This photograph by Isaac Kunkel shows Market Street in Lykens, PA looking north toward the mining operations at Bear Gap in Wiconisco Township.
The photograph was taken just north of the Lykens Valley Railroad tracks.
In front of the camera, Kunkel captured piles of oyster shells that had been thrown out into the street.
These would have been thrown out from the kitchen in the Upper Dauphin Hotel that stood at the corner of S. Second and Market streets adjacent to the railroad depot.
Oysters were incredibly popular in restaurants in the mid-19th century.
Read more about Lykens, Pennsylvania
Lykens, Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century | Photograph
Lykens miners determined to save their workplace at historic Short Mountain Colliery | October 1933
Henry Keiser’s ‘reminisicences’ of Lykens and Wiconisco before the Civil War
One Spark: The 1877 Lykens Mine Fire
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Joe Richardson,I spent a good part of my young life there,had lot’s of family living in lykens and wiconisco.great place,great times.