Vail Photograph Exhibit
June through August 2008

The Vail family has been an integral part of Plainfield history almost since the city’s beginning.  Now an extensive exhibit of Vail family photographs “Preserving Rare Photographs of Early Settlers” is on display in the library’s lobby display cases and downstairs, in the Plainfield Room, providing insight into some of Plainfield’s past.

The photographs are part of a much larger donation made to the library in 2005 by sister and brother Marjorie and Roger Vail of Plainfield.  Those currently on display date from the 1850s through the 1960s and illustrate some of the developments of photography during that time.

The exhibit is made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, which is administered by the Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs matched by The Friends of the Plainfield Public Library and Young Audiences.

Photographic restoration and copying was done by Gary Saretzky, archivist at the Monmouth County Archives.

For more information about the exhibit, call Jessica Myers, Head of the Local History Department, at 908 757-1111, ext. 136.