Browse Items · Learning From Cooper Street

Ackley, Sallie (Wilkins)

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

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

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

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

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

Tags: 00 Block, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 57 Cooper Street, 59 Cooper Street, 61 Cooper Street, Adult, Boarding House Operator, Female, Philadelphia, Saloons, Widows

Matilda Toy is an example of an itinerant boarding house operator, moving to different rented houses from year to year.

Tags: 00 Block, 37 Cooper Street, Adult, Boarding House Operator, Female, Widows