On Exhibit at Robeson Library: Camden Centennials: 100 Years of Rutgers-Camden and Ben Franklin Bridge

One hundred years ago, Arthur Armitage and representatives from the South Jersey legal community founded a new school in Camden; South Jersey Law School. In July of the same year, the Delaware River Bridge opened to provide a multi-modal river crossing from Camden to Philadelphia. Over the century, the bridge would be renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, and the small law school would become Rutgers University-Camden, an R2 research institution in the heart of South Jersey. 

Curated by Camden Special Collections Librarian Bart Everts and John Powell, Robeson Exhibits Coordinator; this new exhibit features items from the Robeson Library’s Special Collections, reflecting on the history and growth of the bridge and the campus over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.