COOPER STREET is one of the oldest streets in Camden, and is named after the Cooper family. William Cooper was one of the first settlers in this part of New Jersey. Camden was known as Cooper's Ferries for many years prior to the city being incorporated in 1828. The curb line of Cooper Street, from Front Street to the tracks of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad Company, were moved twelve feet towards the center, and the street paved with Belgian blocks in 1881. In 1927 the curb lines were moved back twelve feet from 4th Street to 9th Street. This improvement was completed in September of 1927. Cooper Street runs from the waterfront east to 9th Street, with a short block of homes and business still standing above 11th Street. Prior to the construction of Interstate Route I-676, Cooper Street ran all the way to 12th Street. Cooper Street was for many years one of the most prestigious addresses in Camden, and many homes of historic significance, due to both the residents and the architects of said homes, were and still are on Cooper Street. The "beginning of the end" for Cooper Street came in the early 1920s, when three mansions were torn down to make room for the Walt Whitman Hotel. On June 30, 1940 all the homes on the south side of the 900 block were destroyed when the R.M. Hollingshead chemical factory, which occupied most of the block, fronting on 9th and on Market Streets, exploded and burned to the ground. Little known outside of East Camden is the "other" Cooper Street, which runs between North 19th and East State Street. This short street only has one single family home and a block of 13 row homes. |
Do you have an Cooper Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. |
Journalist Will Paul wrote an article around 1940 about growing up on Cooper Street in the 1880s. Be sure to read his Memories of Old Cooper Street. |
Tom Agin and his sister Harriet Lynne Agin Stuhltrager have shared some East Camden Cooper Street memories and photos with me. Click here for a few notes about the "other" Cooper Street. |
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10 Cooper Street
The Esterbrook Pen Company The Esterbrook Pens Co. plant stood at Cooper
Street and Delaware Avenue in Camden for several decades. Founded in
1858 in Camden by Richard Esterbrook, the plant was moved to Cherry
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10 Cooper Street
The Esterbrook Pen Company When Esterbrook Pen left Camden, the old plant was acquired by RCA. Known as RCA Building 16, it was demolished in January of 1971. |
41 Cooper Street
Thomas
W. McCowan |
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43 Cooper Street
Rev.
William H. Burrell |
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47 Cooper Street
1906 |
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57 Cooper Street
1895 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1925
As Seen Looking South from Penn Street. 8
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100 Block of Cooper Street
The Cooper Mansion was purchased by the City of Camden in December of 1898, and became the city's first public par. The three-story building on the property became the first home of Camden Free Public Library. In the 1910s the old mansion was razed to make room for the Johnson Library and Johnson Park Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Cooper Street Looking Northeast from Front and Cooper 1907 Click on Image to Enlarge The Cooper Mansion, in 1907 the home of Camden Free Public Library |
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Cooper Street
Johnson
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Cooper Street
Johnson
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Cooper Street
1926 Peter Pan Pagent Click on Image to Enlarge The Johnson Library and park were donated to the City of Camden by Eldridge Johnson, founder and CEO of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Built between 1914 and 1930, and first opened in 1918. |
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Cooper Street Looking Northeast from Front and Cooper April 2005 Photo by Craig Campbell Click on Image to Enlarge |
106 Cooper Street 1880-1890s |
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Cooper Street
1896-1897 Camden Post |
122 Cooper Street Dr. Samuel Harris |
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122 (120-124) and 126 Cooper Street
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122 Cooper Street The Dorcas Society |
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126 Cooper Street 1878-1882 |
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128 & 130 Cooper Street |
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134 Cooper Street |
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120-124, 126, 128, 130
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100-134 Cooper Street Victor Talking Machine Company Factory Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Northwest Corner of Front & Cooper Street Victor Talking Machine Company Offices |
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Cooper Street Looking East from N 2nd Street 1st house on right: 210 Cooper Click on Images to Enlarge |
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200-230 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 |
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200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge |
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200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge |
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200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge |
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200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge |
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200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge |
AUTOIST HELD IN CRASH AS LICENSELESS DRIVER Charged with driving without a license, Arthur Benjamin, 28, of 430 Liberty Street, was held in $10 security for a police court hearing following a collision at Twenty-third and High Streets shortly after noon yesterday, One man was cut on the head and legs. Policeman James Banks made the arrest after Benjamin's car struck and overturned the machine of C.R. Finney, 62, of 201 Cooper Street. Finney was treated by Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk. Benjamin was ordered to appear before Judge Garfield Pancoast June 29. |
201 Cooper Street 1933 C.R. Finney Camden
Courier-Post |
201 Cooper Street
1933 Turin Grotto |
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204 & 206 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge RIGHT: 204 Cooper Street was the home of the College of South Jersey Law School in 1947, the predecessor to Rutgers Law School LEFT: Henry S. Ford lived at 206 Cooper Street in the 1930s and 1940s |
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204 Cooper Street
1891-1941 |
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204 Cooper Street
1891-1941 Camden Courier-Post |
205 Cooper Street Richard
Pancoast |
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206 Cooper Street
1930s-1940s |
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207 Cooper Street |
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209 Cooper Street Womans
Club of Camden |
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210 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Charlotte
C. French Click on Image to Enlarge
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210 Cooper Street Charlotte
C. French Click on Image to Enlarge |
212 Cooper Street |
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214 Cooper Street 1900s-1910s |
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214 Cooper Street George
W. Jessup |
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215 Cooper Street |
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Cooper Street 1940-1947 |
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218
Cooper Street
1869 First Chief |
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220
Cooper Street
Samuel Smith |
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218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments 1925 Byron
Edwards
& Alfred
Green Click on Image to Enlarge
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218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments 1949 Helen Henry Camden
Courier-Post |
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218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments Edward
A. "Dick" Malan Click on Image to Enlarge |
218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments 1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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224 & 218-222 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge |
223 Cooper Street |
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224 Cooper Street
February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
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224 Cooper Street
Camden Courier-Post Edward K. Brogan
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228 & 224 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge |
227 Cooper Street |
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228 Cooper Street 1869-1874 |
228 Cooper Street
1869-1877 |
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228 Cooper Street
Photo taken February 7, 2004 1877-1888 Click on Image to Enlarge 1905-1931 Richard Rilatt & Family |
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232 Cooper Street
1878-1903 Martha Goldy Anderson died in 1880. Abraham Anderson married Eliza Burr in 1890. 1890-1903 |
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232 Cooper Street
1890-1903 Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Burr - First Baptist Church |
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232 Cooper Street
1905-1910 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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232 Cooper Street
The Helene Apartments Southwest Corner The Helene Apartments, built by Patrick Farley and named after his daughter, first appear in Camden City Directories in 1913. |
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232 Cooper Street
1910s-1920s |
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232 Cooper Street
1914-1915 |
232 Cooper Street
1910s-1920s |
The Helene Apartments at 125 North 3rd Street & 232 Cooper Street Southwest Corner of North 3rd & Cooper Streets |
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301 Block of Cooper Street | |
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300-302 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 House on left: 302 Cooper |
300 Cooper Street
Dr.
William A. Davis |
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300 Cooper Street
1910 Josiah MIddleton Click on Image to Enlarge |
300 Cooper Street
1935 Edward Clark |
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302-300 House on left: 302 Cooper |
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302 Cooper Street
1910 James F. Davis Click on Image to Enlarge |
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302 to 312 Photo Courtesy |
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303 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Dr. Max Ruttenberg Click on Images to Enlarge
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ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Dr. and Mrs. Max Ruttenberg, of 303 Cooper Street, have announced the engagement of Mrs. Ruttenberg's sister, Miss Harriet Blieden, daughter of the late Rabbi and Mrs. Ben jamin Blieden, of Philadelphia, to Max Kahener, of Philadelphia. Miss Blieden is a graduate of South Philadelphia High School for Girls and following attended Temple University. She is vice president of the South Philadelphia Hadassah. Mr. Kahener is a graduate of the Philadelphia Normal School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the law school of Dickinson College. |
303 Cooper Street Dr. Max Ruttenberg Camden
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305 Cooper Street Dr. H.
Genet Taylor February 7, 2004 |
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305 Cooper Street The Home of February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
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306 Cooper Street
1910-1930s Philadelphia Inquirer |
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306 Cooper Street
1930s-1945 |
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306 Cooper Street
1974 Camden Courier-Post RTC Shipbuilding
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311 Cooper Street The Completed and opened for business Property developed and building erected by Segwyn Realty, Inc.- Dr. Meyer Segal, Meyer Wessel, Hyman Bloom This building was known as Cooper Plaza Apartments in 1947. |
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311 Cooper Street The Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Advertisement |
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300-312 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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312 Cooper Street Camden Republican Club |
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312 Cooper Street Headquarters of the February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
Below: Aerial Photo from late 1930 showing 201 to 311 Cooper Street |
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315
Cooper Street
1908 Philadelphia
Inquirer Dr.
H. Genet Taylor - Dr.
Paul H. Markley |
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318 Cooper Street
1910 Joseph S. Jenkins 1914-1950s Photograph published in 1915 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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319 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post |
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321 Cooper Street
1910-1915 May 15, 1910 |
Miss Edna Margaretta Brice, daughter of Mrs. Richard A. Brice, of 321 Cooper Street, and Carlos Faber Noyes, of New York, were married Saturday night by Rev. J.B. Haines, pastor of the Centenary M.E. Church. |
321 Cooper Street
1910-1915 Philadelphia Inquirer |
322 Cooper Street
1910 Ella Elizabeth Glenn 1932 |
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322 Cooper Street
1932 Camden Courier-Post |
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323 Cooper Street Francis
D. Weaver |
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323, 325 & 329 Cooper Street |
324 Cooper Street |
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325 Cooper Street The Home and Office of Dr. Lettie Allen Ward |
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326
Cooper Street
1908-1927 1910-191 |
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326
Cooper Street
1940-1954 Camden Courier-Post
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326 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 April 2004- Click on Images to Enlarge Razed in 2011 |
327 Cooper Street
1883-1899
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327 Cooper Street
1900-1926 |
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327 Cooper Street
1900-1926 |
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327 Cooper Street
1900-1926
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327 & 329 Cooper Street |
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323 to 329 Cooper Street |
328 Cooper Street |
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329 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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330 Cooper Street
1863-1885 Camden Post |
330 Cooper Street
1887-1904 |
400 Block of Cooper Street | |
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400 Cooper Street Judge Mitchell H. Cohen Click on Images to Enlarge |
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403 to 429 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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403 & 405 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
403 Cooper Street
1880s Wilbur F. Rose |
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GEORGE
W. JOHNS JOHNS—On
February 11, 1938, George W. husband of Joanna Johns, age 74 years.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral
services Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the funeral home of Charles
W. Hiskey, 423 Cooper St., Camden, N. J. Interment private at Harleigh
Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday evening, 7 to 9 o'clock. |
403 Cooper Street
1938 George W. Johns Camden Courier-Psot |
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405 Cooper Street |
405 Cooper Street Dr. Paul Mecray |
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405 & 407 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
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406 Cooper Street Dr. A.
Haines Lippincott Jr. Photograph taken in 1978 |
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407 Cooper Street
1916 Philadelphia Inquirer |
408
Cooper Street
1911-1915 |
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408
Cooper Street
1916-1920s |
408 Cooper Street 1929-1933 Sarah Dollar |
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408 Cooper Street 1931-1990s Camden
Courier-Post
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408 Cooper Street 1931-1990s 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone
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408 Cooper Street 1931-1990s Camden
Courier-Post
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408 Cooper Street Charles
T. Murray The funeral home used both 410 (at left) and 408 Cooper Street for business purposes. The photo was taken in 1978. In the 1990s, these buildings were razed to make way for the Judge Mitchell Cohen Federal Courthouse. Click on Images to Enlarge |
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407 to 429 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
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411 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Mrs. Bertha Kephart Click on Images to Enlarge
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412-414 Cooper Street Camden
Motorcycle Police |
412-414 Cooper Street Camden Medical Arts Building |
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412-414 Cooper Street 1970s |
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413 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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413 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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413 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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413 & 415 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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415 Cooper Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post Click on Inage
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415 Cooper Street Family Dental Association |
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415 Cooper Street Family Dental Association Arthur Truscott |
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415 Cooper Street
1960s
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415, 417 & 419 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
417 Cooper Street 1964 Richard C. Hardenbergh Camden Courier-Post |
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417 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Dr.
Henry H. Davis Click on Images to Enlarge |
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419 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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419 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
420 Cooper Street
Wilfred
W. Fry Playground |
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419 & 421 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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421 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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421 Cooper Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post |
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423 Cooper Street
1923-1947 Camden Courier-Post |
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423 Cooper Street
1923-1961 Camden Courier-Post |
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425 & 427 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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425, 427 & 429 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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425, 427 & 429 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Architect's Drawing House for Mr. James S.
White Made for King Architects Philadelphia PA |
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427 & 429 Cooper Street April 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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427 Cooper Street April 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge |
429 Cooper Street 1894 Philadelphia
Inquirer Click on Image for PDF File |
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403 to 429 Cooper Street Postcard from 1916 |
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429 Cooper Street Joseph
J. Read October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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429 Cooper Street Camden
Courier-Post January 8, 1938 |
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430 Cooper Street
Centenary also known as as seen from Northwest Corner February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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430 Cooper Street
Centenary as seen from Northeast Corner |
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430 Cooper Street
Centenary as seen from Northeast Corner |
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501 Cooper Street
James M.
O'Neil |
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505 Cooper Street
Charles
Cox |
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505 Cooper Street
1922 Philadelphia
Inquirer Rev.
D.H. Schick - Rev. N.V. Sargent |
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509 Cooper Street 1927 Known as the Remington & Vosbury Building when erected, the building at 509 Cooper Street was designed by prominent local architect Joseph N. Hettel Sr. |
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509 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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505, 509 & 511 Cooper Street April 17, 2004. Click on Images to Enlarge
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511 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge Home
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511
Cooper Street
1906-1913 Camden Post-Telegram |
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511
Cooper Street
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"A TIP O' THE HELMET TO" ……… Fr. Chuck Mayo of Ladder Co. 1, for his alertness and quick action in the prevention of serious injury and probable death to a brother member, while operating at 2nd Alarm-Box #1222, transmitted at 0348 hours on 2 January, 1977 for a fire located at 513 Cooper Street. Severely low temperatures and heavy icing conditions made roof level operations extremely hazardous. While working at roof level, atop the three-story fire building, another member slipped on an ice coated peaked roof above Chuck's position, and began his downward slide toward, and inevitably over the edge. Fr. Mayo's quick reflexes in grabbing the brother resulted in only a close call instead of a tragedy. A job well done. |
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514 Cooper Street City Hall in background |
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515 Cooper Street
1900-1903 |
515 Cooper Street
1900s-1910s |
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516 Cooper Street
1917-1918 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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517 Cooper Street
1904-1907 |
517 Cooper Street
1900s-1910s Dr. Byron Fortiner |
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518 Cooper Street |
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519 Cooper Street 1928 Mary Jane Lovett |
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520-522 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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520-522 & 524 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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520 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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521 Cooper Street
1904 David M. Chambers Philadelphia Inquirer |
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521 Cooper Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post Harry A. Louderback |
521 Cooper Street
Tommy
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521 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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522 Cooper Street
Dr. G.
Russell Atkinson |
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523 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey
Bell Telephone |
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524 Cooper Street |
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525 Cooper Street
1897 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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532 Cooper Street
1899 Philadelphia Inquirer
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525 Cooper Street
Charles S. Boyer |
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525 Cooper Street Madeline Palma |
525 Cooper Street Howard R. Yocum |
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525 Cooper Street Frank F.
Neutze Sr. |
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526 Cooper Street
1922 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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524 & 530 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
527 Cooper Street Judge
Frank T. Lloyd |
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528-530-532 Cooper Street Philadelphia Inquirer William H. Day |
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530 & 532 Cooper Street 1892 |
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530 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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532 Cooper Street
1883 Mrs. Mary Hugg Philadelphia
Inquirer |
532 Cooper Street
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532 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey bell Telephone Click on Images to Enlarge |
532 Cooper Street
1955 1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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532 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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534 Cooper Street 1901 Camden Post-Telegram Watson
Depuy |
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534 Cooper Street 1928-1930s Edwin Field Crane |
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534 to 500 Cooper Street 500 Block in background February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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537
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Burned from head to foot on Thursday at the home of Victor L. Cavanna, 537 Cooper Street, where she was employed as a servant, Mrs. Margaret Winner, 52 years old, died yesterday at Cooper Hospital. A live coal dropped on the woman's dress while she was raking the fire. A sister, Mrs. Mary Garwood, of Ocean City, has claimed the body. |
537 Cooper Street
1912 Philadelphia Inquirer Mrs. Margaret Winner |
538, 540, & 542 Cooper Street John
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538 Cooper Street Melbourne
F. Middleton Jr. |
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538 Cooper Street Pohle's Restaurant Click on Images to Enlarge |
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538 Cooper Street Pohle's Restaurant |
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540 Cooper Street Markeim-Chalmers, Inc. Camden Courier-Post |
540 Cooper Street
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541 Cooper Street
1941 Joseph Valentine Camden County Republican Association |
541 Cooper Street |
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542 Cooper Street |
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543 Cooper Street |
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544 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey bell Telephone Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Looking West from North 6th Street 1892 Click on Images to Enlarge |
538,
540, and 542 Cooper Street The Cheney Houses, designed by architect Arthur Truscott |
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600 Block of Cooper Street Looking West from 626 Cooper Street - About 1907 |
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Left side of street: The building with the conical roof is 538 Cooper Street. The building at far left is 604 Cooper Street. Also visible is 544, 542, 540, 538, 534, and 532 Cooper. Right: The first building at far right is 605 Cooper Street |
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601 Cooper Street Meisel Tire Company Camden Courier-Post Click on Images to Enlarge |
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601 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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603 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Images to Enlarge |
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605 Cooper Street
The Click on Images to Enlarge |
605 Cooper Street 1880s-1900s Philadelphia
Inquirer Click on Image for PDF File |
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606 Cooper Street 1902 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
606 Cooper Street 1920-1924 |
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608 Cooper Street December 2002 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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608 Cooper Street December 2002 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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611 Cooper Street George Genge Browning The roof of this building is visible behind the trees, between 605 Cooper and the Hotel Walt Whitman |
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612 Cooper Street
1910-1916 Philadelphia Inquirer |
613 Cooper Street |
Prior to the early 1920s Broadway stopped at Market Street, and Cooper Street was uninterupted between North 6th and North 7th Streets. 617 Cooper Street was acquired by the Community Hotel Corporation and then sold to the City of Camden so the North Broadway could be completed through to the bridge plaza. Construction of the Hotel Walt Whitman, the First Camden National Bank & Trust Building, the Wilson Building soon followed. The Terminal Block on the northwest corner came later, after World War II. |
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The Wilson Building Broadway & Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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The
Wilson Building
Broadway 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Weitzman Liquors in The Wilson Building, & 622 Cooper Street 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge |
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618 Cooper Street Malcolm MacDonald |
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618
Cooper Street
1900s-1920s Belford G. Royal |
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622 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
625 Cooper Street
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625 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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626
Cooper Street
Cyrus
H.K. Curtis |
626 Cooper Street 1890-1895 Philadelphia
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626 Cooper Street 1896-1901 Postcard |
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627 Cooper Street
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627 & 633 Cooper Street 627 Cooper, designed by Arthur
Truscott, Razed early 1920s |
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627 & 633 Cooper Street
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629
Cooper Street
1933 Camden
Courier-Post |
631 Cooper Street
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634-640 Cooper Street 1947-1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Image to Enlarge |
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634-640 Cooper Street 1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Image to Enlarge |
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634-640 Cooper Street 1947-1955 1959 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Image to Enlarge |
638 Cooper Street
George K. Johnson |
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639 Cooper Street
Benjamin C. Reeve Click on Images to Enlarge |
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639 Cooper Street
Camden
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639 Cooper Street
Camden
Lodge 293 The LEAP Academy 2002-2006 |
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639
Cooper Street
Camden
Lodge 293 |
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639 Cooper Street
Camden
Lodge 293 |
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Left: The Hotel Walt Whitman - 1933
Right: The Hotel Walt Whitman - 1950s Elks Home, now The LEAP Academy, at far right |
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Northeast Corner Camden County College Click on Images to Enlarge |
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700 Block of Cooper
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700
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701-703
Cooper Street
1947 1959 1959 New Jersey Bell
Telephone Advertisement address of 700
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702 Cooper Street |
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703 Cooper Street Benjamin C. Reeve 1870s-1880s |
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708, 702 & 700 Cooper Street and the intersection of North 7th Street & Cooper Street This photograph was taken before 1926, shown by the
fact that the Wilson
Building 708 Cooper Street
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708 Cooper Street |
711 Cooper Street
Samuel H. Grey |
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711 Cooper Street
1910 |
712 Cooper Street Samuel H. Grey |
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712 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post |
714 Cooper Street | |
715 Cooper Street
John Cooper
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715 Cooper Street
1920s-1960s |
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715 Cooper Street
1920s-1960s 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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715 Cooper Street
1920s-1960s Camden Courier-Post Ad |
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715, 717, 719 & 721 Cooper Street July 1965 |
717 Cooper Street Frank B. Middleton |
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No Houses in 700 Block after 717 before 1880 census | |
719 Cooper Street Alexander Boardman |
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721 Cooper Street
1887-1890 1890s-1900s |
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721 Cooper Street 1932 Austin O'Brien Camden Courier-Post |
721 Cooper Street 1933 |
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721 Cooper Street July 7, 1965 |
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726 Cooper Street 726 is the building at far right 1887-1889 1955 Photo from the 1970s Click on Image to Enlarge |
Radio
Repairing |
726 Cooper Street
1938-1941 Camden Courier-Post |
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726 Cooper Street
1938-1941 Camden Courier-Post |
728 Cooper Street John F.
Harned
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728 Cooper Street 726 is the building at center and left Photo from the 1970s Click on Image to Enlarge |
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728 Cooper Street Photo from the 1970s Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Cooper
Street, looking west from 8th Street Postcard mailed October 10, 1906 The house on left is 804 Cooper Street |
800 Block of Cooper Street | |
801 Cooper Street
Dr. Joel B. Cunningham |
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804 Cooper Street
This home, at left, was built by real estate developer and builder Edward N. Cohn. Photo from 1893. David Baird Sr. had acquired the house by 1900, and lived there until his death. David Baird Jr. lived there until October of 1936. |
805 Cooper Street 1910s-1920s |
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MAN JAILED 3 MONTHS IN THEFT OF WATCH Charged, with the larceny of a watch belonging to Albert L. Hawkins, of Collingswood; John H. Evans, 64, of 2117 Sherman Avenue, was sentenced to three months in jail Saturday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast. Hawkins, who is a painter, said he was at work Thursday on the second floor of a vacant house at 805 Cooper Street, when he saw a man come in and take the watch from his trousers, which he had left downstairs. Hawkins recognized Evans' picture in the rogues gallery and police arrested the man. Detective Clifford Carr testified Evans has been arrested a number of times on larceny charges. |
805 Cooper Street Camden Courier-Post |
805 Cooper Street
1947 Dr. David L. Andrus |
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807 Cooper Street
1912-1943 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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807
Cooper Street
1943-1947 |
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811 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
813 Cooper Street | |
814 Cooper Street 1947 Esso Servicemaster |
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815 Cooper Street | |
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817 Cooper Street 1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
817 Cooper Street Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners |
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819 Cooper Street
1910-1922 |
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819 Cooper Street
1922 Philadelphia Inquirer |
819
Cooper Street
1936 George Clark |
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819 Cooper Street
1957 Camden Courier-Post |
819
Cooper Street
1947 Harry A. Louderbach |
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821
Cooper Street
1947 Mrs. Edna Knehr |
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823 Cooper Street | |
825 Cooper Street | |
827 Cooper Street | |
829 Cooper Street | |
831 Cooper Street | |
833 Cooper Street | |
835 Cooper Street | |
840 Cooper Street
1920s-1955 |
900 Block of Cooper
Street Built by 1887 Click on Images to enlarge |
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901 Cooper Street
Dr.
William Moslander |
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902 Cooper Street
1891-1923 All the even-numbered homes in the 900 block of Cooper Street were destroyed on July 30, 1940 when the R.M. Hollingshead factory was destroyed by an explosion and fire on July 30, 1940. |
902 Cooper Street
1933 |
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907 Cooper Street
1932 Camden Courier-Post |
909 Cooper Street
1910s-1930s |
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910 Cooper Street
1940 |
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914 Cooper Street
1940 Picture taken in the aftermath of the Hollingshead fire. Camden Police Detectives Vernon Jones (Left) and George Weber (center) return jewelry and cash recovered from home to Miss Simon, sister of Mrs. Brecker. |
916 Cooper Street
1940 Mrs. Sue K. Devenny |
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917 Cooper Street
1920-1923
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917 Cooper Street
1920-1923 Camden Post-Telegram
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1955-1957 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
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Camden
Courier-Post |
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921 Cooper Street
Joseph
E. Nowrey Sr. |
922 Cooper Street
1917-1940 |
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Mrs. Chester D. VanDuyn, of 924 Cooper Street, is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lane, of this city, at their cottage in Pitman. Mrs. VanDuyn's daughter, Miss Catharine S. VanDuyn, is spending this weekend in Washington, D. C . |
924 Cooper Street
1930 Mrs. Chester D. Van Duyn Camden Courier-Post |
928 Cooper
Street
1891-1898 |
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931 Cooper Street
1901 Philadelphia
Imquirer |
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WILLIAM DICKINSON William Dickinson, 68, of 931 Cooper Street died today in Cooper Hospital. A lifelong resident of Camden, he had operated a garage and automobile repair business for the past 50 years. Surviving are his wife, Lena H.; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Heller, of Clementon; Miss Mary Dickinson, of Camden; a sister, Miss Marie Dickinson, of Philadelphia, and two grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday in the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper Street. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery. There will be no viewing. |
931 Cooper Street
1924-1958 William Dickinson William
& Mgdalene Dickinson Camden
Courier-Post
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931 Cooper Street
1932 Elizabeth "Betty" Dickinson Camden
Courier-Post
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Students Return To
Spend Summer Vacation Home
Leon F. Rittenhouse of 1557 Bradley Avenue, is leaving today for California, where he will continue his study of medicine. Mr. Rittenhouse was a graduate from Washington Missionary College, in the national capital on Monday. Two of the Wilfred W. Frys' children were graduated at schools in New York and Massachusetts, this past weekend and today. Tonight Miss Eleanor Fry will be graduated from the Emma Willard School at Troy, New York Last week Wilfred W. Fry, II, was graduated from Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts. Henry J. Bowes Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Bowes of Merchantville, spent last week in Annapolis, Maryland, where he took entrance examinations for the United States Naval Academy. He was graduated last week from Valley Forge Military Academy, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Pratt of 213 North Fourth Street, has returned from Bucknell University for the Summer. Miss Eleanor Holman of 108 North Fourth Street and Miss Betty Dickinson of 931 Cooper Street, have returned to their respective homes for the Summer. They are attending Syracuse University. Miss Frances Snyder of 331 North Forty-first street, was graduated at Syracuse this month. |
931
Cooper Street
1933 Elizabeth "Betty" Dickinson Camden
Courier-Post |
Miss
Dickinson, Leighton Heller In Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. William Dickinson, of 931 Cooper Street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss M. Elizabeth Dickinson, to Mr. Leighton J. Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Heller, of 50 Fulton Avenue, Clementon. Miss Dickinson was graduated from Syracuse University and is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was formerly a member of the faculty at Camden High School. Mr. Heller is a graduate of Dickinson College and Law School and is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He recently received an honorable discharge from the U. S. Army after serving for two and one-half years in India. |
931
Cooper Street
1945 Betty Dickinson Camden
Courier-Post |
932
Cooper Street
1933 Alfred Shaefer |
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933 Cooper Street
1910 |
HARRY A. WILLE Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Monday for Harry A. Wille, 55, of 933 Cooper Street, who died yesterday after a short illness. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery. Mr. Wille, who was born here, was employed in the upholstery department of the J. B. Van Sciver Co.. He is survived by his widow, Ida, and a son, Henry C. Wille, 3rd, of Camden.. |
933 Cooper Street
1920s-1933
Harry Wille Camden
Courier-Post |
934 Cooper Street
1870s-1880s 1880s-1890s |
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935 Cooper Street
1942 World War Ii Draft Card
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935 Cooper Street
1942 World War Ii Draft Card
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938 Cooper Street
1921-1928 |
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MICHAEL BENSON The funeral of Michael Benson, 52, of' 939 Cooper Street, who died Tuesday, will be held at 8 a. m. Saturday, at 2850 Federal street. Mass will be held at 9 a. m., at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Mr. Benson is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Sidell, with whom, he lived, and a brother. He was a son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Benson.. |
939 Cooper Street
1933
Michael Benson Camden
Courier-Post |
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940 Cooper Street
1917 H.E. Norris Philadelpia Public Ledger |
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940 Cooper Street
1918-1923 Philadelphia
Inquirier George W. Swope |
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940 Cooper Street
1918-1923 Camden Post-Telegram George W. Swope |
941 Cooper Street
1955 1955
New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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943 Cooper Street
Bethany
Methodist Episcopal
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1000 Block of Cooper
Street Built by 1887 |
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1000
Cooper Street
1919-1962 Camden Courier-Post |
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1000
Cooper Street
1913 Mrs. WIlliam Calhoun Camden Post-Telegram |
1008
Cooper Street
1911-1922 James Nettleton was born in 1853 in Dublin, Ireland. His family moved to
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England in 1857. James immigrated to the Philadelphia-Camden area im 1874. |
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1011
Cooper Street
1900-1907 Camden Post-Telegram
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1014 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post |
1016 Cooper Street Technical
Sergeant |
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Mrs. Thomas P. McConaghy, of Tenth and Cooper Streets, this city, is registered at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City. |
1017 Cooper Street Dr. Thomas P. McConaghy Camden Courier-Post |
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1027 Cooper Street
1918 Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image for Enlarged View & Complete Article |
1027 Cooper Street | |
1028 Cooper Street
1903-1904 Louis DeLisle & Family New York Times |
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1029 Cooper Street 1903-1904 Edward Rice |
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1030 Cooper Street
1906 Philadelphia Inquirer |
1030 Cooper Street
1897 |
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1033 Cooper Street George
M. Beringer Jr. |
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1035 Cooper Street 1933 Norfleet Saunders Camden Courier-Post |
1042 Cooper Street 1934 John Geronio |
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1045 Cooper Street Charles
J. Ball |
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1045 Cooper Street 1930s-1950s Camden Courier-Post Congregation Ahev Zedak
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1046 Cooper Street Edmund Tydeman Family |
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1046 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post |
1046 Cooper Street 1947 |
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My Father, Harry Molotsky, had a grocery store called Harry's Red Front Market at 1048 Cooper Street. I am not sure what year he purchased the property, but it was in the 1940s. I was born in 1945 and my brother, Allan, in 1948. We lived behind the store until 1951 when we moved to East Camden at 420 South 30th Street. My father kept the business until the early 1960's when he had cataract surgery and the state took the property. Dad then worked for Two Guys in the deli department for many years before retiring. It was nice that he had normal working hours. My parents started taking vacations which they had not been able to do before. My father had a young man delivering groceries by bicycle. He let people buy groceries on credit. We never had to go grocery shopping as he always took home necessities and treats from the store. Since we kept kosher, we had to get our meat from the kosher butcher even though my father sold meat. He always had a butcher whose name was Warren Peaches. His son taught me how to drive. Father's parents had a grocery store at 6th and Elm Street. My aunt and uncle, Sam and Esther, had a grocery at 9th and Pearl if I remember correctly. A cousin of my dad, Abe Molotsky had a dry goods store, but I can't remember the location (442-444 North 8th Street- PMC). Lois Cohen, October 2007 |
1048 Cooper Street Harry's Red Front Market |
1100 Block of Cooper
Street - 1906 Sanborn Map Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1100 to 1169 Cooper Street |
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1122 to 1169 Cooper Street |
1100
Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887 |
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1108 Cooper Street
1922 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1117 Cooper Street
1930 |
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1117 Cooper Street 1920s-1943 |
1121-1125 Cooper Street
1906-1929 |
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1124 Cooper Street
1929 Felisher & Rosa Beasley |
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1124 Cooper Street
1897-1898 |
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1124
Cooper Street
1924 |
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1126 Cooper Street 1947-1957 Robert Booker Camden Courier-Post |
1127 Cooper Street John
Sylvester Kellum |
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1127 Cooper Street George
R. Serfling Sr. |
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JAILED FOR ILL INTENT If you want to hit a man but can't because a
member of the constabulary is at hand, that's assault. Police Judge Garfield
Pancoast so ruled yesterday in making an
interpretation of the law to Walter Beasley, 25, colored, of 1128 Cooper
Street, who was sentenced to 60 days in jail because he said
he desired to punch another man. Beasley was arrested Sunday night at Tenth
and Cooper
Streets by Patrolman George
Clayton. Clayton was assisting an
ill man when Beasley approached and threatened to hit the man. Clayton
locked him up. "I'd still like to take a punch at him,"
Beasley said in court yesterday. "You would, would you?" asked the judge.
"Well, intending to strike someone is assault. If you do hit him, it's
assault and battery. So I sentence you to 60 days for assault." |
1129 Cooper Street 1933 Walter Beasley |
1140 Cooper Street George
R. Serfling Sr. |
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1143 Cooper Street Wilson's Daily Express New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory |
1143 Cooper Street 1947 No Listing |
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1144 Cooper Street Clinton Gilchrist |
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1144 Cooper Street 1961 |
1145 Cooper Street Ray R.
Adams |
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1146 Cooper Street
Camden Daily Telegram Real Estate Investment
Company Line Street -
Arch Street |
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1151 Cooper Street 1943-1966 Camden Courier-Post |
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1152 Cooper Street
1899 Howard Snyder Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1152 Cooper Street
1903 James Durkin Camden Post-Telegram Click on Image to Enlarge |
'NUMBERS' SUSPECT FREED IN $100 BAIL Suspected by the police of being a "numbers' writer, Clinton Gilchrist, 25, colored, of 1153 Cooper Street, was held in $100 bail by Acting Police Judge James Smith yesterday for a further hearing next Tuesday. Gilchrist who is charged with operating a "numbers" lottery was arrested Thursday in an automobile at Eleventh and Cooper streets by Detective Lieutenant Louis Shaw and Detective Clarence Arthur. In Gilchrist's possession, the detectives say they found some "numbers" slips and "loose coins." |
1153 Cooper Street Clinton Gilchrist Camden Courier-Post |
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1161 Cooper Street
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1163 Cooper Street
1870s-1906 |
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1163 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
1169 Cooper Street
Edward Richards |
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1171 Cooper Street
1947-1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
1900
Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887 |
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1987 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1988 Cooper Street |
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1989 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1991 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1993 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1995 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1997 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930 |
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1999 Cooper Street 1910s-1920s W.W. Ross |
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1999 Cooper Street 1955-1990s 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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1999 Cooper Street 1955-1990s 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1999 Cooper Street 1955-1990s 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Click on Image to Enlarge |
2000
Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887 |
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2000 Cooper Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
2002
Cooper Street
1905-1906 1947 Edward Kavlick |
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2004 Cooper Street 1924 John J. Murtaugh |
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2004 Cooper Street |
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2006 Cooper Street |
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2008 Cooper Street |
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2010 Cooper Street 1894-1895 |
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2012 Cooper Street |
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2014 Cooper Street John Lemmons |
2014 Cooper Street |
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2016
Cooper Street
1907-1911 |
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2018 Cooper Street |
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2020 Cooper Street |
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2024 Cooper Street |
Tom Agin and his sister Harriet Lynne Agin Stuhltrager have shared some East Camden Cooper Street memories and photos with me. Click here for a few notes about the "other" Cooper Street. |