Meet the “Huckleberry Miners” of 1913 Discover how Coal Region women foraged berries to feed their families and even formed a union to demand fair prices. Read the full story.
“Huckleberry Miners” | Coal Region women photographed in 1913
A Pennsylvania airman’s letter about the air war over Europe | 1944
Schuylkill County native wrote home to friends alluding to the horrors he was witnessing in the skies over Europe.
McAdoo race car driver killed in crash at New Jersey track – 1929
22-year-old John Rohrer was mortally injured in a violent wreck at the Woodbridge Speedway in October 1929.
“Miners at work” – Harper’s Weekly illustrations of the Coal Region from 1869
A Harper's Weekly artist documented work in an anthracite mine in Pennsylvania in 1869.