A colorized newspaper photograph of the 1939 Tremont Miners, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Pictured in the photo: Front Row: Russ Hand; Whitey Bowman, Betty Jones, bat girl; Luther “Lolly” Koch; Martin Miller. […]
Oscar Charleston played centerfield for the Harrisburg Giants, a team in the Eastern Colored League, for four seasons, 1924-1927, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was most active […]
A newspaper photograph of Isaac P. Bowman, leader of a crime ring responsible for burglaries, assaults and highway robberies in the Lykens Valley area and surrounding areas in late 1906 […]
A story about William Penn as a slaveowner was told as part of “Pennsylvania Profiles,” a weekly series produced for the Sunbury Daily Item, with the above number published on July […]
The 1967 Academy Award Best Picture of the Year, In the Heat of the Night, was featured at the Budd Theatre, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on Friday and Saturday, November […]
A screen capture from the silent film Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith‘s photoplay about the Civil War and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the war. […]
A newspaper photograph (Lykens Standard, November 17, 1922) of an artist’s rendering of the new Moose Home, then under construction and nearing completion in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building […]
A brief mention in the Elizabethville Echo of December 11, 1930, that the Cotton Blossom Minstrel show by the Gratz High School was so successful that it had an encore […]