~ 2008 ~

Left: At the center of the Pittsburgh region's early labor movement were organizers from the coal patch town of Republic, Fayette County, who met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to settle a crippling coal strike. This undated image shows the fan house at Republic's mining complex (published on Oct. 5, 2008 and seen in the Minerd.com biographies of Wilbert "Patsy" Minerd, Flora [Minerd] Mills, Minnie [Minerd] McKnight, Marcellus Murray and on our "Coal, Coke and Steel" feature page. Right: Postmarked 1907, this card was sent to Sardinia, NY, showing coke ovens at the coal mining patch town of Leckrone near Uniontown, PA (published Aug. 3, 2008 and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Pearl [Minerd] Millward). 

Left: A passenger train pulls past the stately Kromer House and a dramatic planting at the railroad depot in Scottdale, PA, in an undated postcard (published June 8, 2008 and seen in the Minerd.com biographies of Howard Campbell Miner and Mary Emma [Ogle] Newingham). Right: A postcard dated 1911 showing West Main Street in Addison, Somerset County, which was a toll stop along the National Turnpike, our nation's first super highway, in the 1800s (published April 27, 2008, and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Joseph L. Minard). 

Left: Color-tinted postcard shows the Youghiogheny River in the foreground and a bird's-eye view of Dawson, Fayette County (published March 30, 2008 and Sept. 2, 2007). Right: Undated postcard shows three men standing on the corner near the Buckman House hotel on Main Street in Rockwood, Somerset County, PA (published on Feb. 3, 2008 and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Edith [Younkin] Miller). 

~ 2007 ~

Left: Postcard postmarked 1913 shows muddy Morgantown Street in Fairchance, Fayette County, PA (published on Dec. 16, 2007 and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Margaret (Hoye) McClain). Right: Unpaved street and utility poles on South Commercial Street in Ohiopyle, Fayette County, PA in the early 1900s (published Nov. 4, 2007 and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Mary (Leonard) Potter).

Left: Undated postcard shows the water tower and manufacturing plant of Robertshaw in Youngwood, Westmoreland County, PA (published Sept. 30, 2007 and seen in the Minerd.com biographies of Ralph Charles Minerd Sr., Bertha (Minerd) Van Dyke, George B. Miner, James Dumphry Crosby, Ulysses "Grant" Rose, Earl C. Trout and Grant Louis Firestone Sr. Right: Color-tinted postcard shows the Youghiogheny River in the foreground and a bird's-eye view of Dawson, Fayette County (published Sept. 2, 2007).

Left: Undated image shows the arch built to mark Connellsville's centennial in 1906. Made entirely of coke, an industrial fuel, the arch was created by the H.C. Frick Co. (published Aug. 5, 2007, and seen in the biographies of Jennie (Miner) Turner Paolone Stevenson and Mallzena (Younkin) Shaffer). Right: Pedestrians watch as a horse-drawn carriage pauses on a commercial block in Waynesburg, Greene County, in an image postmarked 1915, and showing the People's National Bank and other businesses (published July 8, 2007, and seen in the biography of Clinton Theodore Farabee).

Left:: U.S. Pipe Mill in Scottdale, billed as the "largest in the world" (published June 10, 2007 and seen in the biographies of Howard Campbell Miner and Marcellus Murray). Right: bird's eye view of Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Works, comprising open hearth plants No. 3 and No. 4, structural mills, sheared plate mills, the armor plate department and electric powerhouse (published April 29, 2007 and seen in the biographies of Jennie (Miner) Turner Paolone Stevenson and Ida Ellen (Farabee) Taylor).

Left: Sewickley Valley Hospital, on Blackburn Road in Sewickley, today part of the Heritage Valley Health System (published March 25, 2007, and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Jennie (Miner) Paolone. Right: Streetcar on its way toward downtown Greensburg, Westmoreland County, PA, mailed in 1912 (published Feb. 11, 2007 and seen in the biographies of Pearl (Beggs) Altman and Viola (Younkin) Mountain.

~ 2006 ~

Left: undated view of the United Brethren Church in Youngwood, Westmoreland County, PA (published Dec. 31, 2006 and seen in the biography  of Claude C. Overholt.) Right: rooftops of Wilkinsburg, near Pittsburgh,  postmarked 1914 (published Nov. 12, 2006 and seen in the biography of Eli Leonard).

Left: stone walls and towers of the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary on  Pittsburgh's North Side, mailed in 1911 (published Oct. 8, 2006 and seen in  the biography of Martha [Minerd] Gorsuch). Right: National Tube Company's works and furnaces in Pittsburgh, postmarked  1913 (published Aug. 27, 2006 and seen in the biographies of  Rachel (Long) Pritts, Della (Firestone) Hilling, Ida (Murray) Ritenour and  Harriet (Younkin) Romesburg Turney). 

Left: automobile on Scullton Road (now known as Route 653 or Springfield Pike),  leaving Normalville in Fayette County, with the "Little Alps of America" as a  backdrop, and postmarked 1944 (published July 23, 2006 and seen in the  Minerd.com biographies of Iva (Conn) Henry, William Jacob Long, Bessie (Enos)  Weimer and John Walter Miner, all of whom lived in the Normalville/Scullton areas. Right: Railroad junction in Brownsville, Fayette County, PA, undated (published  June 4, 2006 and seen in the Minerd.com biography of Thomas Springer McKnight). 

Left: The popular West View Park in Pittsburgh, postmarked 1914 (published April 23,  2006 and seen in our biography of Mentzer Tilbury). Right: Main Street looking east  in Connellsville, Fayette County, postmarked 1908 (published March 12, 2006 and seen  in our biography of Warren D. and Prudence [Albright] Younkin). 

Left: bird's eye view of South Burgettstown, Washington County, postmarked 1915 (published Feb. 5, 2006 and seen in our biography of John and Ida (Firestone) Langenheim. Right: Indian Creek Reservoir between Normalville and Mill Run,  Fayette County, undated (published Jan. 1, 2006 and seen in our biography of  Jonas and Julia [Williams] Rowan). 

~ 2005 ~

Left: Ackley covered bridge, built in 1832 across Wheeling Creek, connecting  Washington and Greene Counties, undated. The bridge was moved to Henry Ford's  Greenfield Village in 1937, where it can be seen today (published Nov. 27, 2005  and seen in our biography of Henry and Polly (Younkin) Minerd).  Right: the famed "Hangover" cabin that Pititsburgh department store owners  Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. constructed circa 1921 for use as a weekend  retreat at Bear Run, Fayette County, undated. The house sat about 1,500 feet  southeast of the Bear Run Falls where the Kaufmanns later build their world  famous home, Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (published  Oct. 16, 2005 and seen in our biography of Ralph and Leola (Skinner) Miner).

Left: Main Street of Mt. Pleasant, PA, looking eastward, undated (published Sept. 11,  2005 and seen in our biographies of Homer and Florence Thurston,  James and Bertha (Gray) Crosby and Pearl (Stairs) Sines Sonavec).  Right: Soldiers' Orphans School in Jumonville, near Uniontown, Fayette  County, postmarked 1908 (published July 24, 2005 and seen in our  biography of J. Harvey Younkin).

Left: main pavilion at Washington Park in Washington, Washington County,  postmarked 1912 (published June 12, 2005 and seen in our biography of  Harry O. and Armena (Cain) Miner).  Right: bird's-eye view of the railroad yards at Dickerson Run, Fayette County, postmarked 1910 (published April 24, 2005 and seen in our biographies of  Edwin and Clara (Freed) Thorpe and Walter and Claire Strauch).

Left: the "largest gas pumping station in the world" at Brave, Greene County, post marked 1909 (published Feb. 27, 2005 and seen in our biography of Charles Ray Minor).  Right: coal tipple of the H.C. Frick Coke Co. in South Brownsville, Fayette County,  undated (published Jan. 2, 2005). 

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