Library Holdings
The Mahwah Museum library is not a lending library, but you can consult books on site. Please make an appointment in order to ensure that the book is on-site and we will have it ready for you.
Books
Education and Children’s Books
- A. Alexander, Advice to a Young Christian (1843)
- Horatio Alger, Risen From the Ranks or Harvey Walton’s Success (1901)
- Horatio Alger, Strive and Succeed or the Progress of Walter Conrad (1872)
- James Baldwin, Baldwin’s Reader – Second Year (ca. 1890s)
- Bank Street College of Education, People Read
- Leo J. Brueckner, The New Curriculum Arithmetics, Grade 3 (1939)
- Palmer Cox, Brownies (1887)
- Fletcher Durrell and Harry Gillet, The New Day Arithmetics, Fifth Year (1930)
- Georgianne Ensign, The Hunt for the Mastodon (1971)
- Arthur Gates and Miriam Huber, Now We Go Again (1939)
- Arthur Gates, by Celeste Comegys Peardon, and Miriam Huber, Off We Go (1939)
- D. D. Goodspeed, The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (1924)
- Benjamin Greenleaf, Greenleaf’s National Arithmetic (ca. 1850)
- Albert Harris and Mae Knight Clark, Opening Books (1965)
- Home Circle, Bible Readings (1914)
- Murray Lindley, English Reader: Prose and Verse, or Pieces in prose and verse, from the best writers (1829)
- William J. Milne, Milnes Progressive Arithmetics Books 2 and 3 (ca. 1910)
- D. H. Montgomery, The Beginners American History (1892)
- Mabel O’Donnell and Selma Coughlan, High on a Hill (1947)
- Mabel O’Donnell, Open the Door (1952)
- Mabel O’Donnell, Under the Sky (1957)
- Mabel O’Donnell, Skip Along (1957)
- Odille Ousely, My Little Blue Story Book (1957)
- Odille Ousely, My Little Green Story Book (1957)
- Odille Ousely, My Little Red Story Book (1949)
- J. M. Rice, The Rational Spelling Book (1898)
- John Scudder, A Voice from the East for the Young: in a series of letters to the children of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church of North America (1856)
- David Eugene Smith, Advanced Arithmetic (c. 1905)
- William Swinton, Swinton’s Third Reader (1882)
- The Terry Book (1930)
- William Dwight Whitney, Century Dictionary (Vol. 5) (1913)
- D. Yenni, Grammar of the Latin Language (1869)
- Gerald Yoakam, M. Veverka, and Louise Abney, Jack and Nancy at Home (1940)
Farming and Agriculture
- American Poultry Association, American Standard of Perfection
- Henry D. Gerbold and Stacy A. Frank, Our Heritage of Community Trees (2002)
- Eric Sloane, An Age of Barns (1966)
General History
- William Cullen Bryant, ed. Picturesque America (2 vols) (1872-1874)
- Robert Dalzell, Jr. George Washington’s Mount Vernon (1998)
- Firth Harin Fabend, New Netherland in a Nutshell: A Concise HIstory of the Dutch Colony in North America (2012)
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1992)
- Peter J. Guthorn, American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution (1966)
- James S. Kates, Minute Stories of Famous Explorers (1934)
- Richard J. Koke, Accomplice in Treason: Joshua Hett Smith (1973)
- Gerald Langford, The Murder of Stanford White (1962)
- Edward J. Lenik, Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands (2002)
- Dwight W. Morrow, The Society of Free States (1919)
- Louis Morton, The War in the Pacific: The Fall of the Philippines (1953)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation, National Register of Historic Places, 1966- to 1994 (1994)
- John F. Reed, Valley Forge Crucible of Victory (1969)
- Howard Rice and Anne Brown, The American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783 (1972)
- Howard Rice and Anne Brown, The American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army, 1790-1783 (1972)
- Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (1993)
- Ronald N. Simpson, Legacy of the Chief: Ahtna Chief Nicolai and his grandsons at the time of historic Kennecott Copper and its Copper Rive and Northwestern Railway in the Territory of Alaska (2015)
- Samuel Smith Stelle, The Fight for Delaware: 1777 (1970)
- Robert Knox Sneeden, Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey (2000)
- Elaine Weiss, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (2018)
- Kevin W. Wright, A Country That Was Never Lost – The 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s Visit with North Americans of the Middle Atlantic Coast (2009)
Literature
- Joyce Kilmer, The Circus and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces
- Joyce Kilmer, The Courage of Enlightenment
- Joyce Kilmer and James Edward Tobin, Joyce Kilmer’s Anthology of Catholic Poets (1939)
- Joyce Kilmer and Robert Cortes Holliday, ed. Joyce Kilmer: Poems, Essays and Letters (2 vols) (1918)
- Joyce Kilmer, Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
- Joyce Kilmer, Summer of Love (1911)
- Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems (1913)
- Albert Payson Terhune, The Fighter (1909)
Local History – Bergen County
- John Becica, The Revolutionary War in Ho-Ho-Kus: Military Encounters at Hoppertown/Paramus, 1776-1781 (1998)
- Fritz Behnke, Paramus: The Way We Were: 1922 to 1960 (1997)
- Bergen County, Bergen County Historic Sites Survey (2 vols) (1985)
- Bergen County Historical Society, Historic Site Markers
- Bergen County Historical Society, Papers and Proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society
- Henry Bischoff, Victorian Gothic: The Rosencrantz Family and the Hermitage, 1807-1970 (2011)
- Frederick Bogert, Bergen County History and Heritage: Colonial Days – 1630-1775 (1983)
- Frederick Bogert, Bergen County History and Heritage: Federalist and Antebellum – 1784-1860 (1983)
- Frederick Bogert, Bergen County History and Heritage: The Revolutionary Years, 1776-1783 (1983)
- Borough of Ho-Ko-Kus, Ho-Ho-Kus: 1908-1983 (1983)
- Maria Braun, Franklin Lakes: Its History and Heritage (1976)
- T. Robins Brown, The Architecture of Bergen County (2000)
- Michael Bruckhorst and Glenn P. Corbett, Images of America: Waldwick (2003)
- Mary Curtis, Life n the Old Dutch Homesteads (1967)
- Wayne M. Daniels, The Massacre of Baylor’s Dragoons: September 28 1778: Excavation of the Burial Site (1972)
- John Y. Dater, Early Days in the Ramapo Valley (1969)
- William Deyoe, Revolutionary Days in Paramus: Excerpts from the Diary of John Aaron Ackerman, 1725-1797 (1954)
- Jane Lyle Diepeveen, Fair Lawn New Jersey: Historic Tales from Settlement to Suburb (2010)
- Federal Writer’s Program, Bergen County Panorama (1941)
- Richard Graham, Franklin Lakes, NJ: An Applied Natural Resource Inventory
- James J. Greco, The Story of Englewood Cliffs (1964)
- George G. Heneveld, History of the Wyckoff Reformed Church: 1806-1931 (1931)
- Maria Jean Pratt Hopper, The Hopper Family Genealogy: Descendants of Andries Willemszen Hoppe(n) of New Amsterdam 1651-1658, The first Six Generations (2005)
- Susan Hudson, Background of Ho-Ho-Kus History (1953)
- Selina Johnson, Bergen County History and Heritage: Land and Its First People (1983)
- Carol Karels, Revolutionary War in Bergen County (2007)
- Ron Kase, Images of America: Ramsey (2001)
- Betty Kaytes, John Osborne and Joel Popadics, The Ridgewood Art Institute
- Shirley Iten Kern, The Years Between: A pictorial history of Oakland, New Jersey (1964)
- Francis C. Koehler, Three Hundred Years Story of Hackensack Valley (1940)
- Adrian Leiby, The Hackensack Water Company: 1869-1969 (1969)
- Rosa A. Livingston, Turkey Feathers: Tales of Old Bergen County (1974)
- John Madden and Kevin Heffernan, Images of America: Oakland (2003)
- Craig Mitchell, Bergen County History and Heritage: Civil War to Roaring 20s – 1860-1920 (1983)
- William Neumann, Images of America: Rutherford (2008)
- Peggy Norris and Key Yeomans, Stitched and Woven: Bergen County Quilts and Coverlets, 1800-1976 (2021).
- Arthur J. O’Dea, Washington and His Army in Bergen County: November 13-21, 1776 (2013)
- Vincent Parrillo, Beth Parrillo and Arthur Wrubel, Images of America: Ridgewood (1999)
- Raymond Ralph, Bergen County History and Heritage: Farmland to Suburbia – 1920-1960 (1983)
- J. M. Ransom, Bergen County: A Bibliography of Historical Books, Pamphlets and Maps (1960)
- The Record, Looking Back -A Retrospective of Bergen County (2001)
- Ridgewood Citizen’s Semi-Centennial Association, Ridgewood Past and Present (1916)
- St. Elizabeth Church Diamond Jubilee (1977)
- Mark Stuart, Bergen County History and Heritage: Our Era – 1960 to the Present (1983)
- Claire Tholl, The Maps of Claire K. Tholl
- Patricia Webb Wardell, Allendale: Background of a Borough (1994)
- Naoma Welk, Portraits of Ramsey (2005)
- Frances A. Westervelt, The Final Century of the Wampum Industry in Bergen County, New Jersey (1924)
- Woman’s Guild of the West Side Presbyterian Church, From Ridgewood’s Kitchens
Local History – Mahwah and Hohokus Township
- ABEX, ABEX News Magazine (1973-1982)
- ABEX, This is ABEX
- Army Corps of Enginees, New York District, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Mahwah and Ramapo Rivers (June 1982)
- Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Interim Report on Flood Protection Feasibility Ramapo and Mahwah Rivers (Nov. 1983)
- Henry Beck, Centennial History of Immaculate Conception Seminary (1962)
- Russell Berg, L. T. Goodman, and Jane Vilmar, Portrait of a Town (1960)
- Henry Bischoff and Mitchell Kahn, From Pioneer Settlement to Suburb: A History of Mahwah, New Jersey, 1700-1976 (1979)
- Henry Bischoff, Ramapo College: The First Quarter Century: 1971-1996 (1997)
- L. Guy Burton, Diary of an N-Word (2021)
- Brenda Calandrillo, Mahwah Tricentennial Cookbook (2000)
- Ronald E. Calissi, Counterpoint: The Edgar Smith Case (1972)
- Centenary of Township Government, Mahwah: Our Town: 1849-1949 (1949)
- David S. Cohen, The Ramapo Mountain People (1986)
- John Y. Dater and Chester A. Schmeltzer, The Birth and Growth of Ramsey and Mahwah
- Diamond Jubilee of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Harriet Fletcher Fisher, The Darlings of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom (2008) (Darling family)
- Fitzwilliam Sargent Green, A Tribute to the Life of Fitzwilliam Sargent – Father of the Brakeshoe and Pioneer of Railroad Engineering (2009)
- Carol Wehran Greene, Mahwah: Images of America (2014)
- Carol Wehran Greene, Ramapough Chronicles: A 300-Year History of Mahwah, New Jersey, and its Surrounds (2009)
- Theodore Havemeyer, The Mountainside Breeding Herd of Jersey Cattle (1883)
- H. H. Henry, Code of the Township of Mahwah
- Immaculate Conception Church: 1930-1980
- Kennecott & McCarthy, A Visistor’s Guide to Kennecott and McCarthy (Birch family business)
- League of Women Voters, Mahwah: Know Your Town
- Edward J. Lenik and Nancy Gibbs, The Laroe-Van Horn House/Bayard-Kiersted Trading Post: Analysis of Recovered Archeological Materials (2009)
- Edward J. Lenik, Indians in the Ramapos: Survival, Persistence and Presence (1999)
- Edward J. Lenik, Keepers of the Pass: The Ramapough Lenape Indians (2016)
- Edward J. Lenik, Ramapough Mountain Indians: People, Places and Cultural Traditions (2011)
- Sissy Leonard Kluh, Born in Kennecott: Memories of a Kennecott kid (1996) (Birch family business)
- Mahwah Historic Sites Committee, Mahwah’s Historic Homes
- Evening Department Women’s Club of Mahwah Cook Book Committee, Recipes from Maa Eway (1958)
- Reginald McMahon, Ramapo: Indian Trading Post to State College (1977)
- Thomas O’Brien, The Ford Motor Company Plant (2010)
- Lauren Paolillo, ed. Mahwah’s Military Memories (2017)
- Cris H. Schaefer, Raymond H. Schaefer, Biotech Visionary (2012)
- Edgar Smith, Brief Against Death (1968)
- Robert L. Spude and Sandra McDermott Faulkner, Cordova to Kennecott, Alaska (1988) (Birch family business)
- Wilfred Talman, Tappan: 300 Years:1686-1986 (1989)
- Everett T. Tomlinson, The Mystery of the Ramapo Pass (1922)
- Elizabeth Tower, Ghosts of Kennecott: The Story of Stephen Birch (1990)
- Elizabeth Tower, Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938 (2015) (profiles Stephen Birch)
Local History – New Jersey
- Rosalie Bailey, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York (1936)
- John W. Barber, Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey (1844)
- Howard Bartholf, Images of America: Camp Merritt (2017)
- William B. Bassett, Historic American Buildings: Survey of New Jersey (1977)
- Henry Charlton Beck, The Jersey Midlands (1962)
- Henry Charlton Beck, Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey (1964)
- John E. Bebout, Where Cities Meet: The Urbanization of New Jersey (1964)
- Joseph G. Bilby, James M. Madden, and Harry Ziegler, 350 Years of New Jersey History: From Stuyvesant to Sandy (2014)
- Michael Birkner, Donal Lunny and Peter Mikulas, eds. The Governors of New Jersey, Biographical Essays
- Henry Bischoff, A New Wave of Immigration in New Jersey: Diversity and Vitality; 1940-2008 (2010)
- Florence de la M. Bunce, Washington Along Familiar Roads (1930)
- Nelson R. Burr, Education in New Jersey:1630-1871 (1942)
- John E. Brush, The Population of New Jersey (1956)
- Walter Choroszewski, New Jersey: A Photographic Treasure (2002)
- David Steven Cohen, The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey (1983)
- Alden T. Cottrell, The Trenton Battle Monument and Washington’s Campaign: December 26, 1776, to January 3, 1777 (1956)
- John T. Cunningham, Capsules of New Jersey History (1974)
- John T. Cunningham, Colonial New Jersey (1971)
- John T. Cunningham, New Jersey: A Mirror on America (1978)
- John T. Cunningham, New Jersey: America’s Main Road (1976)
- John T. Cunningham, New Jersey Sampler:Historic Tales of Old New Jersey (1964)
- John T. Cunningham, The New Jersey Shore (1958)
- John T. Cunningham, This is New Jersey (1968)
- John Delaney, Nova Caeserea, A Cartographic Record of the Garden State: 1666-1888 (2014)
- Ellis Derry, Old and Historic Churches of New Jersey (Vol. 2) (1994)
- Sibyl Groff, New Jersey’s Historic Homes (1971)
- Robert Guter and Janet Foster, Building By the Book: Pattern Book Architecture in New Jersey (1992)
- Mark R. Harrington, The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes (1963)
- Edward Hewitt, Ringwood Manor: The Home of the Hewitts (1946)
- Mark Ioanno, A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs (2000)
- William J. Jackson, New Jerseyseans in the Civil War (2000)
- P. Demarest Johnson, Claudius, the Cowboy of the Ramapo Valley: A Story of Revolutionary Times in Southern New York (1894)
- Valerie M. Josephson, Stirring Times: The Lives of New Jersey’s First Civil War Surgeons (2012)
- Steele Mabon Kennedy, The New Jersey Almanac (1960s)
- Francis Bazley Lee, Genealogical and Memorial History of New Jersey A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation (Vol 3) (1910)
- James Lee, Tales the Boatmen Told – Morris Canal (1991)
- Adrian C. Leiby, The Early Dutch and Swedish Settlers of New Jersey (1964)
- Maxine Lurie, Encyclopedia of New Jersey (2004)
- Maxine Lurie and Peter Wacker, eds., Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape (2009)
- William McBride, Carl Ek and Rodney Odell, Anybody Here From New Jersey? (1945)
- New Jersey Botanical Garden, Skylands: The Garden of the Garden State (2012)
- Thomas O’Brien, New Jersey Fights in the Civil War
- Bernard A. Olsen, A Billy Yank Governor:The Life and Times of New Jersey’s Franklin Murphy (2000)
- Dennis P. Ryan, New Jersey in the American Revolution, 1763-1783: A Chronology (1974)
- Barbara Salomore and Stephen A. Salomore, New Jersey Politics and Government: The Suburbs Come of Age (2013)
- John Serrao, The Wild Palisades of the Hudson (1986)
- Samuel Smith Stelle, The Battle of Monmouth (1964)
- Samuel Smith Stelle, The Battle of Princeton (1967)
- Samuel Smith Stelle, The Battle of Trenton (1965)
- Frank R. Stockton, Stories of New Jersey (1896)
- Task Force on New Jersey History, A Heritage Reclaimed (1997)
- Task Force on New Jersey History, Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation (1997)
- Task Force on New Jersey History, Historic Sites in New Jersey (1997)
- Task Force on New Jersey History, Task Force Documents (1997)
- David Veasey, New Jersey: Then and Now (2013)
- Louis P. West, Ramapo Mountain Stories and Tales of My Recollections and Collections (1995)
- Kevin Woyce, New Jersey State Parks History and Facts (2011)
- Kay Yeomans, ed. Bringing the Civil War Home: NW Bergen County 1850-1865 (2012)
Local History – Rockland County and New York
- Rosalie Bailey, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York (1936)
- Kenneth Carroll, Great Estates of Ringwood (2017)
- Julius M. Bloch and Leo Herskovitz, eds. An Account of Her Majesty’s Revenue in the Province of New York, 1701-09 (1967)
- David Cole, History of Rockland County, New York (1884)
- Jennet Conant, Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II (2002)
- Harold Eberle and Cordlandt Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley (1942)
- Tom Gallo, Images of America: Henry Hudson Trail Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Seashore Branch
- Frank Bertangue Green, The History of Rockland County (1886)
- Theodore and Erna H. Grottke, 275th Anniversary of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Harry W. Havemeyer, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, Jr.: A Biography, 1807-1891 (2003)
- Patrick Higgins, Rockland: A Recollection (1973)
- Historical Society of Rockland County, Woodsmen, Mountaineers and Bockies: The People of the Ramapos (1985)
- Elaine Freed Lindenblatt, Stop at the Red Apple: The Restaurant on Route 17 (2014)
- Craig H. Long, Images of America: Suffern (2011)
- Ramapo Valley Independent, Guide to Rockland County (1955)
- Marjorie Smeltzer-Stevenot, Footprints in the Ramapos: Life in the Mountains Before the State Parks (1993)
- Marjorie Smeltzer-Stevenot, Old Burying Grounds within Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks (1992)
- Nora E. Snow, Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939)
- Christian R. Sonne, Tuxedo Park: The Historic Houses (2007)
- Elizabeth Stalter, Doodletown: Hiking Through History in a Vanishing Hamlet on the Hudson (1996)
- Village of Suffern, Ordinances
- Suffern Bicentennial Committee, Suffern: 200 Years – 1773-1973 (1973)
Material Culture
- Automobile Blue Book
- Automobile Green Book
- Mabel Claire, The World’s Modern Cook Book and Kitchen Guide for Busy Women (1932)
- David C. Cooke, How Automobiles are Made (1957)
- The Company of Military Historians, Military Uniforms in America: Era of the American Revolution (1975)
- C. M. Drennan, Car Air Brakes (1955)
- A. J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (1850)
- Fannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking School Cook Book
- Louisine W. Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (1993)
- Bolesaw Mastai and Marie-Louise D’Otrange Mastai, The Stars and Stripes: The Evolution of the American Flag (1973)
- Helen McKearin and George McKearin, 200 Years of American Blown Glass (1950)
- Vincent J. Scully, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style (1971)
- Peter C. Sutton, Dutch Art in America (1986)
- Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America (1986)
- Peter F. Wieser, Steel Castings Handbook (1980)
- Henry Lionell Williams and Ottalie K. Williams, A Guide to Old American Houses 1700-1900 (1971)
- David H. Wright, John Rogers, The People’s Sculptor (1967)
Music and Les Paul
- Bob Jacobson, Les Paul: Guitar Wizard (2012)
- Lisa Johnson, 108 Rock Star Guitars (2014)
- Charles W. Johnson, Songs of the Nation (1896)
- Robb Lawrence, The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy (2008)
- Charles H. Levermore, Academy Song Book
- Julien’s Auctions, Property from the Estate of Les Paul (2012)
Railroad History
- Railroad Encyclopedia (1910)
- Elaine Anderson, The Central Railroad of New Jersey’s First 100 Years: 1849-1949: A Historical Survey (1984)
- R. Baxter, Railroad Ferries of the Hudson (1987)
- Lucius Beebe, Trains In Transition (1988)
- Charles P. Caldes, Images of America: Rail Steam to Diesel in New Jersey (2002)
- Charles Dollfus and Edgar de Geoffroy, Histoire de la Locomotion Terrestre (1936)
- C. M. Drennan, The ABC’s of Air Brakes (1955)
- Howard Elliott, The Truth About Railroads (1913)
- S. Kip Farrington, Giants of the Rails (1944)
- Tom Gallo, Images of America: Henry Hudson Trail Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Seashore Branch (1999)
- Fitzwilliam Sargent Green, A Tribute to the Life of Thomas Parsons Sargent (2008)
- Robert S. Henry, On the Railroad (1936)
- Lone E. Janson, The Copper Spike (1975)
- Walter Arndt Lucas, From the Hills to the Hudson: A History of the Paterson and Hudson River Rail Road (1944)
- Robert W. Millmore, Railroad Stations of Northern New Jersey: A Photographic Tour of the Surviving Stations, 1975-2000 (2003)
- Edward Harold Mott, Between the Ocean and the Lakes: The Story of Erie (1899)
- Thomas O’Brien, From Roads to Rails: The Railroad Comes to the New Jersey Gateway (2012)
- E. J. Quimby, Interurban Interlude: A History of the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company (1968)
- Ramapo Ajax, Track Specialties: For Light Rail, Industrial and Heavy Duty Track Work (1950s)
- Theodore Scull, Hoboken’s Lacawanna Terminal (1987)
- Donald R. Sweetland, Erie Railroad in Color (1991)
- Lorett Treese, Railroads of New Jersey: Fragments of the Past in the Garden State Landscape (2006)
- E. E. Woodruff, The Making of a Railroad Officer (1925)
- Karl R. Zimmerman, The Remarkable GG1 (1977)