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Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

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An archive of over 300 digital images from the library's Historic Warren Photograph Collection.

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Bridges (2)
Banks (1)
Building, Rivers, Trees (1)
Buildings (1)
Celebrations (1)
Houseboats (1)
Lumber industry (1)
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Rivers (1)
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Glade Bridge (1885)

Bridges, Rivers

The original wooden bridge at Glade, built in 1881. Shown here in 1885 during the Glade oil boom, it was replaced about 1900 with an iron span.

Leonhart and Son, Harness Makers (1885)

People, Stores and shops, Houseboats

Leonhart & Son, Harness Makers, shop in extreme west end of the Exchange block of Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1885. An addition to the west later housed the Warren VFW chapter clubrooms. This portion of the block was destroyed in a 1986 fire. In 2004 a multiple-use building (commercial, social, residential) was built on the site. Note on the right of the photo, the houseboat on the river. Men are unknown.

Lumber Raft (1885)

Lumber industry, Suspension bridges, Bridges

Lumber raft (two thirds width of a regular ""Allegheny Raft"") coming in for a landing just above the suspension bridge, 1885. Photo by Col. Fred E. Windsor.

The Point a Celebration (1885)

Celebrations, Banks, Buildings, Streets

East at The Point in September 1885 during a local celebration instituting the Warren Commandery, Masons. At center is the Warren Savings Bank, behind it is the three-story Watson-Davis block, and a block east, at Liberty Street, is Johnson's Exchange.

View of Warren, PA (1885)

Building, Rivers, Trees

An 1885 view of Warren to the east, from above Fifth Avenue near Hazel Street.

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