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[Bristol Rotary Club]
Top row, seventh from the left: Anthony Messina. Third row, third from the left: Mr. Gratz. Seventh from the left: Mr. Norman. Second row from the left: Harold Hanson. Bottom row, seventh from the left: Harold Hunter. Others unidentified. -
[Bristol Ford Co. and Atlantic Gas Station at Beaver and Prospect Streets with the Robert W. Bracken Drum and Bugle Corps]
This location was opposite the Bristol Post Office. -
[Bristol Elks]
Men unidentified. -
[Bristol Elks Flag Day celebration at the Lions Gazebo on the river front]
From left to right: District Judge Frank Peranteau, William Pezza (representing PA State Assemblyman Thomas Corrigan), Elks Exalted Ruler Patricia Long, Senator Tommy Tomlinson, Mayor Joseph Saxton. -
[Bristol Elks Club]
Seated from sixth from the left is Joseph Korz. Seated eighth from the left is Frank Jenks. Others unidentified. -
[Bristol Elks Club]
Joseph Korz, third from left. Others unidentified. -
[Bracken Drum & Bugle Corps on “Leedom Field” opposite Leedom Carpet Mill on Beaver Street playing at a Memorial Day game]
Bristol municipal building and the original Fire Company No. 2 building are visible in the background.
Stamped on back of photograph: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Fleetwings Division, Bristol, Penna." -
[Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club]
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader.
The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966).
W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph. -
[Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club]
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader.
The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966).
W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph.]
Identification:
Front Row Left to Right – Mrs. Griffith Williams, Mrs. Emil Metzger, Mrs. William G. Buckman, Mrs. Marburg D. Weagley, Mrs. Russell Ellis, Mrs. Bradley Andrey, Mrs. William Taylor, Mrs. Scott Wtherill, Miss Mary Johnson Haines.
Back Row Left to Right – Mrs. David O. Taylor, Miss Sue Iredell, Mrs. Frank Lehman, Mrs. Walter [Pitzonka?], Mrs. John Moyer. -
[Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club]
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader.
The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966).
W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph.]
32 identifications:
Front Row left to right – Mrs. Ernest Laurence, Mrs. Roy Tracy, Mrs. Richard T. Meyers, Dr. Julia Slack, Miss Elizabeth N. [Iredell?], Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, Mrs. Franklin K. Wills, Mrs. Howard E. James, Mrs. Horace Burton.
Back Row Left to Right – Mrs. Henry Hartman, Mrs. Forest Bilderback, Mrs. Armand N. Morris, Mrs. Russell Burton, Mrs. John Tracy, Mrs. Paul Forster, Mrs. Herman [Jensenius?], Mrs. H. Doyle Webb, Mrs. Linton Martin (Mrs. Martin was responsible for starting the club in 1901). -
[Art Show at the Grundy Library showing three of the founding directors of the Radcliffe Cultural and Historical Foundation, now called Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation]
From left to right: Joseph Pavone, Charles Richman, Seymore Kaplan. -
[American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps at practice]
The group was organized in 1919.
Band members unidentified. -
[American Legion [Bracken] Cadets 25th Anniversary]
First Row: Wilson Van Doren, Raymond Ford, Edmond Green, Rogers, James Hill, Joseph Winslow, Franklin Fine, William Wichser, Ellis Comfort, Russell Unruh.
Second Row: Arnold North, Fred Bell, Louis Kivorvitch, Wayne Warner, Philip Felli, William Allen, George Heaton, Lawrence Machette, Claude Hearn, Walter Kornstead.
Third Row: Harry Burbank, Charles Brodie, John Johnson, Lawrence McLaughlin, Wayne Milnor, Charles Thompson, Robert MacDonald, Irwin Scheffey, Rens Swan, William Winslow.
Fourth Row: Fred Herrman, Virdin Watt, Harry Smith, Louis Harris, Edward Mariner, Robert Hendricks, Gilbert Herman, John Van Horn. -
"Rohm and Haas Annual Outing 1927"
Members unidentified. -
"Robert W. Bracken Post American Legion, Bristol, PA. Lincoln Birthday Party"
Seated on floor (left to right): Marion Hardy, Walter Hardy, Billy Croner, ___ Smoyer, Anita Lug.
Seated in Front Row (left to right): Ethel Ahart, Emely Bracken, Loretta Ford, Lilly Hardy, Dot Fechtenburg, Sarah Thompson, Marie Downing, Jane Riley, Elizabeth Delker, ___ Gerber.
Standing Second Row (left to right): Elizabeth Hetherington, Evlyn Fechtenburg, Sally Griffiths, Violet Baker, Maude Zug, Elsie Dettmer, Elizabeth Smoyer, Mary Elmer, Annie Beaton, Mrs. Scheffey.
Standing Third Row (left to right): Dick Fechtenberg, Percy Ford, Jim Waters, George Cronen, William Griffith, ___ Rich, J. Hetherington, Sam Hardy, Walter Strouse, George Heaton, Sonny Winslow.
Standing Fourth Row (left to right): Bob Downing, Agnes Beaton, Mrs. J. Waters, unidentified, unidentified, Frances Strouse, Elizabeth Jarvis, Wonces Strouse, Russ Unruh, Cliff Beaton.
Top Row (left to right): Art Zug, Ralph Scheffey, Ben Ahart, Bill Riley, Henry Elmer, Harry Burbank, Terry Taffe. -
"Outing of Bristol Rotary Club"
Men unidentified. -
"Outing at Maple Beach of the Mill St. Business Men's Association"
Members unidentified. -
"Laying the Corner Stone B. P. O. Elks 970. the [sic] was 1910"
Photograph showing the laying of the B.P.O. Elks 970 corner stone. The Elks home was constructed on Radcliffe Street at the corner of Walnut Street where the Beaver Meadow House once stood. That house had been the home of Augustus Claudius, the German consul when the U.S. capital was in Philadelphia (1790-1800). The Elks lodge stood until 1981 when it was torn down. The Elks relocated to a smaller building at Wood Street and the Mill Street parking lot. -
"First Annual Banquet, Pomanalie Club No. 1, Bristol, PA, Nov. 25, 1909"
Men unidentified.
Names written on back of photograph: "Jennie Lamon Kershaw" and "Helen E. Tosti." Clipping also attached to back of board. -
"Bristol Glee Club"
Bristol Glee Club photographed by Nichols Studio at a concert located at the First United Methodist Church (formerly called Bristol Methodist Church) at 201 Mulberry Street.
Back row, second from left, is Percy Ford. Second row on far right Andrew McArthur. Top row, fourth from left, is Hames Douglas. Others unidentified. -
"A look back..." [Bracken Post American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps taken on Beaver Street at Leedom’s Carpet Mill.]
This is where the Grundy Ice Rink stands (as of 1998). Insert is on Radcliffe Street at the Kaiser Fleetwings plant, formerly the Emergency Fleet Merchant “Harriman” Shipyard.