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429 Cooper Street

Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.

Tags: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 200s, 2010s, 400 Block, 429 Cooper Street, African Americans, Apartments, Death, Doctors, Druggists, Livery Stable, Mansard, Merchantville, Polio, Real Estate, Renovations, Rutgers-Camden, Servants

430 Lawrence Street

Garage, built c. 1939-50 on former site of two nineteenth-century rowhouses.

Tags: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 430 Lawrence Street, African Americans, Banking, Bartenders, Black Migration, Boatmen, Childhood, Children, Clerks, Coach Painters, Colorado, Demolition, Drivers, Farmers, Funeral Homes, Garages, Germany, Haddonfield, Hatters, Investment, Ironers, Laborers, Laundries, Lawrence Street, Librarians, Lumber, Mediums, Messengers, Mount Holly, Nevada, New York, Parks, Pennsylvania, Polishers, Porters, Public Officials, Rutgers University, Servants, Shoemakers, Weddings, Widows

432 Lawrence Street

Nineteenth-century, working-class rental property, Cooper Street Historic District.

434 Lawrence Street

Nineteenth-century former rowhouse converted to automobile garage c. 1946.

Tags: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 211 N. Fifth Street, 425 Cooper Street, 432 Lawrence Street, 434 Lawrence Street, Box Makers, Bricklayers, Cabinet Makers, Childhood, Children, Death, Demolition, Ferries, Garages, Germany, Ireland, Lawrence Street, Machinists, Packers, Philadelphia, Pneumonia, Police, Renovations, Victor Talking Machine Company, Widows

Atwood, Hannah

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

Cooper Mansion (121 Cooper Street)

Demolished home to two generations of the Cooper family, later a public library.

Coy, Henry

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

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, doctors and patients at home relied on glass syringes to treat various conditions, including venereal diseases. Unlike hypodermic needles, these artifacts, also…

Tags: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 300 Block, Alumni House Display, Archaeology, Civil War, Health and Medicine, Illness, Men

Lawrence Street (400 Block)

Nineteenth-century, working-class rowhouses and twentieth-century garages.

Tags: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 400 Block, Blacksmiths, Boarder/Lodger, Bricklayers, Cabinet Makers, Carpenters, Childhood, Children, Coachmen, Demolition, Dressmakers, Drivers, Extended Family, Garages, Historic Preservation, Hostlers, Investment, Laundries, Lawrence Street, Redlining, Renovations, Rutgers University, Rutgers-Camden, Tailors, Urban Renewal, Widows

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Bottle

Mothers in the late nineteenth century used Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, made by Curtis & Perkins of Bangor, Maine, to ease their babies’ teething pain and other ailments. It lived up to its name, soothing distressed children into a peaceful…

Tags: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 300 Block, Alumni House Display, Archaeology, Childhood, Domestic Life, Health and Medicine, Motherhood

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