[Delia’s Band Bristol on a parade float]
Frank Delia is playing the guitar. Joe Delia is the piano player. Joe Delia organized the band and had red hair. Frank Delia later played in the Ferko String Band.
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[Delivery cart, stream likely part of Adam’s Hollow Creek]
[Demolition and removal of O’Boyle’s Ice Cream factory on Farragut Avenue and Green Lane in 2010 to make room for additional parking spaces for the adjacent medical building]
[Demolition of the Bristol Railroad Station waiting platform in 1983]
It was replaced with a smaller platform for commuter rail.
Carl De Ganahl standing far right. On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City, Bryant 9-7675."
Back left: Guy Norini. Others unidentified.
[Development of Commerce Park Shopping Center at US Route 13 and PA Route 413, water pumps and pond]
With the development of Commerce Park Shopping Center at PA Route 413 and US Route 13 the area had a high water table. They had to create a pond to hold the water.
[Development of Commerce Park Shopping Center at US Route 13 and PA Route 413, water pumps]
When Commerce Park in Bristol was being built at US Route 13 and PA Route 413, due to the high ground, a water table pond was created. This photograph shows the pumps required.
With the development of Commerce Park Shopping Center at PA Route 413 and US Route 13, due to the high water in the ground, a pond had to be created. This pumps water into Otter Creek.
[Development of Commerce Park Shopping Center at US Route 13 and PA Route 413]
[Devon Smith, Fleetwings Personnel Manager]
Written on back of photograph: "[illegible] House before addition by Rachel."
[Dining room of Keene House (built 1816)]
Radcliffe Street opposite Dorrance Street. House replaced by the Grundy Library.
Radcliffe Street opposite Dorrance Street. House replaced by Grundy Library.
[Door sign for Grundy Library program (“The Elephant and the Dove: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera”)]
[Dope shop after putting on the surface. Final inspection]
[Dora Thompson Colville and husband George taken at their home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida]
Dora's Bristol home was at 587 Bath Street.
[Dora Thompson Coville, a Bristol resident, is pictured in her classroom of Tullytown Elementary School]
Coville taught in Tullytown School from 1938-1952. Students are unidentified. Stamped on back of photograph: George Bruce Nichols Photographer, 503 East Milton Avenue, Rahway, New Jersey. Developing Printing Enlarging.
[Doron (1868-1949) and Clara M. Green (1874-1964) headstone]
Doron Green was the author of "History of Bristol, PA" and "History of Old Homes on Radcliffe Street." Also included in the Green plot are Nelson (1835-1895), Emily B. (1839-1916), Clara (1861-1867), G. Nelson (1913-1978), Helen May (1898-1898), and Margaret S. (1910-1969).
[Double birch houses on Radcliffe Street opposite No. 800 and No. 824 Radcliffe Street]
Unknown as to which church subject was a member of.
[Drainage basin next to Commerce Park parking lot]
[Drawing by W.B.R. entitled “W B. Rogers House as it was in 1860 south side"]
William B. Rogers (1840-1924). Sketch of the Rogers Homestead (off of Roger’s Road, Route 413, currently Winder Village). Four brothers in Rogers family. James and William engaged in cultivation of sage ledger books (within the Grundy Archive collections). The other two brothers Robert and Frank took over management of the grain mill (Mill Street, 400 block).
[E. W. Minster’s Livery Stable and Ice Depot ice wagon]
Depot located on Pond Street near Market Street.
[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.
[Educators at a retirement dinner, 1952]
From left to right: Warren P. Snyder, School Superintendent, Jane Rogers, returning teacher/principal of Wood Street Elementary School, Harold W. Ferguson, high school chemistry teacher, and Edwina Sykes, high school Latin teacher.
[Eight classmates, St. Mark Parochial School Bristol, PA]
Mary Farrell (nun), Joan Farrell (nun), Mary Doyle, Etta Doyle, Katherine Roche, Alice Keating, Margaret O’Donnell (nun), Margaret Mahan.
[Electric cranes on the twelve shipways of the Harriman Shipyard during WWI]
Buildings on the left are support buildings at the shipyard. The smokestacks at left are for the powerhouse.
[Elizabeth Lorimer (1881-1972) and Frank H. Jenks (1875-1955) on their wedding day]
They had a son Frank L. Jenks (1904-1982), who married Helen Appleton (1903-1969).
The wedding dress in this photograph is in the collections of the Bristol Cultural & Historical Society (BCHS).
[Ellis Katz, Esq., at the Bristol Jewish Center rededication of the "Little Torah"]
Katz's name is on the handle of the Torah.
GA.BH.14 Bristol Jewish Center Collection
[Elva Cruise, second grade teacher, instructs children at the Snyder Elementary School]
Elwood lived from 1893-1936. Olivia Minster, "wife," lived from 1865-1919.
[Elwood G. Minster, age 3 months & a half]
[Elwood W. Minster (1857-1922) and son, Elwood G. Minster (1893-1936) with horse]