A 1949 portrait photograph of Mildred B. Lykens of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the 1949 yearbook, The Spectrum, of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, available […]
Charles M. Coles, editor and publisher of the Lykens Standard, in the September 14, 1917, reprinted an offensive commentary from the Christian Herald which supported negative stereotypes about Filipinos. The […]
An undated colorized post card view of the Reservoir at Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
An undated cabinet card photograph of an unknown child, photographed at the Berhard & Toomer Studio, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments […]
A letter or cover mailed from Lykens Post Office, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1881, to Mr. Levi Miller Sr., at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The corner card […]
In 1934, the Junior Class of Wiconisco High School, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, presented a minstrel program which was performed in black-face. As reported in the Lykens Standard, November 16, […]
A newspaper photo of the seven female cast members of a production of a racist play, A Southern Cinderella.* Note the character at left, a white woman in “black-face and […]
On a grassy bank just off Specktown Road in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is the Lykens Township Veterans Monument – which also could be called the first Gratz […]