scranton

A black and white photo of cows grazing in a field, Iowa. Farm Securit...

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Doorknob, Scranton, Iowa. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public do...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Members of joint labor-management committees at Scranton, July 29th

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Mrs. Worthington Scranton, residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Mrs. Scra...

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Mrs. Worthington Scranton, residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Living ro...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers and sailors learned...

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Gulf Gas, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Gas stations, pumps and signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Interior corridor, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

Interior clock, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

Atrium detail, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

Clock detail, Spruce Street and Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley. It is the largest city located in a contiguous quilt-work of former anthracite coal mining communities including the smaller cities... More

Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3504. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Harrison Avenue Bridge, Spanning Roaring Brook & Central Scranton Expr...

Significance: The bridge, a monumental structure spanning Roaring Brook between East and South Scranton, is a symbol of the city's progressive era in the early 20th century. A citizen's association formed to ad... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Washington Av...

Significance: The Washington Avenue Bridge is typical of the plate girder and concrete railroad bridges built by the D,L & W after the turn of the century. The bridge carried passenger and freight traffic betw... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Washington Av...

Significance: The Washington Avenue Bridge is typical of the plate girder and concrete railroad bridges built by the D,L & W after the turn of the century. The bridge carried passenger and freight traffic betw... More

Marvine Colliery, Heavy Rail Scales Office, West side Boulevard Avenue...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Track Scales,...

Significance: The D,L & W scale was made by the Fairbanks Company, one of the oldest manufacturers of platform scales in the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Sur... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Track Scales,...

Significance: The D,L & W scale was made by the Fairbanks Company, one of the oldest manufacturers of platform scales in the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Sur... More

Silkman House, 2006 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-217 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

332-334 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna ...

Significance: 332-334 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosp... More

324 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 324 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Mattes Street...

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Right Reverend Wm O'Hara, Bishop of Scranton, Pa

Y274 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bay State Publishing Co.

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Sanderson Avenue Bridge, Sanderson Avenue spanning Lackawanna River, S...

Significance: The Sanderson Avenue Bridge is a single-span reinforced concrete-filled spandrel arch structure designed by the pioneering engineer Edwin Thacher. It represents an early application of reinforced... More

Marvine Colliery, Boiler House No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, betw...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Falls in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51279". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

[Panoramic view of Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1912]

J176052 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Edmund J. Henkhe; December 6, 1912. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

Miners leaving entrance to coal mine near Scranton, PA.

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The chairman meets the ladies. Washington, D.C., June 27. Snapped whil...

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Doorknob, Scranton, Iowa. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Making a quilt in Scranton, Iowa, home. The ladies will give the quilt...

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Earl Schenck, naval consultant, speaking before labor-management commi...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meeting of speakers, prior to rally for labor-management committee mem...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headqu...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank C. Wright, Jr., Washington representative for the anthracite ind...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign speech, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barbini Bridals window, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Courtroom door, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

Interior courtroom, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

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Scranton, Pennsylvania Cityscape photograph, mammoth plate negative

"Detroit Photographic Co." Listed in Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Copyright deposit no. D21012. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010225. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

424 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 424 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

418 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 418 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Nay Aug Tunnel, Scranton, Pennsylvania - Public domain image. Dry plat...

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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Washington Av...

Significance: The Washington Avenue Bridge is typical of the plate girder and concrete railroad bridges built by the D,L & W after the turn of the century. The bridge carried passenger and freight traffic betw... More

Marvine Colliery, Heavy Rail Scales Office, West side Boulevard Avenue...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

332-334 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna ...

Significance: 332-334 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosp... More

306-310 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna ...

Significance: 306-310 Lackawanna Avenue is one the largest of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest per... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Bridge 60, Sp...

Significance: Bridge 60 stands at the west end of the Scranton yards. It controlled traffic between the yards and the D,L & W's mainline and Bloomsburg branch. Its construction is typical of D,L & W plate gir... More

[Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad yards, Scranton, Pennsylva...

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322 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 322 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Marvine Colliery, Dorr Thickener Plant No. 1, West side Boulevard Aven...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Marvine Colliery, Dorr Thickener Plant No. 1, West side Boulevard Aven...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Sanderson Avenue Bridge, Sanderson Avenue spanning Lackawanna River, S...

Significance: The Sanderson Avenue Bridge is a single-span reinforced concrete-filled spandrel arch structure designed by the pioneering engineer Edwin Thacher. It represents an early application of reinforced... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Post office, Scranton, Pennsylvania - Public domain image. Dry plate n...

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Boulevard bridge, Scranton, Pennsylvania

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[Billy Sunday, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left, hold...

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Beer palace, Scranton, Iowa. Great Depression public domain photograph...

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Members of joint labor-management committees at Scranton, July 29th

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Mrs. Worthington Scranton, residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Guest roo...

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Mrs. Worthington Scranton, residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Entrance ...

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Door detail, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Sc...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

Exterior lamp, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

301-303 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna ...

Significance: 301-303 Lackawanna Avenue is in a neighborhood of late 19th century commercial buildings that comprised the heart of Scranton's business district during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the... More

Harrison Avenue Bridge, Spanning Roaring Brook & Central Scranton Expr...

Significance: The bridge, a monumental structure spanning Roaring Brook between East and South Scranton, is a symbol of the city's progressive era in the early 20th century. A citizen's association formed to ad... More

St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, 3114 Scranton Road, C...

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Silkman House, 2006 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-217 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Roundhouse, S...

Survey number: HAER PA-132-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Roundhouse, S...

Survey number: HAER PA-132-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

422 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 422 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Oil House, 65...

Significance: The D,L & W oil house supplied lubricating, cleaning and fuel oils to the locomotives and machinery at the railroad's Scranton yards. It is representative of early twentieth-century oil handling ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Oil House, 65...

Significance: The D,L & W oil house supplied lubricating, cleaning and fuel oils to the locomotives and machinery at the railroad's Scranton yards. It is representative of early twentieth-century oil handling ... More

324 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 324 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Marvine Colliery, Oil House, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East ...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Sanderson Avenue Bridge, Sanderson Avenue spanning Lackawanna River, S...

Significance: The Sanderson Avenue Bridge is a single-span reinforced concrete-filled spandrel arch structure designed by the pioneering engineer Edwin Thacher. It represents an early application of reinforced... More

Sanderson Avenue Bridge, Sanderson Avenue spanning Lackawanna River, S...

Significance: The Sanderson Avenue Bridge is a single-span reinforced concrete-filled spandrel arch structure designed by the pioneering engineer Edwin Thacher. It represents an early application of reinforced... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Switch Shanty...

Significance: The switch shanty functioned as a switchman's shelter and as a center of communication in the middle of the busy Scranton yards. The building is unimposing, but was necessary to the yards' operat... More

Marvine Colliery, Boiler House No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, betw...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Polish miner's home, near Scranton, PA.

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Republican National Committee meets. Washington, D.C., Nov. 29. Scene ...

A group of people sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Rep. Nat[?] Co[...]

A black and white photo of a woman wearing a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a man playing pool, Iowa. Farm Security Administration...

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Earl Williams, torpedoed sailor, speaking before labor-management comm...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Speakers prior to rally for labor-management committee members, Scrant...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Exterior detail, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More

305 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

226 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 226 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More

Marvine Colliery, Shed, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parke...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Silkman House, 2006 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-217 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Bridge 60, Sp...

Significance: Bridge 60 stands at the west end of the Scranton yards. It controlled traffic between the yards and the D,L & W's mainline and Bloomsburg branch. Its construction is typical of D,L & W plate gir... More

320 Lackawanna Avenue (Commercial Building), Scranton, Lackawanna Coun...

Significance: 320 Lackawanna Avenue is one of a row of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings that made up the heart of Scranton's business district during the city's greatest period of prosperit... More