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Howell Street

Louis R. Mote, 1111 North 23rd Street
People

Louis R. Mote

Louis Rodger Mote (1884–1939) owned a home at 1111 North 23rd Street in Cramer Hill and worked at one of Camden's shipyards before serving as Assistant Superintendent of Streets for the City of Camden under Mayor Winfield S. Price. He and his wife Louise were active in 11th Ward Republican politics.

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Albert E. Collum Jr.
People

Albert E. Collum Jr.

Albert E. Collum Jr. (1936–2016) served the Camden Fire Department for over 26 years, rising to Captain of Engine Company 1. He lived at 2409 Howell Street when appointed in 1964, and was injured in the 1975 fire truck collision at 6th and Pine Streets that killed one person.

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Gravestone of Laurence W. Newton
People

Laurence W. Newton

Laurence W. Newton (1896–1946) rose through the Camden Fire Department to Battalion Chief, saving a child from a burning building at Sixth and Van Hook Streets and shutting off a leaking gas main amid flames at Constitution and Argus Roads in 1942. He lived at 2816 Howell Street in East Camden.

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John F. Letts and his brother Charlie and a friend on Howell Street
People

John F. Letts

John Francis Letts (1918–1984) served the Camden Fire Department from 1952 to 1981, rising to Battalion Chief. He grew up at 2208 Howell Street, was a founding officer of IAFF Local 2578, and took part in the Easter Monday rescue at North 6th and Penn Streets in 1970.

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John D. “Jake” Huelas, Camden Fire Department
People

John D. Huelas

John D. Huelas, born John D. Hulasinski, joined the Camden Fire Department in 1942 and served over 35 years, retiring as Captain in 1978. He lived at 2834 Howell Street in East Camden when he was appointed.

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Mr. and Mrs. Burkhard Buenzle, Camden Courier-Post, February 9, 1928
People

Burkhardt L. Buenzle

Burkhardt Leodegar Buenzle (1857–1931), a Swiss immigrant who settled at 1144 North 24th Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was active in the German-American community of the former Stockton borough in the late 19th century.

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Aerial photo of Carman Street, 1961
Streets

Carman Street

Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.

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St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 25th and Howell Street, East Camden, photographed 1909
Streets

Howell Street

Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.

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Allen Palmer - 1941-08-01
People

Allen Palmer

Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.

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Looking south on North 30th Street from Howell Street, December 27, 2005
Streets

30th Street

Thirtieth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue and on to Federal Street, and to the intersection of Line Street and Beacon Avenue, just above Waldorf Street. It is North 30th Street above Federal and South 30th below.

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Aerial view looking west from North 26th Street and Howell Street
Streets

26th Street

26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.

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North 23rd Street looking south from Howell Street, February 2009
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23rd Street

23rd Street originates in the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden; it had been laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published. The James G. Blaine School stood at the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Wayne Avenue.

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1235 North 22nd Street, Camden NJ, built 1950, photographed 2011
Streets

22nd Street

22nd Street spans the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, already laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published.

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Looking North on 21st Street from Federal - 2009-02-25
Streets

21st Street

Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.

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1239 and 1241 North 20th Street, March 15, 2012
Streets

20th Street

Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.

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Map of Cramer Hill and East Camden, 1914
Streets

19th Street

Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.

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Map of Cramer Hill and East Camden, 1914
Streets

17th Street

Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.

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Cooper-Street-Postcard-East-of-4th-St
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Cooper Street

One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.

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Tydeman and Dooley portrait photograph
Entertainment

Tydeman & Dooley

Tydeman & Dooley were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player.

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27th Street and Federal Street - 1950s
Streets

27th Street

27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.

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400 Block of Federal Street Postcard, circa 1890
Streets

Federal Street

Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.

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Jenny & Vincent Tydeman
People

Vincent Ariel Tydeman

Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.

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Historical Accounts

Hard Times on Howell Street

Three 2004 criminal cases connected to Howell Street: the murder of Diane Jackson, the fatal shooting of Zabdiel Cardona, and the jailhouse heroin-overdose death charged to Jose Maldonado.

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Courier-Post, February 1, 1966: 7 Firemen Take Oaths in Camden, new captain Robert Olesiewicz named
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7 Firemen Take Oaths in Camden

Robert Olesiewicz, 47, was promoted from fireman to captain and assigned to Ladder Company 1 as Public Safety Director Keith Kauffman swore in seven new Camden firemen.

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6 City Firemen Take Oaths
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6 City Firemen Take Oaths

Camden Courier-Post, November 24, 1964. Six new members of the Camden Fire Department were sworn in, among them Albert E. Collum Jr., 28, of 2409 Howell Street. Department rolls then totalled 176.

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Bertram D. Zimmerman obituary, 2412 Howell Street, March 7, 1959
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Bertram D. Zimmerman

Obituary of Bertram D. Zimmerman, 57, of 2412 Howell Street, a stationary fireman at the Camden Courthouse, who died at West Jersey Hospital in March 1959.

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Charles V. Stokes paper hanging and painting advertisement, 2108 Howell Street, 1955 Yellow Pages
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Stokes Chas V

Charles V. Stokes advertised paper hanging and painting from 2108 Howell Street in the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.

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Pavonia-Hower Ice & Coal Company, 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages advertisement
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Pavonia-Hower

Pavonia-Hower, 2229 Howell Street: 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages advertisement for blue coal, coke, stokers, fuel oil and oil burners.

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Obituary for Mrs. Sarah F. Southwell, 2010 Howell Street, November 1951
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Mrs. Sarah F. Southwell

Obituary of Mrs. Sarah F. Southwell, 57, a lifelong Camden resident and widow of Malcolm Southwell, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Noden, at 2010 Howell Street.

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Marriage Licenses at Camden including Harry A. Alfinson and Elsie G. Foss of 213 Birch Street, Courier-Post, August 2, 1949
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Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses issued in Camden County, August 2, 1949, including Harry A. Alfinson and Elsie G. Foss, both of 213 Birch Street.

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Neuman-Griffiths death notice — Agnes M. Neuman, 2216 Howell Street, November 1948
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Agnes M. Neuman

Death notice for Agnes M. Neuman, 72, widow of Hugo Neuman, of 2216 Howell Street, who died November 14, 1948.

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Camden Trio Held In Holdup for $2, Camden Courier-Post, December 13, 1947
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Camden Trio Held In Holdup for $2

Three Camden men, including two residents of 2006 Howell Street, were arrested in connection with the $2 holdup and attempted murder of George Manning of Merchantville.

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Historical Accounts

A Memory of East Camden

Angelo Forte's recollection of living at 2312 Howell Street, across from the Pavonia railroad yard, from December 1943 to July 1946 — the happiest years of his boyhood in East Camden.

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Page 21 of the St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943: Neil Deighan's and N. Clements ads around the parish history.
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Neil Deighan's

Page 21 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Neil Deighan's at Airport Circle and N. Clements auto parts on Howell Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how the Church of the Immaculate Conception was built at Broadway and Market Streets in 1864.

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Page 33 of the St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943: four ads around a band of parish history text.
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Members of Fire Dept.

Page 33 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of the Members of Fire Dept. at 27th and Federal Streets, G. C. H., Greenetz and Greenetz and the East End Republican League at 300 North 27th Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how the church was mortgaged in 1893 and 1894 to pay for the ground and building.

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Page 38 of the St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943: ads for Shroeder funeral directors, Paint Corner, U-Need-A-Cafe and Lang's Bakery around parish history.
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B. C. Shroeder & Sons

Page 38 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for B. C. Shroeder & Sons funeral directors at 715 Cooper Street, The Paint Corner at 2600 Federal St., Dominic Guglielmi's U-Need-A-Cafe at 2224 Federal Street and Lang's Bakery, around an installment of the parish history telling of Father Anthony C. Shuvlin's pastorate and the 1915 fire at the old church at 25th and Howell Streets.

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Page 48 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Year Book: four local business ads around a parish history column.
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South Camden Garage

Page 48 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the South Camden Garage at 539-41 S. 5th St., wholesale confectioner John B. King at 3816 Westfield Avenue, Ralph's Esso Service at 2706-14 Federal Street and Rice & Holman of Merchantville, around the last installment of the parish history, which counts more than 2,600 families and 705 schoolchildren and recalls the move from 25th and Howell Streets to 29th and Westfield.

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Page 56 of a 1943 church year book with four advertisements: Knights of Columbus, Millside Farms, Kotlikoff's and Pavonia Ice and Coal.
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Knights of Columbus

Page 56 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of Camden Council No. 439, Knights of Columbus, and Millside Farms of Riverside, N. J., with advertisements for Kotlikoff's department store at 25th and Federal Sts. and Pavonia Ice and Coal at 23rd and Howell Sts., Camden.

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Three photographs of St. Joseph's Church: the May procession in 1915, the fire-damaged church, and the restored church in 1917.
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Pictures of St. Joseph's Church

Page 36 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: three photographs of the church at 25th and Howell Streets showing the annual May procession in 1915, the church damaged by fire in October 1915, and the restored church on July 4, 1917, at the send-off for the boys.

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Boxed newspaper death notice for Elizabeth McBlain Parks, 2407 Howell Street, Camden, November 1940.
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Parks

Funeral notice for Elizabeth McBlain, wife of the late Robert Parks, from 2407 Howell Street, November 2, 1940.

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Defends McBlain — letter to editor from Mrs. E. M. Fenton, 2407 Howell Street, April 24, 1940
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Defends McBlain

A letter to the editor from Mrs. E. M. Fenton of 2407 Howell Street defending her half-brother David McBlain, whom she maintained was wrongly convicted.

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Courier-Post clipping, Wife Hurt in Fall Fleeing Angry Man, August 4, 1936
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Wife Hurt in Fall Fleeing Angry Man

Mrs. Blanche Thatcher, 56, of 2203 Howell Street, East Camden, was hurt in a 20-foot fall from a porch roof while fleeing her husband, who tried to break into a bedroom with an ax. Camden Courier-Post, August 4, 1936.

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Boxed Nick Clements used auto parts advertisement, 2047 Howell Street, Camden Courier-Post, August 28, 1935
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Nick Clements Used Parts

A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of August 28, 1935, for Nick Clements, used car and parts dealer at 2047 Howell Street.

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Girl to Get Cash If Unwed at 21 — Will of Mrs. Katie M. Conner, 2407 Howell Street, November 30, 1934
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Girl to Get Cash If Unwed at 21

The will of Mrs. Katie M. Conner of 2407 Howell Street left a granddaughter a share of her estate at 25, provided she did not marry before 21.

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