Tag: Hunt Pen Company
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A Child’s Life on Grant Street: Memories of Camden
It all begins in a little row house (they call them townhouses now) on Grant Street in Camden NJ. I remember my mother telling me once that she and my father paid $3,000 for that house somewhere around 1952, when they married. I slept in the same bed with my older sister Chris, who was…
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City Industry – Tracking History
By Thomas A. Bergbauer, Retired Courier-Post Editor Just 100 years ago Camden was a thriving, prosperous industrial metropolis and the future looked bright for this river city. At the end of the 19th century and in the first couple decades of the 20th century, industry in Camden came alive and at that time most of…
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C. Howard Hunt Pen Company
AKA Hunt Pen Company Most every person who has gone through elementary school in the United States of America has sharpened a pencil. For many, many years the ubiquitous BOSTON pencil sharpener was made by the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company of Camden, NJ. Prior to the advent of the ball point pen, the Hunt…
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Camden Industries
ABATTOIRS ADVERTISING POSTERS ART GLASS ASBESTOS ASPHALT AUTOMOBILES AUTO & TRUCK BODIES AUTO RADIATORS AUTO SPRINGS AUTO TOPS AUTO SUPPLIES AWNINGS BAKERIES BOAT BUILDERS-SHIPS AND YACHTS BOILERS BARRELS BOOKS AND BOOKBINDERS BOTTLERS BOXES BRASS CASTINGS BRICKS BRICK SEWER PIPES BROOMS, WHISK, ETC. BUILDING MATERIALS BURLAP BAGS CANDIES CAP MANUFACTURERS CARBIDE CAKES CARBON BLACK, ETC. CARPET…
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THE WORLD WRITES WITH OUR PENS AND WALKS IN OUR LEATHER
Camden is Center for Manufacture of Steel Pen points and Glazed Shoe-upper Materials Camden has almost 400 industrial establishments. This total in itself is substantial testimony to the desirability of the city as a location. But, diversification is an important element to be considered by the manufacturer searching for the admirable territory in which to…
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New Chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee
Philadelphia Inquirer – October 7, 1921 Circuit Court Judge Frank T. Lloyd yesterday accepted chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee which is to study the unemployment question and make suggestions for remedial measures. With Judge Lloyd on the committee are: The committee was named by William E. Bennett, president of the Chamber of…