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Upper Dauphin High School – Marilyn Elaine Smeltz, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Marilyn Elaine Smeltz, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

March 10, 2024
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Williamstown Saved from Great Fire, 1924

Quick action by residents and the Williamstown fire company, with some assistance from the wind changing directions, saved Williamstown from the fate of Gratz which one week earlier lost its […]

March 9, 2024
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Lykens – Uhler Drug Store Fire Was Costly, 1924

UHLER DRUG STORE FIRE ESTIMATED $2,000 The fire which occurred at the Uhler Drug Store, Main and Market Streets, Saturday morning, October 25 [1924], caused a loss estimated at about […]

March 9, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – Thomas Homer Sitlinger, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Thomas Homer Sitlinger, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

March 9, 2024
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Fall of Slate Kills George Dreibelbis at Big Lick, 1924

Again the bowels of the earth have taken toll, and on Wednesday about noon, George Dreibelbis, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dreibelbis of Wiconisco, was crushed […]

March 8, 2024
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Jacob F. Werner Decapitated by Train, 1924

The death certificate of Jacob F. Werner, of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, indicates he died on March 10, 1924, and that he was “killed by train; head crushed,” and the […]

March 8, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – Richard Leroy Shomper, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Richard Lee Shomper, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

March 8, 2024
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Dalmatia Post Office, 1880s

A cover/envelope mailed from Dalmatia [Georgetown], Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, May 21, some time in the 1880s. The corner card on the envelope is for the Northumberland County Mutual Aid Society […]

March 7, 2024

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