NJ012

Guide to the Helen-Chantal Pike Collection on Asbury Park, New Jersey

By Rachel Ferrante and Christie Lutz

December 2017

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Finding aid encoded in EAD, version 2002 by Tara Maharjan, December 2017

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

Scope and Content Note

The Helen-Chantal Pike Collection on Asbury Park, New Jersey consists of materials about or created in Asbury Park, New Jersey and surrounding Monmouth County towns including Ocean Grove and Eatontown. The collection has been arranged based on Pike’s own organization of the materials, which span the early 1850s to the mid-2000s.

The collection is arranged into four series: POSTCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES, SCRAPBOOKS and MISCELLANEOUS. The postcard series is arranged into four boxes by broad subject area: Hotels; Society; Beach, and Miscellaneous. The Miscellaneous section includes postcards from around New Jersey, as well as other states and cities. The Photographs and Slides series is arranged into twelve folders by subject. While some subjects, like “shops” and “people” are broad, other more specific subjects including “Morro Castle” and “Springwood Avenue Riots” document specific events in Asbury Park history. The Scrapbooks series contains two scrapbooks. One documents the year 1934 in the life of the Banker family. The other, also created by Banker family members, includes primarily newspaper clippings from 1970 to 1972. This scrapbook provides information on the 1970 riots from the perspective of Asbury Park business owner Ann Banker Barr.

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Related Collections

New Jersey Postcard Collection, Sinclair New Jersey Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

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Separated Material

All publications from this collection have been removed and cataloged.

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Name and Subject Terms

Geographical Terms

Subject Headings

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Helen-Chantal Pike Collection on Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1850-2007, NJ012, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

This collection was donated by Helen-Chantal Pike in 2015.

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Detailed Description of the Collection/Container List

This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the "containers" (for example, folders, volumes, or cassettes) and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise the collection. The availability of any digital items from a container is indicated with a hyperlink.