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Raft Construction (1890)
Raft Construction (1890)
Rafts, Rivers, people, Carts and wagons
Building a lumber raft on the Allegheny River above Warren, about 1890.
Edwin W. Siegfried Store Interior, Johnson Exchange Block, Liberty Street and Second Avenue (1890)
Edwin W. Siegfried Store Interior, Johnson Exchange Block, Liberty Street and Second Avenue (1890)
People, Interiors, Stores and shops
Probably the Edwin W. Siegfried store in the Johnson Exchange building in the 1890s, southeast corner of Liberty Street and Second Avenue. The building burned on December 23, 1900. This store located at 225 Second Avenue. Buildings replacing the burned structure housed Metzger-Wright, Levinson Brothers, and Janick's department stores and are now (2004) the location of offices of Northwest Savings Bank.
Rafts (1890)
Rafts (1890)
Insurance, Rafts, Lumber industry
View west from the tower of the Warren Savings Bank circa 1890. Center, John Sill Insurance. Two lumber rafts and at least seven square-timber rafts lie in the eddy awaiting higher water. By this time most of downtown Warren's business district was built of brick, and very few rafts left Warren County streams.
Rafts at Warren Eddy (1890)
Rafts at Warren Eddy (1890)
Rivers, Railroad bridges, Covered bridges
A view circa 1890 to the south side fairgrounds (site of Warren General Hospital). In the distance are the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad covered bridge and the Struthers-Wells buildings. Several square-timber rafts are moored in the eddy below Pennsylvania Avenue just west of Hickory Street. The water stage is very low.
View of Warren, PA (1890)
View of Warren, PA (1890)
Bird's-eye view prints, Buildings, Valleys
Birds-eye view of Warren, circa 1890.
Wendelboe store on Liberty Street (1890)
Wendelboe store on Liberty Street (1890)
Stores and shops, People, Paint and wallpaper
The original Wendelboe store on the west side of Liberty Street between Second and Third Avenues circa 1890. Left to right: George Geracimos Sr., Necolai K. Wendelboe, Mayme Wendelboe, and an unidentified young man (possibly a Wendelboe employee.)
Industries and wealth of Pittsburgh and environs, 1890.
Industries and wealth of Pittsburgh and environs, 1890.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Economic conditions., Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Commerce., Industries -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh., Industries -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Directories., Industries -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History.
231 pages : illustrations 27 cm.
Story of Johnstown
Story of Johnstown
History--Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County)
A document created by J.J McLaurin highlighting the history of the city of Johnstown from its early settlement to the tragedy of the 1889 Johnstown Flood.
American manufacturer and iron world - 1890
American manufacturer and iron world - 1890
Iron industry and trade -- Periodicals., Steel industry and trade -- Periodicals., Industrial arts -- Periodicals., Petroleum industry and trade -- Periodicals.