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Mason's Improved Fruit Jar

A product of the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company in late 1870s, this Mason’s Improved Jar proved to be popular and accessible to many people in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A common household item, the jar helped housewives during the…

Tags: 1870s, 300 Block, Alumni House Display, Archaeology, Business, Domestic Life, Food and Drink, Vineland

Linden Terrace Residents Database (Linden Street, Fourth to Fifth Streets)

Data about past residents of the 400 block of Linden Street in Camden, NJ. Developed in 1871, this block known as Linden Terrace was a distinctive development of 34 stone-facade row houses on a widened street landscaped with three oval parks with…

Lawrence Street Residents Database

Data about past residents of Lawrence Street, which lies within the Cooper Street Historic District in Camden, N.J. (work in progress).

Tags: Data, Lawrence Street

Lawrence Street by Block, 1854-1860 (before house numbering)

Data about residents on Lawrence Street in Camden, New Jersey.

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

Homan, Amos C.

A Civil War veteran, Amos Homan operated a cigar stand at 37 Cooper Street and eventually bought the building.

Tags: 00 Block, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 37 Cooper Street, Adult, Boarder/Lodger, Cigars, Civil War, Coal, Male, Retail, United Methodist Church, Widowers

Helene Apartments (Castle Apartments, 232 Cooper Street / 125 N. Third Street)

Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.

Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 200 Block, 2000s, 2010s, 232 Cooper Street, Apartments, Demolition, Investment, Ireland, Real Estate, Redevelopment, Romanesque Revival

Hanmore, John

John Hanmore, a Philadelphia manufacturer, moved his family to a new home on Cooper Street during the 1880s. His death changed the family's fortunes.

Tags: 00 Block, 1880s, 65 Cooper Street, Adult, Death, Interiors, Male, Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Renovations

Hand-Painted Sugar Box

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.

Glass Syringe

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

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