Collecting at Roebling Museum
Share your history!
The collection at Roebling Museum includes artifacts that document the 125-year history of John A Roebling’s Sons Company in New Jersey. Our goal is to collect and preserve the stories of the diverse workforce employed by the John A. Roebling’s Sons company (1849 to 1974) and to record the unique experience of living in Roebling, NJ, the company town that was built as housing for mill workers.
Did you or someone in your family work at the mill in Roebling or Trenton? Do you have Roebling artifacts to donate? Did you grow up in the company town and have family heirlooms or memories to share? The museum accepts donated artifacts related to Roebling, NJ and the Roebling company. Suggestions for donations we are looking for include:
Special focus: artifacts or stories related to the African American and Swedish workers who lived and worked in Roebling as well as women’s artifacts/stories (whether they worked at the mill or in the home)
Special focus: anything related to houses on Second Avenue in Roebling or the families who lived in them
Family photographs that include interior and exterior views of your house in the company town (even just to make digital scans for our collection and you keep the originals)
Photographs, slides, paintings of the mill or town
Diaries, letters, especially letters written by immigrants to their families back in Romania, Hungary, Sweden, etc.
Work clothing and safety gear as well as everyday clothing from family who lived in Roebling
Tools, employee badges, records, pay stubs, union cards
Stories! We conduct oral histories with members of the community and people who worked at the mill. Let us know if you are interested in being interviewed.
Do you have something but aren’t sure if it would be a good fit with our collection? We’d love for you to come over and show us what you have so we can talk about it! If you have any questions, send us an email at RM@roeblingmuseum.org or call 609-499-7200.