#pennsylvania history

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FishyFriday:

“Shad” 373, from the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

Shad (Alosinae) are native fishes with an anadromous migration similar to salmon. PA has two species: the American Shad (Alosa sapidissima) and the endangered Hickory Shad (Alosa mediocris).

#fish #shad #decorative arts #ceramics #tilework #mosaic #20th century art #1900s #American art #Pennsylvania art #Pennsylvania history #Pennsylvania capitol #Henry Chapman Mercer #Moravian Pottery and Tile Works #Fishy Friday #animals in art

[47thpennvols]

Help Honor 9 Black American Civil War Soldiers

We're working to purchase the U.S. Civil War military and pension files of nine formerly enslaved Black men who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. These files still haven't been digitized by the National Archives. We plan to correct that by purchasing and digitizing the files, and then making them available free of charge to history students and teachers, researchers, genealogists, and the general public. But we need your help to do that because the records will cost approximately $110 per soldier. Please donate whatever you can to our GoFundMe campaign. Your support will help us ensure that the lives of these nine brave men will no longer be forgotten.

#gofundme #go fund me #american civil war #american history #asking for help #support #kindness #pennsylvania #pennsylvania history #civil war #america #americanhistory #black history #go fund them

[chronivore]

#pennsylvania history

[tallmadgeandtea]

Went to the Peter Wentz’s farm today, which was Washington’s HQ before and after the Battle of Germantown! Washington actually paid back the invoices given to him by the Wentz family, which is very kind of him considering he and his army of twenty somethings ate their food and slept in their house for several days. More importantly yada yada battles cool yeah there were POLKA DOTS. POLKA DOTS EVERYWHERE. The original wall even shows that the polka dots are historically accurate and were original to the house. They also have sheep and cows and it’s very scenic. Visit if you can!

#POLKA DOTS #I love it. I love it! #historical houses in PA are just so fun #historic homes #historic preservation #american revolution #the battle of germantown #the philadelphia campaign #amanda speaks #pennsylvania history #your local pennsylvanian here

[kvetch19]

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#Duffy's cut #mass grave #Pennsylvania #irish american #irish american history #Pennsylvania history #worker history #workers rights #labor rights #unionize

[pennstateuniversitypress]

Unlocked Book of the Month: History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States

Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

About our February pick:

First published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1818, History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations provides an account of the Lenni Lenape and other tribes in the mid-Atlantic region, looking at their history and relations with other tribes and settlers, as well as their spiritual beliefs, government and politics, education, language, social institutions, dress, food, and other customs. The text, written by the Reverend John Heckewelder, a Moravian missionary based in Ohio and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, includes the author’s observations, anecdotes, and advice, preserving not only his knowledge about the Indian nations in the eighteenth century but also his perspective, as a missionary and settler, on Native Americans and the often-fraught relationships between the tribes and European settlers. This version of the text, published in 1876, contains an introduction and notes by the Reverend William C. Reichel as well as a glossary of Lenape words and phrases and letters between the author and the then-president of the American Philosophical Society concerning the study of the Indian nations and their languages.

Read more & access the book here: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06701-8.html

See the full list of Unlocked titles here: https://www.psupress.org/unlocked/unlocked_gallery.html

#Pennsylvania #Pennsylvania History #PA History #Lenni Lenape #Indian #Native American #Mid-Atlantic #Atlantic #Moravian #John Heckewelder #Ohio #Eighteenth Century #Nineteenth Century #Lenape #American Philosophical Society #PSU Press #PSU Press Unlocked

[rutasraiders]

My name is Ruth June, I go by Ruta or RJ.

I'm a student of history and archeology and have participated in archeological digs following early man into North America and have excavated Civil War sites.

I write historical fiction focusing on human interactions.

My debut book will be published later in 2023 with the title OF BLOOD AND SPURS it follows the life of a confederate cavalry scout with General Morgan's Raiders in Kentucky.

#historical fiction #fiction novel #fiction #writerslife #writing #exploration #archeology #creative writing #writers #pennsylvania history #ohio history #west virginia history #appalachian history #ancient aliens #ancient mystery #ancient culture

[snyderspoint]

Stitching a Nation Together

They initially sewed by hand. They subsequently used sewing machines. Their pay, however, has historically been small in comparison to the fondness Americans have had for the products that they and their co-workers before them have produced since the late nineteenth century.

They were, and are, the sewers and sewing machine operators of the Valley Forge Flag Company.

Founded in 1882, the Valley Forge Flag Company has operated almost continuously through war and peace, seeming to slow only for the national transition from a forty-eight to a fifty-star flag, following the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union in 1959, and for the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020.

One of the largest flag manufacturers in the nation, the company grew to become a multi-community operation with factories in Baumstown, Birdsboro, Robesonia, Royersford, Spring City, and Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania by 1967.

Four years earlier, a group of women from the Womelsdorf plant crafted one of the most important artifacts in the nation—the flag that draped the casket of President John F. Kennedy, following his assassination on November 22, 1963. The commanding officer of an honor guard unit that was involved in planning the late president’s state funeral later confirmed this fact.

Meticulously folded before it was presented to the Kennedy family, that flag was carefully preserved by curators at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston and remains there to this day, a touching symbol of a family's terrible loss and an artifact of reassurance that America's democracy is resilient and cherished.

Less famous variations of the Kennedy flag have waived gently over the graves of countless veterans of foreign wars since that dark period while others have flown over small-town government buildings, the U.S. Capitol, military bases at home, and American embassies abroad.

Chances are that the flag you pledged allegiance to in elementary school was, in fact, made by one of the sewing machine operators of Valley Forge Flag. Their stitches have held our nation together during some of its best and worst times, giving Americans a symbol to rally around, regardless of personal and political differences. Think about that—and about each one of those stitches made in each one of those flags since 1882, as you watch Old Glory fly proudly this Fourth of July. And then say a silent prayer of thanks for the many unsung women and men who have made it possible for you to look up with pride.

Image: Unidentified employee of the Valley Forge Flag Company's Spring City, Pennsylvania factory creating a new American flag on July 1, 1982 (public domain image courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration).

#fourth of july #american history #pennsylvania history #american pride #sewing #american flag #patriotism #history #america #john f. kennedy #jfk #president kennedy #kennedy assassination #kennedy funeral

[gwydionmisha]

This place was still proverbially bad when I was growing up.  Like used as a reference to mean the worst place you could possibly sent right up there with an infamous asylum in Norristown.  On a lighter note, I learned a children's song about Willie Sutton as a kid.  I still have no idea what his crimes were, but i can sing a song still about his skill at escape.

#Eastern State Penitentiary #Ruins #Prisons #Pennsylvania History

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Officials Charge Sabotage In Fatal Train Wreck,” Toronto Star. March 18, 1941. Page 3. ----- Scattered down the side of an embankment near Baden, Pa., lie wrecked cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Buckeye Limited, in which five persons died and 114 were injured. Officials of the line said there was ‘definite evidence of sabotage’ after the crack train struck a loosened rail in the thick of a snowstorm. They offered a $5,000 reward for conviction of the persons responsible. Of the 112 passengers and 11 crew members, only three emerged without injury.

#pennsylvania history #pennsylvania #derailment #train derailment #sabotage #snowstorm #train crash #express train #united states history #railway transportation #train journey

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #MosaicMonday + #OwlishMonday:

51. Screech Owl + 141. Barn Owl

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

#animals in art #20th century art #museum visit #birds in art #bird #birds #owl #owls #barn owl #screech owl #Moravian tiles #Mercer tiles #Henry Chapman Mercer #Pennsylvania history #Pennsylvania art #American art #Arts and Crafts Movement #tilework #mosaic #decorative arts #ceramics #Pennsylvania State Capitol #1900s #Mosaic Monday #Owlish Monday

[47thpennvols]

"Then Sheridan's time was come." The Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864:

19 October 1864: "A cavalry charge was ordered against right and left flank of the enemy, and then a grand advance of the three infantry corps from left to right on the Enemy’s centre [sic]. ‘On through Middletown,’ says the correspondent above quoted, ‘and beyond, the enemy hurried, and the Army of the Shenandoah pursued. The roar of musketry now had a gleeful, dancing sound. The guns fired shafted salutes of victory. Custer and Merritt, charging in on right and left, doubled up the flanks of the foe, taking prisoners, slashing, killing, driving as they went. The march of the infantry was more majestic and more terrible. The lines of the foe swayed and broke before it every where [sic]. Beyond Middletown, on the battle-field fought over in the morning, their columns were completely overthrown and disorganized [sic]. They fled along the pike and over the fields like sheep.’"

Read more about this glorious and terrible day in "Sheridan’s Tide-Turning Shenandoah Valley Campaign: The Battle of Cedar Creek and Its Aftermath."

#this day in history #american civil war #us history #ap us history #civil war #virginia #1864 #pennsylvania history #america #american history #digital humanities #digital archives #shenandoah valley #us army #infantry #union army

[revolutionarywarhistory]

#sickness #maylanders #philadephia bettering house #bettering house #philadelphia #pennsylvania #us history #pennsylvania history #2016 #wordpress #internet archive

[tallmadgeandtea]

Here are some up close pictures of the Moravian Brethren House, which was used as a military hospital for the Revolutionary War in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania!

#Lafayette did NOT actually stay here cause where he stayed was torn down to make a fucking store #but whatever #it’s a cool building still #american revolution #revolutionary war #pennsylvania history #amanda speaks

[blondesforreagan]

On July 18, 1768 - 255 years ago - American's first Patriotic Song was published and helped to spark the Revolution

#on this date #on this day #john dickinson #pennsylvania #pennsylvania history #patriotism #american history #the colonies

[pennstateuniversitypress]

Unlocked Book of the Month: The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Pa., 1744–1905

Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

About our October pick:

Originally published in 1906 within the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, this volume contains the names, gravesite locations, and available personal details for 1,219 people interred at the Moravian graveyard in Lititz, Pennsylvania, between 1758 and 1905. Also included are 181 names of those interred at Saint James Graveyard in Lititz between the years 1744 and 1812. A map of the primary graveyard and a comprehensive name index add to the volume’s accessibility as a guide for visits and research.

Read more & access the book here: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06037-8.html

See the full list of Unlocked titles here: https://www.psupress.org/unlocked/unlocked_gallery.html

#Graveyard #Graveyards #Grave #Graves #Moravian #Pennsylvania #Pennsylvania History #PA History #Lilitz #1700s #1800s #1900s #PSUP Unlocked #PSU Press Unlocked