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Herring-Curtiss Flying Machine

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh...
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Farm Scene with Grain Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of town and vicinity, perhaps taken from a hill, showing several buildings and the outlying rural area. Several of the buildings appear to be...
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Men Posing with Prize Cattle in Barnyard

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are standing and posing with prize cattle in between two farm buildings. This farmstead may be a model farm, an experimental farm of the late 19th ...
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Sons of America Hall

Date: 1907
Description: View of Cumberland Street's business section with the Sons of America Hall on the left. Caption reads: "Cumberland Street, In The Business Section, Lebanon...
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Hotel Lobby

Date: 1905
Description: An interior view of a hotel lobby, filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background.
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Hotel Lobby

Date: 1905
Description: A view of a hotel lobby filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background.
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Block House

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of the Block House, built in 1880, at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The United States flag waves on a pole atop the Block House....
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Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home

Date: 1900
Description: Front view of the Block House, the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Men sit on benches along both sides of a path leading to the house, with a fla...
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Civil War Monument

Date: 1900
Description: A view of a The Soldiers' Monument, erected on November 1, 1865 by Dan Rice, a famous circus man. The memorial is said to be the first built honoring the s...
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Meeting House

Date: 1900
Description: A postcard view of the church with two images. The first is an exterior view of the building, with two sides visible. Each side has a door flanked by windo...
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Man Using Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a corn binder pulled by two horses to work along the edge of a cornfield on the farm of James Johnston. Several farm buildings are...
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Crowd on Labor Day

Date: 1907
Description: View of a crowd on Labor Day. The street scene is on W. Second Street where horse-drawn vehicles are parked. To the left of the crowd is the Evans Building...
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Opera House

Date: 1900
Description: Two men stand near the entrance to the Opera House. Below a central clock tower, signboards advertise upcoming performances, including "Bud Hicks', 'The Ya...
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Fern Rise

Date: 1900
Description: View uphill toward a group of people posing on and near the porch of Fern Rise, possibly a hotel or inn. Decorations and flags hang from the building's por...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Philadelphia

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using a horse-drawn mower on a lawn. The horse is wearing a fly-net. There are buildings, and what may be the capitol of Philadelph...
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Men Showing Prize Cattle

Date: 1900
Description: View down road towards five men standing and showing five prize cattle in a farmyard at a model farm. Behind them are two large barns, with a gate between ...

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