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> Camden County Deeds
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> Camden County Dates
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> Cemeteries of Camden County, N.J.
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> Manuscripts of the CCHS Library
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> Phamphlet Collection
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> News Clipping Collection
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> Norcross Collection
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> Gillette Collection
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> Cooper Family Collection
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> RCA Collection
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> New York Shipbuilding Collection
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> Guide, American Legion Collection
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> Research Aids for CCHS Library
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> Place Names of Camden County
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> Camden County Waterways
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> Charles S. Boyer Collection
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Library Holdings Include:
(This is a general overview of the holdings and collections of the Camden County Historical Society; this is not an inclusive list.)
GENERAL
- State Histories
- County Histories
- City/Town Histories
- Church Histories
- Military Histories
- U.S. Histories
- Railroad Histories
RECORD COMPILATIONS
- New Jersey Archives, 1st and 2nd Series
- New Jersey Index to Wills
- Transcriptions of the First Quarter Century Documents of Old Gloucester County, NJ
- Transcriptions of the Freeholders First and Second Record Books of Gloucester County, NJ
- Transcriptions of the First and Second Court Records of Gloucester County, NJ
DATABASES
- People (mostly obituaries) 1600 - present, approximately 135,000 entries
- Vital Statistics (WPA Project) Post Civil War - Pre WWI, approximately 50,000 entries
- Marriages 1325 - present, approximately 90,000 entries
- Camden County Building Contracts 1853-1884
- Map Collection 1656 - mid 20th Century, includes Camden County, various cities and towns in New Jersey, Philadelphia and various cemeteries
- Scrapbook Collection
- Naturalization Papers
- Mortgages and Mortgage Cancellations
- New Camden Cemetery
CARD FILES
- WPA Death File - to 1937
- Old Camden Cemetery
- Chew Family Genealogy
YEARBOOK COLLECTION
- Camden High School: The High School Record 1908-1935 (varied months)
- Camden High School: The Purple and Gold 1919-1926; 1931-1961; 1963-1964
- Woodrow Wilson High School: The Wilsonian 1933-1937
- Woodrow Wilson High School: The Orange and Black 1934-1947
- Woodrow Wilson High School: Rexy 1970
- Camden County Vocational & Technical Schools Pennsauken Campus: Vocationalist 1968-1986
- Camden County Vocational & Technical Schools Gloucester Township Campus: Golden Warrior 1975-1986
- Hatch Junior High: The Hatchet June 1948-January 1953
- Audubon High School: Le Souvenir 1940; 1943-1946; 1951
- Collingswood High School: The Knight 1929-1935; 1945-1946; 1951; 1954; 1962; 1970; 1972-1973
- Cherry Hill (Delaware Twp.) High School: The Rampant 1962-1964
- Haddon Heights High School: Garneteer June 1928; February 1929; 1937; 1952
- Lower Camden County Regional High School (Lindenwold): L'Agenda 1951; 1955-1956; 1958
- Cathedral Academy (Camden): Dawn 1967-1971
- Camden Catholic High School: Cathedral Spire 1946; 1958-1960
- Merchantville High School: Record 1936
- Riverside High School: Torch 1943
- South Jersey Law School: The Archive 1930; 1934
- Salem High School: Fenwick Papers 1936; 1946; 1950
- Camden County College: Whispering Pines 1976
- Rutgers University: MNEME 1960; 1962-1966; 1975-1977
- Helene Fuld School of Nursing 1925 - 1985
- Cooper School of Nursing 1951 - 1982
ATLASES
- Seaside Directory of New Jersey 1887 (Note: Some communities have plot maps)
- Vicinity of Camden, 1907 (G.M. Hopkins)
- Philadelphia and Environs Including Southern New Jersey, 1877 (G.M Hopkins)
- Camden City, 1877 (G.M. Hopkins)
- 21st to 28th Wards, Philadelphia, 1875 (G.M. Hopkins)
- Burlington County, 1876 (J.D. Scott)
- City of Camden, 1886 (Baist)
- City of Camden, 1902 (Baist)
- Philadelphia, 1910 (G.W. Bromley)
- City of Camden Real Estate Atlas, 1927 (Philadelphia Realty Co.)
- Cumberland County, 1876 (D.J. Stewart)
- Hexamer General Survey, Philadelphia, indexed
POSTCARDS
- Collection encompasses all areas of Camden County
- Includes some Counties of New Jersey and some Philadelphia
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
- Approximately 6,000 photographs and images
- includes people, places, scenes and events from Camden County, New Jersey and some Pennsylvania
GENEALOGIES
- Bound Volumes and Files
- Some families New Jersey and Pennsylvania
CITY DIRECTORIES
- Camden - 1850 - 1947 Books and microfilm, most years
- Philadelphia early 1800's - mid 1900's (not inclusive)
- Philadelphia Business 1890, 1897
- Bridgeton City 1937
- Salem County 1949
- Woodbury 1950
- Bordentown/Burlington/Mount Holly 1868
- Burlington County 1945
- Trenton 1936, 1946
- Atlantic City 1922, 1981
- Wildwood 1946
- Pitman 1908
- Haddon Heights/Barrington 1950
- Haddonfield 1961
- Haddonfield/Haddon Township/Barrington 1977
TELEPHONE BOOKS
- Camden County
- Bergen County 1953, 1955, 1959
- Burlington County 1955-1994
- Bridgeton/Millville 1963, 1968, 1983, 1984
- Cumberland/Salem Counties 1948
- Atlantic City/Cape May 1952, 1955
- Gloucester County 1957, 1959-1961, 1964, 1977
- Hudson County 1953
- North Hudson County 1959
- Mercer County 1953-1954, 1958-1959, 1968
- Monmouth County 1952, 1958
- Ocean County 1958
- Passaic County 1953, 1958
- Essex County 1956
- Salem County 1954-1955, 1958-1959, 1964, 1968
- Union/Middlesex/Morris/Somerset Counties 1951
- Union/Somerset Counties 1953, 1955-1956
- Jersey City/Bayonne/Hoboken 1956, 1959
- Newark 1954-1955
- Phillipsburg 1959
- Hackettstown/Washington 1959
- Philadelphia 1940s - 1960s
MICROFILM COLLECTIONS
- Federal Census, many NJ counties and years
- NJ State Census: Camden County 1885, 1895, 1905;
- Burlington County 1905
- Philadelphia Federal Census 1810
- Evergreen Cemetery Index
- St. John's Episcopal Church Records, Chews Landing
- Veterans' Interments (all wars to World War I)
- Council of Proprietors Records
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Camden 1885, 1891, 1906, 1926
- Hexamer Maps, Camden
- Salem County Deeds
- West Jersey Deeds 1680-1854
- Appointment of Postmasters 1789-1832
NEWSPAPERS
- Camden City Newspapers, most years through 1959
- Suburban Newspaper Group, various towns including Merchantville, Delaware Township/Cherry Hill, Audubon, Mt. Ephraim among others
- Retrospect 1902-1971
- News Chronicle, Moorestown 1953-1967
- Haddon Gazette 1937-1975
- Beverly Banner 1960s-1970s
- Community News 1940s-1950s
- Burlington County Daily Enterprise 1940s
IMMIGRATION REFERENCES
(Index to the holdings of the New Jersey State Archives)
- Filby's Germans to America
- Passenger and Immigration Index
- Famine Immigrants Index
MARRIAGE, DEATH, BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND WILLS
The Camden County Historical Society is not a repository for marriage, death, birth certificates or wills.
- With the exception of a handful of these documents donated to us by some families of Camden County we do not have any official certificates.
- To obtain a copy of an official certificate contact:
The New Jersey State Archives: http://www.nj.gov/state/archives/index.html
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