Greater Hazleton Historical Society and Museum

Afternoon edition of the Hazleton Plain Speaker a day after the Pearl Harbor attack -- December 7, 1941:

December 1954: The first distribution of lunch box containers for the Dime-A-Week campaign -- leading to the formation of CAN DO, Inc. -- was made by its committee, shown leaving the Chamber of Commerce headquarters carrying the red-and-white lunchboxes which they put in business places. Left to right: Andrew Yaniga, Charles F. McElwee, Harold Koch, Alexis Neapolitan, and Chairman Aaron Goldman.

Downtown Hazleton during the holiday season in 1965

Fifty seven years ago this afternoon, students at St. Gabriel's file into the church to pray the rosary following news about John F. Kennedy's assassination:

Miners' wives search for coal during the 1902 coal strike in Hazleton.