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Waters, Helen

Helen Waters, a widow, supported her family by operating a beauty salon on the second floor of 421 Cooper Street from the 1930s to at least 1950.

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 400 Block, 421 Cooper Street, 426 Lawrence Street, Adult, Beauticians, Cape May, Cosmetics, Female, Philadelphia, Widows

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

Originally a livery stable operator, Joshua Franklin's life on Cooper Street spanned to the age of the automobile.

Tags: 116 Cooper Street, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 400 Block, 415 Cooper Street, 417 Cooper Street, Adult, Automobiles, Burlington County, Death, Horses, Injuries, Investment, Livery Stable, Male, Widowers

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

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

Tags: 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 400 Block, 415 Cooper Street, Adult, Architects, Boarding House, Boarding House Operator, Extended Family, Female, Insurance, Widows

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

Tags: 1960s, 400 Block, 417 Cooper Street, Advertising, Haddon Township, Insurance, Politics, Republicans, Willingboro

Tags: 1890s, 400 Block, 419 Cooper Street, Advertising, Manufacturers, Philadelphia

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

Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.

Tags: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 400 Block, 427 Cooper Street, Architects, Attorneys, Boarding House, Dentists, Doctors, Extended Family, Investment, Lumber, Philadelphia, Queen Anne, Real Estate, Richardsonian Romanesque, Servants, Widows