E-Books
Below are listed a variety of books about Paterson, New Jersey and its history that are fully accessible online.
The Falls of the Passaic by Washington Irving
The poetry of Alfred Gibbs Campbell (1826-1884).
https://allpoetry.com/Alfred-Gibbs-Campbell
Natural History
The Birds of New Jersey by Charles Shriner, 1896.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924090288790/page/n3/mode/2up
The Story of Sandy Hill: a Geological Monograph by J.A. Craig, 1920
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu61270539&view=1up&seq=12
The Geological History of the Passaic Falls by William Nelson, 1892
Gems and Precious Stones of North America: a popular description of their occurrence, value, history, archaeology, and of the collections in which they exist, also a chapter on pearls, and on remarkable foreign gems owned in the United States, illustrated with eight colored plates and numerous minor engravings by George Frederick Kunz, 1890
(Paterson on page 229)
Book of the Pearl: the History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems by George Frederick Kunz, 1908
(Paterson on page 259; 261; 465)
Country Walks in Many Fields: Being Certain Choice Annals of the Paterson Rambling Club by Joseph Rydings, 1934
https://archive.org/details/countrywalksinma00rydi/page/n7/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
Lake Passaic: an Extinct Glacial Lake, by Henry Barnard, 1895.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4175651&seq=7
Commissioner’s Report on the Passaic River Pollution, Appointed Under the Act of April 2d, 1898, to Consider the Subject of the Pollution of the Rivers and Streams within this State, by New Jersey River Pollution Commission, 1899
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu50570382&seq=10&q1=Paterson
General Paterson History
Four Chapters of Paterson History by Charles Shriner, 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t2p55t84m&view=1up&seq=5
History of Bergen and Passaic Counties by W. Woodford Clayton, 1882
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t4vh5rb66&view=1up&seq=3
Historical Sketch of Schools in Paterson, by William Nelson, 1877
https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00nels/page/n8/mode/2up
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, 1917
https://archive.org/details/cedarlawncemeter00pate/page/n7/mode/2up
History of the City of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, by Nelson, William, 1901 https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofp01nels/page/n5/mode/2up
Paterson, New Jersey. Its Advantages for Manufacturing and Residence: its Industries, Prominent Men, Banks, Schools, Churches, etc., by Charles Shriner, 1890
https://archive.org/details/patersonnewjerse02shrine/page/n1/mode/2up
Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Alexander Hamilton in the City of Paterson, New Jersey
by Nicholas Murray Butler, 1907
https://archive.org/details/addressatunveili00butl/page/n2/mode/2up
Records of the Township of Paterson, New Jersey, 1831-1851 : with the laws relating to the township ; extracts from contemporary newspapers, and notes by Nelson, William, 1895
https://archive.org/details/recordsoftownshi00nels/page/n5/mode/2up
History of the Fire and Police Departments of Paterson, N.J :Their Origin, Progress and Development, 1893.
https://archive.org/details/historyoffirepol00augu/page/n7/mode/2up
An Address to the People of New Jersey : by the Abolitionists of the State Favorable to Political Action Against American Slavery by State Convention of Abolitionists, 1841
https://archive.org/details/addresstopeopleo00stat/page/n2/mode/2up
The Van Houten Manuscripts; a Century of Historical Documents, Assessment Lists, Unrecorded Deeds, Vendues, Inventories, Bonds, Letters, Accounts, Pleadings in Law Suits, and Other Papers Relating to Men and Events, Manners and Customs, in the Olden Times in Paterson and Vicinity, complied by Willian Nelson, 1894
https://archive.org/details/vanhoutenmanuscr00vanh/page/n8/mode/2up
Pictorial Paterson. Embracing Views of Prominent Buildings, Scenes in the Parks, a Glimpse of the Falls and a Bird’s-Eye View of the City, 1903
https://archive.org/details/pictorialpaterso00pate/mode/2up
A Lecture on the City of Paterson, its past, present, and future: delivered by Ph. Dickerson, Esq. before the Paterson Educational Association, January 31, 1856, Ph. Dickerson, 1856
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067017101&view=1up&seq=1
Views of Paterson, 1907.
https://archive.org/details/viewsofpatersonn00np/page/n3/mode/2up
History of Paterson and Its Environs, Volume 1, by William Nelson and Charles Shriner, 1920
https://archive.org/details/historyofpaterso01nels/page/n6/mode/2up
History of Paterson and Its Environs, Volume 2, by William Nelson and Charles Shriner, 1920
https://archive.org/details/historypaterson00shrigoog/page/n11/mode/2up
History of Paterson and Its Environs, Volume 3, by William Nelson and Charles Shriner, 1920
Historical and Statistical Memoranda Related to Passaic County New Jersey, compiled by William Nelson, 1874.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t56d63091&view=1up&seq=1
Early history of libraries in Paterson, by Irene Janes, 1949
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b164325&view=1up&seq=3
History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Prominent Men, compiled by W. Woodford Clay, 1882. (Paterson on PDF page 591)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t4vh5rb66&view=1up&seq=3
A preliminary report of the archaeological survey of the state of New Jersey made by the Department of anthropology in the American museum of natural history, Clark Wissler Ph.D Curator, under the direction of the State Geological Survey, compiled by Alanson Skinner and Max Schrabisch, 1913
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4804140&seq=5
Suburban Homes for City Business Men, George L. Catlin, 1872
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8mc94k40&seq=43
Records of the Paterson Fire Association, 1821-1851: With the Laws Relating to the Association, edited with notes by William Nelson, 1894
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx4ckk&seq=11
Industrial History
The Story of Wright Aero, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1928
First Name in Aviation … a Brief History of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1942
Industrial and Commercial Correspondence of Alexander Hamilton, Anticipating his Report on Manufactures edited by Arthur Harrison Cole, 1928
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094362027&view=1up&seq=371
The Founding of Paterson as the Intended Manufacturing Metropolis of the United States by William Nelson, 1887
Report on the Origin and Increase of the Paterson Manufactories and the Intended Diversion of their Waters by the Morris Canal Company by John Langdon Sullivan, 1828
Passaic Steel Company, Paterson, New Jersey, 1903.
https://archive.org/details/passaicsteelcomp00pass/mode/2up
Locomotives and locomotive building, being a brief sketch of the growth of the railroad system and of the various improvements in locomotive building in America together with a history of the origin and growth of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from 1831 to 1886, by Matthias Forney, 1886.
https://archive.org/details/locomotiveslocom00rogerich/page/n9/mode/2up
A History of Industrial Paterson, by Levi Trumbull, 1882
https://archive.org/details/historyofindustr00trum/page/n10/mode/2up
The Rogers Locomotive Company, 1897 Catalogue, 1897
https://archive.org/details/rogerslocomotive00roge/page/n7/mode/2up
The Submarine Torpedo Boat Holland: First Submarine to Become a Part of the United States Navy by Captain Frank T. Cable, 1943
First National Silk Convention: [exhibition] City Hall, Paterson, N.J., October 12th, to 21st., 1915, 1915
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t3032g894&view=1up&seq=11
The Memoirs of a Silk Striker: an Exposure of the Principles and Tactics of the I.W.W.,
by John H. Steiger, 1914
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89063261358&view=1up&seq=16
Industrial localization and metropolitan growth: The Paterson-Passaic District, by James B. Kenyon, 1960
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b89369&view=1up&seq=13
“The Latest Naval Wonders for Destroying Battleships.” The Call, San Francisco, April 24, 1898 California https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1898-04-24/ed-1/seq-18/
“The Manufactures of Paterson, N.J” Scientific American, 1859
Part 1
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080787587&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021&q1=paterson
Part 2
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080787587&view=1up&seq=302&skin=2021&q1=paterson
Part 3
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080787587&view=1up&seq=318&skin=2021&q1=paterson
Part 4
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080787587&view=1up&seq=334&skin=2021&q1=paterson
Documents Relative to the Manufactures in the United States collected and transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, 1833
(Paterson begins on page 148- Doc 11- No. 10)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hj1f84&view=1up&seq=188&skin=2021&q1=Paterson
The Wright Engine Builder, Vol. VIII January 1926 – Vol. IX December 1927
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066302518&seq=7
The Wright Engine Builder, Vol. 10 1928 – Vol. 12 1930
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433114927746&seq=1
Enginology Wright at the Moment, 1945
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014384856&seq=3
The Aviation Business: from Kitty Hawk to Wall Street, by Elsbeth Estelle Freudenthal, 1940
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b39416&seq=95&q1=Wright+Aeronautical
Aviation and Aeronautical engineering, c.1 v.1 Aug 1916-Jan 1917
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.22826851&seq=67&q1=Wright+Martin
The Story of the Aeroplane by Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, 1917
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.73661295&seq=3
The Folding-Trigger Paterson Colt by William G. Renwick, 1934
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044080706302&view=1up&seq=3&skin=2021
On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-breech Fire-arms and their Peculiarities by Colonel Samuel Colt, 1855
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024282006&view=1up&seq=16&skin=2021
Colt’s 100th anniversary Fire Arms Manual: 1836-1936 by Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., 1937
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014494218&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Percussion Colt Revolvers and Conversions, 1836-1873 by John E. Parsons, 1942
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112042427010&view=1up&seq=23&skin=2021
The Story of Textiles; a Bird’s-eye View of the History of the Beginning and the Growth of the Industry by which Mankind is Clothed by Perry Walton, 1925
Report of the President and Directors of the Morris Canal & Banking Company to the Stockholders, 1845, 1845
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556042481366&seq=2&q1=Paterson
The Official souvenir / the New Jersey Commission to the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, Va., April twenty-sixth, November thirtieth. Containing- The Origin and Present Status of the Silk Industry in Paterson, NJ By Jos. W. Congdon, President of the Silk Association of America. (page 79), 1907
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101072920018&seq=79&q1=Paterson
Religious History
The Pastor and the Church, or, Rev. John H. Duryea, D.D. by Theodore W. Wells, 1896
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081788543&view=1up&seq=14
The First Presbyterian Church of Paterson, New Jersey, by William Nelson, 1893
https://archive.org/details/firstpresbyteri00nels/page/n6/mode/2up
History of the Old Dutch Church at Totowa, Paterson 1755-1827, by William Nelson, 1892
https://archive.org/details/historyofolddutc01nels/page/n8/mode/2up
A history of the First Presbyterian Church of Paterson, New Jersey by Clarence E. Macartney, 1913
https://archive.org/details/historyoffirstpr00maca/page/n4/mode/2up
Directory of churches in New Jersey, Volume XVI, Passaic County, prepared by The New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1941.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070150522&view=1up&seq=3
People
Paterson and Its Prominent Men, 1915
https://archive.org/details/patersonitspromi00pate/mode/2up
An Address Delivered June 24, 1812, at the funeral of Sarah Cumming, James Richards, 1812
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.090336718&view=1up&seq=6
Personal Names of Indians of New Jersey, Compiled by William Nelson
The Indians of New Jersey: their origin and development, manners and customs, language, religion and government: with notices of some Indian place names by William Nelson, 1894
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044043334291&view=1up&seq=7
African American Family Business in Paterson New Jersey, compiled by the American Folklife Center, 1994.
Paterson’s Hot Texas Weiner Tradition, compiled by the American Folklife Center, 1994.
Scorecard for baseball game between Paterson City Club and the Baltimore Black Sox, circa 1920s.
Letter from Alfred Gibbs Campbell to William Lloyd Garrison about the Paterson Antislavery Society, 1854.
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6h441m160
Being a Negro In Paterson by Anita Flynn, 1947
https://archive.org/details/BeingANegroInPaterson/mode/2up
Indians of the Passaic Valley, by Edward Hunter Ross, 1963. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3365849&seq=5
Little Turtle of the Lenni Lenape by William A. Slaughter, 1931.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=rul.39030016059455&seq=7
The wampum belt; or, “The Fairest Page of History:” A Tale of William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, by Hezekiah Butterworth, 1897.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074848759&seq=11
Homes and haunts of the Indians, by Albert H. Heusser, 1923.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000522469&seq=7
Books with References to Paterson
The American Universal Geography Or, A View of the Present State of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the United States in Particular. In Two Parts … · Part 1 by Jedidiah Morse, Samuel Webber · 1802 (Paterson on PDF page 514)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj3s2&view=1up&seq=7
The Resources of the United States of America; or, A view of the Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing, Financial, Political, Literary, Moral and Religious Capacity and Character of the American People By John Bristed, counsellor at law, 1818 (Paterson on PDF pages 83-84)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8jd57504&view=1up&seq=83
An Historical, Topographical, and Statistical View of the United States of America: from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Vol. 2 by the Rev. William Winterbotham and others, 1819
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.79345694&view=1up&seq=392
Travels through the United States of America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811; including an account of passages betwixt America & Britain, Ireland, and Canada. With corrections and improvements till 1815. With an appendix, containing a letter from Clements Burleigh, esq. to Irish emigrants removing to America, and hints, by the Shamroc Society, New-York, to emigrants from Europe — by John Melish, 1818 (Paterson on PDF page 123)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433115687778&view=1up&seq=119
The illustrated Hand-Book, a New Guide for Travelers Through the United States of America by John Calvin Smith, 1851 (Paterson on PDF page 88)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5t735j5t&view=1up&seq=88
Appletons’ New and Complete United States Guide Book for Travellers; Embracing the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western States, Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc. by W. Williams, 1851
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044058141862&view=1up&seq=293
Letter from William Lloyd Garrison to Eliza Garrison about his visit to Paterson, 1869.
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cv43s490w
Journal of a March a Battle and a Water-Fall By Major James McHenry Secretary to His Excellency General Washington, by Major James McHenry, 1778.
Picturesque Views of American Scenery Engraved by Hill, 1820
(Paterson on pages 5; 44-46)
Politics
Great leaders and national issues of 1896: containing the lives of the Republican and Democratic candidates for president and vice-president, biographical sketches of the leading men of all parties … together with a full presentation of the live questions of the day, including the tariff, gold and silver, Cuba, Armenia, Venezuela, Monroe doctrine, etc. By Edward S. Ellis, 1896
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t3417jn4x&view=1up&seq=544&skin=2021
Life and distinguished services of Hon. Wm. McKinley and the great issues of 1896, containing also a sketch of the life of Garret A. Hobart By Murat Halstead,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015062350247&view=1up&seq=453&skin=2021
Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993, by Mark O. Hatfield, 1997.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293011989286&view=1up&seq=315&skin=2021&q1=Hobart
Instruction Book for Wright Aviation Engines, by Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1924.
https://archive.org/details/instructionbookf00wrig/page/n5/mode/2up
1896: The great campaign or political struggles of parties, leaders and issues covering every phase of the vital questions of the day; protection; the gold standard, including platforms of all parties and biographies of the presidential candidates, the whole forming a complete handbook of political information voter’s guide and instructor. By Lawrence F. Prescott, 1896.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435015179294&view=1up&seq=39&skin=2021&q1=hobart
One of the people: life and speeches of William McKinley, citizen, soldier, congressman, governor and presidential candidate. Embracing a complete report of the proceedings of the St. Louis convention. To which is added a brief sketch of Garret A. Hobart, candidate for Vice-President, by Byron Andrews, 1896.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970017314524&view=1up&seq=395&skin=2021&q1=hobart
Memories by Mrs. Garret A. Hobart (Ester Jane “Jennie” Tuttle Hobart), 1930.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b727615&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021
Address of Honorable John W. Griggs at the unveiling of the statue of Garret Augustus Hobart by John W. Griggs, 1903.
https://archive.org/details/addressofhonorab01grig/page/4/mode/2up
William Paterson, by Charles Shriner, 1940.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3287046&view=1up&seq=1
Society for establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.)
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations, v.1, by Joseph Stancliffe Davis, 1917.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0050991587&seq=129
William Duer pages 111-338; The “S.U.M.”: The First New Jersey Business Corporation pages 349 – 518
Journal of the proceedings of the Legislative-Council of the State of New-Jersey, Sess. 39, No. 1, 1814
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433010030488&seq=19&q1=Society
Industrial and Commercial Correspondence of Alexander Hamilton, Anticipating his Report on Manufactures, edited by Arthur Harrison Cole, 1928.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094362027&seq=239\
Letters relating to the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures- Pages 183 – 228
Journal of the Proceedings of the First Senate of the State of New Jersey Convened at Trenton…Being the Sixty-Ninth Session, 1845
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095664001&seq=30&q1=Society
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court and the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey, v.24(1853/1855), 1855
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044078430592&seq=401&q1=Society
Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Counci lof the Senate of the State of New Jersey, 1816.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095663843&seq=11&q1=Society
A History of the Bank of New York, 1784-1884, by Henry W. Domett, 1922
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.ahl4405.0001.001&seq=77&q1=Society
The life of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, H. Paul Caemmerer, 1970
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006811999&seq=282&q1=Paterson
Plan for Paterson on Pages 249-256