I found this truly neat panoramic photo of Beaver Falls in the Library of Congress collection. It was taken by J.M. Strub about 1909. Click on the picture to see a much larger version. It was kind of hard to orient myself to this picture, since the town had changed greatly when I lived there. The picture was taken from Mount Washington, looking east. The Beaver River can be faintly glimpsed below the hills in the background. The one landmark I could identify was the Carnegie Library -- the only really large building in the photo, in the upper left part of the third panel from the left. The street running almost straight down the middle of the panorama is 12th Street. The "X" in the small picture above marks the approximate location of 1419 8th Avenue, where I grew up.

This photo of Marwood, Butler County, Pennsylvania was taken about 1892-95. Actually, back then the place was called Delano or Delano Station. Click the pic for a larger version.

The City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, from an 1871 engraving. The river is the Allegheny River, and a piece of downtown Pittsburgh is in the foreground. Allegheny was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1907, and is now called the North Side. The view is looking north from Mount Washington. Click the small pic to see a big one. (You figured that out already, huh?)

This building ought to be in the National Register of Historic Places. They should have a big, bronze plaque on the front and one of those historical marker things out front. This is Providence Hospital in Beaver Falls, PA, the birthplace of that noted scholar, soldier, and statesman -- me. Well, OK... forget the noted stuff. But this is where I was born and where my mother passed away. The picture is from a 1950s-vintage postcard. If nothing else, the old cars are nifty.