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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. PHDC1_160531_045.JPG: Awarded to the employees of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania at Johnstown by the National Committee of Award Theodore N Vail Memorial Fund in recognition of their skill courage and devotion to duty in performing acts of noteworthy public service during the floods of March 1936
2. PHDC1_160531_049.JPG: The First Public School in the world in any general hospital. It was in this room in 1926 that the famous Tiny Tim Club of Crippled Children was organized.
3. PHDC1_160531_054.JPG: Penelec, circa 1960s
4. PHDC1_160531_056.JPG: Blackboard, Accident Record, circa 1963
5. PHDC1_160531_060.JPG: Sign, J.A. Waitson & Company, circa 1920s This Western Pennsylvania coal company sales sign depicts three sizes of coal for sale. Egg coal, the middle size, ranges from 1.5 to 4 inches.
6. PHDC1_160531_063.JPG: Sign and Clock Face, Gordon's Mortuary, circa 1950s This was once a neon sign that advertised Pauline Gordon's Mortuary. Gordon was the first African American woman in Johnstown to own and operate her own business, located at the top of Main St.
7. PHDC1_160531_070.JPG: (middle) Porch Post, Ludwig House / Gordon's Mortuary, circa 1880s This building component was part of the Ludwig House, an 1880s brick house on Main St. which was said to have housed Clara Barton during the recovery period of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. The house later became Gordon's Mortuary. The porch was demolished by a traffic accident in 2015.
8. PHDC1_160531_074.JPG: Pay Window, Davis Brake Beam Company, circa 1940s
9. PHDC1_160531_078.JPG: Basket, Wire, circa 1920s This basket was used to store the personal belongings of a miner during working hours. A series of baskets were hooked to a pulley system. The miners would place their street clothes and other belongings in the basket, pull it up out of reach, and then padlock the chain. This method was used in place of lockers.
10. PHDC1_160531_081.JPG: Sculpture, Choir Boys, circa 1910s
11. PHDC1_160531_086.JPG: Sign, US Steel Emblem, circa 1940s
12. PHDC1_160531_089.JPG: Window, Household Stained Glass, circa early 20th century
13. PHDC1_160531_091.JPG: Fire Alarm Box, circa 1920s
14. PHDC1_160531_105.JPG: "Morley" is back! History and Legends: Morley's Dog was made in the late 1800s by J.W. Fiske Iron Works. Cambria Iron executive James Morley bought the statue and placed it in his lawn, where it stood until being washed away in the great flood of May 31, 1889. Recovered in the debris at the Stone Bridge, it was returned to Morley. In the 1940s, Morley's descendants donated the statue to the city, and it has since become a beloved icon. There are several legends about the statue. The most famous is that it depicts a dog that saved a child during the great flood. (There was such a dog, a Newfoundland that saved three children.) This misconception was spread further by a reference in the 1977 Paul Newman cult classic "Slap Shot." The Conservation Effort: The statue is made of a zinc alloy material that was popular during the Victorian era, but is not particularly durable. Vandalism, weather and age contributed to the statue's deterioration, and in 2004 the statue was removed from the smart park in downtown Johnstown where it was displayed for years (today, a replica of the statue has been placed there). ...
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Wikipedia Description: Heritage Discovery Center
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The Heritage Discovery Center, officially known as the Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center, is a community history and culture center operated by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association (JAHA) in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The center features permanent and changing exhibits and galleries focusing on local history and culture. The building also features the Johnstown Children's Museum, a cafe and a social club.

Admission to the Center includes entry to all the exhibits and the Johnstown Children's Museum, and also includes one visit to all JAHA-owned museums in the Johnstown Discovery Network, including the Johnstown Flood Museum, and the Wagner–Ritter House & Garden, which is open seasonally.

Exhibits

"America: Through Immigrant Eyes" is a permanent exhibit about area immigrants who arrived between 1880 through 1914, mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe, and the ethnic neighborhoods in which they settled. The multimedia displays use sight, sound and smell to enable visitors to experience one person's daily life, starting from their country of origin and culture, to their travel to the United States to their lives and impact in the Johnstown area. A theatre features video interviews with the children and grandchildren of Johnstown immigrants.

The "Iron & Steel Gallery" focuses on the area steel industry. Exhibits include photographs and multi-media presentations.

The Heritage Discovery Center also features two galleries for changing exhibits of local history and culture.
Johnstown Children's Museum

The Johnstown Children's Museum is located on the Center's third floor. Interactive displays enable young children to learn Johnstown's geography, history, culture and industry through play.

History

The building was built in 1907 as a large brewery for the Germania Brewery Company, a local Johnstown brewery. In 2008-2009, Phase II of the building's development was ...More...
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2016 photos: Seven relatively short trips this year: two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City), my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California), a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral, two additional trips to New York City, and a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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