Cameron County Pennsylvania

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Old Time Photos In and Around Cameron County

 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An 1861 Engraving of Simon Cameron, the namesake of Cameron County  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An 1869 photo of Emporium  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Picture of Emporium, looking down 4th Street Circa 1910

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Birds Eye view of Emporium looking down West 4th Street Circa 1910. 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Same View a few years later. 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another view of West 4th Street dated 1915. Note the streets are still dirt. They were not paved until 1916.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Bird's Eye View of Emporium looking North West...note the Court House in the distance. Dated 1908   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Bird's Eye View of Emporium looking North...is the Court House out of view or not there???  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A shot of Emporium from Keystone Manor area looking northeast. 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1908 Post Card looking down East 4th Street from Broad St.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another View of East 4th Street circa 1910

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Looking west on 4th Street circa 1910  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another shot looking west on 4th Street   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Yet another shot looking west on 4th Street.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A real photo of Allegheny Avenue- dirt streets!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  C. H. Sage Jr. Stationary 1886 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Joseph Kaye Home   

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1906 View of South Broad Street- note the horse trough in the middle of the road!  

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1910 View of North Broad Street- note the road up the hill is not more than a path!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Keystone Block 1906- Stephen Saunders Hardware- still a Hardware today!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Early 1900's view of the Broad Street Bridge

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1901 Ribbon for a Fireman's Convention in Emporium  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium, Pennsylvania Mountaineer # 1 Hose Company circa 1912

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Charles Hamilton's 1911 Aero Plane- built in Emporium! He was killed in this plane in 1912!

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium Centennial Envelopes  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A CCC Camp in Cameron County (Sizerville?) 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Early photo of Rail Road Street in Sinnamahoning  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Sinnamahoning or Wharton?  Sinnamahoning!

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1927 B&S Railroad Track & Bridge, Sinnamahoning, PA  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1907 Post Card of Driftwood  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Bird's Eye View of Driftwood circa 1910   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Photo of the Driftwood Flood of 1936  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A post card of East Allegheny Avenue looking east. Dated 1908  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium, 1872 Engraving The Building in the foreground is the old Court House

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An 1876 Engraving of Emporium.  Check out the covered bridge! 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A rare 1910 $10 from the Emporium National Bank- only 40 are known to exist!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A rare 1850 McKean County $5.  Shippen Township was in McKean County in 1850

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A rare 1850 McKean County $1  

dot.gif (910 bytes) An early photo of the Cameron County Courthouse- no monuments 

dot.gif (910 bytes) The Court House and Soldier's Monument a few years later  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1930's photo of the Warner Hotel with the new Post Office  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1940's post card of the Warner Hotel

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1930's or 40's post card of the Cabin Kitchen

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1905 Photo of the Columbia High School on West 6th Street

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A commemorative spoon with the Columbia High School  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An early 1900's post card of the East Ward High School

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Henry Auchu's Mansion on West 4th Street  

dot.gif (910 bytes) The Mansion as the Sylvania Club in the 1940's  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another View of the Sylvania Club   

dot.gif (910 bytes) A 1920's Novelty Incandescent Lamp Co (NILCO) booklet 

dot.gif (910 bytes) An early Sylvania Radio Tube  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Strip of Emporium Theater tickets- only 50 cents!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Farmer's Dairy Milk Bottle   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium Milk Company Bottle   

dot.gif (910 bytes) Photo of a F. X. Blumle's Blob Top Beer Bottle circa 1890's

dot.gif (910 bytes) Post Card of the Blumle Farm (I believe it was up Plank Road Hollow)  

dot.gif (910 bytes) Another shot of the Blumle Farm. This must have been a model farm in it's day!  

dot.gif (910 bytes) Early 1900's photo of the Dynamite Packing House of the Emporium Powder Works.

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1929 Hercules Powder Plant Employees   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Cameron Brick Works.  Caulder Brick Works - Hunts Run. Courtesy of Prof. Tom Rich, Bucknell University   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An early postcard of the Cameron Iron Works Courtesy of Prof. Tom Rich, Bucknell University  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another early postcard of the Cameron Iron Works Courtesy of Prof. Tom Rich, Bucknell University  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another view of the Blast Furnace  

dot.gif (910 bytes)   An old Emporium Police Shoulder Patch   

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An old Emporium Fire Police Shoulder Patch  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  The Current Cameron County Sheriff's Shoulder Patch  

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1900 Train Pass to Emporium  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium & Rich Valley Railroad Pass, 1900  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Emporium & Rich Valley Railroad Pass, 1901

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Howard Lumber Company Logging Train  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  POSTMARKS: 

dot.gif (910 bytes) A 1907 Post Card of the New State Road in Emporium. 

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1919 Postcard of the Bucktail Trail between Renova and Sinnamahoning  

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1925 Postcard of the Bucktail Trail between Emporium and St. Marys

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1925 Postcard of the Bucktail Trail between Emporium and Driftwood  

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1925 Postcard of the Bucktail Trail driving into Driftwood  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A 1920's Postcard of the Bucktail Trail at Tunnel Hill 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Another View of Tunnel Hill   

dot.gif (910 bytes)   A rare 1906 photo of St. Marks Catholic Church with it's original Steeple  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1910 photo of the Presbyterian Church  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1911 photo of the Episcopal Church on East 4th St.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1920 post card of the M.E. Church on 4th Street  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Barclay Train from the Barclay Brothers Lumber Company 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Steam Shovel in Emporium

dot.gif (910 bytes)  A Goodyear logging crane, possibly somewhere along First Fork. 

dot.gif (910 bytes)  Sinnamahoning Valley Railroad Train

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1889 Sinnamahoning Valley Railroad Pass

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1900 Sinnamahoning Valley Railroad Pass

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1880's Barclay Brother's Script used in their Company Store- courtesy Pete Bennett

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1832 Pennsylvania Map with Emporium shown!  

dot.gif (910 bytes) 1845 Pennsylvania Map    

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1855 Pennsylvania Map

dot.gif (910 bytes)   W. H. MITCHELL DRUGGIST DRIFTWOOD, PA. Medicine bottle!  

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An 1888 envelope from Driftwood

dot.gif (910 bytes)  An 1860's envelope from Driftwood from the same J. O. Brookbanke as above  

dot.gif (910 bytes)    A link to Ginny's Genealogy Page and photos of the 1942 Flood

 


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