Gratz – Globby’s Barber Shop Parade Float
An undated photograph of a parade float for Globby’s Barber Shop, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The occasion of the parade is not known. The driver of the float is Claud […]
Jacob W. Brightbill (1886-1947)
JACOB W. BRIGHTBILL Jacob W. Brightbill, age 60 years, Millersburg merchant, died at his home at that place 29 October 1947. Mr. Brightbill became ill while attending a meeting in […]
Boiler Explosion at Erdman Kills Elmer Artz, 1907
A 1907 photograph of some of the destruction that occurred when a boiler used to mill and press apples for cider, exploded killing one man and scalding another. The Elizabethville […]
Rev. John C. Augustus Bergner (1806-1860)
Rev. John C. Augustus Bergner – Lutheran Minister of the Lykens Valley Rev. Bergner was born on 28 March 1806, in Thaldorf, Schwarzburg Rudelstadt, Germany. He came to America in […]
World War II – Robert A. Miller – Missing in Action
LYKENS AIRMAN REPORTED MISSING Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Miller of Lykens have been advised by the War Department that their son, Staff Sergeant Robert A. Miller, U. S. Army Air […]
Book Committee for the Gratz Sesquicentennial, 1955
A photo of members of the Book Committee for the 1955 Gratz Sesquicentennial, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Identifications: Front Row (seated): Clayton H. Willier; Naldy Leitzel; Lloyd M. Bellis. Back […]
Gratz I.O.O.F. – Memorial Day, 1910
A view from an old picture post card from 1910 of the International Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, assembled in tribute to fallen veterans on […]
James F. Hoffner (1882-1944)
FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY FOR JAMES HOFFNER James F. Hoffner, age 61 years, widely known business man, died at his home, West Main Street, Friday afternoon, following a heart attack. He […]