor Weehawken

  Newspaper engraving of The Monitor Weehawken capturing the Confederate iron clad ram Atlanta, Warsaw Sound, GA, June 17, 1863.
• Phonecard - Gibraltar - USS Weehawken

  This phonecard from the isle of Gibraltar honors the USS Weehawken, a World War II mine layer.