Photos of the Month

Drawing by Phyllis Rhodomoyer, age 93, resident at Balanced Care Nursing Home, Bloomsburg.
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Some children wearing hats of the time of various branches of the military armed services.

Early 1900s. Exact location and other details unknown.

A 1940’s scene of the adult ride section of the Bloomsburg Fair seen showing the Third Street School (replaced by a seniors living complex known as The Towers) to the upper left and the steeple of the Wesley United Methodist Church to the Right.

An early scene of Bloomsburg University when it was known as Bloomsburg State Teachers College, looking towards Carver Hall. Take note of the lack of student housing and abundance of residential homes lining Lightstreet Road. Welcome back BU students! Have a good semester!

Millville Independence Day Parade, July 4, 1916

Bloomsburg State Normal School class of 1900 during the spring of 1899. Donated by Dick Wenner.

Whitenight & Kschinka, Retailers and Jobbers, sold "The Best of Everything for the Farm" from the early 1920's until at least 1950. Mathias P. Whitenight partnered with Fred Kschinka for many of those years at 7th and Market Streets in Bloomsburg. This photo shows him in business by himself selling tractors and farm implements.

This is one of a dozen Multiplex cars built between 1911 and 1913 at the Multiplex plant, 600 Fowler Avenue, Berwick. Clarence Crispin, engineer, designed and built the cars at this facility. Since the cars were expensive to manufacture, Crispin proposed that the American Car & Foundry plant build them, but the Board of Directors declined, as they were of the opinion that automobiles wouldn't catch on. Crispin sold the cars he built and discontinued the venture.

Photo shows the unpaved street, horse and carriage, and several shop signs. Sign at far end reads "Hot and Cold Baths". Window dign reads "William H. Slate Successor to W.H. Brooke & Co. Books and Stationary."