Photographs
A limited number of photographs are available for purchase through our online gift shop. Our Photograph Archives contains over a million images. You can view a sample of photographs or contact the Historical Society for specific inquiries.
Historic Farm Show Photos
(As seen on PennLive.com)
1. Farm Show Building During 1936 Flood
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: ALB19-02312-1
Price: $9
2. Farm Show Building During 1936 Flood
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: ALB19-02312-2
Price: $9
3. Farm Show Building During 1936 Flood
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: ALB20-02419-1
Price: $9
4. Farm Show Traffic on Maclay Street, 1940s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-226
Price: $9
5. Farm Show Traffic on Cameron Street, 1930s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-406
Price: $9
6. Farm Show Parking, 1940s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-766
Price: $9
7. Farm Show Operetta, 1940s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-767
Price: $9
8. Farm Show Livestock Judging, 1983
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-769
Price: $9
9. Constructing Route 22 Bypass, 1930s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-2856
Price: $9
10. Farm Show Cattle Judging, 1940s
Photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-3685
Price: $9
Photos of the 1972 Hurricane Agnes Flood
1. A half-submerged billboard on South Cameron Street proclaims the message “Never Before…”
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 47-720600-39-1a-2
Price: $12.50
2. A view of the Shipoke District from 2nd Street looking north.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 47-720600-39-12c
Price: $12.50
3. After the waters recede, Front Street near the Harris-Cameron Mansion is left covered in mud.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 17a-720600-14-19c
Price: $12.50
4. An abandoned boat is left tied to a post on South River Street (directly behind the current offices of the Historical Society of Dauphin County).
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 17A-720600-14-10c2
Price: $12.50
5. Mountain Creek in Mount Holly Springs floods South Baltimore Ave in front of The Deer Lodge.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 2b-720622-5-08c2
Price: $12.50
6. Mount Holly Springs, view from Mill Street looking east, debris washed onto road from nearby salvage yard.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 3b-720622-6-18c
Price: $12.50
7. A New Cumberland River Rescue boat patrols along Market Street near 5th Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 7b-720623-4-28c
Price: $12.50
8. Fairview Township Fire Fighters maneuver their boat under the bridge at Bridge Street which (usually) crosses over the Yellow Breeches Creek in New Cumberland.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 12b-720624-5-18c
Price: $12.50
9. A solitary figure looks on as the flood waters of the Susquehanna rise to meet the Walnut Street Bridge.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 63-720600-54-22c
Price: $12.50
10. As the waters recede, a view into the interior of the Walnut Street Bridge looking west.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 17a-720600-14-25c2
Price: $12.50
11. An abandoned vehicle withstands the river’s current on the western ramp of the Walnut Street Bridge.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 9b-720624-3-09c
Price: $12.50
12. Boats and debris caught against the North Bridge to Three Mile Island.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 30-720600-26-12a
Price: $12.50
13. View of the South Bridge to Three Mile Island.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 33-720600-29-15c2
Price: $12.50
14. A view looking down into the Bottleneck on the West Shore.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 5b-720623-2-37
Price: $12.50
15. A view of the Bottleneck looking upriver into Wormleysburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 6b-720623-3-34c
Price: $12.50
16. A man pushes a boat on Ferry Street in Wormleysburg out toward Front Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 5b-720623-2-18c2
Price: $12.50
17. The Susquehanna River spills over at the intersection of Front and Walnut Streets in Wormleysburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 5b-720623-2-26c2
Price: $12.50
18. National Guardsmen in Harrisburg standing at the barricades at 4th and Market Streets.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 44-720600-36-13c
Price: $12.50
19. National Guard checkpoint on Allison Hill in Harrisburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 44-720600-36-22c
Price: $12.50
20. The shelter at the Armory in Harrisburg: A moment of consolation.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 45-720600-37-21ac
Price: $12.50
21. The shelter at the Armory in Harrisburg: A respite.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 48-720600-41-34c2
Price: $12.50
22. The shelter at the Armory in Harrisburg: Close quarters and strange bedfellows.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 75-19c3
Price: $12.50
23. The Hershey Ice Cream manufacturing plant on Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 40-720623-7-32c2
Price: $12.50
24. Receding waters reveal damage to cars on the Royer Buick used car lot on Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 69-720600-59-35c
Price: $12.50
25. Cameron Street, just south of the Mulberry Street Bridge, oil and mud show the high-water mark and the regression of the flood waters.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 52-720600-44-04c
Price: $12.50
26. A view of a tree-lined Cameron Street taken from the State Street Bridge looking north toward Herr Street. Flood waters nearly cover the commercial bus in the foreground.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 58-720600-50-10c
Price: $12.50
27. Discarded home furnishings and personal items line the streets of Shipoke.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 21b-720600-76-36a2
Price: $12.50
28. Flood damaged furniture parked along Market Street in Harrisburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 87-720600-78-14c
Price: $12.50
29. Heavy equipment brought in to remove the mountain of wet paper at The Patriot-News.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 90-720600-81-19c
Price: $12.50
30. Damaged Patriot-News paper and newsprint is loaded into open hopper railcars for removal.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 90-720600-81-27c
Price: $12.50
31. The Susquehanna River backs into the Conodoguinet Creek to separate West Fairview from Wormleysburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 10b2-720624-4-15c
Price: $12.50
32. A motorboat approaches the intersection of Stella and Front Streets in Wormleysburg heading north towards West Fairview.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 7b-720623-4-31c
Price: $12.50
33. Penn Central Shuttle Service: Arrival at the crossing at Poplar Church Road in Wormleysburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 10b-720624-4-14c
Price: $12.50
34. Penn Central Shuttle Service: Patient is carried from the boxcar.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 10b2-720624-4-001c
Price: $12.50
35. Penn Central Shuttle Service: Wormleysburg Ambulance prepares for trip up to Holy Spirit Hospital.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 11b-720624-5-00c
Price: $12.50
36. On June 26, 1972, a helicopter carrying three newspersons and one pilot crashed at the Capital City Airport in New Cumberland.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 21b-720600-76-4a2
Price: $12.50
37. Accounts of the accident claim the helicopter lost its rotor at an altitude of 300 feet and burst into flames when a portion of the rotor pierced the fuel tank. There were no survivors.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 18A-720600-3-14c
Price: $12.50
38. Coffins washed away from the cemetery at Forty Fort: Survey of damage.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 59-720600-51-12a
Price: $12.50
39. Coffins washed away from the cemetery at Forty Fort: Coffin secured for removal.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 59-720600-51-18a
Price: $12.50
40. Coffins washed away from the cemetery at Forty Fort: Coffin airlifted from site.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 59-720600-51-19ac
Price: $12.50
41. Ground water spills down from the LEMO Interlocking into the bottleneck in Lemoyne.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 6b-720623-3-26c2
Price: $12.50
42. Clean-up of office equipment outside of The Patriot-News building.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 65-720600-56-04a2
Price: $12.50
43. Planes at the Piper Aircraft Company in Lock Haven lie half-submerged by flood waters from the West Branch of Susquehanna River.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 13a-720600-10-16b
Price: $12.50
44. Flood waters bring a mobile home to rest in the middle of a farmer’s field.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 10a-720600-7-10c2
Price: $12.50
45. A view from Allison Hill down to the intersection of Market and Cameron Streets.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 70-720600-60-18c
Price: $12.50
46. A boat carrying a Harrisburg City police officer approaches the intersection of Market and Cameron Streets.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 40-720623-7-14c
Price: $12.50
47. A man and a woman fight against the current of the Paxton Creek at 10th & Market Streets.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 2A-720622-4-13
Price: $12.50
48. An emergency worker in a rowboat paddles out onto Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 2A-720622-4-21c
Price: $12.50
49. Harrisburg City firefighters attempt to respond to row home fire on North 2nd Street: Flood waters keep trucks at Susquehanna and Maclay Streets.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 38-720623-6-19c2
Price: $12.50
50. Harrisburg City firefighters attempt to respond to row home fire on North 2nd Street: Additional fire hose is brought in on a National Guard truck in an attempt to reach the blaze on 2nd Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 38-720623-6-15c
Price: $12.50
51. Harrisburg City firefighters attempt to respond to row home fire on North 2nd Street: Firefighters attempt to approach blaze on 2nd Street from Penn Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 38-720623-6-22c
Price: $12.50
52. Governor Shapp is carried across flood waters by Constable Ed Watson.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 17A-720600-14-10c
Price: $12.50
53. Rescue at Market and Cameron: Emergency workers form a human chain.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 41-720622-8-18c
Price: $12.50
54. Rescue at Market and Cameron: Evacuees and rescue workers fight against the current from the Paxton Creek as it flows down Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 41-720622-8-19
Price: $12.50
55. Rescue at Market and Cameron: Evacuation across Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 41-720622-8-20c
Price: $12.50
56. Mayor Swenson, along with Mrs. Swenson and Constable Ed Watson, survey the flood damage from Berryhill Street near Cameron Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 45-720600-37-26a2
Price: $12.50
57. A Penn Central engine and its boxcars caught in flood waters outside of the Harrisburg Train Station.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 47-720600-39-08c2
Price: $12.50
58. Automobile and rail cars under the sheds in the Harrisburg Train Station.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 49-720600-41-30c
Price: $12.50
59. Crowd standing on Conestoga Street looking down towards South Front Street and beyond into the West End of town.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 72-720600-62-29c
Price: $12.50
60. View of Steelton at Front Street, near Jefferson Street, looking north.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 72-720600-62-30c
Price: $12.50
61. Night view of a boat being pulled along South Front Street near the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge in Harrisburg.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 720712-1-05a2
Price: $12.50
62. Market Street looking toward the submerged subway near North 5th Street.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 720600-45-8-8a950
Price: $12.50
63. A speedboat races through Harrisburg’s uptown neighborhoods.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 46-720600-38-15c
Price: $12.50
64. Cars slog through flood waters on Spera Drive, near Gettysburg Road, in Lower Allen Township.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 720621-3-21c
Price: $12.50
65. Agnes’ high-water mark is painted at the Pumping Station located along the river front.
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: 720710-5-06c2
Price: $12.50
Photos Celebrating the City of Harrisburg’s 150th Anniversary
(As seen in the Patriot-News.)
Watching the 1940 World Series in Market Square
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-2712
Price: $12.50 + $3.00 Special S&H
Lincoln Funeral Train at Penna RR Station
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: Z02813
Price: $12.50 + $3.00 Special S&H
Balloon Parade on Market Street, 1940’s
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-344
Price: $12.50 + $3.00 Special S&H
Market Street Bridge, late 1930’s
Black and white photographic reprint
Size: Approx. 8×10 inches
Photo ID: MG698-109
Price: $12.50 + $3.00 Special S&H