In October 1865, multiple baseball clubs met in the Wyoming Valley to battle for victory on a makeshift diamond.
An 1865 baseball battle between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton

In October 1865, multiple baseball clubs met in the Wyoming Valley to battle for victory on a makeshift diamond.
As the 1918 pandemic reached its peak in Scranton, PA, the city's newsboys had a fascination with face masks.
A profile of Scranton in 1861 describes a rapidly industrializing community on the eve of the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass used his speech in Scranton to criticize Andrew Johnson, a racist president he viewed as a despot.