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Exploring the history of Pennsylvania’s Coal Region

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Letters from War: Irvin Schwartz’s World War II correspondence with the West Schuylkill Press-Herald

A Schuylkill County native’s letters from the Second World War.

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Letters from War – On the train to Camp Shelby, Mississippi in May 1943
An 1881 view of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Letters from War – Irvin Schwartz’s Farewell Column for the West Schuylkill Press in 1943
An August 1962 report warned of escalating disaster in Centralia
A Coal Region editorial on the frightening new world created by the atomic bomb – August 1945
“The Breaker Boy” – A poem from 1897 about the child laborers of the Coal Region

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