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New Phone Exchanges, 1908

A photograph from the early 20th Century showing an operator working at a console at a telephone exchange. The operator manually connected wires to move a call from one wire […]

March 1, 2024
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Elizabethville – Brothers in Fatal Railroad Accident, 1929

A fatal railroad accident occurred at the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Market Street grade crossing in October 1929, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania., as reported by the Elizabethville Echo, October 10, 1929: THREE […]

February 12, 2024
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Proposed Railroad from Dornsife to Pillow, 1904

Some brief news items appearing in local and regional newspapers seem to suggest that work had started on building a railroad from Dornsife in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Pillow, in […]

February 1, 2024
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Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station

Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]

January 13, 2024
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Highway Robbery Near Loyalton, 1906

The dangers of traveling the back roads of the Lykens Valley at night became evident to Frank Wiest, a butcher. He was brutally attacked and robbed in September 1906 near […]

January 8, 2024
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Mahantongo Valley

Nestled in the pocket of the Blue Mountains of the Appalachians, the Mahantongo Valley extends east from the Susquehana River for seventeen miles. Bordered to the north by Line Mountain, it extends […]

January 7, 2024
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Dr. S. D. Diffenderfer – Traveling Dentist, 1910

This DENTAL ANNOUNCEMENT appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, October 20, 1910: Dr. S. D. Diffenderfer of Middleburg, Pennsylvania, desires to inform the public he will visit the towns named below […]

January 6, 2024
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Pillow – Aunspach Photography (47)

The front and back of an undated carte de visite photograph of an unidentified young woman. This type of photo was popular in the Civil War era and for a decade afterward. […]

December 22, 2023

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