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1946 map of Camden showing Joint Alley
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Joint Alley

Joint Alley, also known as Joint Street, was a one-block alley in South Camden running east from South 3rd to South 4th Street, between Spruce and Walnut Streets. It first appears in city directories in 1850; only six houses remained by 1947, and no buildings stand there today.

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Looking north on Coates Street from Spruce Street, March 19, 2014
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Coates Street

Coates Street is a one-block street in Camden's Bergen Square neighborhood, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.

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Coates Avenue (present-day Coates Alley) and Welsh Street — 1885 Sanborn Map
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Coates Alley

Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.

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Ada Street

Ada Street ran from Cherry Street south to Walnut Street, one block east of South 9th Street, before being removed in the early 1970s when Interstate Highway I-676 was constructed through the heart of Camden.

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Isaac J. Hibbs

Isaac J. Hibbs was born on March 25, 1848, in Pennsylvania. He was the son of Isaac G. Hibbs, a carpenter, and his wife Mary. At the time of the 1850 Census, he was the youngest of the seven living Hibbs children.

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Erie Street

Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.

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Frederick Himmelein Jr
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Frederick Himmelein Jr

Frederick Himmelein Jr. was a native of Camden and a successful businessman in both Philadelphia and Camden for many years.

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Looking west on Beckett Street from West Street, December 2004
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Beckett Street

Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.

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Beideman Avenue from Westfield Avenue - 2003-06-25
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Beideman Avenue

Beideman Avenue runs through Camden's Cramer Hill and East Camden sections, east of North 32nd Street, from the Delaware River south to Cleveland Avenue and from Lemuel Avenue through what was Westfield Acres to Westfield Avenue. Named for the Beideman family, notable landowners in northern Cramer Hill before its residential development.

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1906 Sanborn Map showing Clay Street between South 2nd Street and Front Street
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Clay Street

Clay Street, in Camden's 5th Ward, ran west from the 900 block of South 2nd Street to South Front Street. It was a short residential street tied to the industrial growth of the 1890s, extinguished by the City of Camden in October 1974.

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Joint Alley East from 3rd Street - 2006-09-01
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Joint Street

Joint Street, formerly Joint Alley, was a one-block street in South Camden, NJ, running from South 3rd to South 4th Street; now devoid of buildings.

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Haddon Avenue and Federal Street - SW Corner - Circa 1905
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Haddon Avenue

Haddon Avenue is one of Camden's oldest roads, dating to at least 1792 as a bridle path and incorporated as the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike in 1839. It runs southeast from Federal Street to the city limits toward Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.

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4th Street

Fourth Street, one of Camden's original streets, ran with few interruptions from Chelton Avenue in South Camden north to Pyne Point in North Camden. City-directory records, photographs, advertisements and newspaper clippings for every block from the 2000 block of South 4th Street to the 1000 block of North 4th Street.

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1109 Langham Avenue, 2008
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Langham Avenue

Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.

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Pine Street Camden NJ c1908
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Pine Street

One of Camden's original tree-named streets.

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Raymond T. Amos
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Raymond T. Amos

RAYMOND T. AMOS was born in Frankford, Delaware on December 28, 1905 to Albert and Catherine Amos. His father was a minister. The family had moved to Camden by the summer of 1910 and taken up residence at 1004 Central Avenue .

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Eugene Alston
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Eugene F. Alston

EUGENE F. ALSTON was born October 16, 1919 in Camden to Richard Alston and his wife, the former Dolly Robinson. His father had been born in 1891 in Henderson, North Carolina.

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Walnut Street

Historical record of Walnut Street, one of the streets of Camden, New Jersey, with its mapped route through the city.

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Quaker Shipyard and Machine Company, Fifth and Byron Streets, Camden, 1945
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5th Street

Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.

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Kaighns Ave. Cafe Gets New Owners
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Kaighns Ave. Cafe Gets New Owners

Rabon Mosley, his wife Willa Mae and their son Rabon Jr. of 638 South 4th Street bought the Green Goose Cafe at 251½ Kaighns Avenue and renamed it Ray's Green Goose.

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Hospital Cases — Camden Courier-Post, November 8, 1958
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Hospital Cases

Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.

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Hospital Cases roundup, Camden Courier-Post, February 3, 1956
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Hospital Cases

Cooper and West Jersey hospital admissions reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.

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Take me out to the ball game
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1950 "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME" was the theme song of 1500 girls and boys who were guests of Deputy Public Affairs Director Edward C. Garrity at the Phillies-Giants game today.

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Nine Safety Aides Sworn by Aaron

Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1950 Five recently-appointed policemen and four firemen were sworn in today by Public Safety Commissioner Aaron in his City Hall office.

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5 Cops, 4 Firemen, All War 2 Vets Named by Aaron

Camden Courier-Post - August 1, 1950 Replacements Listed For 8 on Pensions, One Resignation Director of Public Safety Aaron this afternoon announced the appointment of five new patrolmen and four new firemen. All are War II veterans.

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Life Hereabouts by Charley Humes - Camden Courier-Post, May 14, 1949
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Life Hereabouts

Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of May 14, 1949, recalling the 1924 Broadway Cycle–Courier team that won the South Jersey semi-pro basketball championship, with Ott Laxton among the First Ward players remembered.

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3 Bros. Markets — Thurs., Fri., Sat., July 24–25–26 North Camden: 7th & Vine Streets — 3rd & Birch Streets. South Camden: 9th & Pine Streets — 6th ...
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3 Bros. Markets

A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.

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6 Persons Injured in Auto Accidents

Three women and two men injured in automobile accidents over the weekend. Walter H. Holler of 884 Beideman Avenue was involved in a collision near Haddon Avenue and Line Street; two others were hurt at Ferry Avenue and Charles Street.

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Forest Conservation Stock Photo
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43 Camden Recruits Thrive In Chill Conservation Camp

Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.

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MOORE RALLIES TONIGHT IN 3 WARDS, ASHLAND

Camden Courier-Post - October 31, 1931 Rallies in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local candidates on the Democratic ticket will be conducted tonight in Ashland and in three wards of the city.

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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight

Candidacy of Moore to be Expounded at Meetings in City and Suburbs The campaign foe A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities or the county tonight.

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Robbery Gang - AI Stock Photo
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms

Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.

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Marriage Licenses, Camden Post-Telegram, November 20, 1917
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Marriage Licenses

Camden marriage license applications from November 1917, including Walter Edgerton of 318 Joint Alley and Minnie M. Smith of the same address.

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Guardsman Skater Drowns, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1917
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Guardsman Skater Drowns; Narrow Escape For Four

Charles R. Evans, 19, of 139 South Thirty-second Street in East Camden, broke through the ice on the lake at Forest Hill Park and drowned while 300 fellow skaters looked on. Four would-be rescuers — Harry Haas, Graham Wishart, Wilbur Crane and Matthew Yingling — were dragged from the freezing water by a park guard and a policeman.

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Butchers Form Another Society - Camden Post-Telegram - 1915-10-01
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Butchers Form Another Society

Camden Post-Telegram - October 1, 1915 Butchers Form Another Society from the Camden Post-Telegram - October 1, 1915 Transcription BUTCHERS FORM ANOTHER SOCIETY Beneficial Association Becomes a Yearly After a Quarter Century.

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Police Guard Gas Tank, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1904
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Police Guard Gas Tank

A Philadelphia Inquirer report of August 12, 1904 on the police guard placed over the gas holder being built at Locust and Walnut streets in Camden during a riveters' strike. Charles F. Watkins was named among those assaulted.

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Strikers and Workmen Fight newspaper clipping
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Strikers and Workmen Fight

Striking riveters building a gas tank for the Public Service Corporation at Locust and Walnut Streets clashed with replacement workmen at Fifth and Walnut; a squad under Captain Stanley dispersed the crowd.

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Four Killed When Fireworks Blew Up newspaper clipping, page 1
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Four Killed When Fireworks Blew Up

An explosion of mysterious origin wrecked the Independent Fireworks Company plant at Ferry and Cooper avenues in Camden, killing four workmen and injuring others; officers of the company were arrested on manslaughter charges.

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Police Raid Camden House newspaper clipping
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Police Raid Camden House

Captain Stanley and a squad raided 212 Walnut Street, arresting alleged proprietress May Barber along with three men and four women; Barber was committed in default of $500 bail.

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Father Shoots His Son Then Suicides newspaper clipping, page 1
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Father Shoots His Son Then Suicides

Joseph Caskey, a 60-year-old teamster of 820 Mount Vernon Street, shot and killed his son Joseph in a stable yard behind William Sultzbach's saloon at Ninth and Walnut, then turned the revolver on himself. Captain Stanley and Sergeant Reeder took charge of the bodies.

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Camden News Notes newspaper clipping
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Camden News Notes

A column of Camden briefs for August 11, 1901, including a report that Police Captain Stanley was in a head-on trolley collision at Brigantine Beach and escaped with a bad shaking up.

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Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden

A race riot in South Camden's Seventh Ward leaves two men wounded; police, including Policemen Hyde and McClung, exchange pistol fire with the combatants and make several arrests.

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