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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 06:01, 21 January 2023: 3,140 × 2,976 (472 KB): Jengod: Uploaded a work by Chester County PA Recorder from Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State).
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The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature .
George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively, disappeared from their home in Pavia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and they were buried in the Mount Union cemetery in nearby Lovely. There is a small memorial to them in the Spruce Hollow forest in Blue ...
Francis Julius LeMoyne (September 4, 1798 – October 14, 1879) was a 19th-century American medical doctor and philanthropist from Washington, Pennsylvania.Responsible for creating the first crematory in the United States, he was also an abolitionist, founder of Washington's first public library (known as Citizen's Library), co-founder of the Washington Female Seminary, and an instrumental ...
According to records compiled by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati, Ohio, and as late as 1911; 99 entire families died in the flood, including 396 children; 124 women and 198 men were widowed; 98 children were orphaned; and one third of the dead, 777 people, never were identified; their remains ...
† 37 more bodies had been located and reinterred, the stone walls had been completed (the lodge nearly so), and the "main avenue" was "ready for macadamizing". [20] 1865 Wills had iron fencing erected between the Soldiers' and Evergreen cemeteries [40] contrary to the condition when Pennsylvania purchased McConaughy's tract. [17] 1865-03-06
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.