A photograph taken around 1976 of the Blanning Hardware Store, Williamstown, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. The following biographical sketch appeared in a 1976 Williamstown history: Roy “Scratch” Blanning was born in […]
A 1947-1948 photograph of the students and teacher at the Metz School, Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This was the last year that this building was operated as a public school. […]
A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Thomas David Lesher, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
This story from the Lykens Standard, August 31, 1906: GEORGE A. KOSIER LOSES PART OF TWO FINGERS On Monday while George A. Kosier was unloading a barrel of oil at […]
A photograph taken about 1976 of “Sonny” Wiscount’s Arco Service Station, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The station was built by L. Sol Bendigo in 1958. In 1959-1960, it was leased […]
A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of John David Laskowski, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
An undated photograph of the Reading Terminal of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Passengers traveling to Philadelphia from the Lykens Valley on the Reading Railroad ended […]
Litter around railroad property was as much a problem in 1906 as it is today. A discarded, broken beer bottle in the Rattling Creek in the location of the Pennsylvania […]
