A portrait of Samuel B. Coles (1933-1916), a newspaperman of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. __________________________________ From: “Who’s Who in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,” Lykens-Williams Valley History-Directory and Pictorial Review, by […]
AMMON UMHOLTZ Ammon M. Umholtz, age 45 years, of Easton, died of a heart attack while on a hunting trip in Northampton County, Saturday morning [31 October 1942] Mr. Umholtz […]
In 1865, among the many places that the announcement of the establishment of a new Upper Dauphin newspaper appeared were the Wellsboro Gazette, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, Pittsburgh, […]
A two-cent postal stationery envelope sold by the Post Office at Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, with specially printed town return address and space for sender’s name. This envelope was […]
A 1990 view of the United States Post Office at Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. __________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post. This photo appeared […]
This envelope contained a thank you for an expression of sympathy given to Laura Umholtz, at Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The card noted that “your kind expression of sympathy is […]
A one-year subscription by mail to the Lykens Standard newspaper of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, cost $1.50 in August 1918, as can be seen by this receipt to William Dietrich […]
The black border around this envelope indicates that it contained a notice of death or a notice of sympathy. It was postmarked at 6 a.m. on 25 December 1922, at […]