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[Postcard: Bristol High School Football Team 1908]
Handwritten on back: “From Charlie, hoping yous are all well wich [sic] we are at the present time good by, [Amber]. Mr. Charlie [Schurman] Freeland, PA.” -
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[At Washington Monument, Bristol High School Class of 1920 trip to Washington D.C.]
Students unidentified. -
"Bristol High School 1923" [Football team]
First row, seated on the ground, third from left: Stoneback.
Second row, standing left: Hoffman.
Second row, fourth seated from left: Joe Diamanti. -
[Bristol High School Basketball Team of 1938]
Standing, left: Coach Stephen Juenger. Others unidentified. -
[Bristol High School Girls Basketball Team “Cardinalettes” of 1939]
“BHS Champs 1939” written on ball.
Standing, first from left is Elizabeth Delker, third from left is Ethel Linck (highest scorer for that year), fourth from left is Thersea Elcenko, fifth from left is Thelma Johnson, eighth from left is Betty Smoyer. Coach Royer is seventh from left.
Other seniors (not in order in the photograph, but mentioned on back): Julia Di Lorenzo, Grace Van Zant, Mary Yates.
Louise Smith, basketball manager kneeling in center behind ball. -
[Bristol High School field hockey team, 1943-44]
Young women unidentified. -
[Bristol High School Girls Basketball Team 1943-44]
Some of the player’s names were written on the front of photograph. Seated, first row, second from left: “Gerry,” third from left: “Kay,” fourth from left: “Thersea,” eighth from left: Marie Bell, tenth from left: Mary.
Second row, kneeling, first on right: “Lil." Back row, standing middle: “Coach.” -
[Bristol High School, Bristol Warrior Band]
Kenneth Bachman, director. -
"Bristol High School Football Squad of 1921"
“24-0” written on football. -
"Bristol High School Football Team 1922"
Middle row, second from left: C. Stonebach. Others unidentified. -
[Bristol High School Track Team 1926-27]
Front row seated, second from left: Elwood Bilger. -
"Girls Hockey Team, Bristol High School 1927"
Stamped on back of photograph: "The Nichols Studio 123 Mill Street Bristol, P.A." -
"Bristol High School Football Squad of 1927"
High school building in the background. Back row, seventh from left [unidentified] Winslow.
Stamped on back of photograph: "The Nichols Studio 123 Mill Street Bristol, P.A." -
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[Gratz's Bakery at the corner of Dorrance and Wood Streets]
People unidentified. -
[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. -
[Parade float for Adams-Wildblood Inc., 1427 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA]
Young women on the float are advertising the first Kaiser Frazer 1947 car. -
[316 Mill Street, in front of Downing’s Feed Store]
Later the store became Pearson’s Feed Store. Robert & Elaine Woffinger acquired the property in 1964. They operated the business for six years and then moved it to 1413 Elkins Avenue in the Edgely section of Bristol Township.
Grocery Delivery Wagon (at right) in the directory records belonged to: Sam Scott (1843-1917), wife Susanna Scott (1843-1906)
- 1871: Sam Scott, harness maker
- 1876: General store, Sam Scott
- 1884: Sam Scott, general store, house 74 Mill Street
- 1891: 74 Mill Street house
- 1894: Sam Scott, grocery & provision store, 318-320 Mill Street
- 1898: Sam Scott Merchant, 315 Mill Street
- 1905: Sam Scott Merchant, 320 Mill Street -
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[Lincoln Avenue, Cattani Beer Delivery]
People unidentified. -
[Ford car parked next to the former Keystone Hotel which stood at Bath and Otter Streets]
Across the street is the Acme Grocery Market on Bath Street at Otter Street. It appears that a cook and five waitresses are posing outside the hotel (all unidentified). The Keystone Hotel was formerly called the Hotel Closson. -
[Patterson Bros. Ice Wagon]
Men unidentified. -
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[Rubertone’s Pharmacy, 312 Lincoln Avenue]
Pharmacist, Dr. Nicola Rubertone (1873-1923), pictured at far right. After his sudden death at age 50, his wife Rosina (1872-1935) continued to operate the business.
Other men unidentified. -
[House at the corner of Dorrance Street and Cedar Street, owned by Ellis Comfort]
His son Ellis “Skeetz” Comfort then became owner of the house. Ellis Comfort operated a livery stable behind the house and rented carriages for special occasions, such as funerals. Skeetz had an antique repair shop behind the house until it burned in the early 1990s. It is claimed that a candy store had also operated in the repair shop. -
[Delivery cart, stream likely part of Adam’s Hollow Creek]
Man unidentified. -
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[Store at the corner of Mill and Radcliffe Streets, 101 and 103, opposite the King George Inn]
A house was built in the federal style by John Bessonett at this site circa 1805. He was the proprietor of the King George Hotel across the street. General Lafayette was entertained at this building September 8, 1824. The store front was added to the building at the corner, housing various businesses including: Nathan Tyler and Jonathan Cone Grocery & Clothing (late 1800s), Curtis Howell Cigars and Pool Room (circa 1914), Spencers’ Carpet and Furniture (circa 1930-1960), Floral Designs flower shop (2002).
Men in this photograph are unidentified. -
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[Fishing along the Delaware River below the Mill Street Wharf]
Primarily caught in this section were shad fish, which laid eggs in the spring. Richard Russel, also known as “Dick Shad,” made a business of buying and selling shad. Russel was a former slave who made a good living by not only selling fish and products, but also operating a taxi service. Russel lived on Market Street. -
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"L.C & N. Co. Lock No. 1 Bristol PA."
This is the tidal outlet lock [aka lock #1] connecting the Delaware Lehigh Canal to the Delaware River. Beyond this lock is the Canal Basin and the Dorrance Mill is visible. Canal operated from 1830 – 1931.
The lock house featured was home to the grandparents of Francis Jason Crum who lived in Bristol until 1966. -
[Ice on the Delaware River at the Mill Street Wharf]
The large poles on each side of the wharf were tying steamboats that travelled from Trenton to Philadelphia with stops at Bordentown, NJ, Bristol, PA, and Burlington, NJ. On the left, is the ferry boat dock which connected Burlington, NJ and Bristol, PA until 1931 when the Burlington Bristol Bridge was opened. The boat at the dock is the William E. Doron ferry. -
[Landreth Shore]
Delaware River shoreline along North Radcliffe Street at the Landreth Seed Farm property above Green Lane.
Man unidentified. -
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[“Reflective Mule” stands on the ground at Beaver and Canal Street next to the boulder upon which it will be permanently placed]
This is part of the Canal Works property owned by Bernard Mazzocchi III. Mule statue was donated by Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation. -
[Installation of Michael Dougherty statue at the Delaware Canal Lagoon Park]
The sculptor, James Gafgen, is seen wiping off the newly mounted statue. Others unidentified. The statue was dedicated May 12, 2001 following Mass at Saint Mark Church and appropriate graveside ceremonies at his grave behind the church. The artist was from Morrisville.
Mr. Dougherty died at age 86 in 1930. Michael Dougherty was born in 1844 in Ireland and emigrated to the U.S. In 1861 he volunteered for the Union Army in the Civil War. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1897. His diary of his time in the army included detailed accounts of time spent in three prisons and his narrow escape from drowning when a riverboat, returning 2,400 former Union prisoners, exploded and sank. Only 900 survived. -
[Forge Bridge at Beaver and Canal Street, a one lane, wooden bridge over Canal]
This was later replaced by a concrete bridge, followed by the filling in of this section of the canal.
Tucker Gross is child sitting alone on brick wall. Others unidentified. -
[Bristol Canal 1939]
Delaware Canal at Bristol, young fisherman is walking south toward Lock #2 above Bath & Mill Street.