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LostBlock-draft.pdf
Expansion of the Victor Talking Machine Company spelled the end for a block of houses on Cooper Street between Front Street and Delaware Avenue.

Once a janitor, James Battle may be the only African American to advance from a position of service on Cooper Street to heading his own household.

A member of the prominent Browning family, after the death of her husband Jerusha Browning took in boarders at 415 Cooper Street.

William Burrell, a clergyman, performed weddings for couples seeking to evade license requirements in Philadelphia.

Margaret Chambers, a boarding house operator and entrepreneur, was a fixture at 59 Cooper Street for two decades beginning in 1893.

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