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Shenandoah, Pennsylvania · Shenandoah“One afternoon, hunting for subjects, I took the trolley from Mahanoy City in the sunset to Shenandoah, and as we breasted a hill this is what I saw: the long lines of crosses are trolley poles the huge castle a coal breaker, the great town American, but the people, the miners who go to the churches which crown it, speak languages and worship creeds I do not know or understand. There, and not in Philadelphia, are the new Americans—but most Ameri…Read Article
A Dark and Ominous Sketch of Shenandoah, PA by Joseph Pennell
Civil War · PottsvilleThis photograph from the collections of the Library of Congress shows Captain Jacob Haas of Company G, 96th Pennsylvania during the Civil War. Photograph of Jacob Haas from the Library of Congress The photograph was taken by Schuylkill County photographer A.M. Allen at his studio at the corner of Centre and Market streets in Pottsville. We’ve written quite a bit about Haas and Company G, 96th Pennsylvania previously (see below). The photograph w…Read Article
Captain Jacob Haas | 96th Pennsylvania Civil War Photo
Infrastructure · ShamokinBathhouses for mine workers became a typical part of the infrastructure at an anthracite colliery in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region in the early 20th century. One such facility in Shamokin, Pennsylvania was highlighted by The Colliery Engineer magazine in July 1913. From the publication: “The bath house for the use of miners was built during 1912 by the Mineral Railroad and Mining Co., at their Cameron Colliery, Shamokin, Pa. Similar bath houses hav…Read Article
