"The Handsomest Train in the World"
by NCM Digital Collections and Engagement Specialist, Emily Rose Clayton
For over twenty years, the canals…
The 1948 Presidential Campaign: Editorial Cartoonist Reg Manning in the Allentown Morning Call
Posted January 20, 2021 by Daphne MayerThe 1948 Presidential Campaign: Editorial Cartoonist Reg Manning in the Allentown Morning Call
by NCM Historian Martha Capwell Fox
This cartoon appeared…
The “Switzerland of America” – Ephemera from the Switchback Railway
Posted January 11, 2021 by Daphne MayerThe "Switzerland of America" - Ephemera from the Switchback Railroad
by Digital Collections and Engagement Specialist, Emily Rose Clayton
One hundred years…
Traditional New Year's Greetings
by NCM Historian Martha Capwell-Fox
What New Year’s symbols did you see last week? Top-hatted babies, noise-makers, and…
Weston Dodson Calendar Art
By NCM Historian Martha Capwell-Fox
Click on any of the images below to enlarge
Many of us carry our…
The Canal Symposium Made and Recorded History
by NCM Historian Martha Capwell-Fox
'Twas the night before the Canal History and Technology Symposium,…
"Putz" Houses: A Pennsylvania Holiday Tradition
by Martha Capwell-Fox
Sometimes, dads buy the most inappropriate gifts for their babies.
Hockey skates.
Two-wheel bikes.
These charming…
Frequent, ferocious floods seemed to come one after another on the Lehigh River in the early years of the 20th…
