Family of three

Sandberg Studio, Canonsburg, Pa.

Buddies

Mexico City, June 1937

A haunted house?

We used this century-old image the other day with a story about a ghost that supposedly haunts this mansion now used as the residence of the president of Washington & Jefferson College. The school received the Victorian house in the 1920s in a donation from the Duncan family, a name associated with the former Duncan and Miller Glass factory in the city. Click here to read the story.

Luncheon for little ones

Another photo from San Diego, Calif., June 1932.

The hat lady

Mamie Sine, wife of Harvey of Mount Morris, Pa. Photograph: T.H. Morgan, Morgantown, W. Va.

Who's depressed?

When we think of photos from 1932, we think of bread lines, so often have we seen those images. This photo was taken in San Diego, Calif., in June 1932. Not all was misery.

Young female with chair

Photo by Rothwell, Washington, Pa.

Dudes

Sharp-dressed men stand by the teller's window of the Washington Electric Light & Power Co. and the Washington Gas Co. in the early 1900s. The utilities shared space with the Dime Savings Institution on South Main Street in Washington, Pa.

LBJ eyeglasses

The Beveridge brothers, from left, Scott, Skip and Kelly, circa 1962.

Then and now

The top photo shows East Main Street (Route 844) in West Middletown about 100 years ago. At the time it was a bustling village with four hotels. Many of the old building remain but are in poor condition, as seen in the bottom photo taken Oct. 19. The brick building with stone lintels has settled so much its horizontal lines are more like waves these days.

Washington & Jefferson College

The Administration Building at Washington & Jefferson College as it appeared in Washington, Pa., in March 1934. The building on Lincoln Street is known today as McMillan Hall. (Photo: Charles M. Stotz)

Tired eyes

Photo by Son M. Porter, Washington, Pa.
The identity of the woman with sad eyes is unknown.

A hotel on the rise

Dignitaries gather at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Marble Hotel, which once stood on Main Street at Park Avenue in Monongahela, Pa. The photo circa 1920 is courtesy of the Monongahela Area Historical Society.

Presidential visit

At this size, it's difficult to see President Ulysses S. Grant, but he's the man shading his face with a top hat just to the right of the speaker. The photo was taken Sept. 18, 1869, when the cornerstone for Town Hall was laid. The building in the background is the third county courthouse, which was demolished in 1898 to make way for the present courthouse. At that time, Town Hall was moved to Brownson and Cherry avenues, where it stood until the 1980s.

Grant visited Washington several times during and after his presidency. For this 1869 visit, crowds lined the road into town for miles to get a glimpse of him, but in deference to the president's distaste for crowds, people remained silent as he passed.

Levitation

This is one of my favorite sports photos. Stan Mousetis, who coached the Washington High School wrestling team for 24 years, leaps from his seat to celebrate a point. The photo was taken in 1971 by staff photographer Jim McNutt. He won an Associate Press Managing Editors Photo Excellence award for it, his first of many.

Seeing off the troops

Looking down Second Street in Monongahela, Pa., upon a crowd wishing the troops off to World War I.

Civil War veteran

Clinton V. Lewis was one of seven surviving veterans of the Civil War until his death at age 92 on Nov. 28, 1939. Lewis was born at Ruff Creek but spent most of his life in Lone Pine. He enlisted as a teenager in the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry in March 1865, near war's end. This photo, from the Harbaugh collection, was taken in 1938 at the G.A.R. encampment in Washington.

Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne

The Washington, Pa., icon was a physician, scientist, radical, abolitionist and creator of the first crematory in the United States. He also had a big lump above his left eye.
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Hard-nose football

Many on the Washington & Jefferson College varsity football squad in 1920 went on to play in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1922. This photo was taken at College Field, now Cameron Stadium.

All dressed in ruffles

Photo by Son M. Porter, Canonsburg, Pa.
The identities of the children are unknown.

Hot job

Glass blowers work at the Duncan & Miller glass factory in Washington, Pa., in 1946.

A whiskey rebel's house

Fort Gaddis in South Union Township, Fayette County, Pa., dates to 1769 and has been called the second-oldest log building in western Pennsylvania. It was built by Thomas Gaddis who was charged with defending the region and also supported the Whiskey Rebellion.

Marianna Mine disaster

Carrying the dead from a 1915 mine disaster in Marianna, Pa.

Donora zinc mill

The smokestacks of the infamous zinc mill in Donora, Pa., that contributed to a deadly air-pollution disaster in 1948. The photo was taken during the same decade.

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(Photo courtesy: Donora Historical Society)

Nine past two

Bee Hodgson outside the Webster, Pa., post office where he worked as postmaster into the 1970s.

Pistol Pete

Michael J. "Pistol Pete" Smith was known in the 1940s, 50s and 60s as a tough-as-nails cop on the streets of Canonsburg, Pa. He cut an even meaner figure on his Harley-Davidson.

Attention! World War I soldier

The proud solider in this photo probably lived in Greene County, Pa. It was found among the belongings of my late father, James Robert Beveridge, whose parents once lived in and around Mt. Morris.

Jackie Robinson came to town

Pro-baseball legend Jackie Robinson, second from right, joined other dignitaries at the 1956 grand opening of the LeMoyne Center in Washington, Pa. Also shown in the photo are, from left: Dr. Bernard Berman, Pearl Harris and Raymond Marsh, center members; Dr, Hollis F. Price, president of LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tenn.; the Rev. R. H. Rucker, pastor of Nazareth Baptist Church; Janet Reed Fitch and her husband T.S. Fitch, founder of Washington Steel and mayor of Washington at the time; Branch Rickey, chairman of the board of the Pittsburgh Pirates; and Dr. H. Carter Rogers, pastor of Mount Auborn Presbyterian Church.
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A river dancer

The lock-keeper operates a lever as the Jacob G. towboat enters the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lock and Dam No. 7 along the Monongahela River in Greensboro, Pa., circa 1968.

A fire 1950s style

A crowd shot of a fire in the mid-1950s in Monongahela, Pa., about the same time the streetcar line was discontinued through the downtown. This fire took place in the 200 block of West Main Street in the general vicinity of a set of explosions that sparked a blaze that destroyed two buildings across the street in September 2009. (Photo courtesy of the Monongahela Area Historical Society)

Boy Scouts of the Depression

Members of Boy Scouts Troop 5 pose circa 1938 outside the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Charleroi, Pa.

National bumpy road

The Cumberland Road in 1910 a half-mile east of Washington, Pa.

Covered in vines

A rear view of buildings just north of the 100 block of Second Street at Railroad Street, Monongahela, Pa.

Monessen steel mill

The ore trestle leads to the ingot mold condition building and blast furnaces at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp, Monessen, Pa.

Horseplay

Boys at play, New Lebanon, N.Y., 1965.

Bowman's Castle Barn

A barn before it was razed about 1963 on the north side of Bowman's Castle, now known as Nemacolin Castle at Front and Second streets, Brownsville, Pa.

Ciivil War nurse

Mary Pollock of West Alexander was one of several local women to serve as nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.