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Physical Address:
1900 Park Blvd.
Camden, NJ 08103

Location:
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Mail Address:
P.O. Box 378
Collingswood, NJ 08108-0378



Phone:
856-964-3333


E-Mail Contacts:
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OUR FEES
HOURS:
Library/ Museum:
Mon. & Tue.: Closed
Wed., Thur. & Fri:
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sat.: Closed
Sun.: 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Pomona Hall:
(Guided tours only) - Thur. & Sun. 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Group Tours
by appointment. Large group tours (11 or more) must be scheduled 1 month in advance.
856-964-3333

Personnel:
Executive Director:
Jason Allen
Programming &
Publicity:

Sandy Levins
Museum Director:
Elizabeth Dean
Web Site Editor:
Hoag Levins

Beverly Collins-Roberts


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THE LIBRARY

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Also See Main Library Page or Library Holdings List

SPECIAL RESOURCE DOWNLOADS:

> Camden County Deeds
.xls file (344 K)



> Camden County Dates
.xls file (45 K)



> Cemeteries of Camden County, N.J.
15-page .pdf (238 K)



> Manuscripts of the CCHS Library
160-page .pdf (1.2 MB)



> Phamphlet Collection
.xls file (406 K)



> News Clipping Collection
.xls file (172 K)



> Norcross Collection
6-page .pdf file (45 K)



> Gillette Collection
8-page .pdf file (242 K)



> Cooper Family Collection
33-page .pdf file (610 K)



> RCA Collection
5-page .pdf file (266 K)



> New York Shipbuilding Collection
7-page .pdf file (209 K)



> Guide, American Legion Collection
12-page .pdf (120 K)



> Research Aids for CCHS Library
237-page .pdf (3.3 Meg)



> Place Names of Camden County
41-page .pdf (451 K)



> Camden County Waterways
35-page .pdf (454 K)



> Charles S. Boyer Collection
.xls file (29 K)




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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