The Bogus Nickel Coiners of Washington Square, 1873
COINING THEIR OWN MONEY Mrs. Daniel Boyer, who lives in an old house on the road leading from Washington Square across Berry’s Mountain, near the intersection of the Powel’s Valley […]
Great Gratz Fire of 1924 As Reported by Elizabethville Echo
The story that appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of November 6, 1924 describing the Great Gratz Fire, differed only in the fact that it speculated as to how the fire […]
Protests Against Birth of a Nation, 1915 (5)
A copy of the theatrical poster displayed at venues showing D. W. Griffith‘s screenplay, The Birth of a Nation, which made its debit in 1915. The poster depicts a horse […]
Millersburg Watermelon Thieves Confess, 1926
MILLERSBURG YOUTHS CONFESS TO THEFT OF WATERMELONS Four youths, Melvin Lebo, Elvin Schwalm, Homer Schwalm, and Walter Warfel of Millersburg, confessed to the theft of five watermelons, stolen during the […]
Pennsylvania Railroad Excursion to Klan Convocation in D. C., 1926
An advertisement from the Lykens Standard, September 10, 1926 for a special excursion train leaving the Lykens Valley for Washington, D. C., and the Ku Klux Klan conclave to be […]
Reading Railroad Excursion to D.C. for K. K. K. Meeting, 1926
A news brief from the Pottsville Republican, September 11, 1926, noting that the Reading Railroad was offering a special excursion train leaving from Pottsville and points in western Schuylkill County, […]
Williamstown – World War II Dog Tag
An undated photo of an identification tag (“dog tag”) for Edward S. Jones, a World War II soldier from Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The next of kin is identified as […]
Millersburg High School – Class Trip, 1924
A photograph taken of the Class of 1924, Millersburg High School, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on its class trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. None of the students or […]