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The Post Office - later replaced. Sign details: Caryl's Dining Rooms, Laundry, Barber | Court House Square fountain. Post office on the right. | The wagon says "International Correspondence Schools. International Textbook Co. Proprietors. The sign on the building says "...Scranton Electrotype Co. 314; 316." |
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Scranton High School, later called Central High and now Lackawanna Junior College. | Longfellow School, left with name over door, and Annex on Wyoming Avenue. The Annex (number 1625) was the first location of Penn. State U. Worthington, Scranton. | Half a stereo card. On the back, "High School No 1 Scranton Pa" July 30 [18]73. |
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Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton is written on the back. The sign hanging towards the end of the street advertises Steinway Pianos. Possibly 400 block. | Jackson Street, Hyde Park, from Griff Ave. S. Sherman on right. Click here for a detail. | Providence Square, Old Home Week, August 1913. |
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Cummings groceries store, the Knoepfel & Miller Rexall Drug store (hanging sign on the right) and Longo Justice of the Peace, Drinker Street, Dunmore. For a 388kb view click here. | Half of a stereo card. On the back "View of Scranton Hyde Park from M. E. church tower." July 30, [18]73. | Labeled on the back "Carter Apartments, Scranton". It was on the corner of the 400 block of Madison Avenue and Mulberry Street. In a late 1800's biography of a plumbing company a building by that name is mentioned. On the bottom level is a drug store and Ralph ? Barber Shop. Above on the right is Gossard Corsets. See Detail. |
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Left: Labeled on
the back "Mr. Scranton's Residence,
Scranton, Pa." Right: Scranton, the corner of N. Irving Avenue and Mulberry Street. Apparently before W.W.II. Dave Crosby reported (2011) that the building is still there. |
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Scranton, Pa 1883. The spire in the back - left of center - is of the Court House before the main building was expanded. One building is labeled T. H. Watts, and another Aunt Sally. | Trestle over Lackawanna River and arch under construction. View looking west from Lackawanna Avenue and Cliff Street, September 4, 1866. |
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Left: The illustration in the program from the "laying of the corner-stone of the court-house" in 1882 - found on archive.org. This has little resemblance to what was erected above left. |
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