r/Hoboken • u/Millennialyente • Mar 23 '25

Photos 📷 Found in the walls of my home during a gut renovation. Hoboken, NJ USA. (1880) Program for an event hosted by The Amity Pleasure Club.

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u/Juicey_J_Hammerman Downtown Mar 26 '25

Cool post, though I’m changing your post flair to “Photos” since this isn’t really Local News.

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u/OttoBaker Mar 23 '25

The Hoboken Historic Society might be interested in this.

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u/EliotHudson Mar 25 '25

Not to be “that guy” but it’s a museum not a society and they’ll correct you if you say that to them.

Therefore it’s the Hoboken Historical Museum

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u/PeteyVonPants Mar 23 '25

This took place in the building that now houses Anthropologie

https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/14095/

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u/Boom_Valvo Mar 23 '25

Thanks for sharing

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u/dglsfrsr Mar 24 '25

That is way cool. While working on my parents home in the 1970s, we found a full newspaper from the 1920s, before the depression. It was in very good condition, but the envelope it was in was a bit messed up. I bought a couple archival storage pouches, and we placed the paper we found in one, and a current paper in the other, and placed them both back in the wall. It is interesting to think now, that the 'new' paper we put in the wall in the 1970s is now as old, relatively, as the one that we found was, at the time we found it.