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I see articles about surrounding towns. I thought the site was about Camden?
The site is primarily about Camden, however, it is difficult to tell a story in singularity of Camden alone without discussing how Camden affected — or was affected by — its suburbs. Because Camden was such a powerhouse of industry until the middle of the 20th century, it would be a disservice to exclude them.
Can you remove your advertising?
We experiment a lot with the right amount of advertising. It is, unfortunately, needed to offset the costs of running the site, wherever possible. Our goal is to minimize the amount of advertising on the site and are constantly running experiments.
I can only download the city directories or other files. Can I change that?
If you are on mobile, no. This is a limitation of screen size. If you are on a desktop or have a large screen, you should see the content display in addition to a download link.
Can I search PDFs?
Yes! The ability to search PDFs has been added to every PDF on the site. The quality of the text when the file was originally scanned may make finding some text difficult. Some of the scans occurred when moving to microfilm and without the original copy, we are unable to improve said quality.
Are you just stealing content?
This site combines sources — much of it is the work that Phil did, which unifies news articles. Other sources are local historians, and still others are new contributions not seen anywhere else, so it is not a one-for-one copy. That said, it would be disingenuous if we were to state that this site is not heavily inspired by Phil’s work. It is — some of it is directly copied, much of it is not.
Further, this is primarily a collection of news articles for which the original publication owns the copyright.
We did mirror a copy of dvrbs.com to https://dvrbs.camdenhistory.com. This is a mirror with a few exceptions: Email addresses have been removed. Markup has been corrected and/or fixed in many cases. Some pages have been rewritten entirely using Bootstrap.
However, regarding the question, I will let Phil answer this in his own words:
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