In or around 2002, I went to see this exhibit at the Chester County Historical Society and found it so interesting that I came home and saved copies of the online portion from their website. They always do a wonderful job researching and presenting their material. Located just north of the Mason-Dixon Line dividing the…
These are screen shots from an exhibit at the Chester County Historical Society in 2001 called Remember Me: Mourning in the 19th Century. The objects on display included funeral attire, antique jewelry, portraits, painted miniatures, and memorial needlework.
Some of the ancestors I am researching are Patrick Fay, Patrick Cavanagh, and Mary Murray. They seem to have all come to the U.S. in the 1840’s or 1850’s. I don’t have photographs of them but I can use photos of the time to imagine what their trip and arrival must have looked like.
My husband’s ancestor, Frank L. Fay, was a telegram messenger boy in Cleveland, Ohio, in the early 1880’s. From Wikipedia: Telegraph boys (also referred to as district messenger boys, telegraph messenger boys, or simply as messenger boys) were uniformed young men between 10 and 18 years of age who, mounted on bicycles, carried telegrams through…
I recently found this nice booklet with some history of the Greenville Steel Car Company called, “A pictorial record of the Pittsburgh Forgings Company and the Greenville Steel Car Company” by Pittsburgh Forgings Company, published in 1946. You can download it here: http://www.clpdigital.org/jspui/handle/10493/844 Here is the cover shot: And some text from the booklet: Greenville…
Found at http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=488549.
The $950.00 completely equipped Empire Five Passenger Touring Car is indeed a “Little Aristocrat.” Everywhere it is winning its way with the intelligent, cultured class, who demand a car of moderate size and price, and who insist on having a real car, built of quality materials, and honestly constructed. Aside from its alluring beauty and…
