[Postcard: Radcliffe Street, St. Mark Church on left]
Inscription on back from Mrs. Albert Gran, 16th Altor Street, Hazleton, Pa. Message reads: "I got here safe. We got here at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I'll write later. Anna Gran."
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Newly erected Harriman United Methodist Church 1964 on the site of the 1924 building.
Harriman United Methodist Church Wilson Avenue and Harrison Street built in 1964.
Harriman United Methodist Church started as a YMCA-sponsored Sunday School in 1917. In 1924, this church building was erected. In 1941, the congregation was incorporated as Harriman Methodist Church. This building was removed in 1964 and a larger structure erected on the same site. The church is located on Wilson Avenue and Harrison Street in the “Harriman” section of Bristol.
[Christmas Card: Harriman United Methodist Church--interior]
Inscription inside of card reads: “May you have the gladness of Christmas which is Hope, the spirit of Christmas which is Peace, the heart of Christmas which is Love.” Color Photography and natural color reproduction by WYCO Colour Productions, 410 Wyndon Road, Ambler, PA. Church formed 1918 at Bristol High School. 1923 it became a Methodist Church.
Postcard: "Laying corner stone St. Anne's Church, Bristol, PA 1907"
[Site of the former Presbyterian Church of Our Savior]
This house on Lincoln Avenue is on the site of the former Presbyterian Church of Our Savior.
The Presbyterian Church of Our Savior. Twentieth-century Italian immigration brought a need for Protestant Italians to have a place to worship. Starting as summer services in 1907-1909, the Presbyterian church of our Savior was dedicated in 1910 at Wood Street and Lincoln Avenue. Services were conducted in Italian. In 1966, Presbyterian authorities dissolved the church, encouraging the congregation to join with the Bristol Presbyterian Church on Radcliffe Street. This picture was taken post-1966. The building was used by a non-religious organization until fire gutted the structure and the remainder of the structure was demolished. A house was erected on this site.
[Bristol Jewish Center Hanukkah Menorah display]
Hanukkah Menorah, Bristol Jewish Center, December 7, 2004. The Synagogue was built in 1949 at 216 Pond Street. The congregation was 100 years old in 2004.
GA.BH.14 Bristol Jewish Center Collection
Bristol Jewish Center established in 1908 at 119 Pond Street.
[Student Rabbi Sandra Rubenstein and Rabbi Judith Abrahamson standing outside of the Bristol Jewish Center menorah display]
[Lettered sign outside of the Bristol Jewish Center]
From left: Jeannie H. Phillips--President, David Hyett, baby Charlie Hyett, Laura Brody Hyett--Student Rabbi, Alan Vogenberg--Treasurer, Congregation Avath Achim of Bristol Jewish Center.
[First night of Hanukkah at the Bristol Jewish Center]
From left: Alan Vogenberg (Treasurer of BJC), Emily Laird, Colin Ragelow.
[Ellis Katz, Esq., at the Bristol Jewish Center rededication of the "Little Torah"]
Katz's name is on the handle of the Torah.
[Alan Vogenberg, Treasurer, at the rededication of the "Little Torah," Bristol Jewish Center]
[Reception room set up for Hanukkah, Bristol Jewish Center]
[Hanukkah menorah display, Bristol Jewish Center]
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church located at Jefferson Avenue and Wood Street. Built in 1883 when a group of dissatisfied members of St. James Episcopal Church broke from that congregation. The adjacent parish house was added by 1909. St. Paul's congregation sold the property in 1924 to the Zion Lutheran Congregation and a new St. Paul’s Church was located at Randall Avenue in Bristol Township. St. Paul's is presently located on Levittown Parkway and Mill Creek Parkway.
Zion Lutheran Church, Jefferson Avenue and Wood Street. The outside of the church was altered and the entrances moved to the Wood Street side towards the back.
Calvary Baptist Church, constructed in 1961. The congregation started as a part of the First Baptist of Bristol. They separated and moved to Green Lane in 1948. The building they opened in 1946 is connected to this structure by an education building and is to the right of this structure.
Calvary Baptist Church, originally part of the First Baptist church located on Wood and Cedar Street. The relocated briefly to Wood and Walnut Street before moving to their Green Lane location.
First Baptist Church, Walnut and Cedar Streets. Organized in 1848, the church moved to Bristol Township in the 1970s. Currently home to the Spotlight Deliverance Temple.
Written on back: “Church I attended First Baptist Church Bristol, PA. Bertha.”
Located at the corner of Walnut and Wood Streets.
Built at Wilson Avenue and Cleveland Street in 1958. This church closed on July 10, 2011.
Stereograph card: “Ice Gorge on the Delaware at Shady Side, above Bristol, Pa.--Feb. 14, 1881. Nathan Hellings' Residence. Lardner Photo., Bristol, Pa."
Stereograph card: “Ice Gorge on the Delaware at Bristol, Pa.--Feb. 14, 1881. J. F. Lardner, Photo., Bristol, Pa."
[Written on back]: "Feb. 9, 10, 11, 1934, 20 degrees below, on Delaware River, Ed Hunter, Leo Gould, Frank Lynn, Herman Leinheiser"
[Pennsylvania Railroad at Bristol during a blizzard]
From Harold & Carol Mitchener: "This was probably the blizzard on March 14, 1914. Transportation was paralyzed. Eighty mile-per-hour winds caused havoc. There were 127 poles blown across the tracks between Bristol and North Philadelphia. Telephone service was off, and river and trolley service stopped. Note the stalled train."
Photo believed to have been taken opposite the present Harriman Station of Bristol near Taft and Barry Place. This storm was the worst since the blizzard of 1888. There were 127 poles blown across the tracks between Bristol and North Philadelphia. Telephone service was off, and river and trolley service stopped. The former Bristol Patent Leather Company would have been located behind the trains in the picture.
[275th Anniversary of Bristol Celebration]
Photo stamped on back with "Rohm & Haas Company, Philadelphia, PA. October 19, 1956." Photograph taken at the corner of Mill and Pond Streets. Sitting on the Buick are Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nichols, of Nichols Photography shop, located opposite of where the photograph was taken.
"Queen of the Bristol Frolic, Oct. 29-30-31, 1923"
Jane Ferry, Queen of the Bristol Frolic. She was one of six selected by the judges to represent Bristol Fire Companies in the Frolic Queen Contest. The others were Alice Yates, Dorothy Trude, Mary Friel, Marion DeLong, and Louise Hammond. Photo taken by Nichols Studio. Photo location on Mill Street, between Old Route 13 and Pond Street.
[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Abraham Lincoln historical marker in Bristol]
“Lincoln Sign” at Bristol, PA. From this view, Grundy Tower, a senior citizen housing apartment complex is visible.