The Fulton Opera House as seen in 1870. |
F.W. Woolworth opened his first Department store in 1879 in Lancaster. |
In 1899 Woolworth built Lancaster's first skyscraper complete with rooftop garden. |
M. T. Garvin & Company Department Store came to Lancaster in the early 1900s. |
This black and white shows the Court House on far left, Central Market in the center and the Hirsh Brother Penn Hall Clothing House in the late 1800s. |
Lancaster's Southern Market in 1919. |
Buch's Drug Store in 1940. |
Kay Jewelry Store in 1910. |
National Biscuit Company on Church Street in the early 1900s. |
Train leaving the downtown station on Chestnut Street in 1911. |
First Lancaster Post Office in downtown in 1917. |
This is Queen Street in downtown Lancaster in 1927. In the rear you can see Lancaster's newest skyscraper, the Griest Building. It had just been built two years before the photo was taken. |
A delivery of Sprenger Beer heads through the center of town. This photograph is from the 1890s. |
Looking East on West King Street. The monument in the square can be seen in the distant center of this photograph. |
One of Lancaster's most famous department stores, Watt & Shand, stands to the right. It opened in 1879 with a series of additions made to it over the following 100 years. |
Lancaster Paint and Glass Company at 235 North Prince St. Year not identified. |
200 block of W. King Street with year not identified. |
The St. Joseph School of Nursing in 1925. |
Sam Lazarowitz selling the Lancaster Daily News on the square in 1942. Notice his change belt which all newsboys wore. |
This is a business card from the 1930s advertising Foster & Cochran Department Store. |
Train yard at West Lemon and Water Street. |
Grand Movie Theatre on N. Queen Street taken in 1936. |
One final photograph taken while standing in the center of Lancaster looking West. |
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