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WILLIAM W . STOEY PHOTOGRAPHS
1895-1925,11 cu. ft.
William Wesley Stoey, 1846-1925, born near Carlisle, spe nt most of his
life in Harri sbur g. He served in the Civil War in Company A, 7th Penn sylvania Reserves, was captured in 1864 at the Battle of the Wildern ess, and
was sent to Anderson ville Prison. Afterward, Stoey ea rned his living as a
taxidermi st at a shop at l 126No rth Front Street, Harrisburg. His avocations
included photography, which led to occasional employment, and natural
history, which invo lved him in the Natura l Sciences Association of Harrisburg. Stoey and his friends, w ho included Mira Dock, J. Horace McFarland
and others, often wen t on natural history excursions with their cameras in
sou th centra l Penn sylvania.
The pho tographs are 2,282glass plate negatives taken by Stoey between
November 5,1 895, and Augu st 31, 1925, a few months before his death.
Some plates were taken by his daughter Ida L. Stoey. Stoey often experimented with the camera, making exposures by flashlight, and working at
night with special lenses or techniqu es. He also copied the photographs of
others, such as C.S. Roshon, I..cRue Lerner, William H. Rau and oth ers. Most
platesare4x5, with some5x7 andodd sizes such as stereo and half plate. The
plates are arranged numerical1y and each bears a number scratched on the
edge by Stoey. No original prints are present. PHMC contact prints of each
pla te were created in 1984·1985 for reference purposes.
Accompanying the plates is Stoey's index (l vol.), Entries are numerical
and usual1y include the da te, subject, often the time of day, size and type of
plate, and light cond itions. There is also a PHMC subject card index to the
pla tes. Though there are 2,414 entries, only 2,282 ind ividua l plates are
present. The index contains a diary kep t by Stoey be twee n December 27,
1893, and April 28, 1895, "Things We Do, Hear a nd Say." En tries mostly
record his nat ural history walks in the Harrisburg vicinity. There are also
notes on a No.4 Falcon bicycle, and a cyclomete r record for 1895.
The diary and plates were donated by Stoey himself a few months befo re
his death to the State Museum of Pennsylvania and transferred to the
Archives sometime afterward. Some of Stoey's taxidermy is in the Natural
History Section of the State Museum .
Though the bulk of the images is of Harrisburg, rural areas in sou th
central Pennsylvania, especially in Dauphin, Cumberland, Lancaster and
Perry Counties are present. There are five subject categories: natural history, people, town views, tran sporta tion and miscellaneous,
Natural history includes images of farm and domesticated animals, plus
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examp lesof Stoey' s taxidermy; wildflowers; flower garde ns; floraIarrangements (usually funerary); plantsand trees; scenicviewso f the Susquehan na
and Juniata Rivers, especially at Chickies Rocks, Clarks Ferry, Dauphin
Cliffs and Na rrows, File's Eddy, Fort Hunter, Jack's Na rrows, McCall' s
Ferry, Safe Harbor and Shenks Ferry;scenic views of brid ges, creeks, hotels
and pri vate homes, hunting, runs, roads, wa terfalls, springs, valleys and
o th er s, especia lly Beav er Creek, Ca mero n Creek, Clarks Cree k,
Conodog uinet Creek, Conestoga Creek, Conowago Creek, Conowingo
Creek, Cumberland Creek, Doubling Gap, Eslingers Creek, Fishing Creek,
Hummelstown Cave, Indian Steps, Manns Run, Mud Run, Paxton Creek,
Poorhouse Run, Rock Run, Sterretts Gap, Stoney Creek, Tuquan Creek,
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Tumbling Run, Trout Run, Wetzel' s Swamp, Wislers Run, Yellow Breeches
Creek, and others; natural phenomena such as cloud s, the Harri sburg Ice
Storms of 1904 and 1920, and the solar eclipse of jun e 28, 1908.
Peopleare usua lly both formal and casual portraits ofadults and child ren
in their homes or ya rds, with a few pos tmortem images. The sitters were
often Stacy' s family, friendsor neighbors. Family su rnames includ e Aukamp,
Backenstoss, Barkley, Becker, Berrier, Boak, Bowers, Butler, Carr, Chubb,
Demming, Dintarnan, Doren, Ellinger, Fager, Fetter, Fisher, Hassenplug,
Graff, Hartz, Hemperley, Keeney, King, Landis, Lingle, Miller, Morgan,
Peiffer, Rather, Rinehart, Schlagle,Sees,Sellers,Sensa rnan,Sense nig,Shook,
Smith, Sourbier, Spangler, Stephens, Stevenso n, Sullenberger, Taylor,
Venable, Weaver, Weber, Williams, Yingst, Yod er .Zimmerman and others,
including a series of prisoner mug shots taken for Dauphin County Prison
and a copy of a daguerreotype of Governor joseph Ritner.
Town views are primarily of Harrisburg. but the following are represented: Boiling Springs, Bridgeport (Lemoyne), Crai ghead, Dauphin,
Gettysburg (battlefield), Middle sex, Port Deposit, Md., Rockvi lle (includ ing bridge), Safe Ha rbor, Salunga, Sibletown, Speecevi lle, West Fairview,
Worm leysburg and York Have n. Harrisb urg view s include: boa t wharves;
bridges, especially Camelba ck, Mulberry and Walnut; businesses a nd
ind ustry, rnany identified by the family names listed above, such as beauty
salons, blacksmi th shops, carpe t, upholstery and furniture s tores, cigar
factories, coal dredging. dai ry, ice and coal wago ns, da ms, d istilleries,
greenhouses, grocery stores, hotels, hyd roelectric plan t, ice crea m parlors,
iron furn aces, mills, nailworks, sawmills,stone qua rries, Harrisburg Waterworks, wharves, and others; build ings include int erior and exterior views
ofhomes of many of the people listed abo ve, the old and new Capitols, with
the ruins of the fire of 1897, and the Grand Opera House fire of 1907;
Harri sburg Cemetery monuments and tombstones, plus gravediggers and
land scapers at work; recreation and celebration, includ ing Chr istmas a nd
Halloween, bicycling, excurs ion boating. card playing, fishing, hockey,
ska ting, swimming, activities at the Ha rrisburg River Carnival, Septembe r
2, 1907,and Old Home Week, 1905; and street views, includin g o fCamero n,
Crystal, Cumberland, Fron t, Broad, Second, Ma rket, Reily, State, Seventeenth, and Third .
Transportation includes boatyards on the Susquehanna, the Fort Hunter
Ferry; the Pennsylva nia Canal and canal boats and locks at Clarks Ferry,
Dauphin, Harrisburg, Lochiel, Middletow n, Rockville and Speeceville;
railroads at Bridgeport (Lemoyne) including the President McKinley funeral train, Enola a nd Rockville.
Miscellaneous includes farm machinery manufactured by the jackso n
Company, and the Reliance Chick Brooder and Incuba tor; a Spa ngler Car
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Fend er; paintings by B.I. Lingle; and copies of ph otographs of points of
interest all over the world, such as the pyramids of Egyp t, the Grand
Canyo n and others .
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Cap iJo/ from SUoM aM Barbara A\'enlU.March 2. 1907 .-
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THE LOGAN FAMILY COLLECTION
Ca. 1680-1945, 4 cu. i t.
Algernon Sydney Logan (1849-1925) wa s a de scendant of James Logan,
provincial secretary to William Penn . The Logan Family owned several
esta tes in the Philad elphia area. Algerno n spent time mana ging family
affairs and engaging in various pursuits includ ing writing and photography. He periodically displayed pri nts a t the Philad elphia Photograp hy
Club and other orga nizations.
The bulk of the Collection (2.5 cu. ft.) is portrait photograph s of Logan,
his wife, Mary Wynn e Wister, and their famili es, ca. 1845-1 930. Also
includ ed are photographs taken by Algerno n S. Logan, and some probably
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collected by his son, Robert Restalrig Logan . Non-p hotogra p hic materials
05 cu. ft.) includ e copies of manuscripts pertaining to James Logan, the
poe try a nd novels of Algernon S. Logan, and genea logica l data relating to
the family.The Logansdonated this and other artifacts relat ing to the family
to the Sta te Archives over the course of several years.
Subjects cover: Logan and Wister Family Portraits, incl uding p ho tographic copies of paintings of John Logan and Isaac Norris; three albu ms of
cabinetcards, cartes-de-visite.and miscellaneous pri nts of the John Dickinson
Logan Family, the Cha rles Jones Wister Family, Owen Wister, a nd the
Wister hom e, "Grumblethorpe," near Philadelph ia. Many of these are by
Philad elphia area photographers, including Frederick Gu tekuns t, Dav id
Hinkle, The Monarch Co mpa ny, M.P. Simo ns, C.H. Spiclers, and m any
o thers. Notable items include cased ph otographs, mostl y dagu erreotypes,
o f un iden tified famil y mem bers, ca. 1845-1925. Some o f these a re by Isaac
Rehn, Cha rles Evans and John Plumbe, Jr.
Photographs by Alge rno n Syd ney Logan, ca. 1871-1925, includ e selfpo rtraits; views o f Logan Family hom es in the Philadelp hia area; a view of
Ritte nho use Squa re, Philadelphia; farms nea r Jo nes Neck, Delaware; ba thers and beach scenes at Spri ng Lake Beach, New Jerse y; and "Sa nd Du nes,"
an entry in the Read ing Lantern Pho tographic Exhib ition of 1903. Also
p rese nt is Biographical Sketch of Algernon Sydney Logan, by Robert Resta lrig
Logan (Philadelp hia Na tional Pub lishing Company), 1934, con taining refere nces to his ph otogra ph ic pu rsu its.
Miscellaneou s items include 133stereogra phs of an unidentified bran ch
o f the Logan Famil y on vaca tion in California, 1921.
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HARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE
COLLECTION
1927-I' RESENT, 12 cu. it.
Fou nd ed in 1925, the Harrisburg CommunityTheatres till s tages production s at a thea tre on Sixth Stree t, Harri sburg. Th e collection was don at ed to
the State Archi ves in 1975 by the HCf Guild a nd is pe riod ically updated .
The bulk of the collection is 95 cu. ft. of accou n ts, correspo ndence, reports,
minutes of the Board of Gove rnors, newsclippings, posters, programs,
scra pbooks, etc., 1927-p rese n t.
The photographs are 2.5 cu. ft. of mostly 8xl 0 stills of prod uctions, 193G1976. The stills are arranged chronologically and include: Abe Lincoln in
l/linois;Annie Get Your Gun;Arsenic and Old /..ace; Bell, Book and Candle; Bells
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Are Ringing; Blythe Spirit; Bye Bye Birdie;Cabaret; Camelot; Cat On a Hot Tin
Roof; Charley's Aunt; The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; Dial M for Murder;
Fiddler on the Roof; Funny Girl; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum;Good News;Guysand Dolls; Gypsy; Ha rvey; How to Succeedin Business
Without Really Trying;I Remember Mama;Inherit the Wind;The Kingand I; Kiss
Me Ka te; L'ilAbner;The lillIe Faxes;The Lower Depths; Man of La Mancha;The
Man WhoCAme toDinner; TheMikado;TheMousetrap;TheMusicMan;My Fair
Lady; The Odd Couple; Oklahoma; Oliver; Our Town; The Petrified Fo rest; The
Philadelphia Story; Play 11 AgainSam;Prideand Prejudice;ThePrimeofMissJean
Brodie; A Raisin in theSun;The Royal Family;SeeHowThey Run;Showboat;The
SoundofMusic; South Pacific;A StreetcarNamed Desire;Teahouseof theAugust
Moon; West SideStory; You Can't Take11 With You; and man y others.
Also included are stills of variou s child re n's productions; portraits of
directors; backstage views; rehea rsal and performance photos; ground
breaking ceremo nies for the HCfbuilding, 1950; and unidentified productions.
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AUDIO-VISUAL COLLECTION
1926·Present, 4.5 cu. ft.
These arc miscellan eou s acqu isitions of mo tion picture films, videotapes
and so und recordin gs. Item s include:
Pennsylvania State Police prod uced for the Department of Publi c Instruction for usc in the U.S. Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926. The story
explains the establishment and duties of the State Police and the tru e-life
s tory of Troo per Fran cis Haley, killed in the line of duty. Silent, with titles.
One reel 16mm , black-and -w hite, 1,000 feet.Copy of the original35mm film.
Sherm Lutz {ilms take n by him of his activi ties as a train er for the Civ ilian
Pilot Training Program at Boalsburg Air Field, ca. 1935-1941. Scenes show
train ees checking planes, prac ticing take-offs and lan dings, etc. Also included arc scenes at the State College Air Depot, ca. 1945-1955, most no tably
showing the land ing of the first DC-3. Seven ree ls, 16mm, silent,color, 1,800
ft.
Village Life at Laurelton State Village, ca. 1945-1950, taken by medical
di rector Dr. Ca therine Edgett. Scenes show the facility and pat ients receiving trea tment. Two reels, 16mm silent, color, 800 ft.
Pennsylvania Weekproduced by the Department of Commerce, probably
October, 1949. This wa s a commercial to promote the state' s ann ua l campaign for commerce and industry. Includes a speec h by Governor James
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Duff. Cop y of the original 35mm film. One reel, 16mm, sound , black-and whit e, 250 (eel.
Ikeat Gettysburg, probably taken by Harrisburg Patriot-News photogra pher Guy Pugliese, June 1952. Scenes show a reception given by the
presid ential candida te and Mrs. Dwight Eisenhow er at their Gettysburg
Farm. Personaliti es includ e U.s. Senator James Duff, Governo r John Fine,
and State Sena tor M. Harvey Taylor. One reel, 16mm, color, silent, 625 fl.
Left Bank, Right Bank, produ ced by the Pennsylvan ia Sta te University,
1976, concerni ng the voyage of the Bicentennial Raft on the Susq ueha nna.
Accompanied by the booklet "The Bicentennial Raft and the Rafting Era in
Pennsylvania," by O. Linn Frank. One reel, 16mm, sound, color, 1,000 (eel.
On the Road to 76 with Charles Kuralt. Produced by CBS News for the
1976 Bicentenni al celebration in Penn sylvani a. On e reel, 16mm, sound,
color, 250 feet,
The National Governors' Conference, July 4-6,1 976, held at Hershey, produced by WITFTelevision . Two inch videotape, ten reels (ori gina l version)
and three-quarter inch videotape, nine reels (augme nted version).
Liberty the Seco nd, produced by CIV Television, Meadville, concerning
the 1985 salvaging of Liberty theSecond, a speedboat sunk in Conneaut Lake
in 1922. VHS vid eotape, one-half inch, fifteen min utes.
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GEORGE A. RICHARDSON COLLECTION
1869-1974, 12 cu. fl.
George Atwell Richard son (1886-1976) of Bethlehem, Pa., was in his
lifetim e a surveyor, aeronautical engineer, metallurgist, lecturer, historical
writer, photographer, mo tion picture film producer and traveller. The bulk
of the Collection (J 1.7cu. ft.) contains docu men ts and ph otographs pertaining to his vocational and avocational interests. The remainder (.3 cu . ft.) is
primarily annua l diaries, 1869-1881 , of his fathe r Geo rge Carr Richardson.
Born in Milwa ukee, Wise. and raised in Evanston, III., Richardson
attended the University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1912, earning a bach elor's
degree in mechanical engineering. While there he became interested in the
technical aspec ts of av iation, and organized and participa ted in some of the
first intercollegiate hot-air balloon and glider meets held in the East. In 1910
he founded and becam e presiden t of the Interco llegia te Aeronautical Association of America. From 1904-1908 and during the su mmers of 1909-1911
and 1912 Richard son worked on and supervised surveying and mapping
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crews for the eng ineering depart ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad in Illinois. From 1913-1916he perfo rmed various enginee ring
jobs for the Midvale Steel Company, Chicago, later becoming advertisi ng
manager, a pos ition he held until 1923. At this time he produced and
directed promo tional and instru ctional mot ion pictures for the finn . He
then moved to Pennsy lvania and managed the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Technical Publicity Department from 1923-1933. From 1933-1938 he
collabora ted with his brother Edward on numero us pa tents pertaining to
diesel engines, av iation, and metallurgy. He also beca me an historical
wri ter and lecturer, creating a series of slide programs for community use
on avia tion, the Appalachian Trail, and other topics. From 1939 to the 1950s
he was sales ma nager of Metallurgica l Labora tories, Inc. of Philadelphia.
Afterretirin g and un til his dea th at age 90,he was active with local historical
societies and commun ity groups. Richardson is listed in Who's Who in
America for 1925 and Who's Who in Engineering for 1954.
Anavid traveller and hiker, Richardso n made numerous "tra rnpings," as
he called them, through out the United States and Canada. He wasan ardent
su ppo rter for the es tablishment and maintenance of the Appalachian Trail,
especia lly in Pen nsylvania, and was for rnanyyearsa troop leaderin the Boy
Scouts of America. He was also an enthusias tic pho tographe r and made his
first glass plates at the age of thirteen in 1899. He ph otographed and mad e
most of the slides used in his lectures . Richardson mos t likely saw ph otography asa useful rccordinga nd communications tool, for mostof his images
arc of a technical, rather than artistic, nature.
The Collection was donated to the Histor ical and Museum Commission
by the Richardson Family in 1976. Artifacts relating to it are hou sed at the
State Muse um of Pennsylvan ia. Approxi mately 300 safe ty film negatives
taken by Richardson of canal sites in eastern Pennsy lva nia during the 1930s
are located at the Hug h Moore Park and Canal Museum, Eas ton, Pa.
Addi tiona l docu men ts and photographs crea ted by Richa rdson d uring his
careers at Midvale Steel and Metlab arc located a t Eleuthe rian Mills,
Wilmington, Del.
Documents (65 cu. ft .) in the Collection often compleme nt the ph otogra phs and include personal business accounts, 1911-1921; correspondence, 1904-1968; yea rly d iaries, 1910-1911, 1913-1924; family and genealogical data; techni cal literature on photography and ae ronautics, 19081927; souve nir progra ms from Chicago area theatres, 1896-1906; issu es of
the following avia tion magazines: Aero, 1910-1912; Aero and Hydro, 191 21914; Aeronautics, 1909-1912, 1915; Aero Clllbof America BlIlIetin, 191 0-1 91 2;
Aircraft, 1911; Aviation and Aeronalltical Engineering, 1916-1919; Fly, 19081912, and The Intercollegiate, 1910-1912; research material a nd roug h drafts
for lectures on the history of avia tion, frontier forts of Pennsylvania and the
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East Coast, the Sullivan Trail and the Appa lachian Trail, ca. 1912-1965;
poetry; and histori cal articles on a variety of topics, 1903-1970.
Photographs (5.2 cu. ft.), 1899-1 961, includ e glass plate and film negatives, glass and film slides and some contact prints . The Collection is
arranged num erically by type of negat ive. Each negati ve is numbered and
identified in Richardson's hand writin g, and wit h the envelope often indi cating the typc of camera used, lensaperture a nd time setting, the date, time
of day, and weather conditions, together with miscellaneou s notati ons
about the subject.The prints often carry on the reverse the negative number
and information concerning subjects, but thcse a re unarranged and uncatalogued. The slides are usually copies made from the prints and are arra nged
in lecture forma ts.
Glass plat e negatives and their subjects include:
3 1/4 x 41 /4 (102 items) of Richard son and his famil y at their home in
Illinois, and a trip to visit relatives in Maine, 1899-1900.
4x5 (460 items) of Richard son and his family, 1912-1 918; wi th surveyi ng
crews in the lIIinois railyards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad <includes views of immigrant Italian work ers), and copies of
engineering drawings and record s used by the railr oad , 1912; Richardson
and his fellow stude nts in various activities at the Univers ity of Pennsylvania, including technical stud ies for use in stude nt theses, 1912-1913; copies
of engravings, newsclippingsand photographs relatin g to the early history
of nigh t, ca. 1912; a "tramping" to the Philadelphia Zoo and Barnegat Point,
N.j., 1914; the Midvale Steel Company, 1915; Richard son as a Boy Scout
leader with his troop in Pennsylvania, 191 7; with his bro ther Edwa rd in
Home Defense uni for ms, 1917-1 919; and a trip to Valley Forge, 1918.
Accom panying these plates are two albums of abo ut 200 contact prints
mad e from selected negatives.
5x7 (30 items) of architectural and engineering d raw ings of the Godfrey
and Bense nville ya rds of the CM. & St.P.R.R., 1911 -1 912.
Film negatives
Nega tives are arranged in twelve Kodak Negat ive Albums of varying
size (ap pro ximately 100 negatives per album) and include:
Album #1 - tramping to Canada and Maine, September, 1908;and to the
Badland s and Black Hills of South Dakota, Sep tember, 1909.
Album #2 - a University of Penn sylvan ia circus, Spring, 1909; Port
Richmond and Philadelphia riverfront views, june, 1911; Valley Forge,
February, 1909; the First Intercollegiate Balloon Race, North Adam s to
Peabody, Mass., june, 1911 ; Harvard Glider Meet, Squa ntum, Mass., Octo-
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ber, 1910; Swarthmore Carnival and Glider Contest, May , 1911 ; glid ing at
Corne ll University, N.Y., Fall, 1910; and a trampi ng to Har pers Ferry,
W.Va., Spring, 1910.
Albu m #3 - a tram pin g to the Ca tskill Mountai ns, N.Y.,july, and Valley
Forge and southeastern Pennsylvania, Fall, 1916.
Album #4 - the Union Canal ruins near Bernville, Pa., and miscellaneou s
family activities, October-November, 1921.
Album #5 - a tramping to the Catskill Mountains, N.Y., wilh a Boy Scou t
troo p,Septembe r, 1921;Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., and Union Canal
ruins, Pa., Octobe r, 1921; the Portage Railroad, Cresson, july 1922; and a
western trip through Arkansas, Texas, Mexico a nd the Grand Ca nyo n,
November, 1922.
Album #6 - continuing the above western trip, endi ng in New Orleans,
La., Novembe r, 1922; Niaga ra Falls and the Morris and Essex Canal, N.j.,
Summe r, 1924;a Florida to New Yor k trip o n a steamship, March, 1925; and
a tramping to Yorktow n, Va., and Cahokia Mound s, Ill., Spring, 1927.
Album #7 - a tramping to Richmond and the Rappa ha nnock River, Va .,
May, 1927; a tramping to Canad a and Maine, july, 1927; a mine a t
Friedensville, Pa.,july, 1930; and ceremonies markin g the es tablishme nt of
Delaware Division Canal (Roosevelt) State Par k with Governo r Gifford
Pincho t, New Hope, Pa., October, 1931.
Album #8 - the Richard son family and their cabin at Saddleback Pond,
Maine, Summe r, 1931, and a 1908 tramping to Main e taken by a friend.
Album #9 - Hereford Furnace and Dale Iron Works, Bally, Pa., ju ly, 1929;
an abandoned iron min e ncar Bethlehem; and a trip from Wind Gap to
Lehigh Gap, june, 1930.
Albums #1G-12 and an additiona l 200 loose negatives were take n between Sep tember, 1931, and October, 1936, for use in lectures on Pe nnsy lvan ia fron tier fort s, the Appa lachian Trail, the Sulliva n Tra il and the Lehigh
Canal. Included arc panoramas of the Blue Mountains, views along the
trails and the sites of Wilson Blockhouse and Mill, Chapman's Quarries,
Ralston (Brown's) Fort, Peter Doll's Blockhouse, Teed's Fort, Adam Deshler' s
Fort, Friedensthal, Fort Dupui, Fort Hyndshaw, Scholl's Mill, Christian's
Spring, Gnadenthal, Nazareth Hall, Whitefield House, Rose Inn, Fo rt Penn,
Fort Hamilton, For t Norri s, Fort Lehigh, Bear Rocks, Trucher' s Fort, Fort
Allen, Gnadenhutten, Wind Gap, Lehigh Gap, Smit h's Gap, Little Gap,
johnson 's Gap, Fox Gap and Totl' s Gap.
Safe ty film negatives total approximately 500 items of va rying shee t and
roll film size, 1939-1961, with some later items in color. Subjects include the
Richard son family in Pennsylvania and Main e; his marri age cerem ony,
1945; the Sulli van Trail; and activities wit h Metlab.
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Glass slides are either bl ack-and -whit e or color. Sub jects Inclu de :
3 1/4 x 4, one case (90 items) of University of Pennsylvania pub licity
advertisements, 1909-1912; one case 0 09 items) illustrating "Flight," a
lecture on the ea rly history of aeronautics, ca. 1910; two cases 0 38 slides}
illustratin g "When the Blue Ridge Mou ntain Was Fortified Frontier"; one
case (48 slides ) illustrat ing "The Appa lachian Trail"; one case (28 slides )
illustrating 'The Sullivan Trail," all ca. 1935; two cases 041 slides}illustrating techn ical lectures for Metlab, ca. 1950, and miscellaneou s (69 items)
relating to aviation and religion, ca. 1912.
2x2, one case (70 items) pertaining to Metlab, ca. 1950.
Film slide s
2x2,color,arra nged in lecture form at, include 'TheSullivan Trail," taken
between 1942-1954 0 60 items); and historic forts of eas tern North America,
taken in the 1950s (400 items).
Miscellaneous photographic materials include a 16mm black-and -whi te
silent motion pictu re film 0 reel, 500 feet) on the construction and maintenance of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, ca. 1935, and postcard s (.3
cu. ft .) collected by Richardson during his travels.
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LV. INTERNATI ONAL POLITICAL
MEMORABILIA COLLECTION
1789-1972,14.8 cu. ft.
The International Utilities International Management Corporation is a
holding compa ny based in Philad elphia. In the year s lead ing up to the
United States Bicentennial Celebration of 1976, I. U. pu rchased historic
American political materials from severalcollectors, notably Harold Griffin
of Santa Monica, California. The Collection was u sed for exhibit purposes
as a way of celebrating the Bicentennial. I. U. d ona ted the materials to the
Pennsylvania His torical and Museum Commission in July 1976. Artifacts
relating to the Collection arc among the holdings of the State Museu m of
Pennsyl vania, Harrisburg.
The Collection relates to successful and unsuccessful United States
presidential cand idates and their vice-presidential running mates. Also
included are items on national political issues significant to American
history. The bulk (3.3 cu. ft .) includes autogra p hs, ballot tickets, campa ign
literature, cartoon s, envelopes, inaugural programs, letterh eads, letters,
magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and poste rs.
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Pho tographs, pos tcards and engravings comprise 15 cu. ft. Most are
forma lly posed images designed to promote the candidate. Often they are
shown at various stages of their careers along wi th their families or with
hig h-ranking government officials. Many are signed, and while some
signa tures are original, others are mechanically reproduced . Size of item s
varies, but is usually 8 x 10 or smaller. Types of pho togra phs ran ge from
cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards to othe r types of prints. Political person alities include:John Ada ms. john Quincy Ada ms, Spiro T. Agnew, Chester
A. Arthur,John M. Ashb rook, Na thaniel P. Banks, Alben W. Barkley, James
G. Blaine, General Frank P. Blair, John C. Brcckinridge, John W. Bricker,
Cha rles W. Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, James Buchanan, William O.
Butle r, John C. Calhoun, LewisCass, Shirley Chisho lm, Henry Clay, Grover
Cleveland, DeWill Clinton, Schuyler Colfa x, Calvin Coolidge, Cha rles
Curt is,Geo rgeM . Dallas.jefferson Davis, John W. Davis, Char les G. Dawes,
William L. Day ton,ThomasE. Dewey,Stephen A.Douglas, Thomas Eaglcton ,
Dwight D. Eisenho wer, Edward Everett, Char les W. Fairba nks, Millard
Fillmore, Theodore Frelinghu ysen,John C. Fremon t, James A.Garfield (also
includ es Charles Guiteau) ,John N. Gam er, Elbridge Gerry, BarryGold water,
WilliamA .Graham, U1yssesS.Grant,Mike Gravel, Horace Greeley,Hannibal
Hamlin, Winfield Scott Hancock, Benjamin Harri son, William Hen ry Harrison, Warren G. Harding, Vance Hartke, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ga rret A.
Hoba rt, Herbe rt Hoover, John Eager Howard, Charles Evans Hughes,
Haro ld E. Hug hes, Hubert Humphrey, Andrew Jackso n, Thomas jefferson,
And rew Johnso n, Herschel V.Johnso n, Lyndon B.Johnson, Estes Kefauve r,
Edwa rd Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Ru fus King, Frank
Knox, Alfred M. Lando n, Abraham Lincoln,J ohn V. Lindsey, Hen ry Cabo t
Lodge, [r., John A. Logan, Euge ne McCarthy, George McClellan, Peter
McClosky, George S. McGovern, William McKinley, Cha rles L. NcNary,
James Madison, Thom as Riley Marshall, Wilbur Mills, William Miller,
James Monroe, Levi P. Morton, Ed mund Muskie, Richard Nixon, Alton B.
Parke r, Endico tt Peabod y, George H. Pend leton, Franklin Pierce, Charles C.
Pinckney, James K. Polk, Whitelaw Reid, Joseph T. Robinson, Nelson
Rockefeller, Fran klin D. Roosevelt, Theodor e Roosevelt , Terry Sanford,
Winfield Scott, William Scranton, Arthur Sewa ll, Horatio Seymour, James
S.Sherman, Alfred E. Smith, John Sparkman, Edwin M. Stanton, Harold E.
Stassen, Alexa nde r H. Stevens, Adlai Stevenso n, Sr., William H. Taft,
Zachary Taylor, Allen G. Thurman, Stro m Thurmond, Samuel J. Tilden,
Harry S Tru man, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Geo rge Wallace, Henry A.
Wallace, Earl Warren, George Washington, Dani el Webster, William A.
Wheeler, Wendell WilIkie, Henry Wilson, Wood row Wilson and Fielding L.
Wright. Also includ ed are some composite po rtra its of preside nts, Civil
War genera ls, and Confederate gove rnment officials.
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PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY MUSEUM
COLLECTION
1789· PRESENT, 16 cu. ft.
This is a group of collcctionsacquired by the Pennsylvania His torical and
Muse um Com mission'smuseuma t Boalsburg. All rela te to military service
by Pennsylvanians from the Revolution to the Korea n Conflict. Individua l
collections include commissions, letters, diaries, maps, po sters and pho tographs. Most photographsareprintsof varying size relating to the Pennsylvania Na tional Guard and, World Wars I and II. Collections include:
Frank BellryCollection relating to his career as a ge neral in the PNG , 18981948, 130 Hems. Photographs are of activities at Mount Gre tna Military
Reserva tion and other camps by L.G. Harpel. Notables appearing with
Beary include Governors EdwinStuart, William Sproul,jo hn Fisher, Gifford
Pinchot an d Edwa rd Martin; Generals George Richards, Daniel Strick ler,
jo hn Pershing, Thomas Stewart, j.R.S. Gobin, and ma ny o thers. Even ts
include cam p life at Moun t Gre tna, reviews and parad es, target practice,
etc.; an un dated dedication of a Spanis h. America n War Memo rial in Lebanon, and a ceremo ny to deposit bat tle flags at the State Museum, 1945.
Herbert K. Blouch Collection of his caree r as a chaplain in the Army Air
Corps d ur ing Wor ld War Il, 1944-1945, and with the PNG , 1947-1970, one
cu. ft.The ph otogr aphs, many probably taken by Blou ch, sho w his activities
d uring his tours of duty in Italy, Egypt, Palestin e and Trinidad .
Robert E. Brown Collection of his career as a sergeant with the 103rd
Cavalry, PNG, 1930-1942, twen ty items.
J.T. Burket Collection relating to the 1I0th Regimentand the 10th Pennsylvania Infant ry, PNG, 1903-1924, seven Hems. Inclu des the 110th Regime nt
in France, 1918, an d at Mt.Gre tna, 1924; and the 10th Pennsylva nia Infantry
a t Camp Stewart, Tcx., 1916.
Nathan Cohen Collection relating to his expe rience as sold ier and orches tra
leader for the 28th Division mu sical review "Who Are You?" 1918-1919, five
items.
Cyrus Coleman Collection of his career with the 112th Regime nt, PNG,
1917-1924, nine Hems. Pho tographs are panoramic prints of vario us companies of the 11 2th, the A.E.F. ceme tery, and vario us scenic areas in France.
Also included is a broc hure, "List ofCirkut Pho tographs Made in France by
Ewing, lnc., Commercia l Pho tographers, Baton Rouge, LA"; a list of names
on pho tograp h rosters for the 112th;a nd a portraHofGeneral john Pershing.
Horace A. Decker Photographs, probably taken by him, showing his camp
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life as a pri vate with the 16th Infantry, PNG, du ring the Mexican Borde r
Campaign o f 191 6,1 36 items.
George S. Denithorne Collection of his career with vari ous engineering
units, PNG, during the Mexican Border Ca mpaign and World War 1,1 9161919, and as Captain of Engineers, Reser ves, 1922, thirty-eight items.
Harry Eyer Collection of panoramic prints of Company C, l 03rd Engineers, PNG, 1918, three items.
Clara Hay Panoramic Prints of the 10th Regimen t and the 110th Infant ry ,
PNG, during the Mexican Border Campaign, 1916, and in France du ring
and after World War I, 1918-1919, six items.
Ivan Hollabaugh Collection pri marily relating to his World War I service
with the PNG in France and Germa ny, 1918, 124 items. Includes French and
Germa n pos tcards of local scenes and a photograph of General Charles
Muir autogra phed to Hollenbaugh.
Ellery Hubbard Panoramic Prints of the 28th Division in France during
World War I, two items.
John R.Johnsonbaugh Collection pertaini ng to the Spanish-Ame rican War
and World War!, 11 3 items. Includes pos tcards he collected while serving
France and Luxembou rg.
Mabel S. Knight Photographs relating to her service as a Red Cross Nurse
during World War I in France, four items.
Edward H. Lightner Collection includ ing photograp hs of the 18th Regiment, PNG, in France, 191 7, thr ee items; and a pamphlet, "Notes on
Interp retation of Aerop lane Photographs," issued by General Headquarters, 191 8.
FletcherMcKnight Collection relating to his World War I service with the
PNG, fifty-one items. Includes panoramic prints of Camp Hancock, Ga .,
and France; a photogramm etric view, probably in Germa ny;and po stcards
of Camp Hancock, Fort Dix, N.J., the Salva tion Army, a nd views in France
and Germa ny.
William Allen March Collection relating to his service as a major with the
108th Regiment, PNG, during World War I, seventy-eight items. Includ es
pa noramic print s of Camp Stewart, Tex.; Camp Toby hanna, Pa.; and
LeMans, France. Includes an au tographed prin t of Mar shall Ferdinand
Foch, 1919.
Luella Davis Oliver Collection relating to her World War I service as a n
Army Nurse, sixteen items.
William C. Pelton Photographs relating to World War II, includ ing Army
Air Corp s 8-17 and 8-24 Bombers over targets in Germany and Japan; the
Atom Bomb Test a t Bikini Atoll, 1952; Charles DcGaulle's march into Paris,
1944; the 107th Field Artillery at Fort Ind iant ow n Gap, 1941 , and others,
thirteen items.
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H.C. Randolph Photographs pertaining to his World War IIcareer showing
activities at Fort Indiantown Gap, 1941; Camp Livingston, La., 1942;and his
service in Wales, France, Belgium and Germany, 1944-1945,218 items.
Harry D. Richards Photographs relating to the PNG, thirty-one items.
Richards, a Philad elphia ph otographer, took views 01 a PNG parade in
Philadelphia, and training at Mount Gretna, ca . 1925.
Warren Schnable Panoramic Photographs relating to his career with the
213th Artillery, PNG, before, during and after World War I, eight items.
Views show the 213th at Camp Stewart, Tex., 1916; Ft. Monroe, Va., 1923;
Camp Devon, Md., 1919;and at Moun t Gretna, 1921-1922.
General Daniel B. Strickler Collection covering his career wi th the PNG
during World War II and the Korean Conflict, sixty-eight items. Includ es
formal po rtraits of Strickler and informa l views of him meeting with
Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mar k Clar k, Governors Jam es Du ff
and Edwa rd Martin, Miss America 1950, and othe rs. Views also show
Strickler with the PNG in Germa ny, Korea and a t For t Indianto wn Gap.
Francis Weber Collection, including a booklet of ten pho tographic postcards show ing the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.
E.H. Woomer Panoramic Prints primarily showing the 110th Infantry, PNG
at Camp Hancock, Ga ., 1917-1918 and at Moun t Gre tna, 1920, seven items.
Also included are two portraits of General Edward Marti n, 1944.
Carl Zember Collection including three panoramic prints of the PNG at
Camp Hancock, Ga., 1917.
Miscellaneous items include panoramic pri nts of Pennsylva nia National
Guard activi ties, 1915-1937, at Mt. Gretna, Indian tow n Gap, Camp Stewa rt,
Camp Han cock, and during World War I in France; prints of varyi ng size of
the 28th Division liberatin g Pari s in August, 1944; activities of Battery A of
the Penn sylv ania Volunteer Light Artillery during the Spa nish-America n
War; and oth ers.
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CHARLES H. BURG PHOTOGRA PHS
1893-1899, n.d., .4 cu. It.
Charles Burg (1872-7),born in Brickerville, Pa., was a soldie r with the 3rd
Brigade, Gove rnor's Troop, Pennsylvania National Guard . He served various tou rs ol active duty, notably the Haz leton Coa lStrike alter the notoriou s
Lattimer Massacre of Septembe r 10, 1897, and the Puerto Rican Cam paign
of the Spanish-American War in August 1898. After his discharge, Burg
lived in Camp Hill, Pa ., and commanded the How ard Calde r Post of the
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MG ·27J Charlu JI. Burg Collutioll: ·Strwn 011 1M miJuh S~p.
JOlh 1M day o/IM Jhooting· (allAttirM,).
Veterans of Foreign Wars in Harrisburg. Little is known of his later life. The
photographs and Burg 's discharge papers were donated by the estate ofhis
daughter Evelyn M. Hoy in 1977. Burg's hat, med als and o ther artifacts arc
among the collections of the State Museum of Pen nsylvania, Harrisburg .
The photographs are fifty-fou r items collected by Burg during his military career and is arranged in three categories, the Hazleton Coal Strike,
1897; the Puerto Rican Campaign, 1898;and miscellaneous. Almost allof the
Hazleton Coa l Strike photographs were taken by Rise & Ga tes, a photography firm based in Lebanon. These are 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 mounted prints and
identified on the reverse with the firm's logo and subject information.
In the late 1890s, the fledgling United Mine Workers Union engaged in
several strikes in the Hazleton area, meeting grea t oppos ition from local
coal companies. Attempts in 1897 to organize a t nearby Lattimer Mines
were cruelly rebuffed when a local sheriff and his deputies fired into a
crowd of un armed immigrant Slavic miners on Sep tembe r 10. Twe nty men
were killed and the Penn sylvania Na tional Guard , including Burg' S
Governor's Troop under the command of General John Gobin, was called
to prev ent furth er violence. The photographs show the Governo r's Troop
encampment and General Gobin with his staff a t Hazleton; coal breakers
and strip mining at Hazelton, Lattimer and Beaver Mead ows; the stree ts
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and homes of Lattimer, some with Italian and Slav ic children in the
foreground; the strikers ma rching on the afternoon of Sep tember 10 just
pri or to the fatal shootings; and the site of the massacre after re moval of the
bodies.
The Puerto Rican Campaign photographs are to a large extent unidentified and were possibly taken by Burg himself. Each print is mounted on
heavy cardboard. The Governor's Troop was mustered into U.s. Service
and stationed at Port au Ponce in Augus t, 1898. Subjects show camp life at
Portau Ponce;nativ es in their homesand marketpl aces; the news headquarters; and scenes on board the troopshi p.
Miscellaneous items are forma l portraits, usually measuring 7x9,ofBurg
and fellow troopers taken by various local photographers. Subjects show
them at encampments at Columbia, 1893,Moun t Gretna, 1895and 1898; on
federal service mustering-out day, Harrisbu rg, Nove mber 21, 1898; on
patrolduty atGettysburg, und ated;and Burg as commander of the Howard
Calder V, F.W. Post, und ated . The reverse of some of these print s identi fies
indi vidual troop members.
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LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COLLECTION
1849-1963, Approx. 370 cu. ft.
Originally known as the Lehigh, Schuylkill a nd Susq ueha nna Railroad ,
the LVRR compe ted for the lucrative anthracite coal transport trade in
northeastern Pennsylvania. It dominated the indus try in eas tern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, becoming known as the "ro ute of the
Black Diamond ." The demise of the coal indu stry and the rise of auto a nd
air transportation in the 1950s led to its financial ruin and a takeover by the
·Pennsylvania Railroad in 1960.The Collection was acquired over thecourse
of several years from the main offices of the LVRR.
The bulk of the Collection is approximately 367cu. ft.ofminutes, repor ts,
journals, ledgers, cash books, etc., pertaining to everyday opera tions.
Photographs are 3 cu. ft. (over 500 items) of negati ves of varyin g size,
usually 6x8 or 8x10 glass plates taken by staff pho tographers. Subjects
include cons truction of the Claremo nt Terminal, Jersey City, N.J., 19171923;ruins oftheM orrisCanal near Washington, N.J.; the 1902 Lehigh River
flood near Easton; construction ofan un identified engine and freight house,
probably in Buffalo, 1915; and other items.
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MG-280
ARTHUR D. BRANSKY PHOTOGRAPHS
1905-1906, .3 cu. ft.
Char les E. Ross (1873-1961),a native oflo wa, ran a photogra phy bu siness
with Linnie, his wife, in Stroudsburg during the first qua rter of the twentieth century. Later in his career he also became a well-known hunting and
fishing guide in the Pocono Moun tains.
From the autumn of 1905 to the winter of 1906,newlyweds Charles and
Linnie Ross tookan extended honeymoon trip through eas tcentral Pennsylvania. From Allentow n to Williamsport they photographed interesting
people and subjects in small towns, hoping to earn money from Solie of the
print s. Stayi ng in hotels along the way, they captured town pan orama s,
interior and exterior views of factories, mills, chu rches, resid ences, schools,
commercial bu sinesses such as saloons, ge neral and specially stores, barber
shops, restaurants, pos t offices and crafts shops such as blacksmith s,
harn ess shops , and stonecutters. People proudly posed for these photographs next to their residences or places of business, often pausing in their
work to smile for the camera . Most views Ross identified only by tow n. His
original 5x7 glass nega tives from this trip and others taken d u ring his
career, over 1,()()() items, arc in the possession of Arthur D. Bra nsky of
Breinigsville, Pa. In 1979 and 1980, the State Archives obtained contac t
prints from 227of these negatives.The prints are arra nged alphabe tically by
town and de al with the following topics:
Adamsdale: Williams-Marrion Shoe Factory, Adarnsdale Park, Adamsdale Church and Cemetery, town panorama, unid entified railroad worker s
and steam engine.
Albur/is: Geisinge r Butcher Wagon, H.K. Snyde r Butcher Shop, uniden tified carriage maker shop, saloon, blacksmith sho p, genera l store and a
farm residence and bam.
Allen/own: unid entified saloons, genera l stores, d ry goods stores, cloth ing stores, restaur ant, and school children .
Annville: Helig Hou se Hotel and unidentifi ed ch ildren.
Blandon: Blandon Hou se Saloon, Albert D. Gu lden's Grist Mill, Grand
Cen tral Hotel, Charles and Linnie Ross self-portrait, unid entified hotel
barroom, school children, house painters, horses, factory office, funera l
wake, log hou se, and rural road view.
Bower's Station: Post Office/Gene ra l Sto re, unid entified sa loon,
stonecutter's shop, blacksmith shop, and doctor' s residen ce.
Campbelltown: und ertaker's residence,T.H. Miller & Son Harnessrnaker's
Shop, P.E. Wolfersbu rgcr Home and unid entified general store.
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Centerport: harnessmaker's shop, Cha rles K. Miller Marble &: Granite
Works (includes residenceand family),J.F. Rentschler Hotel, M.5. Rentschler
General Store, and unidentified electrical powerhouse.
Fleetwood: Allentown and Reading Traction Company trolley cars.
Fogelsville: A.H. Ely Boot and Shoe Maker Shop, E.W. Smith Sadd le and
Harnessmaker's Shop, unidentified blacksmith shop, foundry, store, hote l,
pos t office, and residence.
Hereford Area: un identi fied gristmill and farm bu ildings.
Kutztown: uniden tified saloon.
Macungie: unid entified dry goods store and printer's shop.
Monterey: Monterey Hotel, unidentified barber shop, chris tening of a
child, general store, hotel barroom, mu sicians, sawm ill, and a one-roo m
schoolhouse.
Pottsville:unidentified barber shop, cigar store, hotel, saloons, and steam
engi ne.
ReadingArea: Lloyd Laundry Company, Rexall Drug Store, uni dentified
foundry casting room, haberd ashery, hotel barroom, grocery store, men's
club, plumbing store, saloon, and lown panoramas.
Shamokin:C.5. Burkhart Stove Dealer's Shop, Delba ugh's Saloon,Cen tral
Hotel barroom, The Grill (restaurant), unidentified barbershops, brewery
s tore, billiard parl or, confectionary and tobacco shops, drugstore, d ry
goods store, hotel dining room, barroom, lobby and banq uet rooms, saloons, and steam tractor and wagon.
MG.280 A"h.."BrofUky Collection: "&lwin J. Bailey. DlacksmiJh
and Whulwrighl. Topton, PA., 1906 ."
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Temple: DeTurk' s Fann Machinery Store and residence, Stony Point
Granite Works, Temple Hotel, unidentified blacksmith shop, candy store,
church, general store, hotels, pianist, and resid ences.
Topton : Edwi n j . Bailey's Barrelrnaker, Blacksmith and Wheelwright
Shop; Benjamin E. BeiberGeneral Store;Pos t Office (wi th G.c. Bortz Bakery
Wagon in foregrou nd ); Washington House Hotel; and unidentified textile
factory workers.
West Leesport: Washing ton House Hotel, town panora mas, and u nidentified church cemetery, residence, and sew ing factory workers.
Williamsport (includes Newberry): Enterprise Bread an d Cake Bakery,
Knights of Columbus meeting, Y. Steiber and Sons General Store, Wc:
Klothe-U-Outfilting Company, and unid entified barbershops, bowli ng
alley, candy store, Christmas tree, church, clothing store, drugstore, fruit
store, factory turbine, harness shop, hotel, hotel kitchen, ope ra house
(includ es circus act), railroad station, telegraph office, residences and
saloon.
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SAMUEL W. KUHNERT COLLECTION
Ca. 1912-1976, Appro x. 30 cu. ft,
Samuel Wilhelm Kuhne rt (1890-1 978) was born in Steelto n and raised on
a fann ncar Halifax. He ran a photography processing bu siness from his
home in Camp Hill and later Harrisburg. He had a special interest in
aviation and in 1919 bega n experimenting with aeria l pho tography . For the
following two decades he made and sold oblique aerial view s of towns and
places in central Pennsylvania. Upon his d eat h in 1978, Kuhn ert' s child ren
donated his photographs, flight suit and aeri al came ras to the Penn sylvania
Historical and Museum Commission.
The Collection containsover 6,000photographic prints and nega tives (28
cu. ft.), motion picture films (5 cu. ft .) and miscellaneou s business and
perso nal record s (1 .5 cu. ft .). Photographs arc arranged alphabetically by
subject and gro uped into the following categories: aeria l views, aircraft,
pilots, and miscellaneous. Most items arc 4x5, 5x7a nd 8x10 in size and were
taken between 1919·1940.
Aerialviews areci tiesa nd towns or specific buildings or ar eas within these
towns and special events. Included arc Ad ams County or chard s, Amity
Hall, Andersonburg, Annville, Bedford , Bellefon te, Blain, Bloomsburg,
Boiling Sprin gs, Bowmansdale, Bressler, Brookv ille, Caled onia Mountains,
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Camp Hill, Carlisle, Carsonville, Cisna Run, Chambersburg (with Wilson
and Penn Hall Colleges), Chesapeake Bay (ncar Havre de Grace, Md.),
Clarks Ferry, Clarks Valley, Ocana, Coatesville, Conodoguinet Creek,
Dalmatia, Danville (with state hosp ital), Dauphin, DeHa rt Dam, Dillsburg,
Duncannon, Elizabe thtown, Emmitsburg, Md. (SI.joseph 'sCollege),Enhau t,
Enola, Enterline, Everett, Fort Hunter, Frederick, Md ., Germantown, Gettysburg (airport, battlefield, town and college), Good Hope, Gran tville,
Hagerstown, Md., Halifax, Hamburg (state hospital), Harrisburg (Capitol
Comp lex, city, and specific buildings), Hanover, Heckton, Hershey,
Highspire, Hogestown, Hummelstown, Indian Echo Cave, vario us Pennsylvania Nationa l Guard encampmen ts, Indiant own Gap, Kings Gap (the
Cameron Estate), Lambs Gap, Lancaster (with Arms trong Company factory), Landisburg, Lawnton, Lebanon, Lemoyne, Lewisberry, Lewisburg
(Bucknell University and federal prison), Linglestow n. Liverpoo l, Loyalsock
Valley, Loysville, Manada Gap, Marsh Ru n, Marysville, Matamo ras,
Mechanicsburg, Mercersburg, Millersburg, Milton, Moun t Gretna (Pennsylvania National Guard encampments), Mount Holly Springs, Mount
Pleasant, Mount Union, Moun t Zion, New Berlin, Newberrytown, New
Bloomfield, New burg, Ne w Cumbe rland , Ne w Kings ton, Newpo rt,
Northumberland , Palmyra, Paxtang, Peachm ont Canneries, Penbrook,
Perdi x, Peters Mount ain, Powells Valley, Rockvicw Prison, Rockville,
Rutherford, Safe Harbor Dam (construction), Selinsg rove, Shermansda le,
Shippe nsburg, Shiremanstown,Speeceville,State College,Steelton,Sterre tts
Gap, Summerda le, Sunbury, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Tyson Orcha rds,
Wagnersville, Wellsville, West Fairview, Wes t Lebano n, Wertzville, White
Hill, WilliamsGrove Par k, Williamsport, Willow Mills Park, Wormleysburg
and York.
Aircraft include many varieties which passed through the central Penn sylvania area, most notably Bellancas; Boeing 8-17s; Curtiss Jennies; dirigibles including the Douglas U.S. Navy Shenandoah and Los Angeles; DC-3s;
Ford Trimotors, including those inaugurating the first tran scontinental
airmail flight, October 1930; Goodyea r blimps; Kreider-Reisner Challengers;
Kuhnert's homem ade plane; Lockheed Vegas, including Wiley Post's Winnie
Mae;Pitcairn Autogiros;Travel Airs;WACOs;and bro ther Walter Kuhnert's
hot-air balloon.
Pilots includ e those who worked at various central Pennsylvania airport s, including john Abiuso, Sunbury. jesse jones, Lancaster; Fred Nelson,
Harri sburg; Pat Brooke, Penn-Harri s; and Fran k Wilson, Carlisle; pilots and
mechani cs of Beckley College Aeronautical Division; nat ionally known
flyers and stuntmen including Albert ju lian, Wiley Post, Cha rles Lindbergh,
Billie Leonard, and many others.
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MG·28l Samuel W. Kuhnu l Collection: "Hanover, PA., city, tic.
ExposuresfMtU onMay 18. 1929."
MisceiLmeous items include train, airp lane and au tomobile acciden ts and
other d isasters photographed by Kuhnert for insurance companies; funerals; 1936 flood in the Ha rrisburg area; a 1932 snows torm in Camp H ill; and
portrait s of Kuhnert's friend s and relatives.
Motion picture films include seventeen 16mm reels in black and white and
color primarily of Kuhnert's family and friends. Notable items include "A
Trip Through the Clouds" showing pilot friends flying their planes, ca.
1935; U.S. Army XB-17s in flight; and the 1936 flood in Harrisburg.
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THE PENN CENTRAL RAILROAD
COLLECTION
Ca. 1828-1969, Approx. 4800 cu. ft.
The Penn Central Transportation Company was crea ted from a 1968
merger between the failing Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads.
Penn Centra l itself bankru pted in 1970, and today ma ny of its facilities are
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maintained by Amtrak and Conrail. Thecollection primarily pertains to one
of thenation's leading rail enterprises, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and its subsidiaries. These records comprise administrative correspondence, minute books, stock ledgers, annual reports, general account volumes, legal material s, freight registers, blueprints and tracings, 1835-1939
(over4,800cu. u.),Other materials includephotographs09cu. ft.) arranged
into three series: the General Office Library Photograph File (7.5cu. ft.), the
Conra il Mechanical Engineering Department Photograph File (6 cu. It.),
and the Penn Cen tral Auction Photographs (5.5 cu . f t.).
The General Office Library Photograph File was donated to the State
Arch ives in 1976. It consists of a historical reference file of Pennsylvania
Railroad photographs, ca. 1850-1 960, maintained by the company's O ffice
of the Secretary at its headquarters in Philadelphia. The file grew as items
were dona ted over the years by employees and interested persons. Photographsare prima rily prints of varying size and glass lant ern and film slides.
Many of the prints are second generation copies of older pho tographs.
Origina l items often have the pho tographer's identification mark on the
back. Photograp hic firms include the Purvia nce Studios and Keystone
Studios and such individuals as William H. Rau of Philadelphia, for a time
employed by the PRR as a photographer, E. Walter Histed of Pittsburgh,
R.A. Bonine of Altoona, C.W. Derstine of Lewistown, B. Hellmich and M.j.
[ahelka of New York Gty, and many others. Also present are engravings,
d rawings, cartoons, pos tcards, newspaper clippings, magazine ar ticles,
and brochu res. Many individual items, includi ng the photogra phs, often
have historical or exp lanatory inform ation wr itten on the reverse by the
donor. A folder of letters and document s from do nors filed a t the end of the
collection provides identification in some cases.
Arranged alphabe tically, topicscover: the Adams Express Compa ny; the
Allegheny Portage Railroad; construction of PRR bridges such as Hellgate
Bridge, New York City, 1917, South Bridge, Philadelphia, 1922-1 923, and
o thers; bu sservice;city views of AtianticCity, Philadelphia, Pittsburg h, and
others; disasters such as the johnstown Floods of 1889and 1936, and various
train wrecks and fires; historica levents such as the 1877Pittsburgh Railroad
riots and moving the Liberty Bellby rail, 1915; exhibitions and expositions;
docks, piers and ferries; grain elevators; hotels; stea m, diese l a nd electrified
locomotives; passenger service; railroad laborers and officials; photographs
and photograph cop iesof paintingsof PRRcompany preside nts, 1847-1963;
"p iggyback ing"; ra ilcars; railroad track construc tion; bu siness, freight and
ticket offices; support facilities such as shops, sw itches, towers, con trol
pan els and yards; snow and ice removal; PRR stations and termin als in
Chicago, Harrisburg, Philade lphia (primarily Broad Stree t Station), Pitt sburgh and smaller town s; locomotives and rolling stock; other forms of
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tran sportation such as canals,Conestoga Wagon s, stag ecoaches, tru cks and
au tomobil es; tunnels; and theeffectsofWorld Wars Iand IIon the PRR such
as troop transport trains, the employment of women, and a 1918 victory
parade by PRR employees in Pittsburgh.
The Conrail Mechanical Engineering Departm ent Photograph File was
acquired by the State Archives in 1981 and consists of nearly 2,000 8xl0
prints, ca. 1930, primarily build ers' views of locomoti ves and rolling stock.
Interior view s are some times included. The prints a re arra ng ed by locom otive and class car number.
The PennCentral Auction Photographs were obtained by the Pennsylvania State Archive s in 1972 when Penn Central began di vesting its holdings.
These are primarily albums commiss ioned or collected by the PRR. They
include:
Broad Stree/- PRR-Wes / Point, by William H. Rau and C. Barrington, ca.
1890 (1 vol.), Contains twenty-six views of Philadelphia, the Broad Street
Station, and scenic view s in and around West Point, N.Y.
Johns/own, by R.A. Bonine (1 vol.). Contains sixteen views of the ruins of
Johnstown after the Flood of 1889.
June Flood1889-Views onthe Pit/sburgh Division-Accom?,nyingGeneral
Managers Report (1 vol.). Contains twen ty-five view s of the rui ns of
John stownand PRR facilities therein using photographs by R.A. Bonin eand
possibly ano ther photographer. The album was compiled to accompany a
report on da mage to PRR facilities.
J. Howard PotionScrapbook ofPRR Locomotives, 1909-1912 (1 vol.).Contains
122 nostalgic views of PRR locomotives from the 1840s to the present.
A Collection of Photographs of Locomotives Typical of Each Class on the
Pennsylvartia Railroad at this Date ...., PRR Moti ve Pow er Departme nt, May
1, 1868 (1 vol.), Contains sixty-six build ers views of locomotives and
equipment pro d uced at the Altoona shops.
Builders Photos of PRR Locomotives (1 vol.). Co nta ins 123 views of locomotives, ca. 1915.
PRR Locomotives Before 1868 (1 vol.),Contains 120 vlews tprirnarilycoples
made ca. 1920) of ear ly locomotives.
PRRSnowand Ice Conditions- Wirtterof 1944-1945 (1 vol.). Co nsists of 107
print s comp iled by the Company showing snow and ice removal a t PRR
facilities in New York a nd Pennsylvania.
Pennsylrnnia Railroad Suburban Views-Pittsburgh and Baltimore Division
(1 vol.), Contai ns 115 views, ca. 1915, of homes and residential areas near
Pittsb urgh including Asp inwall, Clair ton, Greensburg, Irwin, Parnassus,
Valley Camp, West Elizabe th and Wilkin sburg. Areas nea r Baltimore,
Mary land, includ e Bowie, Brooklandville,Cha se, Cha ttolanee, Lake, Lestra,
Lu ther ville, Severn, She rwood, Springfield, and Stev enso n.
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MG·286 P~flfl C~fllra l Railroad ColI~cliofl " "vicdua Trestle, PilUburgh
Division, JOhflSloWfl Flood, JWI~ 1889," by RA . B Oflin~ (su p. 126).
Pennsylvania Railroad Suburba n Views-Main Line (l vol.), Contains 124
views, ca. 1915, of ho mes and residential areas along the PRR Mai n Line in
and ncar Philadelphia incl uding Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd, Berwyn, Bryn
Mawr,Chestnut Hill, Croydon, Devon, Downingtown, Germantown, Green
Tree, Haverford, Lafayette, Merion, Narberth, Norristown, Overbrook,
Paoli, Phoenixville, Radn or, Rosemont, SI. Davids, Strafford, Torresdale,
Villanova, Wayne and Wynncfield.
Photographic Views on Lineof the Pennsylvania-Schuylkill Valley Railroad
Westof Port Clinton, Pa. (1 vol .), Con sists of forty-nine prints taken between
1884-1887 by an unknown p hotographer for J. N . DuBarry, Capital Superintenden t of the P.S.v.R.R. Views show ruins of th e Sch uy lkill Canal; views
o f the railroad as it pa sses th rou gh Land ingville, Sch uylkill Haven, Seven
Stars, Po ttsv ille, Mo unt Ca rbo n, SI.Cla ir, and th e Atki ns Pion eer Furnaces
and Diamo nd Drill Works a t Pottsville.
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William H. Rau Photograph Album, ca. 1890 (l vol.), Contains twenty-five
views of Philadelphi a's Broad Stree t Station, and an unid entified waterfall .
Log Hooko/ Nega/ives taken for the PRRincl uding those of William H. Rau ,
1887-1924 (l vol.), Entries show negati ve size and numbe rs, subjects and
date. Accompanying the log are two pa m phlets, "A Ca talogue of Photogra phic Views of the Pennsylvania Railroad," by Rau, largely a pu blished
version of the log up to 1900 made ava ilable to customers; and "Rai lroad
Photography," 1891-1892, also by Rau, describing ho w his PRR photogra phs were made, aga in accompa nied by a list of the above negati ves. The
two "Pe nnsylva nia Railroad Suburban Views" albums noted abo ve contain
prints from negati ves listed in the log.
Oth er ph otographs obtained through the Penn Centra l au ction include
those from the PRR Ad vertising and Publi city Depa rtme nt, ca. 1920-1950.
Subjects cover the rail road 's sho ps, signals, tracks, ya rds, locomoti ves,
rolling stock, rights of way, industrial sites, cities along PRR lines, aerial
views by Tom Hollyman, passen ger serv ices, etc. This file is cu rrently
unprocessed .
MG·298 Lut:iIJI Wilson CollectiOfl : · SiIIgll Si1tu$ lIoJUt . Linden l/aJl
SoniNJry. Liti/z. E4J,u 188r by R. Wilnwr .
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GEORGE M. HART COLLECTION
Ca. 1860-1960, 1.5 cu. it.
George Hart (b. 1919), a native of Doylestown, has been involved with
railroading for most of his life. Since the 1930s he has bee n photographing
and collecting ph otograph s relating to railroads, especially the Reading. He
was the first dir ector of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylva nia, Strasb urg,
1975-1982. The Collection cons ists of photographs acquired by Hart and
dona ted by him to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Add itiona l materials of his are among the collections of the Railroad
Muse um.
Subjects include stereographic views on glass of Niagara Falls, N.Y., ca.
1860, by Platt D. Babbitt, twenty-four items; a nd 8xl0 glass negatives of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 191()"1921, by a n uni dentified ph otographer, fort y-four items. Most views are number ed and d ated and sho w
Read ing facilities a t Mahan oy Plane, St. Clair, Cressona, Trent on Junction
and othe r places.
MG-298
LUCILLE WILSON COLLECTION
1793-1881, .S cu. ft.
This Collection contains photogra phs, prints, engr avings and drawings
relatin g to the Reverend Euge ne Alexander Frua uff, Mor avian mini ster and
principal, 1838-1873, of the Linden HallSeminary for Young Lad ies in Lititz.
The buil din gs of Linde n Hall were origi nally the Brothers and Sisters
Hou ses construc ted by Moravia ns who plan ned and settled Lititz in the
mid-eigh teenth century. Lucille Wilson of Las Vegas, Nevada, donated the
items to the State Archives in September 1978.
The ph otographs are thirteen print s of varying size, nine of which relate
to Linden Hall Seminary. No negatives are present. Six are formal class
portraits showing grou ps of stude nts with teach ers ta ken by "R. Witt wer,
Neusalz" or New Salem. The class members are identified o n the reverse in
German script. All are undated but two, which bear the date of Easter, 1881.
An additional tw o class portraits are identified as taken by "Ebberman's
Photographic Ga llery, Lan caster." An 1865 view of the main seminary
building is by Saylor of Read ing. Four other pri nts are undated (ca. 1880)
views of Millersville No rma l School, Millersville; 'The Old Chapel,"
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Bethlehe m; the john Mann Fann near Columbia; and Sunnysi de Co llege,
location unknown.
Non-ph otographic items include engra vings of the Reverend Benjamin
Latrobe, 1793; the Reverend Henry Steinha ur, no date; Go vern or joseph
Ritner, 1837; the church, par sonag e and se minaries at Lititz, no date; the
Lititz Hotel, 1849; Linden Hall, no da le; floor plan s of the Pennsylvania
House of Represen tatives, 1852, and Senate Chamber, 1853; floor plan s of
the Ceneral Unity Synod at Herrnhut, Saxony.for 1836, 1848 and 1857. Also
present are pen-and-ink drawin gs of the Boys Acad emy a t Lititz, 1869, by
Fruauff, a "Plan of the Turn pike from Lititz to Lancaster," 1853, by "F.F."
and a pencil sketch of Eugen e Fru a uff, 1812. Miscellaneou s items include
undated engravings of the Hoerner Dairy Farm, Lancas ter County, and
"Partridge Hall, " owned by William Stavely, Bucks County.
MG-323
LEON KARPEL COLLECTION
1920·1955, .75 cu. ft.
This Collection cont ain s 188 halftone ph otographs of eighteenth-<:entury
structu res in Pennsyl vania, originally published in various ma gazin es such
as AmeriCJIn Architect and Architecture, Architectural Forum, Architectural
Record, 192(}'1955. Thephotographs, in various sizes, have been cut from the
magazines and mo unted on mal board . Most subjects are stru ctures in
eas tern Pennsylvania, primarily Philadelp hia, though buildi ngs in Carlisle,
Harri sbu rg, Read ing and other places are present. Sub jects include int erior
and exterior views, scherna ticd raw ingsa nd close-u ps of unique or interesting features such as doorways, stairw ays and cornices. The Sta te Arc hives
acquired the collection in August 1979, from Leon Karpel.of Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
The Collection is arranged alphabetically by su bject and includes the
following structures: the Beltzhoover House, Ephraim Blaine Hou se, Dickinson College, Carlisle Meetingho use, Tom Moore House in Carlisle; Percy
Cha nd ler Estate, Chadds Ford; Cou nty Co urthouse, Chester; Perk iomen
Creek Bridge, Collegevi lle; SI.[ohn's Luthe ra n Ch urch, Easto n; john Freeman Hou se, Freemans burg; Cliveden, Germanto wn; Maclay Man sion,
Harrisburg; C rae me Park, Horsham; G u tman Hou se, Hilli s House,
Richardson Hou se, Newtown; Pcnnsbury Man or, Morri sville; john Bartram
House, Belmon t, Blackwell House, Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Fairmou nt
Waterworks, Independen ce Hall, Mount Pleasant, Phill ips Hou se, Powell
Hou se, SI.Peter's Ch urc h, Stenton, Stocker House, Wh itby Hall, Wood ford,
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Woodland s, Philadelphia; St. David's Church, Rad nor; Trin ity Lutheran
Church, Mounce-lones House, Read ing; Peace Church, Shiremanstow n;
Donnel House,Sunbury; Augustus Lutheran Ch urch, Trappe; Washington's
Headquarters, Valley Forge; Bull Hou se, Warwick; He rgeshei rner Dower
House, West Chester; Hope Lodge, Whitema rsh and Valley Inn, York.
Miscellaneous items include unid entified buildings in Allpo rt, Crafton,
Danville, and West Chester and schema ticdrawings of cornices, stairs, and
stone laying techniques of various buildi ngs.
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PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHU RCH
(HARRISBUR G) PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1895-1925 , .3 cu. ft.
This is a collection of 176 color and black and white3 1/4x4 glass lantern
slides arra nged as a 1920s nostalgia show of Ha rrisburg City area buildin gs
and land marks. Topics cover commercial and reside ntial buildings, canals,
railroads, parks and monuments, many of which no longer exist. No table
events in the city' s history are also included. Many of these slides were
copied from prin ts by nineteenth century p hotographers, such as C.S.
Roshon, LeRue Lerner, William H. Rau , and o thers.
The Pine Street Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg ob tained the slid es
from Har old R. [au ss and do nated the collection to the Sta te Archives in
1961 . Each slide is num bered. Accomp anying them is a se tof 2 x 2 filmslides
copied from the originals.
Subjects includ e: John Harri s Grave and Mansion; Mayor George A.
Hoverter; Market Square buildings such as the Senate Hotel, the Adam s
Express Company Office and market sheds; other downtown buildings
such as the Lochiel Hotel, the Steamboa t Hotel, the Post O ffice Building and
the Grand Ope ra House (includes ruins after fire, Feb ruary 1, 1907l; Capitol
(1 819), es pecially interior and exterior views before, during and after fire
February 2, 1897; the "interim" Capitol, 1899-1900; layin g of cornerstone,
construction and dedica tion of new Cap itol, 1898· 1906; the Capitol Park
Extension; City Waterworks; Camelback, Market Street, a nd Rockville
Bridges; the Cumberland Valley Railroad Station and trains; Bridgeport
(Lemoyne) views including Presiden t McKinley's funeral train , September
16,1 901 ; the Lochiel train wreck, May 11, 1905; President Lincoln's funeral
train, April 22, 1865; canals and canal locks; Avia tion Field, 1920;Old Home
Week, October 1·7, 1905; the dedication of the Mead e Detweiler Memorial;
the visit of King Albert of Belgium; the floods o f 1889 a nd 1920; and othe rs.
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MG· J27 /ra J. Stoufltr Colltctioll #44j : "Old Whttl and Btllows,
Sp'illgf~ld FIUNJU,- ca , /9/j.
MG-326
BOWERS-RAWSON PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1865-1911, .3 cu. it.
This collection contains thirty-two phot ograph s of towns primarily in
Potter County, especially Austin, Costello, and Germa nia, ca. 1865-191 1.
Most of the collection is a series of photographi c postcards by an unidenti fied photo grapher of the aftermath of the September 30, 1911, flood which
destroyed mu ch of Austin and Cos tello. Other photographs show activities
in logging camps near Galeton and German ia, various town panoramasand
miscellaneous views.
Photograph s vary in size and are usually mounted prints. Most iternsa re
identi fied on the reverse and often include genealogical information on the
Rawson Family, whose ancestors appear in some of the views . The photographs were collected over many years by Vivian Rawso n Bowers a nd Mr.
and Mrs. Charles G. Rawson of Galeton, who donated the collection to the
State Archives in 1980.
Subjects include:
Austin and Costello- Ruins of the Bald win Hom e, Ban k and Post Office,
Bayless Paper and Pulp Company milland dam, CatholicChurch, City Hall,
Emporium Lumber Mill and train s, Turner Stree t, the temporary morgue,
and others .
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Germania-Loggingcampat Raush Place,51. Matthew's LutheranChurch,
Ge nnania Fire Company building. and an unidentified parade.
Miscellaneous itemsincl ude:panoramasofKeatingSummitandWatrou s,
and the community band s of Galetonand Westfield, all of Tioga County; the
old Cross Fork Ho tel fire, n.d., and others.
MG-327
IRA J. STOUFFER PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1915, .3 cu. ft.
This collection contains 124 pho tographic postcards of historic sites and
stru ctures in Blair, Cambria, Centre, Dauphin, Frank lin and Huntingdon
Counties taken by Ira J. Stouffer, an Altoona resid ent. The cards are
generally exterior views of aba ndo ned canals, m ills, chu rches, houses, iron
furn aces, po tteries, and the Portage Railroad, but also include scenic a nd
panoramic views. Each item is num bered and identified, probably in
Stouffer's own handwriting. Most are marked with his symbol "S" or
stamped with his name and address on the reverse. Some items are
duplicates. Little is known about Stou ffer beyo nd these photogr aph s. A
bu siness card filed with the pos tcards describes him as "a Scenic Photographer" with "historic subjects of Pennsylvania a specia lty."
Thc postcards are arra nged by county and thereun d er by municipality or
historic site. Subjects include:
BlairCounty:Altoona (Baker Mansion, FortCu rtin and Horseshoe Curve):
Etna Furna ce; Franklin Forge; Chimney Rocks;Springfield Furnace; and a
series on the Portage Railroad extending into Cambria County and includ ing planes, levels, bridges, tunnel s and the Lemon House.
Centre County: Cur tin (Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Mansion) .
Dauphin County: Middletown (oldest house, Pennsylvani a Canal aqueducts and SI. Peter's Kierch),
FranklinCOllnty: Path Valley, Tuscarora Tunnel, High Rocks a t Pen Mar,
and Carri ck Furnace .
Huntingdon COllnty: Arch Spring (spring. mill, and church); Cassv ille
(Cass and Greenland Pottery Works, Hyssong Pottery Works, Cassv ille
Seminary and Hotel); Coleraine Forge; Elizabe th Fu rnace (Martin Bell
Mansion and iron furn ace); Greysville; Huntingd on (Standing Stone a nd
Pulpit Rocks); Paradise Furnace; Petersburg (cana l ruins, lock hou se, gristmills, pottery works, Sullenberger Log Cabin, and Pennsylvania Railroad
Sta tion); Warriors Mark (Porter Mansion ruins); Warri or Ridge <Canal lock
ruins and hydro electric plant>;Water Street; Union Furnace (Pennsylvania
Railroad right of way).
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MG-328
WILLIAM c. HARLEMAN PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1910,.3 cu. It,
This collection contains forty-two black and white copies of colo r picture
postcards. The views are primarily of to wns in Carbon and Schuylkill
Cou n ties and include Mauch Chunk, Lehighton, Weissport, Glen Onoko,
and Tamaqua. Views usually consist of panoramas, individual streets and
buil din gs, par ks, factories and o thers. The original postcards are in th e
possession of William C. Har leman of Lehighton, who collected th em over
the course of several years. Harleman pe rmitted the State Archives to copy
the cards in Jun e o f 1980.
The photographs arc 4x5 copy negati ves with one 5x7 print for eac h
negati ve. Each item is nu mbered and arra nged alp habetically acco rd ing to
town .Subjects includ e:Pulpit Rocks.Onoko Fallsand nearby picnic grounds,
Glen Onoko; buildings, bridges, the com mu nity band, pa rks, rai lya rds, th e
Lehighton /Weissport Bridge and others, Lehighto n; buildings, panoramic
views, the Packerton Railya rds, the Switchback Railroa d and others, Mauc h
Chu nk. Miscellaneous views include slate pickers at Tamaqua and the
We issport Ca nal Boat Yards.
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IVAN L. CARTER COLLECTION
Ca. 1920-1938
Ivan L. Carter 0 894-1971l, a lifetime resid ent of Carlisle, was a druggi s t
and amateur photographer occasionally hired to record com mu nityeven ts.
The State Archi ves received his negati ves in 1980 from Donald Ga rlin o f
Palmyra, who obtained them at an es tate a uc tion.
The ph otographs are ove r 4,()()() 5x7 and 4x5 g lass plate and film neg atives d ating be tween 1920 and 1938. Very few original prints are present,
Descrip tive in formati on on the enve lopes in Ca rter's wri ting often gives th e
negative number, da te and subject. The majority were taken in and aro u nd
Carlisle, a nd especially include Dickinson College and th e Medical Field
Serv iceSchool (Carlisle Barracks ).Views o f Boiling Sp rings, Cha mbersbu rg,
Gettys burg, Mechan icsburg, Mifflintown, Mount Holly Sp rings, Ne wtonHamilton, Newville and Shippensburg are also p resent.
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The images reflect typical situations employing a small town photogra pher. Included are interior and exterior views ofbuildin&s such as autornobile dealer showrooms, bakeries, barbershops, beauty shops, cafes, a canning factory, a carpet factory, churches, dairy stores, department stores,
drugstores, feed stores, fire company houses, gas sta tions, grocery stores,
homes for the elderly, hospitals, hotels, houses, jails, libraries, mu sicstores,
a paper mill, restaurants, schools, shoe factories, theatres, and others; news
~ such as flower and fashion shows, holiday parades, swearing-in
ceremoniesof newly elected borough and county officials, fires,automobile
accidents, and others; meetings, banqu ets and activities of social and
community organi zations and clubs. churches and schools including the
American Legion, Future Farmers of America, Fraternal Ord er of Elks, the
Civilian Conservati on Corps,4 -H, Loyal Order of Moose, Kiwanis, Masons,
the Salvation Army, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Young Men's Christian
Association and Bible and Sunda y School classes, Boy and Girl Scouts,
garden clubs, gun clubs, civic clubs, popular orch estra s, bands and others;
eve[)'day even ts such as birthdays, funera ls, graduations, weddings, wedding anniversaries, elementary and high school plays and at hletic events;
~such as fishermen, firemen, mailmen , police, local politicians, ord inary resident s, Carter' s family, friends and o thers .
Notab le items include the "Babes in the Woods" murder case, 1934; a
Republican party rally and pa rade, 1934; the official openi ng of Hanover
Street, 1934; and activities pertaining to Sena tor Leon Prince in Carlisle; a
Wilson College Horse Show, 1934, and Penn Hall College swi m teams in
Chambersb urg; Gettysburg College and Gettysb urg High School plays a nd
athl etic events in Gettysburg; and the Silver Spring Presbyterian Churc h
150th Anniversary celebra tion in Mechanicsbu rg. Activities relatin g to
Dickinson College are: commencements; prom s; d ances; theat re; mu sical
band s; men 's and women'sa thletic teams such as archery, baseball, basketball, bowling, equ estrian, football, hockey, swimming, track and soccer;
social and service clubs, fraternities, sororities; faculty portraits; celebrations such as founder' s day, the college's 150th anniversa ry, 1933; the
Dickinso n School of Law's l ooth Anniversary, 1934; Central Pennsylva nia
Methodist Conference, 1935, and others. Activities rela ting to the Medical
Field Service School (Carlisle Barracks) are officers' and enlisted men's
portraits; sports teams; conferences of chaplains and military surgeons;
demonstrations of military equipment; Reserve Officers Tra ining Corps
and Officers Reserve Corps parades and reviews; activities in conjunction
with local c.c.c. chapters and the l 04th Cava lry of the Pennsylvania
National Guard; visits by AssistantSccretary of War Harry Woodring, 1933,
SccretaryofWa r Dern in 1934,and GovemorGeorge Earle and U.S.Sena tor
Joseph Guffey in 1935.
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VIOLET HARNER WISE PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1945-1964,.1 cu. ft.
Violet Hamer Wise (b. 1906) was a Harrisburg employee of the state for
various agencies, 1930-1964.She was prim aril y a techn ical pho tographerfo r
the Departm ent ofPrope rty and Supplies. Asan ama teur photographer, she
often spent her lunch hours recording intenestingscenesand events aro und
the city with a Supe r Ikonta camera given to her by a soldier returni ng from
World War II Germany. Wise, now retired, lives in Dauphin .
The pho tographs, all in color, are forty-nine 5x7 prints and 35mm
nega tives copied from Wise'soriginal1 5/8x2 Anscochro meand Ektachrome
slides. The Sta te Archives copied the items in October of 1980. Wise retains
the original slides.
Thephoto graphsare arranged by subject and include:construction of the
Harv ey Taylor Bridge, 1950-1951; the dismantling and removal of the Civil
War Monument at Second and State Streets, 1958; the widening and
repav ing of Forster Stree t, 1950; abandoned buil din gs awai ting demolition,
includin g Central High School, Reily Hom estead, Nissley Mansio n, ca.
1960, and miscellaneou s items.
MG-347
JEAN F. GERDE S PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
Ca. 1925-1958,.3 cu. ft.
These 188 photographs arc of the life and career of Jam es Henderson
Duff, 1883·1969, especia lly as Governor of Pennsylvan ia, and United States
Senator. Includ ed with Duff are family and staff members, professional
entertainers and celebrities, and state and nation ally kno wn politicians of
the era. Duff,a native of Carnegle, began his career in the 1920s as a lawyer
in western Pennsylvan ia and was a speculator in oil fields. He was State
Auditor General, 1943-1946, Governor, 1947-1950, and United Sta tes Senator, 1951-1957.ln the prosperous pos t-World War IIPennsylvania economy,
"Rough Tou gh" Duff was known as an agrcssive, no-non sense po litician.
Collected over the course of Duff's career by his wife Jean T. Duff, the
items are usually 8xl 0 prin ts. Most were taken by professional Harrisburg
or Washington , D.C., photographers and many are from new s serv ices such
as the Associated Press and United Press Intern ational. All are publicity
stills or forma l po rtraits. Many items arc identifi ed by subject and da te on
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MG·J47 l ean F. Gerdes Pholograph Collection: "SenaJor DII//wilh Presidefll
Euefl hower at Public CeremoflY. " Probably Eisenhower Farm. ca. / 954.
the reverse. The collection wa s don ated to the State Archives in 1981 by
Duff's gr and niece,Jean P.Gerdes, who appears in some of the photographs.
The collection is divided into Duff's activities as go verno r and se nator with
some miscellaneou s items.
Activities as governo r include: inaugural ceremonies and ball, January
21, 1947;campaigning for Harry S Truman, 1948; revi ewin g the Penn sylvania National Guard at Port Indi antown Gap, 1949; boarding the "Pennsy lvania Week" train, 1948 and 1949, with celebrities Hedda Hopper, Alexis
Smith, Robert Montgomery, and James Stewa rt; leisure activi ties such as
ga rdening at Indiantown Gap and riding his horse, 1947-1950; lighting the
Capitol Christmas Tree, 1950; and others.
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Activities as United States sena tor: cam pa igning, 1950; taking the oath of
o ffice, Janua ry 18, 1951, with Vice Presid ent Alben Barkley, Sena tor Ed ward
Martin, and o thers; at the Republican Na tiona l Conve ntion with Clare
Booth Luce, a nd cam pa ignin g for Dwight Eisenhower, 1952; ap pea ring o n
"Face the Na tion" and " Meet the Press," 1953-1954; wi th Vice Presid ent
Richard Nixo n and Mrs. Nixon at Ind ependen ce Ha ll, ca. 1954; at the
Na tional Republican Women's Conferences with Sena tor Margaret Chase
Smith and o thers, 1954-1955; as a member o f various sena te subco m mittccs,
1953-1956; speaking against atomic bo mb spies, 1952; vis iting Erie, 1955;
observi ng Na tiona l Mari ne Corps Day, January 17, 1951 ?}; pe rforming
cha rity work, 1956; receivi ng award s and hon orary degrees, 1951-1955;
altend ing vario us fu nctions withSena tors JohnKennedy,ThomasP.O·Neill,
Hu gh Scott, Evere tt Dirksen, Hu bert Humphrey, Rob ert Ta ft, Barry
Gold wa ter, Hen ry Cabot Lodge, Representati ve John McCormick, Sta te
Sena tor M. Harvey Taylor and o thers; mcc ting celebri ties Sophie Tucker,
Walter Cro nkite, a nd o thers, 1954-1955; trav elin g on the inaug ural trip o f
the "Pennsy Aerotrain," 1956; and participating in a Senate heari ng on
corru p tion in the Teamsters Union, 1958.
Miscellan eous item s include formal portrait s, ca . 1925-1955, a nd as sta te
aud itor gene ral, 1946.
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OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE COLLECTION
Ca. 1866-1960, 5.5 cu. ft.
Old Econo my Village is a Pennsylvania Hist ori cal and Museum Co m mission site in Ambridge. It pr eserves th e origi nal gro u nd s and buildings
of the Harmon y Socie ty, a religious community founded by a Germa n
my stic, Father George Rapp, in 1805. The Collection is photographic prin ts
and lan tern slides amassed over the yea rs by the staff of the histori c site a nd
consists of three gro ups:
B. C. Way Lantern Slides,1891, seventy-seven item s, showing vie ws taken
in Sep tembe r of that yea r of the buildings, ga rdens, and mem bers of the
dwindling Harmoni sts. Each item has "B.G. Way, Brooklyn, N .Y." on the
mount and individual su bject identi ficat ion s. Views show the chu rch,
tavern, hou ses, gardens and grotto, hop pickers, Harmony trustees Jacob
Henrici and John DuS5, and othe r Society mem be rs. Some item s are hand
colored .
I.M. Tate LAnternSlides, ca. 189D-1 919, sh owing views taken by Tat e of Ol d
Econo my buildings, grounds and people, inclu d ing Jacob Henrici; Har-
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monyin BcaverCo unty;and New Harmony, Ind iana. A residentofSewickley
and an ama teur photographer, Tale took these over the course of severa l
years,eventually developin g them into a slide lecture. He had the text of the
lecture printed into a pamphlet in 1925, which is found among the ad ministrative record s of the PHMC (see RG-13). Some items are hand colored.
HistoricalPhotograph Collection, ca. 1866-1950, contains over 1,000ph otographic prints, postcard s, newsclippin gs, engravings, cic., collected by the
s taffof Old Economy Village. Each item is numbered and arranged numeri cally.Subjects include portraits of promin ent a nd un identified Harrnoni sts,
including jacob Henri ci, john Duss, and their families, views of buildings
and groundsal Old Economy, Harmony and New Harmony. No table items
show j.S. Coxey's Army as it passed through Economy, 1894; the 1924 Old
Economy Centennial; and the Economy Band.
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l 04th CAVALRY (PNG) VETERANS
ASSOCIATION COLLECTION
Ca. 1914-1975, 2.5 cu. fl.
The 104th Cavalry, Pennsylvania Na tional Guard, was origi nally organ ized in 1874 as the Eighth Infantry Regiment. 11 wa s also known as the
Governor's Troop, an honor guard for ceremonial event s surro und ing the
governor. Mustered into federal service during the Spanish-American War
and World Wars I and Il.jhe unit regu larly held training at Colebrook and
Ind ianl own Gap Military Reservations. In 1921 it was redesignated as the
104th Cava lry. The 104th Veterans Association, formed in 1966, acquired
materials from various membe rs and in lurn dona led them to the State
Archives in 1983.
The collection conlai ns new sclippings, pamphlets, certifica tes and ot her
doc uments (.5 cu. ft .), but the bulk is photographic prints (2 cu . ft.) ,
Individu al donations incl ude:
Robert Cowan Collection of pho tographs rela ting 10 his World War Icareer,
1917-1919. Subjects include a military funeral in Harrisbu rg, ca. 1917.
Clyde Fisher Motion Picture Films of the Gove rnor's Troo p, 1935-1 936.
Fisher was an officer in the Troop . Scenes show the troop marching in
Governo r George Earle's inaugur al parade. Two reels, 8mm, silent, black
and white, 200 feel.
john Pull Motion PictureFilms of activities of Troo p K, 1938-1 941. Views
show the cavalry in camp, during mou nted reviews, giving demonstra tions
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at a moun ted pistol course, at Governor Arthur James's inau gural parade,
and induction into federal service for World War II. Five reels, 16mm, silent,
black a nd white, 2.000 feet.
Miscellaneous photogra phs show the Governor's Troo p at various locales; the 104th on and 0(( duty during a 1922 coal strike a t Heilwood and
the 1936 flood in the Harrisburg area; annua l encampments at Colebrook,
Indiantown Gap, City Island (Harrisburg), and out of state, 1922-1980;
views of Marcay, France, 1943; and various reunion banq uets held by the
veteran s association after 1966.
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STATE POLICE MEMORABILIA
1906-PRESENT, 1 cu. ft.
A group of acquisitions arranged by do nor, usually re tired officers,
relating to their careers with the State Police. The collections are primarily
photographs, bu t also contain newsclippings, pamphlets, documen ts and
other eph emera .
Collections incl ude:
A.c. Ayers Photographs of a 1936 State Police Rod eo, mounted troopers at
a Harrisburg Parade, n.d., and a ca. 1935 silk mill strike in Lancaster,
nineteen item s.
Philip Doddridge Photograph Albums showing his career with Troop A,
Greensburg, 1911-1 920, two volumes. Includes scenes of barra cks life,
leisure activities, drills, parad es and Doddridge and fellow officers on
assignments, such as a typh oid quara ntine, 191 2; the 50th Gettysburg
Reunion, 1913; strikes in Tarentum, Erie and Wilkes-Barre; floods in Eric
and Brownsville; robberies and others.
Lawrence L. Priar Collection relating to his career with various troops and
asa depu ty sta te fire marshall, 1908-1961 , .3cu. ft. Includes a photograph of
President Theod ore Roosevelt with members of Troop B, Wyoming. 1908.
Ray L. Reck Collection rela ting to his caree r with Troop A, Greensburg,
Pennsylvania Motor Police, 1937-1939, fourteen items . Includes Reck at the
75th Gettysburg Reunion, 1938.
Miscellaneous items include portraits of troope rs killed in the line of
duty, ca. 1925-1 930, five items; and a motion picture film of a parad e at the
tenth anniversary oft he Pennsylvania High way Patrol, 1933, 16mm, 400 ft.
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DENISE WEBER PHOTOGRAPHS
1906, 35 items
The Vinton Co lliery Company ope rated bituminous coal mines near
Vintond ale, CambriaCounty. In the summer of 1906, it ope ned #6 mineand
constructed coke works and other suppo rt facilities. The opera tions were
observed by John Huth , a Vintondale residen t who was a min ing engineer
and later assistant superintendent for the compa ny. Huth either took or
acqu ired photographs of the work in progress.
The photographs are thirt y-three 5x7 and two 4x5 glass plate negativ es.
No original prints are present. PHMC contact reference prints were mad e
in December 1983 and are contained in one loosc-Iea f bind er.
There are no original identifications but captions were supplied by the
donors. Huth's granddaught er Denise Weber ofindiana, Pa., and daughter
Aileen Michelbacher of Vintondale presented the plates to the State Archives in Novembe r 1983 in memory of John a nd Mabel Hu th.
Subjects often a re images taken from the sa me viewpoint before, duri ng
and after construction of the entrance to the #6 mine (no interior views), #6
powerhouse and ammonia plant, coal washery and coke ovens. Nonconstruc tion view s include town views, the Pennsylvan ia Railroad spur
and din key, trestles and tipples, company offices, a Vintond ale town plan,
and a map of the Vinton Colliery Company holdings.
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LAWRIE AND GREEN COLLECTION
1922-1960,10 cu. ft.
M. Edwin Gree n (1 897-1985) of Harri sburg and Ritchie Lawrie (l 89G1962) of Pittsburgh teamed in 1922 to create the architectural firm of Lawrie
and Green. The firm designed several hundred buildings in central Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the state, notable am ong them the North Office
Building and the William Penn Memorial Museum and Archives Building
in Harri sburg, and the Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh . Based in
Harri sburg, the firm disband ed in 1972. The Gree n Family donated the
collection to the Sta te Archives, 1984-1 985, upon M. Edwin Green's death.
The bulk of the collection is the artist's concep tua l design boards and
schematic layouts for the William Penn Memorial Mu seum and Archives,
ca. 1956-1960 (7.5 cu . ft.), Photographs are primarily 8xlO black and white
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and color glossy prints a nd 2x2 color slides (15 cu . It.). Subjects are eithe r
artist's d esigns o r the completed building taken by com mercial photographers hired by the finn. These o ften ha ve th e photographer' s logo stam ped
on the reverse and include the j. Hora ce McFar land Co mpany of Harrisburg, Char les E. Burd o f Lanca ster, Lawrcn ce S. Williams of Pittsb urgh , and
oth ers .
Other ph ot ographs are loosely grou pro by type or name of building and
include: Harri sburg Area: Ca mp Cu rtin Junior Hi gh School, Ce n tral
Y.M.CA., Dauphin Co u nty Courtho use, Dau phin Co u nty Priso n, G race
Uni ted Methodi st Ch u rch, Harri s Ferry Tavern, Harri sburg Hospital,
Harri sburger Hotel. North Office Building, Pennsyl vania Farm Show Build ing, Mary Sac hs Build ing and Ze mba Temple.
Buildings elsewhere in the sla te include: eleme nta ry, junior a nd se nior
high schools in Carlisle, Chambe rsbu rg, Coa tcsvi lle, Columbia, Duncannon,
Hazleton, jersey Sho re, Lewisbu rg, Lewistow n, Lock Haven, Muncy, New
Cumberland , Saltsb urg, Selinsgrove, Warren, Willia msp or t, and o thers;
hospitals in Lew isbur g, Lew istown.Montrose .Sunbury, Wayne, Wellsboro,
Williamsport a nd others; municipal bui ld ings in Lock Haven and Warren;
and miscellaneous buildings such as at Bloomsburg Sta te Teac hers College;
Hunt Library o f the University of Pittsburgh, the Lock Haven Bell Telephon e Building, the Methodi st Child ren's Home, Shirema ns town, a nd the
Williamsporl Y.M.CA.
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IRENE BRESSLER PHOTOGRAPHS
1860-1905, .75 cu. ft.
Iren e Bressler(1 891-1969), lifelong resid ent of Harrisburg, wa san organist for several area ch urc hes. Between 1942 and 1969 she d onated photograp hsa nd other items to the Historical and Museum Co mm ission, incl ud ing a stereo viewer now in the collection s o f the Sta te Museum. Little is
known of he r personal life.
The collection, all pri nts, is arranged by type of su bject. The b ulk is
seven ty unid entified cabi net card port rait s of ad ults, child re n and family
grou ps. The follow ing p ho togra phers, mo stly Pe nnsy lva nians, are id enti fied on them: Allen, Pottsville;Bell,Wilkes-Barre; W.5.Ca p well, Bloomsburg;
Carlin, Atlantic City, N .j.; Clark, Wilkes-Barre; Cornwell, William sport; R.
Dabb, She na ndoah; Dockewciler, Girardville; E.F. Eaton, Harrisb urg;
Eise nman, New York, N .Y., Eisinger, no city giv en; Krigbaum, Shamokin;
Lee, Dan ville; Leku e Lerner, Harrisburg; Lovejoy, Phi ladelphia; Masters,
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Princeton, N.j.; McCollin, Ashland; Miller, Ashland; S.L. Miller, Lykens;
Mu sser, Harrisburg; j.e. Patrick, Williamstown; Porter, Connellsville; Potter, Philadelphia;j.W.Riche,Shamokin;j.F.Ryde r,Cleveland ,Ohio;Scheirer,
Mahanoy City; Smith, Lykens; j.H. Smith, Newark. N .j.; CH, Snively,
Millersbu rg; Thomas, Shamokin; Trevaskis, Hazleton; and Tyso n and Son,
Philadelphia.
Identified items are three prints of varying size rela ting to Frank Durbin,
a Lykens lawyer, ca. 1888, including a grad ua tion class a t Dickinson
Seminary, William spor t, a Lutheran Sunday Schoo l Class at Lykens, and a
Durbin Family Portrait by H.E. Cerdom of Lykens; five 3x3 views ca. 1905
of the Dauphin County Cour thouse, Slate Library and Museum and Paxton
Church a t Harrisburg by an un identified pho tographer; one unda ted
cabinet card signed by j N . Choate of Northe rn Arapahoe Chiefs a t the
Carlisle Ind ian Schoo l.
Photographs un related to Pennsylvania, but o f in terest includ e two
un dated 4x7 views of Gu thrie, Oklahoma, by Mitchell and DeGroff's
Pioneer Photo Stud io and one 4x7 view of Texado Park in Boulder, Colorado, 1899, by j.B. Stur tevan t; and und ated series of thir ty-three 3x4 views
by an unidentified photographer of camps of Apa che, Cornrnanche, Sioux,
Crow, Shawnee and Uma tilla (Oregon) Ind ians, gold placer mini ng at
Helena, Mont., Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone Park, Niagara Falls,
N.Y., a wa terfall in Wisconsin; six cartes-de-visite of Generals Grant,
Sherman, Burnside, Foster, Private james Fisk, j r.and Italian opera soprano
Pauline Lucca; two undated prints ca. 1890 of the cast of an unidentified
theatre melodrama, plus other miscellaneous items.
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JOHN ENMAN COLLECTION
Ca. 1960, .5 cu. ft.
While a geography student at the University of Pittsburgh , john Enman
(b. 1921) photographed the dying coal and coke indu stry in southw estern
Pennsylvania. Some views were used to illustrat e his 1962 Ph.D. d issertation, "The Relation of Coal Mining and Coke Making to the Distribu tion of
Population Agglom erations in the Connellsville (Pa.) Beehive Coke Region." Dr. Enma n thereafter held a leaching position at Bloomsburg State
College, Bloomsb urg, where he retired in 1984.
The photographs are 454 3x5 prints made from 35mm negatives tak en by
Dr. Enman, probably between 1959and 1960.The prints were d onated to the
State Archives in 1967. Dr. Enman retains the original negatives. The pri nts
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are unlabelled, but gro uped in envelopes containing identification. All
views are towns, mines, or coke ovens in Westm oreland or Fayette Counties
and include: Alicia (Southwest #1 & 2 Mines), Alverton, Baggaley, Beatty,
Bridgepo rt Dam and Wa terwo rk s, Brinkerton, Butte, Ca lume t,
Carpentertown, Cen tra l, Collier, Connellsvi lle, Con tine ntal #2 Mine,
Davidson, Doro thy, Dunba r, Empire (Drift Mine), Hays, Hecla, Hostetler,
Humphrey, Juniata, Laughead, Leisenring, Lemont, Mammoth #1 Mine,
Margu erite, Monarch, Mosewood, Mount Braddock, Mount Pleasa nt, Mutual, Norvelt, Pleasant Unity, Phillips,Oliver,Oliphant Furnace.Owensville,
Saint Vincent, Standard Slope, Summ it, Tarrs, Trauger, Trotte r, United #1
& 2 Mines, Uniontown, West Overton, Whitney, Wynn , Youngstown, York
Run, and unidentified.
Also included are seven 16mm 100ft. color moti on picture films taken by
Enman in 1967 of the last cokemakin g operations at Alicia, Leckrone,
Laughead and other areas; and United Mine Workers of America agreement s between Districts 3, 4 and 5 and various coal companies, 1934,1 941
and 1945-1948, five pamphlets.
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MATTIE EDWARDS HEWITT PHOTOGRAPHS
1925-1945,1.0 cu. f l
Mattie Edwards Hewitt (7-1956), a St. Louis native, opera ted a free lance
photograph y bu siness in New York City from the 1920s until her d eath .She
Specialized in photographing residences of the wealthy in the eastern
United States. Herprints were sold usually d irectly to the property ow ners,
newspapers or the many domestic and gardening magazines which were
becoming pop ular. Hewitt print s have appeared in Garden Magazine, House
andGarden, House Beautijul, the NewYork Times, New YorkEvening Post, and
many others. She often collabora ted with her nephew Richa rd Averill
Smith, (7-1971), who later became city pho tographer of New York. Little is
known of her early life beyond a marriage to pho tographer Arthur Hewi tt,
whom she d ivorced in 1909, and a partnersh ip with Frances Benjamin
Johnston, a Washington, D.C., photographer.
Hewi tt's photographs and negatives were donated to the Nassa u Coun ty
(New York) Library and Museum in 1971 by the execu tors for Richard
Averill Smith. Subjects pertaining to Pennsylva nia wer e separa ted and
given to the Historical and Museum Commission shortly thereafter. The
photographsare 3958xlOprints and 154 8xl 0 film negatives. Allsubjects are
interior or exterior views of buildings and landscaping. Some negatives
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match the prints. All negati ve envelopes and prin ts arc id entified on the
reverse with negati ve number, subject and whethe r taken by Hewitt or
Smith. Most subjects arc undated, but all seem to d ate between 1925 and
1945. Sometimes the buil din g or land scape architec t's nam e and the publi cation ordering prints are given. A numerical ind ex to the prin ts prepared
by the Sla te Archives is present.
Struc tures arc arranged alphabe tically by na me of owner and include:
the Baum Family House in Perkasie; Biddle Family "Inver House" ncar
Philade lphia; C. H ugh Blair House in Mt. Leban on; William Bodine House,
Villan ova; William Cam ill House "H illtop" in Ryda l Meeting;J. H.Clo thier,
Jr. House "Sunnybrook Farm" in Rad nor; A.C. Dyer Housein Mt. Lebanon;
George W. Elkins' "Chelton House" in Elkins Park; Robert Glendenning
House in Chestn ut Hill; Frazier Harris House in Chestnut Hill; L.G. Huntley
House in Pittsburgh; He nry S. Jeanes Hou se "Langwell" in Devon; O.E
Knight House in Pittsburgh ;H oratio G. Lloyd House- in Haver ford Meeting;
Longv ue Country Club in Pittsburg h; Granv ille Montgomery House
"Wynnewood" in Montgomery County; H.C. Moran Hou se in Mt. Lebanon; Samuel Morri s House in Ches tnut Hill; John S. Murray Hou se in
MG.J80 Mollie Edwa,d1 Hewiu PhoiograplLr 1121232: Grey
Towers , home a/ Gifford Pincbot, ca . 1935.
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Pittsburgh; E.F. Newbold House in Chestnut Hill; Benjamin Frankl in Pep per House in Chestnut Hill; Gifford Pincho t House "Grey Towers" in Pike
County; Haro ld F. Pitcairn House in Bryn Athyn; Henry Rca House "Farm
Hill" in Sewickley Heights; Wharton Sinkler House in Elkins Park; Edward
Stotesbury Houses "Whitemarsh Hall" in Montgomery County, "EI Mira
Sol" in Palm Beach, florida and "Wingwood " in Bar Harbor, Maine; Joseph
N. Snellenburg House in Philadelphia; C.E. Ufer House in Pittsburgh;
Joseph Widener House "Wynnewood Hall" in Elkins Park; George Willing,
Jr. House in Chestnut Hill and Alexander Van Rensselaer House "Camp
Hill Ha ll" in Fort Washing ton.
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LELAND H . BULL COLLECTION
1955-1974, 2.2 cu. ft.
Leland Hudson Bull (b. 1913), a native of Waterston, New York, gradua ted from the Pennsy lva nia State College in 1937and was for ma ny yea rs a
Centre County agricultural agent. Between 1955-1958 he served Governor
George Leader as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. From 1955 to 1963 he
was ass istant director of the cooperative ex tension service at Penn State. In
January 1963 newly elected Governor William Scranton appointed him
Secretary of Agri culture, a post he held un til 1970. Now retired, Bull lives
in State College .
The collection consis ts of ten scrapbooks containing newsclippings,
letters, proclamations, invitations, photographs, programs and othe r memorabilia relating to Bull's career between 1955 and 1970. Most ph otographs
arc 8x10 pub licity stills taken by variou s news services, especially the
Departmen t of Agricu lture Press Office. Some item s arc in color.
Subjects sho w Bu ll giving speeches to such o rganiza tions as the Slate
Grange, 4-H Clubs, Future Farmers of America, Kiwa nis Clubs and others;
crown ing po ultry, livestock, and other agriculture q uee ns; attend ing bill
signing ceremoniesof agricu lture-re lated legislation with Gove rnors Leader,
Scranton and Shafer; officiating events a t the Pennsylvani a Farm Show,
Penn State's Little Intern ational Livestock Expos ition, the Na tional Plowing
Contes t held at Hershey in 1958 and 1968, state plowi ng contes ts, and
county fairs; pos ing with Department of Agriculture officials, other state
govern me nt officials, and with Earl Butz, U.S.Secretary of Agriculture, and
many other activities. Also includ ed are signed po rtra it ph otographs from
William Scranton and Raymond Shafer.
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WALTER BENSON PHOTOGRAPHS
1955-1985,.5 cu. ft.
Walter Benson 0919-1987), a New York City na tive, moved to the
Harrisburg area in the 1950s. He was for twen ty-five years chief of the
photography section at Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown. As part of
a project for a University of Oklahoma bachelor's degree in liberal stud ies,
he began around 1960 photographing the Pennsy lvania coun tryside using
a Hasselblad camera, often with a supe r wide lens.
The photographs arc nearly 2,0002x2negati ves of south central Pennsylvania towns, farms and rural areas, usually taken from artisticangles.Some
Ne w Jersey locales are includ ed. The negatives are arranged in envelopes
bea ring descripti ve information in Benson's hand . Benson d onated the
nega tives to the State Archives in 1986.
Subjects include rural views in Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphi n,
Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York Counties, especially along U.S. and
s tate routes and the Pennsy lvania Turnpike. The views are u ndated and
loosely identified barns, farm houses, churches, ceme teries and o ther
buildings, often aba ndo ned and in ruins. Views of towns or scenic areas
include: Amity Hall, Annville, the Daniel Boone Ho mestead, Dan-D-Orcha rd Village, Dauphin Narrows, Elizabethtow n, Enola Railyards, Ephra ta
Cloister, Fort Hunter, Gettysburg town and battlefield, Girty's No tch,
Grantville, Halifax, Harrisburg, Hershey, Hummelstown, Indiant own Ga p,
Lancaster, Lebanon, Lewistow n, Linglestown , Midd letown, Monr oe Valley, Olmsted Air Force Base, Pennsylvania Farm Mu seum, Peters Mounta in, Railroad Mu seu m of Penn sylvan ia, Rockville Bridge, Steelton,
Summerda le, Union Deposit, Wellsville, Wert zville, a nd the William Penn
Memorial Museum. Notable items include Amish at Stras burg; sce nic
views of the Susq ue hanna and Juniata Rivers, and Conodoguinet Creek
near the West Shore Country Club, Camp Hill; the Hershey Chocolate Co.
factory; and the State Cap itol.
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MG-40/ Ddaware aNl llwbOlt Railway Company Co/lectiOlt: liS/58 "New
TwrnJable , Carbondale, PA - Moved Under Own POlWr / 0 :17 am., 1·22-26."
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DELAWARE AND HU D SO N RAI LWAY
COMPANY COLLECTION
1887-1959,11.2 cu. ft.
The Delaware and Hud son Railroad grew out of the Delaw are and
Hud son Cana l Compa ny, formed in 1825. By 1829 it wa s utilizing locomotives to sup plement canal travel, the most famou s being the "Stourbridge
Lion ." By the late nineteenth cen tury the D & H had rail lines throughout
northeastern Penn sylvani a and New York. Tod ay it is part o f Guilford
Transportation Industri es, Inc., of Massachu ssclls. The Collection is 4 cu. ft.
of assessmen t reports and printed histories, a nd 7.2 cu. ft. of photographs.
These materials were d onated in 1970 by the Company 's main offices in
Albany, N.Y.
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The photographs are over 3,8008xl0 print s by staff, ca. 191 5-1944, of D
& H locomotives and rolling stock. Most are mounted on a card containing
the negative number, date, locomotive or car number and other informa tion . Locomotive images are usually build ers' photos, show ing overall
views, and deta iled views of important features. Constru ction views are
also present. Rolling stock images are similar. The prints are arranged by
locomotive orcar number. Not all D & H locomotives and rolling stock are
present .
Subjects includ e steam and electric locomotives, baggage cars, box cars,
businesscars, dining ca rs,d ump cars, gondolas, hop per s, horse cars,loun ge
cars, mail cars, milk cars, passen ger cars, suburban ca rs, and mi scellaneous
rollin g stock. Also present are views of a reproduction of the "Stourbridge
Lion"; construc tion of a roundhouse turn table a t Carb ondale, 1926; explosions and wrecks; a 1915 equipment inven tory; and oth ers.
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CAHlLLIUPI PHOTOGRAPHS
1954-1975,10 cu. ft.
Phadrig "Pa t" Cahill of Camp Hill was a photographer for United Press
Intcrnational'scentral Pennsylvania region, 1954-1 975. His prints were sent
by UPI telephoto to appropriate newspa pers throu ghout the state and
country, dramati zing the news events of the area. The ph otographs arcover
6,000 7x9and 8x10 prints, each bear ing on the front UPI's cod e, d ate and an
extended type written caption by Cahill. The reverse often contains addi tional infonna tion. The prin ts are arra nged by year and thereunder by
subject.
The original nega tives are retained by UPI. Use of these prints is subject
to the U.S.Copyri ght Law.
Notable topi cs cover: 1954- President and Mrs. Eisenhower rehabilitat ing their Gettysburg farmhouse and receiving visitors; George Leader's
gubernatorial campaign; Alger Hiss's release from the federal prison at
Lewisburg. 1955- President Eisenhower at Camp David and his subsequent
heart attack; Governo r Leader honoring Jonas Salk for his development of
a polio vaccine. 1956 - Preside ntial cand idates Adlai Stevenson and Estes
Kefauver campaigni ng; Vice President Richard Nixon campaigning for
reelection. 1957 - Governo r Leader with Harry S Truman at a Democra tic
fund raiser. 1959- Governor David Lawrence's inaugural ceremonies; Poet
Carl Sandburg's visit to Gettysburg; the Knox Mine Disaster. 1960 - Presiden tial candida tes John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon campaigning. 1962
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- President Kennedy attendi ng a Democra tic fund raiser with Governo r
Lawrence; Vice President Lynd on johnson visitin g the Pennsylvani a State
University; Dwight Eisenhower with Governor-elect William Scranton; the
National Gove rnors' Conference at Hershey; the activities of Ll.S, Senator
Hugh Scott. 1963 - a Professional Golf Associatio n tournam ent a t Hershey
with Arnold Palm er, Gary Player and jack Nicklaus; cere monies a t the one
hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysb urg; President Kennedy
dedica ting "GreyTowers:' Gifford Pincho l's horne. as a national land mark.
1964 - Barry Gold water a nd Lyndo n johnson campa ign ing for president ;
Governo rScra nton seeking the Republican nomination for president ; Lady
Bird Johnson ded icatin g a build ing at Wilkes Co llege, Wilkes-Barre. 1965 the Pennsylvani a legislature investigation hearings on Sta te Police corru ption; Gove rno r Scranton honorin g astronau t Charles "Pete" Conrad; the
retirement of Pennsylvan ia State University football coach "Rip" Engle and
his replacemen t by j oe Paterno; U.s. Hou se Minority Leade r Gerald Ford
visiting Eisenhower at Gettysburg; reappo rtioning Pennsylvania House
and Senate di stricts; President john son visiting Job Corps Trainees a t
Catoctin Center, Md .: Chester County Committee for Freedo m No w members a t a sit-in at the Governor' s Office. 1966 - Vice Presid ent Hub er t
Humphrey campaigning for Milton Shapp; activit ies of the Pennsylvania
Coun cil of Republican Women; the Miss Ameri ca Pageant, Atlantic City,
N.j.; President johnson visiting the Dallastow n Centennial celebration;
Raymond Sha fer and Robert Casey campa ign ing for governor; Presiden t
johnson visitin g FortCampbell, Ky.; the kid nappingof Peggy Ann Bradnick
in Shad e Gap; gro undbreaking for the Hershey Med ical Center;ac tivities of
Ll.S.Senator Richard Schweiker.1967- the Sta te Constitu tionalConvention;
visits to Penn sylvania by U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and Michiga n
Governo r George Romney; Team ster President James Hoffa at the Federal
Prison in Lewisburg; Gove rnor Raymond Sha fer' s inau gural ceremonies.
1968- Governo r and Mrs. Shafer moving into the new Gove rnor 's Home in
Harri sburg; Presiden tial hopefu ls George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey,
Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew campaigning; Senator Ed ward Kennedy
campa igning for his broth er, Robert;filming the movie "The Molly Maguires"
at Eckley Miner s' Village. 1969- the parent s of Mary [o Kopechn e stopping
the exhumation of their da ughter' s body; Vice Presid ent Agnew visiting
Governor Sha fer. 1970- Pennsylvania State University students protestin g
camp us policies; Governo r Shafer dedicating the "Keys tone Sho rtway"
(Interstate 80); dem onstrations at the Sta te Capitol by the National Welfare
Right s Organi zation ; West German Chancellor Willy Brandt visitin g Camp
David . 1971- jam es Hoffa's release from Lewisbu rg Penitentiary; remo ving
"squa tters" from land cleared for theTockslsland Dam; protests aga inst the
erection of a touri st observa tion tower at Gettysb urg; Vietnam War prot est-
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ors burning d raft car ds in Bethlehem; convicted Joh nson aide Bobby Baker
entering the Federa l Prison at Lewisbu rg; Govern or MillonS happ's inau gu ral activities. 1972 - the Reverend s Daniel and Philip Berriga n and the trial
of the Harri sburg Seven;the first million do llar wi nne rs in the Pennsylvani a
Lottery; d isaster and clea nup from Hurrican e Agnes; the pre sidentia l
election campaign wi th Hubert Humph rey, Pat N ixon, George McGovern,
Sarge ntShriver, and Edm und Musk ie;Jane Fonda suppo rting the Indochin a
Peace Ca mpaign; ratification of the Equal Rights Ame nd me nt to the U.s.
Co nstitu tion by the Penn syl vani a legislature; writer Ralp h Ginzburg entering the Fede ral Priso n at Lewisburg; the Na tional Governors' Confere nce a t
White Sulp hur Spri ngs, W.Va . 1973 - Heisman trophy winn er John
Ca ppelletti;cha ngi ng the spccd limit to 55mph; Vice President Gera ld Ford
speaking to a joint meeting of the Penn sylvani a Ge ne ral Assembl y; construc tion of the Ge ttysburg Battl efield Tower; Pennsyl vani a Hou se in vesti ga tions in to State Police and Liquo r Contro l Board corruption; boxer
Muha mmad Ali a t his Deer Lake training camp; State workers protesting
the legislatu re's failure to pass a bud get. 1974 - Governo r Shapp and Drew
Lewi s running for election; Go verno r Sha pp a t a House Co mmi ttee hearing
on State contract policies; Watergate conspira tor [eb Stua rt Magruder
entering the Fede ral Prison at Lewisburg. 1975 - Vietna mese refu gees
arriving for processing at For t lndia nlow n Ga p; GovernorSha ppestablishing the Commission for Women; Gove rno r Sha p p's seco nd inau gural
ceremonies; and Geo rge McGovern visiting the Sta te Farm Sho w.
Subjects common to all years include: airplane, automobil e and train
accide nts; bank and other robberies; beauty pageants, especially the Miss
Pennsylvani a Pageant; activities of cha rities and o the r community organi za tions; Hershey Bears hockey ga mes; minin g d isas ters; the Little League
World Series in William sport; the Penn sylvani a Farm Sho w; activities by
the Penn sylvania Nationa l Guard at Fort Indiantown Gap; the Philadelphia
Eagles football team al their Hershey training camp; the Pocono 500
automobile race; Pennsylvani a State Univer sity basketb all , footb all and
wrestling; annual picnics of the Jim Smith Socie ty; and the Washington
Red skins football team at its Carlisle trainin g camp.
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JOHN W. ROSHON PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1865-1920,.5 cu. ft.
John William Roshon 0 864-1955) was a lead ing Harrisburg portrait
ph otographer at the tum of the twenti eth cen tury. He wa s apprenticed to
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his falher Christian S.Roshon, who operated landscapc and portrait stud ios
in Harri sburg and manyother centra l Pennsylvania loca tions ca. 186D-1900.
The bul k of the collection is cabinet card portraits of Roshon Family
members made by J.W. Roshon, with a few cartes-de-visite by his father.
Most arc unidentifi ed . Items of note includ e Roshon's experiments with
naturalistic photography on himself and famil y members; and ph otographs of his at tempt to build and fly an airplane around 1906.
Also included a re letters, school reports, etc.,of J.W:s wife Mary Feehrer
and their daughter Dorinda.
The collection was ob tained in 1988 from a local anti qu es dealer.
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AERO SERVICE COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1926-1948, over 4,000 items
Begun in 1919 and based in Philade lphia, the Aero Service Company was
a pioneer and world leader in aerial photography and photogrammetry. Its
di rector was Virgil I. Kauffma n,a World War I veteran pilot who joined the
MG4 16 Au o StfV~' Company Pholograplu 1112227:
"CenJu City P"j1tJihlphia. April /9JO.·
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company in 1924. Under Kauffman's tutelage, the company obtai ned
lucrative government and priva te contracts, the mos t no tab le with the
United States Geological Survey and the Tennessee Valley Authority to
undertake some of the first aerial surveys of the cou ntry. The firm's
ph otographers travelled thro ughout America and abroad.
Kauffman retained the original negatives until his dea th in 1985. Thereafter, his su rvivors pe rmitted the disper sion of the company's negatives to
appro priate historical agencies throughout the coun try. The Pennsylvania
State Archives received those pertaining to Pennsylva nia in 1988.
The bulk of the collection is nearly 2,200glass plate and film negatives in
varyi ng sizes, usually 8 x 10,71/2 x9 or9x9, roughly da ted be tween 1926
and 1939. There are very few origi nal prints prese nt. All are ob lique aeria l
views primari ly of the Philadelphia area and Pennsylva nia, New York and
New Jersey towns. They are arra nged numerically a nd feature factories,
businesses, ind ividual homes, housing deve lop ments, golf courses, spo rts
arenas, etc.
Philadelphi a views include: Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Boulevard
Airport, Broad Stree t Station, Byberry Hospita l, Center City, Conven tion
Hall, Disston Saw Works, Fairmount Park, Franklin Field, Ge rma ntown
Hos pital, Glenwood Housi ng Project, Hill Creek Hou sing Project, Logan
Circle, Mount Sinai Ceme tery, Patco Field, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Reading Terminal, Richardson Mint Plant, Rittenhouse Square, Roosevelt
Boulevard, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Shibe Park, Tasker Ho using Project,
Temple University, Wanamaker's Department Store, West Philadelphia
High School, Westin ghouse Electric Company, and man y oth ers.
Towns include: Allentown, Ardmore, Bethleh em, Bristol, Bryn Athyn,
Bryn Mawr, Buckhill,Chadds Ford ,Chambcrsburg, Chester,Conshohocken,
Coatesville, Columbia, Delaware Water Gap, Easton , Exton, Franklin,
Hatboro.jenkintown, Lancaster, Langhorne, Lan sd owne, Lebanon, Marcu s
Hook, Merion, Mun cy, New Hope, No rristown, Paoli, Perk asie, Pocono
Man or, Pott stown, Plymouth Meeting, Radn or, Reading, Scran ton, Skytop,
Spring Grove, Stroudsburg, Torresdale, Tullytow n, Upper Darby, Valley
Forge, Wayn e, Washington Crossing, West Cheste r, Williams port, Yard ley
and York.
No tableevents include the 5.5.MorroCastle Fire, 1934, the 1936John stown
Flood, the 1938 Army-Navy Game, the inaugu ra tion of Governor Arthur
James, 1939, and the construction of Graterford Prison .
Ou t of sta te views include Ca mden, Flemington, Prin ceton , and Tren ton,
New Jersey; and Staten Island, New York.
Also included isa se ries of roughly 1,80061/ 2x81 /2 glass plat e negatives
of an aerial survey, apparentl y of areas impacted by the cons truction of the
Penn sylvania Turn pike, ca. 1939-1 948. This file is unprocessed.
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MG-419
UNITED STATES VIEW COMPANY
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ca. 1890·1901, 64 item s
The U.s. View Compa ny was an itinerant photography company based
in Richfield, Juniata Coun ty. It was formed by Henry and New ton Graybill
and Ellsworth Garma n aro und 1890 and d isbanded in 1901. Company
photographers traveled throughout the East and especially Pennsylvania
offering to produce view s of interesting sites for a fee. Thei r most common
view was a family in front of their home.
The collection issixty-fourphotographicprints, mostly71 / 2 x9112. fixed
on a decorated card mount. Near ly all are un ident ified family groups posed
in front of a rural farmstead, although school gro u ps are also present. Most
have a company nega tive numberon the reverse. On ly a few identify fam ily
and location, and these are of ru ral hamlets in Bedford and Somerset
Counties.
A num erical listing p repared by State Archiv es staff is present. The
collection was dona ted to the State Archives in 1989 by Mar tha Graybill, a
descend ant . Ot her U.S. View Company ph otograph s are amo ng the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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EBASCO ENVIRONMENTAL A ERIAL VIEWS
Ca. 1980·1985
The Ebasco Environme ntal Company of Sacra mento, Calif., cond ucted
an analysisofa utility pipeline projectdo ne by the Texas Eastern Corporation
in the early 19805. Part of this analysis inclu ded an aerial survey of counties
along the southern bord er of Pennsylvania.
The views are 108 enlarged (221/2 x24) ae rial images of Adams, Bedford,
Chester, Faye tte, Fra nklin, Fulton, Greene, Lancaster, Somerset a nd York
Coun ties. The scales is 1:500ft. The pipeline isd elinea ted on each sheet with
black tape. Ca ptions giv ing mileposts are also a ffixed to the images.
Arran gement is alphabetica l by county.
Ebasco donated the images to the State Archives in 1990.
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