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[Lock keeper’s house]
Initially believed to be an image of canal lock #1. This was behind the former Grand Theater on Mill Street. The Delaware River is visible in the background.
From Martha Capwell-Fox, National Canal Museum: “If the photo is dated Aug. 20, 1955 that [labeling as Lock #1] cannot be accurate. For one thing, it looks very similar to the two photos we have that we know for sure were taken right after the canal closed.” -
[Lock tender’s house at Lock # 2, located just beyond the overflow falls behind the former Grand Theater Building at Mill Street]
To the left was the canal basin which was eventually filled and turned into the Mill Street Parking lot. -
[Lock tender’s house on the Delaware Canal at Bristol]
Believed to be the second lock, beyond the tidal lock at the river (lock #3) located at the foot of Market Street in Bristol. -
[Looking north on Mill Street from the corner of Mill and Radcliffe Street]
Tall, tan building with green mansard front floor on left was constructed in 2007. -
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[Louis DiCicco, janitor]
"Owner of cat."
Biography of DiCicco included in clipping (dated January 1945) included on back of photograph. -
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[Lunchtime entertainment]
Ed King, sitting in front.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Mable Staley, Harriman Elementary School principal]
The school was part of the present Bristol High School. Miss Staley retired circa 1960s. -
[Machine shop and fitting department, Keystone Aircraft Co., Bristol, PA]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
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[Man atop horse in front of house on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Pond Street]
This mansard roof house on a knoll surrounded by a white wooden fence is now the site of the former Jefferson Avenue School, opened in 1909. The former school is now called "The Jefferson" and is an upscale condominium. The stone house, partly visible to the right, was standing as of 1999. William and Mary Grundy, and their children Joseph and Margaret, moved to Bristol in 1877 and occupied the house when William Grundy started the Worsted Mill, now on Jefferson Avenue and Canal Street. The last known family to live in the house was John and Elizabeth Smiley and their children. It was owned by Joseph Peirce, who started the Bristol Improvement Company and erected the Grundy Mill building. Florence C. Smiley Foster, one of ten children of John and Elizabeth Smiley, described the appearance of the house in a paper she wrote about her family history. She said it had 2 rooms, seven per floor. There was a large front porch and balconies on the second and third floors. It had a bathroom a tank on the top floor in what was called the tank room for bath water. Her father would pump water weekly to the tank from the cellar. The fenced yard was large, especially the front. There were beautiful blooming lilacs and azaleas. Her father grew lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes in the backyard, and shared them with neighbors. He also put baskets in a tree for boys to play basketball. Mr. Peirce, the owner wanted the Smiley family to buy the house because Joseph Grundy wanted to purchase it to tear it down and have a public school erected there. The Smiley family did not have the amount of money to purchase it and they moved to Lafayette Street. Joseph Grundy purchased it, had it torn down, and donated the land for the building of Jefferson Avenue School. -
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[Manager Department]
Devon Smith, third from left with glasses. Others unidentified.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Mannherz Barber Shop at 125 Radcliffe Street]
Pictured are Nicholas Mannherz (1911-1969), proprietor, and employee Joseph Cuttone. Patron is unidentified.
Nicholas purchased the shop from his father Peter’s estate in 1942. Peter died in 1941. Upon Nicholas’s death, Joe Cuttone took over the business in 1969. The building was then sold to an investor. Based on the Grand Theater poster in the photograph, this image was taken around 1946.
The Mannherz family had a farm in the Edgely section of Bristol Township. Peter originally had a barber shop in the main street in Tullytown, before moving to Bristol. Nicholas’s family moved to 283 West Circle in 1946 from an apartment at Farragut Avenue and Monroe Street. Mary Jane Mannherz was a previous director of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library and is the daughter of Nicholas and Jane Mannherz. -
[Map survey, 1855]
"Bristol Borough, Bucks County, PA, from actual survey of and published by Samuel D. Booz, Bristol, PA, 1855." -
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[Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library dedication. Speaker is Horace Schmidt of Schmidt’s Florist]
Seated (from left) on the back row are: W. James MacIntosh, Thomas Morris, Conrad Barto, Edwin Rummier, Albert Harker. Seated front row (from left): unidentified, Oscar M. Hansen, Grundy Board of Trustees. -
[Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library dedication. Speaker is U.S. Congressmen Willard Curtin]
Seated on back row end with dark-rimmed glasses is Horace Schmidt. Seated in front row (from left): Howard Peterson, Fidelity Bank President, Oscar M. Hansen, Grundy Foundation Trustee, John Rodgers, Bristol Mayor (1966-1969 and 1978-1981). -
[Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library dedication]
Bristol Burgess Horace P. Schmidt is sitting on the left of the back row of platform. Seated next to Schmidt is Thomas E. Morris, Board of Trustees, Grundy Foundation. -
[Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library entrance, Radcliffe Street level]
Note greenscape, which has been replaced by a large pavers. -
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[Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, view looking southwest]
Note the Grundy Museum in the background. -
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[Mario Lanza]
The Lanza family emigrated from Sicily to Bristol circa 1905 with brothers Alessio, Paul and Mario. Mario became conductor of the Santa Monica Symphony in California and a teacher to numerous film stars. Paul started a barber shop in Bristol and Alessio founded Lanza’s Bakery in Bristol on Dorrance Street. -
[Market Street Wharf area]
The tent is behind the bank, which is on Radcliffe Street. It may have been set for the celebration of the opening of the Bristol Riverside Theatre in 1987. -
[Market Street Wharf during its renovations]
Burlington Island is across the river. -
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[Market Street Wharf, with two of Bristol’s banking institutions visible]
The white building with columns is the former Farmer’s Bank founded in 1814. The red brick building is First Service Bank erected in 1950 by the Bristol Trust Company, later to be called Delaware Valley Bank, Philadelphia National Bank, and First Union Bank. In 1998 First Union Bank and Fidelity Bank merged to become Wachovia Bank. In May of 1999 First Service Bank opened at this site. -
[Market Street Wharf]
The flag pole and the brick below it is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The names on the monument were those killed in the war. -
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[Mary Beebe, Fleetwings reporter]
Includes clipping from "Meet Your Reporter, Factory Footnotes," dated May 1944 with the same photograph featured.
Mary worked in the Time Study office, Plant 1. She was married to Willard Beebe, who was serving in Africa and had received two Purple Hearts. -
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[Masonic Lodge group]
At the time, they met in the former Odd Fellows Lodge building at Radcliffe and Walnut Streets.
From left to right: Jake [Gynn], Hoe Stancile, Broadus Davis, John White, James Jones, Hellen Harris, Charles Brown, unidentified, Thomas Harris. -
[Max Slatoff’s Antique Store – 110 Radcliffe Street]
Pictured left to right: Chauffeur, Mr. Collins (an antique dealer from New York City who was representing the DuPonts of Delaware, purchasing antiques for Winterthur), and Mr. Slatoff. -
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[McClurg's celebrated "Liberty Cornet Band" group photograph]
The building in the photograph appears to be Bristol Fire Company No. 1 fire house on Wood and Market Street.
Men unidentified.