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Truscott, Arthur

While boarding at 415 Cooper Street, architect Arthur Truscott launched his career in Philadelphia.

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A leader in public health, Dr. Henry Hill Davis lived at 417 Cooper Street for five years prior to his retirement in 1925.

Tags: 1920s, 400 Block, 417 Cooper Street, Activism, Adult, Aging, Automobiles, Burlington County, Doctors, Health and Medicine, Male, Philadelphia, Schools, Toms River

Did the Coy family harbor a secret in their home at 101 Cooper Street?

Tags: 100 Block, 101 Cooper Street, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, Adult, Canada, Childhood, Death, Dental Implements, Ghost Stories, Johnson Park, Male, Massachusetts, Newspapers, Palmyra, Philadelphia, Sewing Machines, Stockton Township

Investing in Camden real estate provided steady income to an artist's wife for nearly 40 years.

Tags: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 400 Block, 413 Cooper Street, 415 Cooper Street, 417 Cooper Street, Adult, Artists, Female, Investment, Philadelphia, Rhode Island

Two Chinese laundries operated on Cooper Street during the late nineteenth century.

Tags: 1880s, 1890s, 200 Block, 214 Cooper Street, 220 Cooper Street, Business, China, Crime, Immigrants, Laundries, Philadelphia, Police, Public Health

In the wake of the Civil War, a young widow contracted for a new house to be built at 228 Cooper Street.

Tags: 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 200 Block, 228 Cooper Street, Adult, Childhood, Civil War, Death, Extended Family, Female, Investment, Italianate, Widows

During the Vietnam War era, Michael Giocondo participated in the "Camden 28" raid on draft board headquarters.

Tags: 1970s, 200 Block, 229 Cooper Street, Activism, Adult, Catholics, Male, Social Justice, Vietnam