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This Program Brought To You By: Armstrong Cork Company & The Programs and Personalities of Classic Television Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon and for the past year I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloguing and digitizing a vast collection […]
Read MoreThis Program Brought To You By: Armstrong Cork Company & the Golden Age of Television Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon, and for the past several months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloguing and digitizing a vast collection of […]
Read MoreThis Program Brought To You By: Armstrong Cork Company and the Golden Age of Radio Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon, and for the past several months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloguing and digitizing a vast collection of […]
Read MoreArmstrong, Australia, and the US Navy Goodwill Tour of 1925 Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon and for the past few months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloguing and digitizing a vast collection of archival materials that document the […]
Read MoreWritten by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon and for the past few months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloging and digitizing a vast collection of archival materials that document the significant role of the cork industry in the local economy. […]
Read MoreFrom Portugal to Lancaster and Around the World with Dodge Cork Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller My name is James McMahon and for the past few months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloging and digitizing a vast collection of archival materials that document […]
Read MoreHow Lancaster Dealt with the 1918 Pandemic There are striking similarities and dramatic differences in how the influenza epidemic was dealt with in 1918 and how we are doing it today. We learned from mistakes made 102 years ago, but many things have parallels to today. The following are a few examples found in Lancaster […]
Read MoreFrom Portugal to Lancaster and Around the World with the Armstrong Cork Company Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. My name is James McMahon and for the past few months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloging and digitizing a vast collection of archival materials that document the significant […]
Read MoreArticle Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Posted by Emily Miller Introduction My name is James McMahon and for the past few months I have been working as a project archivist for LancasterHistory. My responsibilities include cataloging and digitizing a vast collection of archival materials that document the significant role of the cork industry in the […]
Read MoreA Titanic Story – Milton Hershey’s Near Sail on RMS Titanic Written by James McMahon, Ph.D. Milton and Catherine Hershey loved to travel. From the time of their marriage on May 28, 1895 until Catherine’s Hershey death on March 25, 1915, the Hersheys embarked on multiple tours of the United States, Europe, the Middle East, […]
Read MoreSturgis Pretzel Bakery—America’s first commercial pretzel bakery—was founded by Julius Sturgis in 1861.