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Pictures from the Great Depression


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Yale University released digital library of photos from the Depression Era.  Link should bring up a map and then you can click on county to view photos.  There are several photos in Jefferson Co. link of Ralph Reitz and family of Falls Creek/DuBois area.    There are some awesome pictures of DuBois in the Clearfield link, also Tyler and other areas.

 

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/

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Love the pics of the Daugherty mine, it was not far from the old Beechwoods school and church. Also just over the hill from our farm. My best friend growing up was a Daugherty, we spent a lot of wintery Saturdays delivering coal to DuBois and surrounding area homes, shoveled a lot of coal in those days. The coal from that area down to Westville was very high quality, some of it was chosen to fire the Queen Elizabeth on her maiden voyage.

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Thank-you for posting those pictures, it shows how hard people worked in those days, they took pride in their work and enjoyed what we take for granted, parade pictures were great, yes everyone stood, no one sat while watching the parade.

If anyone has a pic of Helvetia or Kramer Mines please post my Dad worked in both till they closed down.

Thank-you for sharing our for-fathers with us.

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Thank-you for posting those pictures, it shows how hard people worked in those days, they took pride in their work and enjoyed what we take for granted, parade pictures were great, yes everyone stood, no one sat while watching the parade.

If anyone has a pic of Helvetia or Kramer Mines please post my Dad worked in both till they closed down.

Thank-you for sharing our for-fathers with us.

 

If you click on this link, you can see picture of the Helvetia Mine:

 

http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/clehelvetia.html

 

Here is the Kramer Mine:

 

http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/jefkramer.html

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