Saved in a photo

The second-floor living room in an apartment dating to 1883 in  a building later used Vaughn Chevrolet at 101-109 E. Main St., Monongahela, Pa. The structure in one of America's National Register of Historic Districts was demolished about a decade ago.

Monongahela music man

Harold Weaver, seated, second from left, taught more than 18,000 kids how to play guitar in Monongahela, Pa. (Courtesy of Monongahela Area Historical Society)

Parade rest

A U.S. Army photo of J. Mack Phillips, who was held prisoner during World War II, is among the collection of military items on display for Veterans Day at Monongahela Senior Center, 102 W. Main St., Monongahela, Pa.

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.

Seeing off the troops

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

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)

Covered in vines

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

The Oella

A wooden bridge that once crossed the Monongahela River is shown in the distance of this image of a sternwheeler moored at the Second Street landing in Monongahela, Pa.
(Photo courtesy of Monongahela Area Historical Society)

The Monongahela sophomores of 1912

Lois Sampson submitted this photo of the "sophmore" class at the Central Monongahela High School Building for publication in the former Daily-Herald newspaper in Monongahela.

They mined the Ella

Charlie Gillingham, top right, was the blacksmith at Ella Mine in Sunnyside, Pa., about 1900 when this group photo was snapped. Frank Hepner, seated fourth from right, was the only other man identified in the photograph that was rescued from the trash when the Monongahela Daily-Herald newspaper closed in 1986.

Up with hope, down with dope

The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the message, "Up with hope, down with dope," when he toured the Mon Valley by boat during his unsuccessful bid for the White House in 1988. This photo from the Observer-Reporter archives was taken on the Monongahela River near Monongahela, Pa.