Harrisburg – Dr. Mills and the Landmark Abortion Cases, 1849-1850
In 1849, Jonathan Gibbon Mills, a Harrisburg area dentist, was charged by sisters of the following crimes: (1) by Mary Elizabeth Lutz, with seduction on a promise to marry; (2) […]
Old Gratz Photos – Lot 76
The house on Lot 76, East Market Street, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was built about 1896. The above undated, colorized photograph pictures the house about the time it was owned by […]
Pine Grove – Baby Clinic, 1950
A newspaper photograph taken around 1950 of Dr. Kurt Hortner and the volunteers of the Well Baby Clinic of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo was reprinted in the […]
Pottsville Area Newspapers Report on Dr. King Assassination, 1968
Front page stories on the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which took place in Memphis, Tennessee. The local, weekly newspapers in the Lykens Valley area […]
Old Gratz Photos – Lot 74
The house on Lot 74, East Market Street, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was built around 1905 for John E. Miller. Above is a colorized version of a black and white photograph […]
Replacement Theory in the Coal Region, 1862
During the Civil War, the term “contraband” came to refer to persons who were held as slaves, who by their own means, or as a result of liberation by the […]
Old Gratz Photos – Lot 72
The house on Lot 72, East Market Street, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was built about 1875. Above is a colorized version of a black and white photograph taken in the 1990s […]
Images from the Coal Strike of 1900 (6)
Caption: The Dark Side of the Great Strike. This miner’s family ate the last of their provisions on Friday. Source: Philadelphia Times, September 30, 1900, via Newspapers.com. ________________________________ Corrections and […]