7 10 100 https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/e23276c1233f9493a0cc83af0bd4f3f8.jpg 54136857e0ed1917c1a8b1805625a9f9 https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/9b8812d63ff298442d4d4fcba3b1a27a.mov 3d11875108c84f4274cf83dba4de6337 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cosmetics Container Description An account of the resource This jar likely held cosmetics, such as a cold cream or powder. Despite missing its lid, this container still reveals details about Cooper Street’s residents. The existence of cosmetics at home suggests the means to purchase a luxury and the leisure opportunities for wearing makeup. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1855-1910; photograph, June 2018 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource TJ Potero (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource brown glass jar approximately 3" tall and 3" in diameter. 300 Block Alumni House Display Archaeology Artifacts Cosmetics Glass Jar Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text By all outward appearances, Henry Coy led a relatively unremarkable but prosperous middle-class life for roughly 15 years when he lived in the block of Cooper Street that later became Johnson Park. Only after his death in 1881 did rumors arise that created a macabre legend about Coy and his family. But were the rumors true? Coy, a Canadian, arrived in the Philadelphia-South Jersey region by 1858 and by 1860 lived at 101 Cooper Street, a three-story brick house that had been standing at the northeast corner of Front and Cooper since the late eighteenth century. His journey to the region may have included time in Massachusetts, where his wife, Sarah, was born. In 1860, at age 35, he headed an extended family household that consisted of Sarah, then age 25; their eight-month-old daughter, Mary Hannah; two women and a child who may have been Sarah's relations; and two servants. By 1870, the Coy family expanded to five children. Sarah Coy's mother, Mary, also lived with the family for a time and died at 101 Cooper Street in 1866, at age 74. To support the family, Coy commuted by ferry across the Delaware River to Philadelphia, where he worked as an agent for Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines. The company, based in Bridgeport, Conn., had emerged quickly during the late 1850s as the leading manufacturer of sewing machines, largely for industrial use. Coy had the only Wheeler & Wilson shop in Philadelphia, in second-floor space at 628 Chestnut Street; he offered machines and operators for hire as well as stitching done in the office. In addition to supporting his family, the income allowed for some minor luxuries, including two carriages and a gold watch. Around 1870, Coy left the sewing machine business to become a manager for the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company, the Philadelphia-based leading maker of high-quality dental instruments. He not only led the instrument-making shop, he also designed and made instruments himself. Forceps, mallets, punch instruments, and other dental tools bearing his maker mark, HC, remain in the <a href="https://temple.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Coy%2C+Henry&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Historical Dental Museum</a> at Temple University and other collections. The Coy family left Cooper Street in 1874 and moved about three miles eastward to Stockton Township, Camden County, and from there to Palmyra in Burlington County. Henry Coy continued in the dental instruments business until his death in 1881. The next year, on May 1, 1882, a bizarre story appeared in the Camden Morning Post: AFTER TWENTY YEARS. A FATHER'S ECCENTRICITY Three Dead Bodies which a Camden Man Refused to Have Buried The report claimed that three bodies recently buried in Palmyra were long-dead children of Henry Coy. And, most shockingly, that during his years on Cooper Street Coy had kept the remains in coffins in his home. "He was a very eccentric man," said the Post, "and it is said he was unwilling to make the acquaintance of any one near him, and that he has found great pleasure during these long years, in sitting for hours at time in the room with the caskets containing his departed children." The tale, reprinted in the Philadelphia Inquirer, reappeared in a much longer, more obviously fictional version eleven years later. Published first in the Philadelphia Times in a section devoted to "Life's Thrilling Side," and then picked up again in Camden by the Morning Post on June 19, 1893, the new version retained the story about the deceased children. But it also spun a highly elaborate description of Coy (this time named Philip, "a long-bearded, impenetrable Canadian") and his haunted mansion replete with secret closets, concealed panels, vaults, and a coffin-shaped cupola. Attributing new details to two caretakers of the property after the Coys moved out, the 1893 version of the story portrayed a haunted house that echoed with sounds of infants wailing and feet shuffling in the cellar. For readers of the late nineteenth-century, the story may have offered a racist clue to its fictional nature by attributing the ghost stories to "Cyrus Green, an old colored man" and his wife, Sarah. Camden readers would have spotted an obvious confusion of references to the "Cooper mansion," which was not the house the Coys occupied, and other errors of local details. Philip was the name of Henry Coy's adult son who died in 1892, prior to publication of the second story. The Coy story also appeared in a pamphlet about Camden historic houses in 1920, characterized as a "rumor." Could there be any truth to the legends of the Coy family? The records of the family across the U.S. Census of 1860, 1870, and 1880 show no disappearing names of children, and hence suggest no deaths. However, New Jersey birth records document an earlier child, and perhaps twins, born in Camden to Henry Coy on March 7, 1858 (the records do not name the mother, and it is unclear whether two very similar records for the same date are duplications or documentation for twins). No Coy children of this age appear in the 1860 Census, so the 1858 infant or infants are unaccounted for. Some elements of the later stories may suggest a plausible explanation: in the 1893 version, Coy is reported to have buried deceased twins in a Haddonfield cemetery without a proper funeral. It is conceivable--but speculation--that after his death in 1881, children buried elsewhere might have been exhumed to be buried with him in Palmyra. This would account for the story about burials that appeared in 1882, and at least one other Cooper Street family is known to have moved an earlier-buried child to rest with a later-deceased parent. Indeed, the Coys have a large, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46885440/henry-coy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">enclosed family plot in the Epworth Methodist Church Cemetery</a> with just one headstone that is perhaps revealing in its silences: "Henry - Sarah S Coy / And Family." Time period on Cooper Street c. 1858/60-1874 Location(s) - Cooper Street 101 Cooper Street (northeast corner of Front and Cooper, later Johnson Park) Location(s) - Other Philadelphia Stockton Township, Camden County Palmyra, Burlington County Occupation Sewing machine dealer (prior to 1870) Dental instrument designer/manufacturer (after 1870) Birth Date c. 1825 Birthplace Kingston, Ontario (Canada West) Death Date September 2, 1881 in Palmyra, Burlington County, N.J. Associated Individuals Sarah Coy (wife) Mary Hannah Coy (daughter) Elizabeth Coy (daughter) Philip H. Coy (son) Susan Coy (daughter) Hellen Coy (daughter) Susan, Haddie, and Addie Brown (possible relatives of wife Sarah) Mary Seger (mother-in-law) Ada Robbins Coy (daughter-in-law, married son Philip) Lydia Everson (servant) Jane Wilson (servant) Emma Everman (servant) Samuel Stockton White (employer at S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia) Sources "After Twenty Years." Camden Morning Post, May 1, 1882. Boyer, Charles S. "The Old Houses in Camden, New Jersey." Annals of Camden, Vol. 1 (privately published, 1920). "Camden's Pet Ghosts." Camden Morning Post, June 19, 1893. Camden City Directories, Camden County Historical Society (Ancestry.com). Edmunson, James M. American Surgical INstruments: The History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of Instrument Makers to 1900 (Novato, Calif: Norman Publishing, 1997), 61. New Jersey Births and Christenings Index (Ancestry.com). "S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co." in Matos, William, comp. Philadelphia: Its Founding and Development, 1683-1908 (Philadelphia, 1908), 324. U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1880. "Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Co." in Hounshell, Davis, From the American SYstem to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkinson University Press, 1985), 68-75. Research by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coy, Henry Subject The topic of the resource Description An account of the resource Did the Coy family harbor a secret in their home at 101 Cooper Street? 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text During the 1920s, a leader in public health who helped Camden respond to epidemics and keep its children healthy, lived for five years at 417 Cooper Street. These were the culminating years of Dr. Henry Hill Davis's long service as medical inspector for Camden's public schools. A native of Crosswicks, Burlington County, Davis came to Camden in the 1870s after graduating from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. While many physicians during the late nineteenth century gravitated toward Cooper Street and the vicinity of the recently opened Cooper Hospital, Davis opened both a pharmacy and medical practice in Kaighn Point. In 1899, he was appointed medical inspector for Camden's public schools--the first post of its kind in New Jersey and only the second in the nation, after New York City. Davis instituted annual physical examinations for Camden pupils and required vaccinations before any child could be admitted to school. While continuing in this work for the schools, Davis was among the leaders in founding a new Camden Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases, which opened in 1916, and he served for twenty years as president of the Camden Board of Health. Over his long career, he led Camden's responses to smallpox outbreaks and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Davis and his wife, Harriett, rented the row house at 417 Cooper Street beginning in 1920; Davis was by this time 70 years old and his wife nine years younger. Their previous address had been 522 Linden Street, which was soon to be enveloped by construction activity for the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge). While at 417 Cooper, Davis continued in his post as medical inspector until retiring in 1925. The city honored him not only with a pension but also by giving his name to a new public school--still operating in 2020 as the <a href="http://camdencitydavis.ss12.sharpschool.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Henry H. Davis Family School</a> in East Camden. A street near the former site of the Municipal Hospital <a href="http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-streets/CamdenNJ-Streets-DavisStreet.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">also bears his name</a>. In retirement, the Davises moved to Toms River, New Jersey, where they owned a home. There, Henry Davis's life came to a tragic end at the age of 78 in April 1929 when he was hit and killed by an automobile. The Camden Courier-Post took the opportunity when reporting his death to deliver a public health message: already during the first four months of the year, 55 people in South Jersey had been killed in crashes involving automobiles. Time period on Cooper Street 1920-25 Location(s) - Cooper Street 417 Cooper Street Occupation Physician, Medical Inspector for Camden Schools Birth Date c. 1851 Birthplace Crosswicks, N.J. Death Date April 10, 1929 Associated Individuals Harriet Davis, wife Sources Camden City Directories and U.S. Census (Ancestry.com). Camden Courier-Post (Newspapers.com). Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Location(s) - Other 522 Linden Street (previous address) 563 Benson Street (previous address) Third Street and Kaighn Avenue (pharmacy and practice, beginning 1870s) Crosswicks, New Jersey Toms River, New Jersey Philadelphia Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Davis, Dr. Henry H. Description An account of the resource A leader in public health, Dr. Henry Hill Davis lived at 417 Cooper Street for five years prior to his retirement in 1925. 1920s 400 Block 417 Cooper Street Activism Adult Aging Automobiles Burlington County Doctors Health and Medicine Male Philadelphia Schools Toms River Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Data Description An account of the resource Data about past residents, compiled from city directories and the U.S. Census (work in progress). Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Data compiled from public records. Dataset Data encoded in a defined structure. Examples include lists, tables, and databases. A dataset may be useful for direct machine processing. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fifth Street (Cooper to Pearl) Residents Database Description An account of the resource Past residents of Fifth Street, Camden, N.J., including 211 N. Fifth St., Rutgers-Camden Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T57JcKt9zThByrso2xqFx88JTozS_reaNc7X-JngTVo/edit?usp=sharing">Link to database here</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Camden, N.J. City Directories; U.S. and New Jersey Census; Camden newspapers. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1850-c. 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Compiled by Sebastian LaVergne, Charlene Mires, Victoria Scannella, John Sprague, and Gina Torres. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Data compiled from public sources. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T57JcKt9zThByrso2xqFx88JTozS_reaNc7X-JngTVo/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to data</a>. https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/584affe211e7460d99b6cfaacc6e2975.jpg 5d0003c0e8c9d46a8bd41f4eb207b5db https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/adcd0d01593305bce565727592aca3d8.mov 2ff20b15e52d8169552929077fee2c8c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Food Preparation and Storage Vessel Description An account of the resource Discovered alongside many other items of its kind, this object was identified as a food preparation and storage vessel. Its circular base and wide open top suggests that it was used for preparation over storage - it was not found with an airtight lid like those of other storage vessels. Its lack of ornamental design suggests a focus on function over aesthetic value and furthers the notion that this object was used for every day duties in the kitchen. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource McKenna Britton (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Data Description An account of the resource Data about past residents, compiled from city directories and the U.S. Census (work in progress). Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Data compiled from public records. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fourth Street (Lawrence to Pearl Street) Residents Database Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1876-1964 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Compiled by Charlene Mires, Tia Antonelli, and Brian Phillips Description An account of the resource Data about past residents of Fourth Street in Camden, NJ. Fourth Street between Lawrence and Pearl Streets is currently a walkway through the campus of Rutgers-Camden. Earlier, Fourth Street in these blocks developed as a residential street between 1876 and 1880 as the Cooper family sold land north of Cooper Street for residential development. Builders bought single or multiple lots, filled them with three-story row houses or twins, then sold or leased the residences. In the block between Penn and Linden Streets, a number of the homes on the west side of the street were converted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for various uses of the <a href="https://cooperstreet.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/567/">North Baptist Church</a>, an important community institution around the corner on Linden Street. Construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, completed in 1926, and the subsequent High-Speed Line over the bridge led to demolition of the houses between Linden and Pearl Streets in the 1920s and early 1930s. Other homes on the street survived until the 1960s, when Rutgers University initiated an urban renewal project to enlarge its Camden campus. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Camden, NJ, City Directories; U.S. and New Jersey Census; property deeds; Camden newspapers. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Compiled from public sources. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Google Sheets Database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z0pFu5EkW_jlOhd4p9VlyjIrhVawGxYkpum0tVfa3bg/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text Joshua B. (for Benjamin) Franklin, who purchased 415 Cooper Street as well as the adjacent 417 Cooper Street in 1903, was a livery stable operator whose lifetime spanned to the age of the automobile. Franklin, born in 1861, moved from his family's farm in Burlington County to Camden during the city's fast-growing 1880s, when he was 21. He went to work for his uncle Joseph Franklin at the livery stable on Second Street between Cooper and Market and continued the business after his uncle's death. The Franklins became well known in Camden as they rented horses and carriages to the city's social and political elite. The business had a good location close to the Delaware River ferry crossings to Philadelphia and apparently yielded a good living, as Joshua Franklin purchased two other homes, at 224 Linden Street and 116 Cooper Street, before acquiring 415 and 417 Cooper. He joined fraternal organizations, including Lodge 15 of the Free and Accepted Masons. Franklin and his family lived in 415 Cooper while renting out the house next door. He improved the properties by adding wood front porches, in keeping with similar additions elsewhere on the block. He may have added the bay windows to the second and third floors, which are evident in an aerial photograph of Camden taken c. 1926 but not in a photograph of the block earlier in the twentieth century. When Franklin moved into 415 Cooper Street, his family consisted of his wife of 15 years, Mollie, and their 4-year-old daughter Edith. He was a notable enough in the community to cause his daughter's fifth birthday party to be reported in the Camden Courier Post. His personal fortunes soon took a tragic turn, however. Little Edith contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1907 at the age of 8, news that "came as a painful shock to various sections of the city where the family is well known," the Courier-Post lamented. By the end of the same year, Mollie Franklin also died, from the effects of a longstanding heart ailment. She was 38 years old. In the wake of these personal tragedies Joshua Franklin remained at 415 Cooper Street, and his community connections may explain the prominent tenants he attracted to his investment property next door: the dentist Elmer Bower, for example, and the medical inspector for Camden schools, Henry Davis. In 1909, Joshua Franklin was married for a second time, to Chellie Smith, a widow who had been working as a saleswoman for several years since her husband's death. Joshua and Chellie continued to live at 415 Cooper Street for the next 25 years, at times renting rooms to others. At the livery stable, Joshua Franklin suffered two serious injuries: in 1913, a severely broken arm that was treated by Dr. E.A.Y. Schellenger at Fifth and Cooper Streets, and in 1914 a near-electrocution that occurred during a Nor'easter when a live wire fell onto a telephone before Franklin picked up the receiver. The burns required treatment at Cooper Hospital. The appearance of automobiles in Camden during the first two decades of the twentieth century brought change and eventually the end of Franklin's livery stable. As his customers preferred their new automobiles to carriages pulled by horses, Franklin's business dealt more often with commercial clients, such as the city newspapers who still used horses to pull their delivery trucks. Franklin himself entered the automobile business with partners between 1921 and 1923, but by then in his 60s he retired and closed the stables as well. He continued to live at 415 Cooper Street with his wife, Chellie, until he died at home in 1938. In reporting his death, the Camden Morning Post recounted how his 78 years of life had spanned the age of liverymen to the age of the automobile. Time period on Cooper Street 1900-38 Location(s) - Cooper Street 116 Cooper Street (1900-3) 415 Cooper Street (residence, 1903-38) 417 Cooper Street (rental property, 1903-38) Location(s) - Other Second Street between Cooper and Market (livery stable) 224 Linden Street (home prior to 1900) 39 N. Fourth Street and 47 N. Third Street (automobile businesses) Burlington County (boyhood home) Occupation Livery stable operator Automobile dealer Birth Date October 1861 Birthplace Burlington County, New Jersey Death Date February 21, 1938, at home, 415 Cooper Street; burial in Harleigh Cemetery. Associated Individuals Mollie Campbell Franklin (first wife) Edith Campbell (daughter) Chellie Jones Smith Franklin (second wife) Etta Smith Eppler (daughter of second wife) George Franklin (brother) S.R. Franklin (brother) Joseph Franklin (uncle) Mrs. Joseph Johnson (sister) Conly D. Brooks (partner in automobile business, 1921) Residents of 417 Cooper Street, 1903-38, see <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15gz3_mGk3FcNl0TPaOZAq6B1CHvOpqRcY7a99xkp_l4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cooper Street Database</a>. Sources Camden City Directories, New Jersey and U.S. Census Records, 1900-1940 (Ancestry.com) Camden County Property Records Camden Newspapers, 1900-1952 (Newspapers.com) Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Franklin, Joshua B. Description An account of the resource Originally a livery stable operator, Joshua Franklin's life on Cooper Street spanned to the age of the automobile. 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text While living in a rowhouse apartment at 229 Cooper Street, Michael Giocondo joined others in the Catholic Left in an act of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. The "Camden 28," as they came to be known, were caught in the act of breaking into the draft board office in the federal building at Fourth and Market Streets to destroy and steal draft records. Their action and subsequent trial made national news and inspired a documentary film. Giocondo, a Franciscan friar who had been teaching English in Costa Rica, came to Camden in the early 1970s to work with a parish in the city's Puerto Rican community. He left the Franciscan order, but stayed in Camden and founded El Centro, a social service agency, and trained to be a substance abuse counselor. The 1971 break-in at the draft office in Camden was one among many similar actions across the United States that aimed to disrupt the draft and question the justice and morality of the Vietnam War. Giocondo played a fateful role in the local break-in when he invited a friend, Robert Hardy, to join the planning group. In addition to aiding the planning, Hardy became an informant for the FBI, leading to the arrests and charges against 28 people allegedly involved. Seventeen of the defendants, including Giocondo, went to trial at the Camden federal building in 1973. Testimony called the Vietnam War into question, and the defendants argued that the federal government had over-reached with its informant's active role in staging the break-in. The judge instructed the jury that acquittals could be granted on the basis of governmental over-reach, and the jury concurred by finding all of the defendants not guilty. The New York Times described the verdict as "the first total legal victory for the antiwar movement in five years of such draft-record incidents." Following the trial, charges were dropped against the remaining members of the Camden 28. Giocondo left Camden after the trial and later worked as a journalist covering the labor movement in New York and Chicago. He returned to the city for a reunion with the Camden 28 filmed for the documentary <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808190/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Camden 28</a> (2007). He retired to Florida, where <a href="https://peoplesworld.org/article/mike-giocondo-85-fighter-for-justice-at-home-and-abroad/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">he died in 2014</a>. The rowhouse where he lived in the 1970s stood at the northwest corner of Third and Cooper, now a parking lot for Rutgers-Camden dormitories. Time period on Cooper Street Early 1970s Location(s) - Cooper Street 229 Cooper Street (northwest corner, Third and Cooper) Location(s) - Other Federal Building, Fourth and Market Streets Birth Date c. 1929 Birthplace Syracuse, New York Death Date 2014, in Jacksonville, Florida Sources The Camden 28, dir. Anthony Giacchino. (Available to view on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/EcdWk74LQdw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here</a>.) Camden 28 Documents: <a href="http://www.camden28.org/master.html?http://www.camden28.org/thestory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here</a>. "<a href="https://peoplesworld.org/article/mike-giocondo-85-fighter-for-justice-at-home-and-abroad/">Mike Giocondo, 85: Fighter for Justice at Home and Abroad</a>." People's World, April 23, 2014. News coverage of the Camden 28 in Camden and Philadelphia and the New York Times. Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Giocondo, Michael Description An account of the resource During the Vietnam War era, Michael Giocondo participated in the "Camden 28" raid on draft board headquarters. 1970s 200 Block 229 Cooper Street Activism Adult Catholics Male Social Justice Vietnam https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/70676b1d22a7c37a7ea832368b639f3e.jpg 1d6e5135c3793c029ad66e2a3e8a5806 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Glass Syringe Description An account of the resource 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 called “male” syringes, did not inject medicine subcutaneously. Instead, these syringes irrigated or flushed the visibly infected parts of the body. The “male” syringe entered the tip of the penis to flush the symptoms from the urethra. In addition to the discomfort, these treatments failed to cure the venereal diseases and only masked the symptoms for periods of time. Read more about this object: <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/16">https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/16</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1840-1900; photographed April 2018. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource TJ Potero (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hand-blown glass syringes. Syringe #1, Barrel: 5 ½ in (L) (13.97 cm (L), Plunging Rod: 3 ½ in (L). Syringe #2. Barrel 3 ½ in (L) (13.97 cm (L), Plunging Rod: 3 ¼ in (L). 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 300 Block Alumni House Display Archaeology Civil War Health and Medicine Illness Men https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/3f19c92c4213e6dbca11147f0068ed37.jpg 5fd6717e4c85b7bc4166863398b61557 https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/a8049b65a4812af864ad8104064e33dc.mov 1686a76bba22924c64c77be96dd8b127 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hand-Painted Sugar Box Description An account of the resource Sugar boxes held sugar to sweeten tea and coffee or to make unpalatable wine drinkable. This nearly-intact pearlware example from the early 1800s has a hand-painted garland design. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1815-1830; photograph July 2018. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Ceramic vessel approximately 4" tall and 5" wide.