June 1941. "Railroad yards. Carnegie-Illinois steel plant. Etna, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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January 1941. "Street scene in Ambridge, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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August 1940. "Daughter of John Yenser of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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September 1940. "Sons of Mr. Britton, coal miner-farmer near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, and member of Tri-County Farmers Co-op in Du Bois." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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1942. "Bessemer converter (iron into steel), Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania." Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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1900. "Woodward coal breaker, Kingston, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Haverford, Pennsylvania, made from a Polaroid print.
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All Sky Fireball Network cameras pick up a fireball over Pennsylvania NASA says 500 pound rock crossed part of PA at 44,000 mph.
NASA has a lot of programs that don't always capture the public's attention the way, say, a rover on Mars does. But its All Sky Fireball Network, a collection of 15 cameras pointed at the sky, has grabbed a bit of attention today by catching one of its objects of interest as it lit up the skies over Pennsylvania...
Source: Ars Technica
Pittsburgh circa 1905. "Cacti, Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park." 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
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Circa 1890’s hand painted parade ribbon for the Crosby Hose Fire Company, identifying its foreman as W.M. Weed. The company was located in Corry, Pennsylvania, near Union City, about 20 miles from the first Pennsylvania oil wells in Titusville. It was a very active company that had its own traveling athletic team, band and marching unit. This large folk art ribbon features a winter scene of an early wooden oil derrick, one of the major concerns of these fire companies…
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June 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women garage attendants at the Atlantic Refining Company." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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A band practices for Westmoreland Fair in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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July 1938. "Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Scene in the alley on the east side of town." 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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