Meyersdale Public Library - Photographs

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  • Subject = Houses
  • Date = 1910-1924

About This Collection

The Meyersdale Public Library photograph collections contain approximately 2,000 photographs. From the total collection, about 320 will be selected for digitization based on the selection criteria. The photographs that will be selected for online display are significant because they provide a broad overview of life immediately before, during, and after the Progressive Era in the Allegheny Mountains region (mostly Somerset Co., PA & northern Maryland). The photographs capture families & individuals both in portraits and in natural settings, military men, coal mines, mills, railroads, transportation, education, and African American families. Our photographs have been used in Somerset Magazine and in the book "Allegheny Passage Companion, Guide to History & Heritage Along the Trail" by Bill Metzger. Accessibility to the collection will be enhanced because the images will be searchable online. Currently the photographs are accessioned on paper but are not included in our library catalog. Digitization would allow users easy & free access to historical photographs that would otherwise essentially be hidden in a closet.
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Joel Gnagey's Two Houses
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A two story house with a small addition is seen on the viewer’s right. It is partially hidden by trees or bushes that were knocked down in a storm. The home on the left sits slightly in front of the other, and is a single story home, with a front porch that extends around to the right side of the house. Part of the porch was obscured by the damaged bushes or trees. Transcribed from the front 'Dad & Mother lived here. Joel Gnagey two houses.' 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. black and white postcard.
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