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Postcard: "United States Post Office, Bristol, PA."
Bristol Post Office, Beaver and Prospect Street location
Inscription on back from Bristol photographer Joseph Cuttone, stamped 1943. -
Postcard: "Post Office, Bristol, PA."
The large brick building on the right once housed the Bristol Post Office, which moved to its present location in 1914 on Beaver and Prospect Streets. The upper story was used as a meeting room. Later, shops were located in the building which was at Radcliffe and Market Streets. The stone building adjacent to the Post Office was a bank, The Bristol Trust Company, which opened in 1908. Note the trolley and tracks. -
Postcard: "Post Office, Bristol, PA."
On back of postcard: "Published by Post Card Distributing Co., Philadelphia, PA. Made in U. S. A." -
Postcard: "Government Building -- Bristol, PA." [Bristol Post Office]
On back of postcard: "Published for Nichols Photo Service, Bristol, Pa. by the Collotype Co., Elizabeth, N. J. and N. Y."
Built in 1914 at Beaver and Prospect Streets at a cost of $75,000. Bristol’s previous post office was on Radcliffe Street at Market Street. Bristol’s first post office was on Mill Street, started in 1790. -
[US Post Office, Harriman, PA]
U.S. Post Office Harriman PA, Farragut Avenue located across from the Victory Hotel between Harrison and Garfield Streets.
From left: Edward S. Glavis, postmaster, Ken Brighman, post office inspector, John C. Boyle, assistant postmaster, Herman Pope, William J Maridy, Olive Johnson, Anna Doyle, and "Grouser," "Wycoff," mail carriers from Trenton. Messenger boy at end unidentified.
After 1919, it operated as branch of the Bristol Post Office. In 1931, it became a station of Bristol and discontinued as a branch in 1979. -
[Robert W. Bracken American Legion Post 383 Drum and Bugle Corps]
Also known as the "Bracken Cavaliers" and "Bracken Cadets."
Photograph taken at Bristol Post Office, Beaver and Prospect Streets.
Members unidentified. -
[Photograph taken from the Grundy Clock Tower, view looking west]
Note train station and the Bristol Post Office. -
[Photograph taken from the Grundy Clock Tower, view looking southeast]
Note the Bristol Train Station and Post Office parking lot to the left. -
[Photograph taken from the Grundy Clock Tower, view looking north]
Note Canal and Post Office in background. -
[Negative of a photograph of the former Bristol Post Office]
The large brick building on the right once housed the Bristol Post Office, which moved to its present location in 1914 on Beaver and Prospect Streets. The upper story was used as a meeting room. Later, shops were located in the building which was at Radcliffe and Market Streets. The stone building adjacent to the Post Office was a bank, The Bristol Trust Company, which opened in 1908. Note the trolley and tracks. -
[Messers Calvin, Hawkes, and Ford in front of Bristol Post Office on Beaver Street]
"E. Burtonwood" written on back. -
[Messers Calvin, Hawkes, and Ford in front of Bristol Post Office on Beaver Street]
"E. Burtonwood" written on back. -
[Lobby of Harriman Post Office]
John Boyle, assistant postmaster, Edward S. Glavis, postmaster, others unidentified. -
[Interior of Harriman Post Office]
Herman Pope, Olive Johnson, Ezra Johnson, Anna Doyle, John Boyle, unidentified Midell, Edward S. Glavis, postmaster. -
[Eagle Monument at the Bristol Post Office]
Monument was erected in honor of those who served in World War I. Included are the names of those killed. -
[Daniel James Thompson (Mail Carrier) (1838-1915) and Anna M. Thompson (1839-1926)]
Dora Thompson Colville’s paternal grandparents. -
[Cannon Monument]
This monument was presented by Burnet Landreth in memory of the 44 officers and 461 men from Bristol who fought in the Civil War. The cannon, made in France in 1762, was captured from the Confederate army in 1863. It stands at the Bristol Post Office. -
[Bristol Post Office at Radcliffe and Market Streets]
This building stood at the corner of Radcliffe and Market Streets. It was removed circa 1949 when a new red brick structure was built to house a bank. As the photograph indicated, it was the U.S. Post Office until a new Post Office was erected at Beaver and Prospect Streets in 1914. The upper floor was a lecture hall and part of the building housed an antique store. After the postal service moved it became a ticket office for ferry boats and the trolley.