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Old Images of Pennsylvania This page contains photos and images of Pennsylvania , from the 1700's to 2000

The offices were in Philadelphia and the Hog Island shipyard was at Delaware County Pennsylvania 
09/26/2026

The offices were in Philadelphia and the Hog Island shipyard was at Delaware County Pennsylvania 

Map depicting Marple and Springfield , Delaware Co. From Hopkins's "Atlas of Philadelphia and environs : from official r...
09/26/2026

Map depicting Marple and Springfield , Delaware Co.

From Hopkins's "Atlas of Philadelphia and environs : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys based upon plans deposited in the Department of Surveys." - Circa 1877 - Map creator Hopkins, Griffith Morgan, Jr. - Image source: The University of Pennsylvania Archives.

Students arriving at Willamson Trade School in the 1960's at the Williamson RR Station in Delaware County PA
09/09/2026

Students arriving at Willamson Trade School in the 1960's at the Williamson RR Station in Delaware County PA

Chester County Historical Society image along the New Holland Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Downingtown Pennsyl...
09/01/2026

Chester County Historical Society image along the New Holland Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Downingtown Pennsylvania

An early truck convoy along the Lincoln Highway, we are reminded that the trains could not move the military goods quick...
09/01/2026

An early truck convoy along the Lincoln Highway, we are reminded that the trains could not move the military goods quickly enough to the eastern ports to be shipped overseas during WWI.

Equipment was built in midwest factories to be sent to the European front.

This image is from 02/03/1918 in Bedford enroute from Detroit to Baltimore.

Opened in 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, but better known by its popu...
08/31/2026

Opened in 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, but better known by its popular name, Pennhurst was part of a national trend to segregate individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, then referred to as “defective”, “degenerate” and “unfit” from mainstream society. Fearful that existing institutions at Elwyn, outside Philadelphia and Polk in Venango County would be overwhelmed by what they saw as a rising tide of hereditary “feeble-mindedness,”

Over eight decades more than 10,500 individuals resided at the 1400-acre facility outside of Spring City in rural Chester County; at its peak more than 3,500 people were in custodial care at Pennhurst.

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The Oakbourne RR Station stop was established in 1858 when the West Chester Local was opened. In 1863 prisoners from the...
08/31/2026

The Oakbourne RR Station stop was established in 1858 when the West Chester Local was opened. In 1863 prisoners from the Battle of Gettyburg were unloaded here when connecting rail lines were intact, and sent to nearby Camp Elder, that site is now a housing development. The station was closed in 1961 and demolished in 1965. Today you'd barely know it was there, and lost was a rare local connection to American history

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Colorized photo taken before the mid 1940’s on the Lincoln Highway
08/28/2026

Colorized photo taken before the mid 1940’s on the Lincoln Highway

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