Men stand shirtless in line, waiting to have chest x-rays taken by the machine in the left foreground. They each hold a card, perhaps for identification. The third man from the front is Harvey Fite who was a student at St. Stephens College until...
This photograph of a sculpture entitled "Seclusion" was taken by the artist, Robert Bassler, class of 1957, shortly after her installation in the fountain at Blithewood garden. The sculpture was created as part of his senior project, and at the...
This is the only known photograph of the 1915 Chester Erie Station agent’s office taken while the station was in operation. It was taken in October, 1922 for use in the Erie Magazine. L-r: Robert Marvin, Station Master & John I. Edwards.
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This Wells Fargo & Co. Express Freight receipt document B. S. Woodhull shipping two packages from Criagville, N.Y. to Mrs. J. Coldwell, New Windsor, N.Y.
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
Hector St. John (Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur) formally sells his Pine Hill Farm, which he bought in 1769, to Thomas Moffatt.
During the American Revolution, he refused to take up arms against the British. Therefore, he was suspected of...
This indenture documents the sale from James Nesbit to J. Hector St. John of a 120 acres upon which J. Hector St. John would settle with his family and call it "Pine Hill."
Newspaper article about the arson trial resulting from the investigation following the disastrous fire of July 5, 1877 that consumed much of downtown Chester.
Landscape pavilions; Tents; Kitchens; Shaving; Military camps; Cooking utensils; Pails;
A man shaves at an outside stand; three men pose inside a tent kitchen. Buckets, pots, pans and kitchen utensils are visible. Caption on back reads: "Camp Fort Orange Kitchen" Upon the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the German Empire,...
