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Folklore of the Schuylkill Canal

MLA citation style
J. B. Bowman. Folklore Of The Schuylkill Canal. no date. 1941.
APA citation style
Bowman, J. B. (1941). Folklore of the Schuylkill Canal. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A152
Chicago citation style
John Butz. Bowman. “Folklore Of The Schuylkill Canal”, Pottsville Free Public Library - Schuylkill County History, 1941. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A152.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Folklore of the Schuylkill Canal

Volume

Volume 1

Subject

Schuylkill County (Pa.)
Schuylkill County (Pa.)--History--19th century.
Schuylkill County (Pa.)--History--Anecdotes.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Schuylkill canal (Pa.)

Description

John Butz Bowman wrote down his memories of living in Schuylkill Haven and Pottsville, Schuylkill County, focusing on stories he had heard and things he had seen in the second half of the 1800s and the early years of the 1900s. Most of his memories relate to the Schuylkill Canal and the people who lived and worked on and along the canal. The notes were typed up as part of the Works Progress Administration oral history project run out of the Pottsville Free Public Library, and they were bound into a manuscript volume in 1941. Photographs of parts of Schuylkill County and John Bowman's family are included in the bound volume.

Creator

Bowman, John Butz.

Place

Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Contributors

Patterson, Edith.

Date

1941

Physical Description

Bound manuscript volume. 209 pages plus unpaged photographs inserted to the volume.

Location Covered

Schuylkill County (Pa.)

Time Period Covered

1870-1941

Type

Image

Original Format

Books

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

FolkloreSchCanalxxx

Language

English

Provenance

Original bound manuscript from the local history collection of the Pottsville Free Public Library.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Contact

For further information please contact the Pottsville Free Public Library at potref@pottsvillelibrary.org or 570-622-8880.

Contributing Institution

Pottsville Free Public Library

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.