The Porter Tunnel mine disaster occurred on March 1, 1977, near Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Related photos appeared in editions of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, on subsequent dates. Somewhere […]
On Labor Day weekend 1925, the Ku Klux Klan of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, held a huge demonstration in Harrisburg, the county seat and capital city of the state. Large crowds […]
A 1939 portrait photograph of Thomas Edward Zerbe, of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Serpentine, the 1939 yearbook of the West Chester State Teachers College, […]
As reported in the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, February 8, 1907: John Renninger, a son of Ephraim Renninger, this place [Tower City], aged about 18 years, was seriously […]
The front page of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, March 8, 1977, reporting on the mining disaster at the Porter Tunnel, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, which occurred on March 1, 1977. Articles […]
The front page of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, March 7, 1977, reporting on the mining disaster at the Porter Tunnel, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, which occurred on March 1, 1977. Articles […]
The front page of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, March 5, 1977, reporting on the mining disaster at the Porter Tunnel, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, which occurred on March 1, 1977. Articles […]
A photograph of an emergency hospital set up in a public building to care for persons who had contracted influenza in October 1918. Joseph H. Zerbey, in 1933, reflected on […]