Meyersdale Public Library - Photographs

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  • Subject = Houses
  • Subject = Carriages & coaches

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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Buggy in the distance
Carriages & coaches, Houses, Dirt roads
The tracks in the dirt road show it was well traveled. A lone buggy was in the distance, and trees lined the sidewalk on both sides of the street. 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. black and white photograph.
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Large Georgian brick house as seen from a buggy
Carriages & coaches, Houses
In the foreground, a horse and buggy are traveling on a dirt road. A fence lines the road leading to a two story house. The front of the house features five upstairs windows and a porch. Four windows are on the side of the house facing the road, and on the roof, four chimneys are seen. 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. black and white photograph.
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