Library & Archives
Mary L. Trescott, Luzerne County’s First Female Attorney
Just as last month was African-American History month, March sees another notable historical celebration in Women’s History Month. And just like last month with William Camp Gildersleeve, this month we…
Read MoreWilliam Camp Gildersleeve and the Wilkes-Barre Fugitive Slave Case
If you ever have driven in South Wilkes-Barre by either the Post Office or Fire Headquarters, you no doubt have noticed Gildersleeve Street. Gildersleeve Street is one of many Wilkes-Barre…
Read MorePreservation and Perseverance in the Patches: A Woman’s Role in Coal County
Lewis Hine. Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Images of miners covered in black coal dust and Lewis Hine’s iconic photographs of…
Read MoreAfrican American Women and the National Association of Colored Women in the Woman Suffrage Movement
African American women played significant roles throughout every stage of the woman suffrage movement in the United States from the beginning of the movement in the antebellum period to the…
Read MoreFrom the Wilkes-Barre Record – A Ghastly Find!
As the afternoons get darker and the wind howls and moans, we thought we would share this spooky newspaper clipping from 130 years ago… From an article in the Wilkes-Barre…
Read MoreChild Labor Laws and Their Effect on the Coal Mining Industry
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Allison Spencer, the Society’s Summer 2019 intern and a candidate for a Master’s in Library and Information Science at Drexel University. Allison…
Read MoreWilkes-Barre’s Comic Book Grail – Joe Palooka #1
What’s your favorite hobby? Does it have any insider jargon? Most hobbies do. Comic book collecting is no different; its most common bit of jargon may be “grail.” Collectors will…
Read MoreDid You Know that Wilkes-Barre Had a Palm House?
Shortly after I started as Executive Director of LCHS, I came across an image of Wilkes-Barre’s “palm house.” I was fascinated. “How cool!,” I thought, “What were the circumstances for…
Read MoreHobo Hat – “Bound for a trip around the world. When shall we meet again?”
In 1922, an imaginative shipping clerk at the Delaware & Hudson freight station in Wilkes-Barre decided to take an old straw hat and send it on a trip of its…
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