Scranton, PA, Drawn by T. M. Fowler and A. E. Downs, circa 1890.


A bird's eye view of Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the 1890s. Scranton is the Lackawanna county seat and was the center of much of the activity in the anthracite trade during its heyday.
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The Lackawanna county seat, Scranton was a center of the anthracite  coal industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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