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 […]
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, […]
The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
A 1924 portrait photograph of Harper B. Dodd of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Obiter, the 1924 yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Columbia […]
On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]
A 1923 portrait photograph of Albert Foster of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Obiter, the 1923 yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, […]
A 1923 portrait photograph of Mrs. Albert Foster of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Obiter, the 1923 yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Columbia […]
LYKENS VALLEY COAL MINES In my late excursion through the country, bordering on the Susquehanna river, I visited Lykens Valley, in Dauphin County, and the coal mines on Bear Creek, […]