Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, opened in 1829 and closed in 1971. For years it was the main state prison to which convicted criminals from eastern Pennsylvania were sent, including […]
A newspaper photograph of Clyde L. Machamer holding a “We Burn Coal” poster. The photo was published in the Pottsville Republican on December 1, 1965, with the following caption: PROMOTES […]
A portrait of Gov. Arthur H. James (1883-1973), a Republican who took the side of the “bootleg” miners in the debate over strip mining in the southern anthracite coal fields. […]
A copy of the theatrical poster displayed at venues showing D. W. Griffith‘s screenplay, The Birth of a Nation, which made its debit in 1915. The poster depicts a horse […]
A photograph taken in the early 1960s showing the architectural design of the Acme Market that was built near the Dauphin-Schuylkill County Line, on Route 209, west of Tower City […]
Gratz-Porter H. S. Scrap for Base Ball Honors With but one defeat marked against them the Gratz High School baseball team emerged winners of the lower end group of the […]
In what was probably the biggest Ku Klux Klan demonstration up to this time in the Lykens Valley area, hundreds of hooded members of that order took charge of the […]
The stamped corner of a penny post card mailed from the Tower City Post Office, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1915, 10 A. M.. _________________________________________ Corrections and additional […]