Reinerton School – 3rd & 4th Grades, 1925
A photograph of the pupils and teacher of the 3rd and 4th Grade Class of 1924-1925, Reinerton School, Reinerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. None of the individuals in the photo are […]
Elizabethville – Broad Street School, 1895-1989
A souvenir crock depicting the Broad Street School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This is a quart shoulder crock. The crocks were originally issued by the Elizabethville Area Bicentennial Committee, 1817-2017, […]
Lykens High School – Class of 1911
A newspaper photograph of the Class of 1911, Lykens High School, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This photo appeared in the Lykens Standard, August 26, 1910, with the following caption: THE […]
Lykens Township – Shepley School Teachers, 1876-1951
A photograph of the interior of the Shepley School, a one-room schoolhouse in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1911 when Charles Henninger was the teacher. The school was […]
The Jackson Township Anti-Vaccination Court Case of 1906
This post is an introduction to the seven part series describing the protest that took place in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, over the enforcement of the compulsory vaccination law […]
John C. Fitting – Memories of Teaching in a One-Room School
John C. Fitting (1860-1933) taught for twenty-seven years in the one-room schoolhouses of Jackson Township and Wayne Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. After his retirement, he agreed to be interviewed by […]
Pine Grove – Marching Band
An undated photograph of the Pine Grove Marching Band, Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, as it appeared in a Firemen’s Parade on Chestnut Street, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. ________________________________ Corrections […]
Jackson Township’s Anti-Vaccination Protest, 1905-1906
On December 9, 1905, the Board of Education of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, voted to admit students to school whether or not they could produce a certificate of vaccination. […]