Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: Lehigh County

Twenty-four adults and one child posed for this real photo postcard, which was used as a New Year greeting. Handwritten message (at right): "Wishing you all a Happy New Year. Lovingly, Emma." Addressed on the other side to Mrs. John Kreisel, 17 Cherokee St., S. Bethlehem, Pa., and postmarked in Allentown, Pa., on Jan. 3, 1908. Compare this photo with New Year Gathering, Chicago, Illinois, 1912 .

A detail from a photo of the participants in a vacation Bible school at St. John's Lutheran Church in Slatington, Pennsylvania, in 1936.The children in the top half of the image look like giants compared to the ones in the lower half, which makes it obvious that this is a montage of two or more different photos. For the full real photo postcard, see Vacation Bible School, St. John's Lutheran Church, Slatington, Pa., July 1, 1936 .

A religious photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. "St. John's Lutheran Church, 12th Daily Vacation Bible School, 7-1-36, Slatington, Pa." A real photo postcard of the children and adults who participated in a vacation Bible school at St. John's Lutheran Church in Slatington , Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1936. It wasn't until I attempted to count the number of people in the photo—there are about 215—that I realized that this is a montage combining two or more images. A close-up of part of the photo makes the montage obvious.

"Lecture by Joseph W. Richards, M.A., A.C., M.S., on 'Aluminium.' The Chemical Society of the Lehigh University. April 28, 1891, 8:00 p.m. Please present this ticket at the door. Seat no. 15."

"100,000 Population Jubilee, May 17, 1928. Allentown, Pa. Founded 1762."

"Lehigh House, South Bethlehem, Pa. Convenient to university. Newly refitted. European and American plans. Reduced rates for students. P. Alexander Hunt, prop. Free 'bus." As far as I can determine, Lehigh House was a hotel located in what is now Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ("South Bethlehem" is no longer used as a place name). I haven't been able to figure out the hotel's exact location, but its proximity to Lehigh University ("convenient to university") was apparently why the proprietor offered "reduced rates for students" and a "free [omni]bus." The only mention of the Lehigh House hotel that I've uncovered so far is in Alfred Mathews, History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts & Richards, 1884), p. 144: "In 1833, [Caspar] Kleckner built the hotel now known as the Lehigh House, which he kept until 1841, when his son-in-law, John G. Schimpf, took possession of it, and remained as landlord until 1858. Following him there were two or three other landlords, who remained for short terms, and in 1862 the house was sold to James Allen Trexler, whose son H. A. Trexler, is the present proprietor." I suspect that this business card dates to the 1880s or 1890s, when P. Alexander Hunt presumably succeeded H. A. Trexler as proprietor.

Lecture Course, under the auspices of the Class of '84, Muhlenberg College. To be held in the College Chapel. Lectures to begin at 8 p.m. Jan. 21st.--Rev. Prof. M. H. Richards, "A Theatrical Part." Jan. 28th.--Rev. E. E. Higbee, D.D., "Classical Studies." Feb. 4th.--Rev. S. G. Wagner, D.D., "The Young Man of the Period." Feb. 11th.--Rev. J. J. Fry, D.D., "Wanted--A Man." Feb. 15th.--Rev. Prof. F. A. Muhlenberg, D.D., "Rhodes." Ex-Gov. A. G. Curtin (Date and subject to be announced later). Season tickets, $1.00. Ex-Gov. A. G. Curtin.

"Roller skating. Just for fun in the American way. Dorney Park."

"Big-Bang. Real noise for boys. No matches, no gunpowder. The Conestoga Company, Inc., main office and factory, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S.A."

"Visit Roadside America, famous miniature village, Route 22, Hamburg, Pa. Harry R. Dubbs, Allentown, Pa." A cardboard sign for Roadside America , the quintessential American roadside attraction.

"C. C. Armbruster, restaurant and lager beer saloon, no. 41 South Sixth St., three doors south of Hamilton St., Allentown, Pa." A Victorian-era advertising trade card.

"Dorney Park Skee-Roll Alley, 2 coupons."