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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
The danger evident in the work camps of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad was noted in a brief article which appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 15 August 1911. One of the […]