Driver Boys at Bear Gap
An undated photo post card published for Frank Wynn entitled “The Driver Boys Friend,” at the coal mining operation at Bear Gap near Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _____________________________ […]
Leroy Kopp – Blacksmith at the Brookside Colliery
A photograph taken prior to 1923 of the blacksmith shop at the Brookside Colliery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and picturing Leroy Kopp (1897-1972) at right and an unknown blacksmith […]
Lykens – High School Baccalaureate, 1926
A 1926 memento of the Baccalaureate Sermon for the Lykens High School, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The memento reads: Baccalaureate Sermon, 6 June 1926, Methodist Church Class Motto …………… Be, […]
The Story of Mike Romiski – Killed at East Brookside Colliery, 1927
Michael Romiski, also known as Mikolaj Romanshyn and Mykola Romaniszyn, was born in Galacia, Austrian Empire, on 9 December 1893. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, and shortly […]
Michael Romiski – Killed at East Brookside Colliery, 1927
From the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, of 16 December 1927, came the following notice of the instant death of Michael Romiski, a worker at the […]
United Steelworkers of America – Membership Card, 1943
A 1943 membership card for the United Steelworkers of America, headquartered at 1900 Commonwealth Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The card was issued to William E. Dietrich of Lykens, R. D. [Specktown, […]
Italian Laborer Injured in Railroad Construction Accident, 1911
A brief notice appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 16 September 1911 describing a railroad construction accident near Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, during the construction of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad. […]
Railroad Worker Strike Threatens the Peace in Millersburg, 1911
In September 1911, the foreign workers who were employed in the construction of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad went on strike at Millersburg and were discharged by their employer, the Pinkerton […]