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 Left:
Providence Square Looking North from Dickerson's Store." School number
25 is in back. A bank was built at the curve where the Bristol House
was.
Right: "Market Street Looking West from North Scranton Bank." The
Bristol
House is on the right. |
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Left: Post Office (on the left) Providence Square. |
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 Left: "North
Main avenue,
Providence Square, looking East from Auditorium." Dickerson's
Store is the opposite side of the Square from the Bristol
House.
Right: the
square probably in the late 1940's. Some of the signs are for
Leo's Mens Shop, Belmont Restaurant, GC Murphy's Five and
Dime, and cities. For
an enlargement of the signs, click
here. |
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 Left:
"West Market Street from Square"
with Scranton replacing Providence. Mailed 1920. The Bristol House and
the small building next to it have been replaced. On the left is the
Geo.
W. Davis Store and a barber pole. On the right is a liquor store in the
building with the Uneeda Biscuit sign. Right: many of the buildings are
the same in this undated image from a
negative. |
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 "Providence
Square" mailed in 1914. The grey building on the left is a bank. The
green
one left of that replaced the Bristol House. Right: a photograph, also
published as a postcard, of Old Home Week, August 1913. On the left and
right are the same buildings as on the postcard at left. |
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 Left:
"The Auditorium, Providence." mailed in 1914. This is at 1807
North
Main Avenue, across from the card below right. Right: Taken in the
fall
of 2001 by Ralph W. Robinson, II. A scanned article
about an 1899 fire. |
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 Left:
"Geo. W. Davis Drug Store, Providence Square, Scranton, Pa."
Right: "North Main Avenue, Providence Square, Scranton, Pa." Providence Square is at the end of this view. Note Dickerson's Store. |
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 Left:
Scranton, Pa., View from West Side Showing Coal Washery and Culm Pile.
Mailed in 1908.
Right: Anthracite Coal Breaker in Operation. (printed in Scranton) |
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 Left:
Lackawanna County Jail, Scranton, Pa.
Right: Scranton, Pa., "The Hill" Section |
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 Left:
Panorama of Nay Aug Valley showing Horseshoe Curve on D. L. &
W. R.
R., near Scranton, Pa.
Right: On the Speedway, Scranton, Pa. |
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 Left:
"A Hun Wedding Party in the Coal Regions." published for H. J. Jones by
George V. Millar & Co., Scranton, Pa. Printed before 1907.
Right: Two pre-1907 cards combined. The caption under the woman says, "Girl with The Ladder and Hose, Scranton, Pa." |
