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Celebration at St. Helen Roman Catholic Church, Shoaf, PA, circa 1915.
In 1904, the H.C. Frick Coke Co. built the... |
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Tent colony of evicted Berwind-White families at Mine No. 40, October 1922.
"Well it happened during the 1921-22 strike,... |
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Missionary Trinitarian Sisters of the Most Blessed Trinity, Oliver Coke Yard, Fayette County, PA, circa 1950.
"Along with the various support systems... |
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Company-owned housing near Eureka Mine 37, Windber, PA, circa 1920.
This winter photograph of the housing owned... |
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A company town in southwestern Pennsylvania, circa 1900.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s Pennsylvania... |
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A group of adults and children assemble for this photograph between two plank fences in their "patch".
Coal communities were tight-knit groups,... |
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Collier, Pennsylvania, looking south along one of its streets, July 23, 1912.
"They were five rows of houses, and the house... |
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A row of tenement houses on an unpaved street, Johnstown, PA., circa 1910.
Crowded into dilapidated housing without... |
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Midwife Graduates of Cambria, Fayette, Westmoreland Counties, 1928.
Oral history of Stella Ochociensky Medlin. "There... |
