Tag: Joseph B. Van Sciver
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 10
FRANK MESTER, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER 4th AND ARCH STREETS. This is one of the most widely known houses in the town, it having had an established reputation for the sale of unadulterated wines and liquors. The business was established may years ago by Mr. George Ooetz, who successfully ran the business until 1877,…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 2
J. B. VAN SCIVER & CO. This firm occupy a handsome building on the corner of Delaware avenue and Federal street. It is of mammoth proportions and is visible along the whole river front. Furniture of all descriptions, from the plain and substantial to the aesthetic, artistic and costly, are to be found in its…
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Otto E. Braun
Known for his staunch Republican affiliations, Otto Braun became the City Clerk for Camden under Mayor Frederick von Nieda from April 1935 to November 1936, succeeding the late Frank S. Albright.
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City Industry – Tracking History
Just 100 years ago Camden was a thriving, prosperous industrial metropolis and the future looked bright for this river city.
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Joseph B. Van Sciver
In 1881, J.B. Van Sciver founded his furniture manufacturing and retail business, and by 1888, he had moved to a four-story building opposite the Ferry at Delaware and Federal.
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Centennial Mirror 1828-1928
A centennial review: the year was 1927 and the future had hardly ever looked brighter for the City of Camden. Times were prosperous, business and industry were booming, and the city was full of recently constructed public buildings, civic improvements, schools, the new Delaware River bridge and its new highway to the suburbs. The stock…
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First Camden National Bank Celebrating 130th Anniversary
First Camden National Bank and Trust Co. is celebrating its 130th anniversary today.
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Stores Will Join In Bargain Period
The Merchants’ Cooperative Association, has announced a three-day co-operative bargain promotion which will be known as Camden’s Co-operation Days.
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CAMDEN – A Great City Growing Greater
Just one hundred years ago today, a little group of men went before the Legislature and asked that body to incorporate as a city the straggling and struggling village of Camden. If these men could now visit the city born that day through their efforts, they might well feel that their labor of love was…
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Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13
Camden’s centennial will be observed during the week of February 13. That announcement was made today by Frank Albright, chairman of the committee in charge to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city.