New Cumberland Public Library - Around Town

About This Collection

This collection includes a series of black and white photographs of buildings and streets throughout New Cumberland; advertisements from businesses circa 1900; and miscellaneous images of town.

Perform a search

15th Street

Cities & towns, Residential streets

Scene from 15th Streeet on Hill just 1/2 block from Bridge Street.

200 block of 3rd Street

Cities & towns, Streets

3rd Street showing Cumberland Auto Parts, Semoff's Barber shop, Nauss Post 143 American Legion, and Cumberland Tavern.

3rd Street

Cities & towns, Streets

3rd Street looking west from Woodland Street, toward Poplar Avenue.

5th St (or Green Hill) school building

Cities & towns, Historic buildings

Captioned on reverse: Building located on northwest corner of Bridge Street and 5th Street. Built in 1894 with four rooms, two room addition built in 1904. Cline S Electrical Service located here when photo was taken.

Advertisment Snyder Drug Store

Advertisements

Advertisement for Beckley's Bakery featuring flowers and cats

Bridge Street

Historic buildings, Celebrations

Postcard showing Bridge Street with Welcome signs. Most likely photographed during Old Home Week.

Brubaker's store

General stores

Interior of Brubaker's store on 3rd Street

Buttorf & Kline receipt

Ephemera

Statement of purchases made by Ed Bowen at Buttorf & Kline

Buttorff and Straley store

General stores

Photograph identified by Beckley's New Cumberland Frontier book as showing the interior of the Buttorff and Straley store around 1910

Buttorff Furniture store building

Cities & towns, Historic buildings

Corner of Bridge Street and 3rd Street. Captioned on reverse: Building empty at time of this picture as the Buttorff brothers went out of business the latter part of 1980.