A series of mugshots taken over the course of more than 35 years in the town of New Castle, Pennsylvania. Remember, these folks are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!
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August 14, 2020
July 4, 2020
Man Became a Millionaire After Finding a Copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Frame of an Old Painting He Bought for Only $4 in 1989
In 1989, a Philadelphia financial analyst bought an old painting for $4 at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, mostly because he liked the frame. When the owner removed the painting, the frame fell apart and he found a folded document between the canvas and wood backing that appeared to be an old copy of the Declaration of Independence. A friend who collects Civil War memorabilia advised him to have it appraised.
To his amazement, that folded up paper turned out to be a copy of the Declaration of Independence. And not just any copy. A few months later, a historian would confirm that it was an original Dunlap copy, bringing the known total up to 25.
This rare document was offered for sale by Sotheby’s on 4 June 1991, and the lucky find fetched even more than had been anticipated: the $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate turned into a $2.42 million sale by the sound of the gavel.
The document was put up for sale again on June 29, 2000, fetching an $8.14 million bid from television producer Norman Lear in an online auction. It then became the centerpiece of the Norman Lear Center’s Declaration of Independence Road Trip, which took it on a three-and-a-half year cross-country tour.
In the late hours of July 4, 1776, the original signed Declaration was brought to a nearby printing press shop owned by a 29 year old Irish immigrant named John Dunlap. Dunlap proceeded to print dozens of copies of the Declaration. These copies were then distributed up and down the east coast in the following days. George Washington ordered that a copy be of the Declaration be read aloud to every one of his troops. Another Dunlap print was sent to King George back in England.
The majority of the Dunlap prints were discarded or destroyed over time. In 1949, 14 copies of the Dunlap broadside were known to exist. The number had increased to 21 by 1975. There were 24 known copies of the Dunlap broadside in 1989, when a 25th broadside was discovered behind a painting bought for $4 at a flea market.
On July 2, 2009, it was announced that a 26th Dunlap broadside was discovered in The National Archives in Kew, England. It is currently unknown how this copy came to the archive, but one possibility is that it was captured from an American coastal ship intercepted during the War of Independence.
To his amazement, that folded up paper turned out to be a copy of the Declaration of Independence. And not just any copy. A few months later, a historian would confirm that it was an original Dunlap copy, bringing the known total up to 25.
This rare document was offered for sale by Sotheby’s on 4 June 1991, and the lucky find fetched even more than had been anticipated: the $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate turned into a $2.42 million sale by the sound of the gavel.
The document was put up for sale again on June 29, 2000, fetching an $8.14 million bid from television producer Norman Lear in an online auction. It then became the centerpiece of the Norman Lear Center’s Declaration of Independence Road Trip, which took it on a three-and-a-half year cross-country tour.
In the late hours of July 4, 1776, the original signed Declaration was brought to a nearby printing press shop owned by a 29 year old Irish immigrant named John Dunlap. Dunlap proceeded to print dozens of copies of the Declaration. These copies were then distributed up and down the east coast in the following days. George Washington ordered that a copy be of the Declaration be read aloud to every one of his troops. Another Dunlap print was sent to King George back in England.
The majority of the Dunlap prints were discarded or destroyed over time. In 1949, 14 copies of the Dunlap broadside were known to exist. The number had increased to 21 by 1975. There were 24 known copies of the Dunlap broadside in 1989, when a 25th broadside was discovered behind a painting bought for $4 at a flea market.
On July 2, 2009, it was announced that a 26th Dunlap broadside was discovered in The National Archives in Kew, England. It is currently unknown how this copy came to the archive, but one possibility is that it was captured from an American coastal ship intercepted during the War of Independence.
February 22, 2020
The World's Greatest Indoor Miniature Village: 18 Vintage Postcards of the Roadside America From Between the 1940s and ’60s
Roadside America is an indoor miniature village and railway covering 8,000 square feet (740 m2), created by Laurence Gieringer in 1935. It was first displayed to the public in the home of Mr Laurence Gieringer in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
Word got out about the exciting miniature village after a story was published in the local newspapers, and due to its popularity, Mr. Gieringer moved the display to a recently-closed local amusement park called Carsonia Park, where more people could come to see his spectacular miniature village.
The display stayed there for a very short time, from 1938 to about 1940 when Mr. Geringer purchased land at the current site of Roadside America to build a larger display in order to accommodate the growing interest.
In 1941 the exhibit reopened at the current location, a former dance hall in Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, Exit 23 on Interstate 78, approximately 20 miles west of the Lehigh Valley.
These vintage postcards that show the Roadside America from between the 1940s and 1960s.
Word got out about the exciting miniature village after a story was published in the local newspapers, and due to its popularity, Mr. Gieringer moved the display to a recently-closed local amusement park called Carsonia Park, where more people could come to see his spectacular miniature village.
The display stayed there for a very short time, from 1938 to about 1940 when Mr. Geringer purchased land at the current site of Roadside America to build a larger display in order to accommodate the growing interest.
In 1941 the exhibit reopened at the current location, a former dance hall in Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, Exit 23 on Interstate 78, approximately 20 miles west of the Lehigh Valley.
These vintage postcards that show the Roadside America from between the 1940s and 1960s.
February 18, 2020
35 Vintage Photo Postcards Show Inside the Restaurants of Pennsylvania in the 1950s and ’60s
A cool set of vintage photo postcards from Jordan Smith that shows what the inside of the restaurants in Pennsylvania looked like from the 1950s and 1960s.
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| Altier's Inn & Motel, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Ben Gross Restaurant, Irwin, Pennsylvania |
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| Blair House, Duncansville, Pennsylvania |
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| Bookbinders Seafood House, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Brookdale-on-the-Lake, Scotrun, Pennsylvania |
September 17, 2018
Working Girls of the 1890s: Earliest Known Photos of Life in an American Brothel During the Late 19th Century
Hundreds of photos capture prostitutes in various phases of undress as well as going about their day-to-day lives: reading, bathing and preening for customers in the 1890s. Taken two decades before the famous E. J. Bellocq photographs of the 1913 sex workers in Storyville, New Orleans, these beautifully produced photographs are the earliest known body of work on this subject in the United States, only now seeing the light of day.
Author and art curator Robert Flynn Johnson found the photos at a vintage paper fair in California about a decade ago and began tracking their origin. Through research and clues, Johnson figured out that the anonymous photographs depicted women who worked at an upmarket brothel run by single mother Sal Shearer in Reading, Pennsylvania around 1892 – at a time when the city was teeming with young, unmarried male railroad and factory workers and other laborers.
“They were clearly prostitutes, and clearly taken by a professional photographer,” Johnson says. “They were not pornographic, and they were not the winky French-postcard-type sensibility. They were Degas-like, beautifully posed. They were erotic and sensual without being in any way sleazy.”
With the help of local historian George M. Meiser IX, he identified the man behind the lens as 19th century commercial photographer William Goldman. Goldman took these secret photos at his studio and at the brothel, where he was a customer and the girls were friendly with him; the discovery of his albums would have caused a scandal in the local community.
Author and art curator Robert Flynn Johnson found the photos at a vintage paper fair in California about a decade ago and began tracking their origin. Through research and clues, Johnson figured out that the anonymous photographs depicted women who worked at an upmarket brothel run by single mother Sal Shearer in Reading, Pennsylvania around 1892 – at a time when the city was teeming with young, unmarried male railroad and factory workers and other laborers.
“They were clearly prostitutes, and clearly taken by a professional photographer,” Johnson says. “They were not pornographic, and they were not the winky French-postcard-type sensibility. They were Degas-like, beautifully posed. They were erotic and sensual without being in any way sleazy.”
With the help of local historian George M. Meiser IX, he identified the man behind the lens as 19th century commercial photographer William Goldman. Goldman took these secret photos at his studio and at the brothel, where he was a customer and the girls were friendly with him; the discovery of his albums would have caused a scandal in the local community.
September 5, 2018
50 Beautiful Color Slides That Capture Everyday Life of York County, Pennsylvania in the 1950s
Created in 1749 from part of Lancaster County and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England, York County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is York.
York County comprises the York-Hanover, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.
These beautiful slides were found by Jan Paul Arends that captured everyday life of York County, Pennsylvania in the 1950s.
York County comprises the York-Hanover, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.
These beautiful slides were found by Jan Paul Arends that captured everyday life of York County, Pennsylvania in the 1950s.
August 22, 2018
24 Vintage Photos of Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s
Carbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Jim Thorpe, founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk, a company town of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) as it built a wagon road nine miles to their coal mine at today's Summit Hill, and constructed the Lehigh Canal navigations.
In 1827, that wagon road became the nation's second operating railroad, the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad which is regarded as the world's first roller coaster, which became its main function between 1873–1931.
The area around Mauch Chunk was known as the "Switzerland of America", the long wide slack water pool above the Lehigh's upper dam being surrounded by Mauch Chunk Ridge, Bear Mountain, Pisgah Ridge, Mount Pisgah, Nesquehoning Ridge, Broad Mountain and their various prominences and summits.
These amazing photos from Gordon Morales were taken by photographer Ephraim E. Rinker (1886-1950) that show street scenes of Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1827, that wagon road became the nation's second operating railroad, the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad which is regarded as the world's first roller coaster, which became its main function between 1873–1931.
The area around Mauch Chunk was known as the "Switzerland of America", the long wide slack water pool above the Lehigh's upper dam being surrounded by Mauch Chunk Ridge, Bear Mountain, Pisgah Ridge, Mount Pisgah, Nesquehoning Ridge, Broad Mountain and their various prominences and summits.
These amazing photos from Gordon Morales were taken by photographer Ephraim E. Rinker (1886-1950) that show street scenes of Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s.
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| American Amoco Gas station, Carbon County, Pennsylvania |
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| Bear hunt, Carbon County, Pennsylvania |
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| Bertsch Street facing east, Lansford, Pennsylvania |
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| Burnt building, Carbon County, Pennsylvania |
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| Cars (1936 plates on car), Carbon County, Pennsylvania |
August 15, 2018
36 Found Photos That Show the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania From Between 1900 and 1912
Established in 1871 as the Cumberland Valley State Normal School (CVSNS), Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, commonly known as Ship, or SU, is a public university located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States, 40 miles west-southwest of Harrisburg, and 30 miles north-northeast of Hagerstown, Maryland.
Shippensburg University is one of the 14 state universities that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), and accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSACS).
These found photos from Richard that show the CVSNS (Cumberland Valley State Normal School), now called Shippensburg University. Some are hand colored and appear to be home made by a student or teacher. There are hand written descriptions and dates on some of the slides. They seem to date between 1900 and 1912.
Shippensburg University is one of the 14 state universities that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), and accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSACS).
These found photos from Richard that show the CVSNS (Cumberland Valley State Normal School), now called Shippensburg University. Some are hand colored and appear to be home made by a student or teacher. There are hand written descriptions and dates on some of the slides. They seem to date between 1900 and 1912.
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| Five original buildings of Shippensburg University. Left to right: President's Residence, built 1907, now called Martin House. Elementary Training School, built 1912, now called Gilbert Hall. Ladies Dormitory, built 1895, now called Horton Hall. Main Building, built 1871, now called Old Main. Gymnasium, built 1893, now called Stewart Hall. |
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| Football game, CVSNS |
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| Football team, CVSNS |
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| Gymnasium, CVSNS, built in 1893 and now called Stweart Hall. That may be Miss Clark, the Gym Teacher, on the steps |
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| Hand written: "1900 at CVSNS in 1902" |
June 17, 2018
Amazing Found Photos That Show Construction Process of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Building in the 1920s
Built from 1926 to 1928, The PPL Building, formerly the Pennsylvania Power and Light Building, is a 24-story, 98 m (322 ft) skyscraper in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is the tallest building in the city, and the second tallest in the Lehigh Valley after Bethlehem's Martin Tower.
The PPL Building serves as the headquarters for PPL Corporation, the main electric utility for the Lehigh Valley. It is often uniquely illuminated at night, especially during the Christmas season.
Here below is a found photo collection from Thomas Grim that shows the construction process of the PPL Building from 1926 to 1928.
The PPL Building serves as the headquarters for PPL Corporation, the main electric utility for the Lehigh Valley. It is often uniquely illuminated at night, especially during the Christmas season.
Here below is a found photo collection from Thomas Grim that shows the construction process of the PPL Building from 1926 to 1928.
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| Construction area of the PPL Building, January 29, 1926 |
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| Construction area of the PPL Building, January 29, 1926 |
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| Construction area of the PPL Building, February 16, 1926 |
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| Construction area of the PPL Building, February 16, 1926 |
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| Before the excavating began, April 5, 1926 |
February 15, 2018
Rare Vintage Photos Capture Student Life at the World's First Medical College for Women From the Late 19th Century
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, founded in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first medical school in the world for women authorized to award them the M.D. It was established in Philadelphia by a group of progressive Quakers and a businessman who believed that women had a right to education and would make excellent physicians. Renamed the Woman’s Medical College in 1867, the school trained thousands of women physicians from all over the world, many of whom went on to practice medicine internationally.
The college provided rare opportunities for women to teach, perform research, manage a medical school, and, with the establishment of Woman’s Hospital in 1861, learn and practice in a hospital setting. It was the longest-lasting all-women medical school in the nation, until it became coeducational in 1970, admitting four men into what became the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) was founded during an era of reform, just two years after the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, asserted women’s rights to an education and a profession, among other rights. The college’s founders, early supporters, faculty, and earliest students reflected this reform mindset. The founders and early faculty included Quaker and non-Quaker activists for prison reform, abolition, and temperance.
Here, below is a collection of rare and amazing vintage photographs that capture student life at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania from between the 19th and early 20th centuries:
The college provided rare opportunities for women to teach, perform research, manage a medical school, and, with the establishment of Woman’s Hospital in 1861, learn and practice in a hospital setting. It was the longest-lasting all-women medical school in the nation, until it became coeducational in 1970, admitting four men into what became the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) was founded during an era of reform, just two years after the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, asserted women’s rights to an education and a profession, among other rights. The college’s founders, early supporters, faculty, and earliest students reflected this reform mindset. The founders and early faculty included Quaker and non-Quaker activists for prison reform, abolition, and temperance.
Here, below is a collection of rare and amazing vintage photographs that capture student life at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania from between the 19th and early 20th centuries:
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| Three students in a boarding house room, from the book Daughters of Aesculapians, c.1890. |
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| International students Anandabai Joshee, Kei Okami, and Tabat Islambooly, photographed at the Dean’s Reception on October 10, 1885. |
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| Operating room, North College Avenue, early 1890s. |
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| The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania class of 1891. |
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| Medical students training in 1892. |
December 13, 2017
45 Amazing Photos of Pennsylvania Weddings From Between the 1920s and 1930s
These glass negatives from Gordon Morales are wedding photos that were captured in the Lehighton, Packerton and Jim Thorp (Mauch Chunk), Pennsylvania area by photographer Ephraim E. Rinker (1886-1950) from between the 1920s and 1930s.
