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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…