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Straight pins filled a number of needs in the nineteenth-century household. Women used them to sew clothes and fasten baby diapers, and men used them to fasten documents before the invention of the staple. The thimble protected the pointer finger…

Data about past residents of Cooper Street in Camden, N.J. (work in progress).

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

Data about residents of Cooper Street in Camden, New Jersey.

Demolished home to two generations of the Cooper family, later a public library.

Cole Street was a one-block street that ran from Third to Fourth Street between Linden and Pearl Streets. Row houses, both owned and rented, stood on both sides of the street from the early 1880s until urban renewal demolition created the campus of…

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

Three Charles Joly beer bottles were uncovered during the Cooper Street dig. The bottle not only represents the growth of beer production in the United States, it also shows how the nation was expanding with new innovations that allowed for the…

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

William Burrell, a clergyman, performed weddings for couples seeking to evade license requirements in Philadelphia.