Meyersdale Public Library - Photographs

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  • Subject = Porches

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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Playing on porch steps
Children, Women, Porches
A young boy in a play suit and beanie cap seems to be tickling his sister. The young girl with curls and a ribbon in her hair is trying to pull away from her brother. She is in a white dress with tiny black and white high top shoes. She holds onto her teddy bear as she leans on his shoe. The other child, in a white outfit with dark leggings and high top button shoes, sits off to the side. A mother or grandmother, in a long grey dress with an apron, watches from the top of the stairs. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. black and white photograph.
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Three women on a welcoming back porch
Women, Porches
The caption under the photograph says ‘Midnight on the Hudson’, with no suggestion of what that might mean. The porch is very dark and a lady in the back between the screen door and window is obscured by the lighting on the photo. The two ladies in white dresses sitting on the edge of the porch are in sharp contrast to the darkness around them. The porch is small with two benches, a rocking chair, and a rug. 3 1/ 4 x 3 1/4 in. black and white photograph.
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