Cannon Postcard Collection

Container and File List

Bequest of Elizabeth Cannon
2001.17.66

Centre County Historical Society
1001 East College Avenue
State College, PA 16801-6806
814-234-4779
www.centrecountyhistory.org

 

Sixty-nine folders, in five photograph boxes, from the collection of Elizabeth Cannon of State College.  Her original scrapbooks organized the collection alphabetically by town or community, with Penn State as a separate section; the boxes are arranged in the same way.  The collection contains 844 postcards, ranging in postmark dates from 1900-1965.

Cannon Postcard Collection

Container and File List

Aaronsburg
12 postcards (1907-1911), including images of “Hains Township High School”; “Birdseye View of Aaronsburg, Pa.”; “Lutheran Church”; Birdseye view; “Krapes Store and Post Office”; “Reformed Church”; “Main Street Looking West”
1907-1911

Baileyville
4 postcards (1906-1912), including images of “Presbyterian Church”; “W.S. Ward’s Store”; “Baileyville Dam”; “Overflow of Old Mill Dam”

Bald Eagle Lookout/Skytop
11 postcards (1936), including images of “Eagle Inn”; “View from Bald Eagle Lookout”; View of Bald Eagle Valley; “View from Bald Eagle Lookout, Valley 1000 Feet Below, 7 Miles West of State College, Pa., Route 322” (#1,2,3,4); “Bald Eagle Valley from Route 322”; “View of Bald Eagle Valley Near State College, Pa.”; “Looking up Bald Eagle Valley from Route 322”; Bench overlooking Bald Eagle Valley

Bellefonte (general)
37 postcards (1905-1958), including Birds-eye views, composites of buildings and scenes, the air mail field, the “Site of the Old Planing Mill Dam, showing famous Willow Bank House on the right’; “Bald Eagle Mountains showing extensive Limestone Quarries”; Spring Creek, Logan Branch, railroad; “View from ‘Eagle’s Nest Rock”; “The Gap and State Road to Milesburg”; McCoy’s Gap; Grounds and track of Centre County Fair; Match Factory; Half Moon Hill; “Home of Bellefonte’s Famous Trout”; fish hatcheries; and “View of Mann’s Axe Factory”

Bellefonte Buildings
25 postcards (1907-1926), including “E.F. Pruner Home for Friendless Children”; Masonic Temple, Lodge 268; Centre County Jail; The Armory; “Burnham Place, Residence of Mrs. Valentine”; The Bush House; Petrikin Hall; The Brockerhoff House; Temple Court; “Reynolds Building and Temple Court”; the YMCA, and the homes of former Pennsylvania Governors Daniel Hastings, Andrew Gregg Curtin, and James A. Beaver.

Bellefonte Churches
10 postcards (1905-1912), including Quaker Meeting House; Presbyterian Church; St. John’s Catholic Church; St. John’s Episcopal Church; the P.E. Church; the U.B. Church; the Lutheran Church; and a composite of Bellefonte churches.

Bellefonte Railroad Station
4 postcards of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Bellefonte (1908-1911?)

Bellefonte Schools
14 postcards (1908-1913), including “Stone School Building”; “North Ward School”; “High School Building”; “Public Play Grounds” and 7 of the Bellefonte Academy

Bellefonte Streetscapes
23 postcards (1907-1933), including Corner of Linn & Allegheny Streets; Allegheny Street; “1st National Bank and North Alleghany Street’; “The Square”; “High street from P.R.R. depot”; Howard Street, East Linn St.”; “Water St. & Spring Creek”; “Looking down Water St.”; North Spring Street; “Street Scene, Spring & High Streets”; East Curtin Street; West High Street; West Bishop Street

Bellefonte-Big Spring
8 postcards (1908-1914), including one panoramic.

Bellefonte – Courthouse
10 postcards (1906-1909) of the County Courthouse in Bellefonte, including one interior, and several of the Curtin Memorial and Soldiers Monument in front of the courthouse. 

Bellefonte – Hospital
8 postcards (1907-1964); most of the old building, one of the new (now the Willowbank Office Building)

Boalsburg
13 postcards (1914-1940?), including “Birds Eye View”; “Main Street”; “Presbyterian Church”; “Reformed and Lutheran Churches”; “Public School Building”; “The Old Arch Bridge”; “Parsonage St. John’s Reformed Church”; “28th Division Shrine”; Duffy’s Tavern

Centre County A – C
6 postcards (1909-1958): “Greetings from Centre County, Pa”; “Cabins at Black Moshannon State Park near Philipsburg, Pa.”; “The Dam, Blanchard, Pa.”; “A Boating Scene, Greetings from Blanchard, Pa.”, Two views of creek at Coburn

Centre County L
5 postcards (1901-1916): Lemont (2); Linden Hall; “Scene at Linden Hall, Pa”; “Mountain Road, Livonia, Pa.”

Centre County M – O
5 postcards (1900-1912): “Pike Street, Milesburg, Pa.”; “Main Street, South from Public Square, Milesburg, Pa”; Nittany; Orviston (2)

Centre County P
9 postcards (1911-1913?): “Penn’s View - Penn’s Creek - Pennsylvania”; “126-Skyline View, The Gorge of Penn’s Creek”; “Landscape View, Pine Grove Mills, Pa.”; “East Main St., Pine Grove Mills, Pa.”; “Public School Building, Port Matilda, Pa.”; “Port Matilda, Pa. - At the Foot of Old Muncy Mountain”; Potters Mills; “Birds eye View of Potters Mills, Pa.”; “Eutaw House, Potter’s Mills, PA.”

Centre County S – T
4 postcards (1908-1932): Spring Creek near State College (2); Tusseyville (2)

Centre Hall
39 postcards (1905-1939), including birds-eyes, composites, street scenes, Centre Hall Hotel; Lutheran Church; “Presbyterian Church and Manse”; “United Evangelical Church and Parsonage”; Grange Encampment and Fair (10); “Monument in Indian Lane, East of Centre Hall”; Old Fort Hotel; “Scene near Centre Hall, Penn.”; Elementary School

Colyer
 4 postcards (ca. 1914)

Fisherman’s Paradise
4 postcards (1911-1958), including “Speckled Beauties Paradise”

Hecla Park
14 postcards (1909-1911), including views of Nittany Country Club (3); the lakes; the old furnace wheel; the park; fishing waters 

Howard
13 postcards (1907-1918), including Bald Eagle Creek; street scenes (Main St., Grove St., Walnut St.); “Church and School House, Fairview, Pa”; Christian Chapel; bridge; Schoolhouse

Millheim
16 postcards (1911-1924), including Penn St.; North St.; “Public School”; Millheim Railroad Station; Millheim Narrows (10); toll house (2)

Mt. Nittany – Centre Hall/Penns Valley
10 postcards of the Centre Hall side of Mt. Nittany (ca. 1942?), including “Nittany Mountain Coffee Shop, Route 53”; “Nittany Mountain Hotel”; “Pens Valley from Top Nittany Mountain near State College, Elevation 1809 Feet” (nos. 1 and 2); “Penn’s Valley from ‘Detwiler,’ Centre Hall, Pa.”; “Penn’s Valley from Nittany Mountain Hotel”; “View from Pete’s Place - Top of Nittany Mountain”; “View on Route 53, Centre Hall, Pa”; “‘Down the Pike’, above Centre Hall, Pa.”

Mt. Nittany – State College
4 postcards of the State College side of Mt. Nittany (1905-?)

Penn State – Agriculture Buildings
13 postcards (1907-1930): Agricultural Building (7); Agricultural Quadrangle; Agricultural Engineering Building; Dairy Barns (2); Stock Judging Pavilion [now Pavilion Theatre] (2)

Penn State – Armory
17 postcards of the former Armory at Penn State (1904-1954), including some with Old Main and some with obelisk

Penn State – Athletics
13 postcards of the Penn State athletic fields and events (1907-1915): Beaver Field (3); “Base Ball Field”; “Athletic Training Quarters”; Bonfire (2); cider ball scraps (5)

Penn State – Birds-eye and campus views
23 individual postcards of Penn State campus views, and one souvenir folder of 23 postcards of Penn State buildings (1905-1916)

Penn State – Birds-eye panoramic views
2 panoramic postcards of Penn State campus (1908-1909)

Penn State – Chemistry Building
5 postcards (1907-1915);one also shows Physics

Penn State – Creamery/Dairy Building
7 postcards (1924-1937)

Penn State – Dormitories
5 postcards (1925-1946): “Grange Memorial Dormitory”; “Frances Atherton Hall-Girls’ Dormitory”; “Watts Hall”; “Varsity et Watts Halls” [in French]; “Watts, Irvin and Jordan Halls”

Penn State – Engineering Buildings
12 postcards (1907-1916): old Engineering Building (10); Engineering Units; (now) Electrical Engineering West

Penn State - Entrance/Main Gates
28 postcards (1906-1953) of Penn State main entrance, main gates, “campus drive”, and the “Old Willow”

Penn State – Fraternities
16 postcards (1912-1931): Alpha Zeta; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Delta Theta; Phi Gamma Delta; Phi Sigma Kappa; Sigma Chi; Sigma Nu 

Penn State – Grounds
7 postcards (1913-1932), including “Campus Walk”; “Ghost Walk” (2); “Outdoor Auditorium”; “Open Air Theatre”; “The Senior Benches”; “Test Gardens for Pennsylvania State College”

Penn State – Horticulture Building
3 postcards (1915-1916)

Penn State – Laboratories
3 postcards (? – 1937?): Buckhout Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Pond Chemical Laboratory

Penn State – Ladies’ Cottage
14 postcards (1906-1916) of the Ladies’ Cottage, later known as the Women’s Building

Penn State – Liberal Arts Building
4 postcards (1917-1932), two with the Library

Penn State – Library
14 postcards (1908-1927?) of the Carnegie Library and the “New Library at Night” [Pattee]

Penn State – McAllister Hall
15 postcards (1905-1916?)

Penn State – Miscellaneous buildings
7 postcards (1918-1935): Power Plant (2); “Ground was broken August 25, 1922, for this new Penn State College Hospital, as a gift of the Potato Growers of the State of Pennsylvania”; “Infirmary”; “Nita-Nee House”; “Mineral Industries”; “School of Mines”

Penn State – Nittany Lion Inn
18 postcards (1931-1952), including exteriors and interiors

Penn State – Old Botany
13 postcards (1905-1915) of the Penn State botanical building and gardens, now known as Old Botany

Penn State – Old Main
37 postcards (1906-1962)

Penn State – President’s House
3 postcards (ca.1913?)

Penn State – Rec Hall
5 postcards (1907-1942), including interior, golf course, and campus drive

Penn State – Schwab Auditorium
18 postcards (1902-1917), including one interior

Penn State series (Meriden Gravure Co.)
9 postcards in a black-and-white series (after 1930): “Grange Building”; “Liberal Arts Building”; “Old Main in Winter Time”; “Recreation Hall”; “Education Building”; “Old Main”; “Schwab Auditorium”; “Armory”; “New Library”

Penn State series (Whitman’s Phototypes)
25 postcards in a black-and-white series (unknown date): Entrance at Allen St.; Old Main; Education Building; Dairy Building; Dairy Barns (2); Electrical Engineering Building; New College Library; Dairy Building; Grange Dormitory; Main Engineering Building; Botany Building; Recreation Building; Watt-Frear and Varsity Halls (2); Liberal Arts Building; Alpha Zeta Fraternity; Phi Delta Theta; Mary Fletcher White Building; Nittany Mountain; Pennsylvania State College from the Air; Nittany Lion Inn; Home Economics Building; Main Engineering Building; Agricultural Building

Penn State – Structures
2 postcards (1913-1949): “Wireless Tower”; “Lion Shrine”

Penn State – University Club
2 postcards (unknown date)

Penns Cave
29 postcards (1909-1954), including the Penns Cave House (2); the entrance to the cave (4); formations in the cave (17); and the lake (6)

Pennsylvania Furnace
4 postcards (1913?) of the Pennsylvania Furnace ironmasters home, two labeled “Fairbrook Country Club” and two labeled “Tyrone Country Club”

Philipsburg
15 postcards (1907-1913), including “Public School Bldg.” (3); “Public Building”; “Old Union Church” (3); “Doctors McGirk Sanitarium”; “South Centre Street”; “South Park in Winter”; Womelsdorf Residence; “‘Halehurst’, Residence of Hardman Philips, Founder of Philipsburg, Pa.”; “Morrisdale Coal Co., Shaft No. 3”; “Front Street”; “Bridge Over Moshannon Creek, South”

Pleasant Gap
4 postcards (1909-1930), including two of the town and one of the fish hatchery

Rebersburg
4 postcards (1907-1914): “East Main St.”; “Reformed Church”; “Rebersburg”; and “In West Rebersburg, Pa.”

Rockview
3 postcards (unknown date) of Rockview State Penitentiary: “Warden’s Residence, New Western Penitentiary, Bellefonte, Pa.” (2); “Rockview Penitentiary Between State College and Bellefonte, Pa.”

Seven Mountains
6 postcards (1922?) of the Seven Mountains area, along Rt. 322 between State College and Lewistown

Shingletown
6 postcards (1930-1938), including “Shingletown Gap, Near State College, Pa.” (2); “The Reservoir, The Pa. State College” (2); “State College Reservoir, Near State College, Pa.”; and “Shingletown Reservoir, Near State College, Pa.”

Snow Shoe
15 postcards (1906-1914), including “View of Deer in Jno. G. Uzzell’s Deer Park at Snow Shoe”; “J. G. Uzzell and Some of the Deer in His Deer Park”; “Mountain House”; “Clarence Hotel”; “One of the Streets of Snow Shoe, Pa., 1,800 feet above Sea Level”; “Grand Stand and Snow Shoe Driving Park”; “Dancing Pavilion, Dining Room and Kitchen, Snow Shoe Park”; “Home Stretch of Half Mile Track, Snow Shoe Park”; “Base Ball Diamond, Grand Stand, etc., Snow Shoe Park”; “One of the Three Avenues in Snow Shoe Park” (2); “One of the Beautiful Drives near Snow Shoe, Pa.”; “View of P.R.R. Switch Back Road between Snow Shoe Intersection and Snow Shoe, Pa.”; “Snow Shoe Fire Bricks Work”

Spring Mills
14 postcards (1912-1914), including the Post Office; Main St.; Long Ave.; “Spring Mills, Pa.”; “C.P. Long’s Dep’t Store”; “Spring Mills, Pa. Looking West”

State College
24 postcards (1907-1965), including Birds-eye View (2 - one panoramic, one half of original); aerial views (2); “Mountains South of the Pa. State College” (2); “The Fountain - ‘Meek’s’”; “The Soda-Fountain at Gilliland’s Drug Store”; “The Corner Room of the Hotel State College”; College Avenue (3); “The Nittany Inn, State College, Pa.” [Hotel State College]; “West College Avenue”; “Allen Street, looking South from Entrance to Campus”; “The Athletic Store Building”; Corner of College and Allen”; “Dining Room, Greyhound Post House”; “Ranch Court Motel, Route 322”; “Centre Hills Country Club, Mt. Nittany in Distance”; “Allen St. looking south at Night”; the Autoport (2)

State College Churches
7 postcards (1917-1919?): Grace Lutheran Church (2); St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church; Methodist Church; Presbyterian Church (2); Catholic Church and Parish House

State College Fraternities
23 postcards (1912-1937): Acacia, Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Rho, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Sigma Nu and Alpha Gamma Rho, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Phi Sigma, Sigma Pi, Tau Kappa Epsilon

Woodward
16 postcards (? – 1931?), including the Woodward Inn, Woodward Narrows, and views of cave formations (14)