#Camden history

[punkrockhistory]

46 years ago

The Clash featuring Steve Jones at the Music Machine in Camden, July 1978.

Photo by Justin Thomas

[lonestarbattleship]

Launch of USS Saipan (CVL-48) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.

Date: July 8, 1945

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[thepaintedroom]

Louise Pickard (British/English, 1865-1928) • The Thames at Richmond Galleries • Unknown date • Kirklees Museums and Galleries, UK

[hooked-on-elvis]

"Dainty Little Moonbeams", recorded on March 28, 1962 for the soundtrack of Paramount Pictures' "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962)

The scene in "Girls! Girls! Girls!":

[whitesinhistory]

On July 1, 1965, a white sheriff in Camden, Alabama, forced people to leave and then padlocked the doors of the Antioch Baptist Church—a Black church where leaders were discussing civil rights—even though he did not have the authority to do so. Community members from the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) group had been meeting at the church for several months, working to promote Black voter registration in Alabama and the rest of the South. According to the 1960 census, Black residents made up over 75% of the population of Wilcox County. However, because of established practices and laws passed with the intent of suppressing the Black vote—which were enforced in discriminatory ways—no Black people in Wilcox County were registered to vote during the 1964 election. When people at the Antioch Baptist Church began registering Black voters, they were quickly targeted by the white community. Two days before Sheriff P.C. Jenkins evicted people from the church, a group of white men had broken into the building and beaten two Black teenagers, inflicting injuries so severe that they were both hospitalized. Rather than providing protection from this violence, on July 1, Sheriff Jenkins announced that the church had been the cause of “too much disturbance,” and gave people only a few hours to clear out their belongings before putting a padlock on the door.  Though Sheriff Jenkins claimed that at least one church leader had expressed opposition to having the church involved in civil rights activism, the following day the chairman of the Board of Deacons denied that claim, and two weeks later the congregation and board of the church unanimously voted to support the church’s involvement in registering Black voters.   Read EJI’s report, Segregation in America, to learn more about how local white officials targeted civil rights activists and the Black church in their quest to uphold segregation.

[bantarleton]

Poignant images of the recent re-burial of 14 Revolutionary War bodies discovered at Camden, including one redcoat highlander. Members of the present-day Royal Regiment of Scotland were in attendance along with the reenactors. Research is currently being conducted to find any living relatives of the deceased. Images from the 71st Regiment of Foot Facebook page.

[pers-books]

It'll be fascinating to see what a revised history of Elizabeth I's reign looks like once the scholars have pored over this.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Walter Richard Sickert

Maple Street, London

ca. 1915-23

[cogumellow]

londontown curios pt. i // london, uk // 2022 - 2023 // ©

[aryburn-trains]

MDOT0001 A special demonstration trip of Maryland DOT commuter equipment passes Chessie System steam locomotive 614 as it departs Camden Station, Baltimore, Md, September 30, 1981. Cab unit 7184 was rebuilt by Morris-Knudsen and redesignated F9PH. 

MDOT0001 Maryland Department of Transport F9PH A special demonstration trip of Maryland DOT commuter equipment passes Chessie System steam locomotive 614 as it departs Camden Station, Baltimore, Md, September 30, 1981. Cab unit 7184 was rebuilt by Morris-Knudsen and redesignated F9PH. (Louis M . Wassermann) Sep 30, 1981

[20th-century-railroading]

Pavonia Power by Doug Lilly Via Flickr: Penn Central GG1’s 4850 and 4844, still carrying their PRR single-stripe scheme, wait for their next assignment at Pavonia Yard in Camden, New Jersey. Pavonia was the major yard of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, a regional South Jersey road that was jointly owned by the Pennsylvania and the Reading. August 30, 1975

[intomore]

Marion Post Wolcott,

"An old Negro, vicinity of Camden, Alabama (The Whistler),"

Dated 1939 (printed 1980s).

Silver print, 165.1x228.6 mm 56 1/2x9 inches) Sheet 203.2x254 mm

(8x10 inches.)

Courtesy: Swann Auction Galleries

[lonestarbattleship]

Yard workers fitting out IDAHO (BB-42) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey.

Photographed on March 15, 1918.

NARA: 45546558

[my-darling-boy]

I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

[ritware1850]

[cameracourt]

Review: "Summerlin Groves" by Elizabeth Camden

Today is all about a contemporary story by Elizabeth Camden, Summerlin Groves, that’s a perfect blend of second chance romance and mystery. This is the author’s first foray into the contemporary genre (historical romance is her usual), and it is treated with the same attention to detail as her brilliant historicals. Jenny Summerlin is struggling to save her dying orange grove when a baffling…