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

A leader in public health, Dr. Henry Hill Davis lived at 417 Cooper Street for five years prior to his retirement in 1925.

Past residents of Fifth Street, Camden, N.J., including 211 N. Fifth St., Rutgers-Camden Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. (Work in progress.)     Link to database here.

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…

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…

Originally a livery stable operator, Joshua Franklin's life on Cooper Street spanned to the age of the automobile.

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

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…

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.

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.