Jersey

1910 · 51160 — Collingswood NJ: E.L. Pardee 626 Park Ave. ca. 1910-1911. 4to. 23 original silver gelatin linen-backed images 7.5 x 9.5 in. printed on 9.25 x 11.5 sized photo stock paper w/ most having annotations and dates on verso in ink and pencil a few dated at lower right corner in white margin below image. Contemporary black pebbled cloth Shipman’s Common-Sense Binder w/ brass staples at gutter margin which slide to fastener at rear reinforced at margin w/ linen some wear rubbing wear to corners minor wear & creasing to gutter margin blanks of images still an excellent exemplar w/ ownership stamp on front pastedown. This remarkable photo album illustrates the building and improvement of infrastructure in and around Camden NJ and Gloucester NJ at the beginning of the 20th century for the Public Service Trolley Line Company. Pardee 1882-1932 was a New Jersey contractor and builder who worked on laying trolley tracks for the company. These images show the rebuilt timber fenders along the Pesauken Creek Bridge new retaining wall built for the Smith Property in Bellmawr NJ for the new Trolley Line bridge over the old sluiceway on Martha Pond on the Oswego River timber bridge along the White Horse Pike by Mooretown the rebuilding of the Electric Trolley line extending the Almonessen Branch to Blackwood as well as the Federal Street Bridge over Coopers Creek in Camden NJ. Of particular interest are the excellent series of photos showing the streets and houses through Gloucester NJ as the company ripped out the old wooden cord roads and laid brick for holding the trolley line ties. After World War I Pardee established the E. Brown Pardee Inc. brick stone and masonry supplies in Collingswood NJ expanding to other building materials through the 1920s until his death. After that the company was managed by his son Ernest Lewis Pardee until World War II. E.L. Pardee, 626 Park Ave., hardcover