The Meyersdale Public Library has added the collection
Old-Time Meyersdale Photographs to PA Photos and Documents!
These scenes are among the oldest images of Meyersdale and its residents known to exist. Captured in the southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, town during the early 20th century, they reflect brick streets and sidewalks, horse-drawn wagons, forgotten storefronts, backyard chores, and faces identified by past readers of the Meyersdale Republican newspaper beginning in 1954. It was that summer the series of old pictures was first presented in an effort to determine the identities of those within the images. The August 19, 1954, Republican noted it was through the courtesy of Philip Reich the newspaper had been presented with a number of glass slides, which, according to Mr. Reich, were |
