Meyersdale Public Library - Rural African Americans of the Allegheny Mountains

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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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Howard J. Pyle at railroad station
Pyle, Howard J., Railroad stations, Railroad cars, African Americans
Beside a railway car, four white males and one African American male, stand wearing double breasted, double buttoned train uniforms with rounded hats with bills. There are two African American males in white uniforms and white hats inside the rail car. One of the men in the group is Howard J. Pyle. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. black and white photograph.
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