An 1894 advertisement for J. A. Laudenslager, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Hats, Caps, etc., Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Country Produce taken in exchange _____________________________________________ From the Premium […]
Photographs of the original St. John’s Lutheran and Reformed Church (top), Pitman, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, also known as the “Little Brick Church,” and the church (bottom) that eventually grew out […]
A newspaper photograph of Centre Street, looking north, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo was taken by Wendy Chubb for the Citizen-Standard, Valley View, June 29, 1990. That edition of […]
A 1969 newspaper photograph of the Soul Brothers, a musical group from the Lykens Valley. The Lykens Standard of February 13, 1969, reported that the group was booked for performance […]
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]
VERA I. [SCHWALM] KIMMEL (1921-2021) Vera I. Kimmel, age 100, of Valley View, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2021, at Tremont Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on Friday, […]
A portrait of Gov. Arthur H. James (1883-1973), a Republican who took the side of the “bootleg” miners in the debate over strip mining in the southern anthracite coal fields. […]
The story that appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of November 6, 1924 describing the Great Gratz Fire, differed only in the fact that it speculated as to how the fire […]