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Title: Photos of ICC's Tree Planting at the New Oliver St. School
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Summary: When the new Oliver St. School was built, trees were forgotten. With Ironbound Community Corporation's assistance, the state School Development Administration returned, cut the holes for the trees, and students and staff and ICC staff planted 31 trees around the school. Funding for tree bags to provide water to the trees during the summer was provided by Councilman Augusto Amador. The trees came from the NJ Tree Foundation.
Subjects: Ironbound (Newark, N.J.), Community organization, Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark (N.J.), Schools, Zoning Law, City planning, Oliver Street School (Newark, N.J.), Trees
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: SPARK photograph
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 1997
Summary: This is a photograph of Oliver St. School students presenting the play "Making Sparks Fly" which told the story of how the community saved the park. The students made costumes and scenery. Community members from SPARK and the general public came to celebrate!
Subjects: Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark (N.J.), Ironbound (Newark, N.J.), Community organization, Riverbank Park (Newark, N.J.), Parks, Environmental justice, SPARK Friends of Riverbank Park, Theatrical productions, Oliver Street School (Newark, N.J.)
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Cover for Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Olier St. School
Creator(s): Ironbound Community Corporation
Date Created: 2016-06-14
Summary: Cover for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Oliver St. School in Ironbound. Later Ironbound Community Corporation had to organize the School Development Authority to return and cut holes in the cement in order to plant 31 trees around the school which had gotten "forgotten" during the original construction. This cover page represents a chapter in the history of Ironbound Community Corporation. For complete report contact Ironbound Community Corporation.
Subjects: Ironbound (Newark, N.J.), Community organization, Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark (N.J.), Schools, Zoning Law, City planning, Oliver Street School (Newark, N.J.)
In Collection(s): Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: 18th Annual Holocaust Observance
Creator(s): Newark (N.J.)
Date Created: 2005-05-18
Summary: Students from the Oliver Street School read poetry written by children held in Nazi concentration camps, at the City of Newark's 18th Annual Holocaust Observance on May 18, 2005. Less than 100 of the children held at that camp survived the Holocaust, but their poems were recovered in 1945.
Subjects: Newark (N.J.), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camps, Poetry, Oliver Street School (Newark, N.J.), Students, Genocide, Memorial rites & ceremonies, African Americans
In Collection(s): Sharpe James Photograph Collection, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

Title: Oliver Street School
Creator(s): Zhang, Myles
Date Created: 1916, 1916, 2016
Summary: Newark in 1916 versus Newark today
Subjects: Newark (N.J.), Buildings, Schools, Oliver Street School (Newark, N.J.)
In Collection(s): Newark Then And Now, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

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