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Cooper Street Domestic Workers Database

Data about domestic workers on Cooper Street in Camden, N.J.

During the Vietnam War era, Michael Giocondo participated in the "Camden 28" raid on draft board headquarters.

Tags: 1970s, 200 Block, 229 Cooper Street, Activism, Adult, Catholics, Male, Social Justice, Vietnam

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

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

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

Tags: 1880s, 1890s, 200 Block, 214 Cooper Street, 220 Cooper Street, Business, China, Crime, Immigrants, Laundries, Philadelphia, Police, Public Health

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

Did the Coy family harbor a secret in their home at 101 Cooper Street?

Tags: 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

Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.

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

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

Tags: 00 Block, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Boarding House, Clergy, Demolition, Grocers, Printing, Victor Talking Machine Company, Weddings, Widows