Through the coal country with a camera... This photograph was taken in a school classroom somewhere near Shenandoah, PA and appeared in an 1892 magazine article by journalist and photograph Frances Benjamin Johnston. Read more of the story.
Medical officials and public school administrators worked together to enforce a mandate that students receive the smallpox vaccine in 1855.
In two detailed letters, the teachers at the Pottsville Freedmen's School highlighted their educational efforts in Tennessee.
Fannie Couch and Hannah Streeper prepared to leave Schuylkill County to teach black students in Tennessee in 1867.