Photos of the Month
July 2024
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Main Street Parade 1915
In honor of how beautiful our new building looks with its flowers, flags and bunting, we give you a peek back at the same location (not the same building) from 1915 and a parade down Main Street in Bloomsburg. #25-0130.
June 2024
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Catawissa Parade, 1914
Parade of Railway Brotherhoods, Catawissa, on Memorial Sunday, June 14, 1914. #06-0038.
June 2023
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At a Columbia County Lumber Mill
Perry Crossley, Hurley W. Karschner, and Charles McHenry with wagons and team at a Columbia County lumber mill. There is also another name along the side of the photo, Sam Rhoads, but only three people in the photo. Exact location and date unknown. #57-0025
May 2023
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May Day 1913
The May Day celebration in 1913 was held on the lawn of Science Hall at the State Normal School.
April 2023
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Stillwater Papermill
April, 1940. Stillwater Papermill, or what's left of it. Appears to have been defunct for quite a while. I bet a lot of people didn't know Stillwater had a papermill at one time. #01-1011
March 2023
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Bloomsburg Homecoming Parade 1919
Marching, Band, people on horseback, old cars, Midway Theater, Moyer Building, and trolley tracks in a photo of the Bloomsburg Homecoming Parade. August, 1919. #01-0615
February 2023
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Peacock Corners
February 10th, 1957. Peacock Corners showing a Muntjac buck and doe. They were also known as Barking Deer. Peacock Corners was a small animal farm in Columbia County. #01-2927.
January 2023
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Good-bye First National Bank!
April, 1973: Tearing down the First National Bank Building to make way for the new PNC Bank. The closed PNC Bank branch at the corner of Market and Main Streets was sold in 2022. The Society successfully purchased the PNC Bank building on December 30th, 2022 with the help of Representative Millard and a grant from the state. It will become the new home of CCHGS in 2023. #01-2649
December 2022
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1952 Toy Matinee
December 6,1952 photo of children waiting to get into the Columbia Theater on Centre Street for the Christmas season Saturday morning Toy Matinee, sponsored by the Bloomsburg American Legion. Photo #36-0089
November 2022
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Veterans' Memorial Dedication
Dedication of Veterans' Memorial, Mifflinville, January 1, 1943. Men in foreground, L-R: Unknown, Milford Butts, Reed Miller, Jim Maustellar. #03-0269