Meyersdale Public Library - Rural African Americans of the Allegheny Mountains

About This Collection

These 18 photographs are part of a larger Meyersdale Public Library Progressive Era image collection. The photographs selected for display as part of that larger PA Photos and Documents collection 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 County, Pennsylvania, and northern Maryland). These 18 photographs in particular - part of a larger glass negative collection housed within the library's archives - portray African American families and individuals in portraits, natural and workplace settings, and also within the town of Meyersdale itself. A significant African American community lived, worked and worshiped in Meyersdale during the late 1800s and through the first several decades of the 20th century.

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Barber
Boy on bike in front of McCormick Harvesting
Boys at river's edge
Brick making plant
Dog and two young girls
Group of people in a field
Group photo with a dog
Howard J. Pyle at railroad station
Man and flowering bush
Man with lady and baby
Man with three children and two dogs
On the back steps
People in a meadow
People on Center Street in Meyersdale, Pa.
Resting in a field of flowers
Ten family members
Two very young girls
Women and children in front of the woods