Title: Strikers and their Families Putting in Their Idle Time During the Strike. Photo Credit: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1900, page 1, via Newspapers.com. ________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should […]
An image of the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1900, with headlines announcing the end of the Coal Strike of 1900: STRIKE’S END EXPECTED ON TUESDAY Probable […]
An undated photograph of a very young coal miner. The photo, which is from the Schuylkill County Historical Society, was published in the “Looking Back” feature of the Pottsville Republican, March […]
In 1910, at the conclusion of the construction of the Hegins Water Works at Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, a fight took place at the quarters of the Italian workers. […]
A colorized version of a large article that appeared on the front page of the Lykens Standard, July 4, 1913, touting the Old Home Week celebration. The article featured the […]
Leo J. Kanaskie died on July 31, 1957. During the era when local baseball teams were prominent in the greater Lykens Valley area, he established himself as a player and […]
In early 1935, it was reported that charges against three individuals involved in the 1934 shirt factory labor disturbances in Elizabethville and Gratz would be dropped. From the Lykens Standard, […]
An undated colorized post card view from October 1905 issued in commemoration of Mitchell Day in the coal regions. All the collieries were closed and John Mitchell, President of the […]