Lorenzo Santiago, Joel Berrocal, Pablo Berrocal, and Sienna Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Las Posadas
Left to right, Lorenzo Santiago, Joel Berrocal, Pablo Berrocal, and Sienna Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Joel Berrocal
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St. Mark Parish Puerto Rican Community celebrate Las Posadas
Members of the St. Mark Parish Puerto Rican Community celebrate Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Giuseppe Sagolla, Eliezer Berrocal, Joel Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Giuseppe Sagolla, Eliezer Berrocal, Joel Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Joel Berrocal and Sienna Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Joel Berrocal and Sienna Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Antonio Gonzalez-Berrocal and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Antonio Gonzalez-Berrocal and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music
Rosa Gonzalez, Father Dennis Mooney, Sienna Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Rosa Gonzalez, Father Dennis Mooney, Sienna Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Sienna Berrocal in front of a Christmas tree during Las Posadas
Sienna Berrocal in front of a Christmas tree during Las Posadas.
Sienna Berrocal playing el guiro. A traditional Puerto Rican percussion instrument.
Pablo Berrocal and Eliezer Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Pablo Berrocal and Eliezer Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Joel Berrocal, Rosa Gonzalez, Elizer Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas
Left to right, Joel Berrocal, Rosa Gonzalez, Elizer Berrocal, and Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas with traditional Catholic Puerto Rican Christmas music.
Sienna Berrocal playing las maracas. A traditional Puerto Rican percussion instrument.
Joel Berrocal, St. Mark Church Pastor Father Dennis Mooney, and Sienna Berrocal, celebrating Las Posadas.
Left to right, Joel Berrocal, St. Mark Church Pastor Father Dennis Mooney, and Sienna Berrocal, celebrating Las Posadas
Pablo Berrocal celebrating Las Posadas. In front of a painting of his hometown of Lares, Puerto Rico. A town where many of Bristol's Puerto Rican population originates.
Traditional Puerto Rican artwork at the home of local artist Joe Sagolla
Traditional Puerto Rican artwork at the home of local artist Joe Sagolla.
A guitar, bongos, and el cuatro, the official musical instrument of Puerto Rico, displayed in front of a Christmas tree at the home of local Puerto Rican businessowners Eliezer and Damaris Berrocal.
"Plan of part of the Borough of Bristol"
Map
Delaware River Plan of part of the Borough of Bristol. Includes Illustrated view of Bristol.
[Aerial view photograph of Radcliffe Street]
Inscription on back: "Radcliffe St. Bristol from top of standpipe." Looking north on Radcliffe Street, this photo was taken from the top of the water company's standpipe, which was located on Radcliffe Street near Walnut Street (to the left). The large brick building on the left is Wagner Private Hospital (Franklin and Radcliffe Streets). Across Franklin Street was the house of Dr. Hussey built in 1849, just above Penn Street was the former St. Mark's School, (building with the cross on the roof). The water company was organized in 1874.
Some visible buildings which no longer stand include the Bristol Flower Growers greenhouses located on Pond Street (left side of photo), the smoke stack at Bristol Water Works (lower left), St. Mark's School on Radcliffe Street (demolished in 1971), the Keene House (lower right along river), Elm Street row of houses which burned about 1985, factory buildings opposite of Grundy Mill on Jefferson Avenue (where recreation area is located), and Leedom Carpet Mill located where the Grundy Ice Rink complex stands on Beaver Street.
Aerial photos showing old freight station, where Grundy Towers stand is visible. Day of photograph presumed to be a Monday because of the laundry hanging on the lines (Monday was wash day).
"Bristol Borough, Bucks County, PA, from actual survey of and published by Samuel D. Booz, Bristol, PA, 1855."
Bath Street, Bristol. #528 Bath Street is behind large clump of trees in center. This is opposite Leedom & Son Coal Yard, which became occupied by Bristol Fuel, owned as of 1998 by the Quattrochi family. Coal yard entrance is on the right of the picture. In 1998 Bristol Fuel had a hardware store where a row of houses perpendicular to Bath Street once stood.
Different angle than photograph 7.1.006, but taken at the same time with identification information similar. Canal passing across top of the photograph indicates it might have been taken in the early 1940s.
"Aerial view of Bristol, looking down toward Mill Street"
Photo taken between 1940s and 1950s based on the fact that the Railroad Freight Station is visible, center left, opposite of water tower. The freight station stood where the Grundy Towers high rise is located. The former canal basin is now the Mill Street parking lot. The last canal barge operated in October 1931.
[Aerial photograph of Winder Village, Route 413]
Road parallel to the top of the picture is Route 413. Houses are Winder Village. Bristol Borough is in the right corner. US Route 13 is not built yet as of this photograph. It went through the Borough on Pond Street and Farragut Avenue.
"Birds Eye View of West Bristol, Bristol, Pa."
600 block of Swain Street, row of houses called “Berks Row.” Bath Street (Bath Street School) built in 1881 and Silver Lake before the elevated part in 1919. Photo taken during cooler seasons--no leaves on the trees.
View of Bristol showing Mill, Bath and Otter Streets in lower portion; Beaver Street, elevated railroad tracks, and U.S. Route 13.
A. Grundy Tower apartments B. former Keystone Hotel C. former Acme store building D. Second Baptist Church E. former Bristol Doors opposite of Market Street F. former A&P/car repair building where Fidelity Savings Bank is located G. former Leedom’s Carpet Mill H. former Grundy Ice Rink on Jefferson Avenue
Postcard: "Bird's eye view, Bristol, PA. Showing Mill & Market Streets"
Published for Nichols Photo Service, Bristol, PA by the Collotype Co., Elizabeth, NJ and NY.
Postcard: "Bird's eye view, Bristol, PA. on the Delaware River"
[Aerial view photograph, featuring Grundy Library in foreground]
Grundy Library featured in the foreground, left-center along the river, built in 1966. The house to the right of the library formerly belonged to Thomas Cooper, English actor whose daughter married President John Tyler’s son Robert. Across from the library, slightly to the left, is St. Mark's School, now torn down.
[Aerial view photo: Bristol Terrace environs]
Bristol Terrace environs. “Home of Wilson Whiskey that’s…” painted sign visible on one of the buildings. Wilson Whiskey started in 1823 and was still operational in 1947.
[Aerial view photograph: Croydon area (1)]
Croydon area, US Route 13 runs along the right side of the photograph. Within the collection, a labeled photocopy of the picture highlights road ways.
[Aerial view photograph: Croydon area (2)]
Croydon area, Philco Factory is labled. Within the collection, a labeled photocopy of the picture highlights road ways.
[Aerial view photograph: Croydon area (3)]
Croydon area, Neshaminy Creek is located along the top of the photograph. Within the collection, a labeled photocopy of the picture highlights road ways.
[Aerial view photograph: Croydon area (4)]
Croydon area, State Road runs through the middle of the photograph.
[Aerial view photograph: Levittown Shopping Center]
Levittown Shopping Center, Levittown, PA
Mission Sunday School met at Hosiery Mill on Buckley Street at Pine Street. Mr. and Mrs. James Slack started and ran the school and lived at the corner of Radcliffe Street and Franklin Street in a large three-story brick house they had built in 1863. Their daughter, Dr. Julia Slack inherited the house and she sold it to Dr. Fred Wagner. Wagner opened a private hospital in the house. Mrs. E.J. Groom was the wife of Dr. Groom. Those in the photograph are 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.
[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.
[American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps at practice]
The group was organized in 1919. Band members unidentified.
[Robert W. Bracken Post 382 Bugle Corps]
Photograph taken in the backyard of the Methodist Church. Building in the background was the home of the American Legion. Once a Quaker school built in 1874, it is now the headquarters of Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation. The legion, formed in 1919, rented the building from 1924-1929 when they moved to their permanent headquarters at 619 Radcliffe Street. Members 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.