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Elizabethville – Swab Wagon Company

An undated colorized picture post card view of the Swab Wagon Company’s brick headquarters in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building is located opposite the Elizabethville Railroad Station and the photo was probably […]

June 20, 2023
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Tower City – Grand Avenue from Second Street

An undated black & white post card view (later colorized) of Grand Avenue, looking from Second Street, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Note the trolley track down the center of […]

June 20, 2023
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Billy Cox – Major League Baseball Player from Newport

William Richard “Billy” Cox was born August 29, 1919, in Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and died March 30, 1978, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He had a major league baseball […]

June 20, 2023
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Coal Castles – Centralia Colliery (1862-1928)

A photograph showing the water-level tunnel entrance of the Centralia Colliery as it appeared in the 1890s. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1998: […]

June 20, 2023
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Williamstown – Susquehanna Coal Company, 1902

A 1902 photograph of men who were employed in the sinking of the No. 2 Shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in […]

June 19, 2023
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Halifax – Village Laundry, 2010

A 2010 photograph of the Village Laundry, 209 Market Street, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This building was formerly the Royal Theatre. See: _________________________________________________ Photo from GoogleMaps (street view). Corrections and additional […]

June 19, 2023
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The Tower Theatre Collapse, 1958

A 1958 newspaper photograph showing the collapse of the roof and a large section of wall of the Tower Theatre, corner of Sixth Avenue and Grand Avenue, Tower City, Schuylkill […]

June 19, 2023
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Shamokin – American Legion Building

An undated colorized post card view of the new American Legion building in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. According to the card, the cost of the building was $350,000. _______________________________________ Corrections […]

June 19, 2023

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