Koch Images Collection

Container and File List

Gift of Charlotte Koch Schefter
1999.23.12

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

Fifty-two folders, in six photograph boxes, from the collection of Charlotte Koch Schefter of Virginia.  It was Charlotte’s father who, having lived in State College for many years, created this insightful record of the emerging and evolving State College/Penn State.

Koch Images Collection

Container and File List

Aerial Views – Penn State
1922-1970’s
9 images including aerial views of campus 1922 (3); 1923 (1), n.d. (2); aerial view including Engineering units, railroad station, and W. College Ave., 1928; color postcards, n.d. (1970s?) (2)

Aerial Views – State College
1919-1949
5 images: aerial views of State College 1919, 1949 (4) 

Bellefonte
1892 – ?
3 images: photo of drawing of Valentine Iron Works, Bellefonte, before 1892; Bellefonte Iron Works, 1903; postcard of Bellefonte-State College buses on Allegheny Street before 

Centre Furnace
1 image: Centre Furnace Grist Mill, 1910 

Ferguson Township
3 images: Strubles Station, 1908; Pine Hall churches, n.d. (negative only); Ard Mill in Pine Grove Mills, n.d. (negative only) 

Fraternities
9 postcard images: Alpha Chi Rho; Delta Sigma Phi; Delta Upsilon; Kappa Sigma; Lambda Chi Alpha; Phi Gamma Delta; Phi Kappa Tau; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Sigma Phi Epsilon

Milesburg
1 image: color postcard of Milesburg PRR station, addressed to Hester Christ, 240 E. College Ave., State College

Mt. Nittany
1911-1924
3 images: Mt. Nittany, 1911, n.d.; Mt. Nittany with campus buildings in front, 1924 

Oak Hall
1 image: Oak Hall Dam, 1910

Penn State
1902-1927
Bound book of images of Penn State, with map, 1902; photograph of Penn State fire truck, 1927

Penn State
1908-1950
3 images: “Birdseye View of the Campus-to-Be” color map, 1908; panoramic view of Penn State (and State College), 1909; birdseye view map, 1950

Penn State – Athletic Fields
1890-1959
16 images: Old Beaver Field 1890 (4), 1900, 1911, 1912, 1914 (2); Grandstand at Old Beaver Field, n.d.; Bull Pen after storm, 1909; Baseball diamond at New Beaver Field, before 1946; New Beaver Field 1923-1936, 1936-1939, 1939-1943, 1943-1949, 1949-1959

Penn State – Buildings
1893-1960
13 images: playing croquet on the lawn of the Pond House, Old Main in background, 1893; Pond House; McAllister Hall, n.d.; Mac Hall kitchen, 1908; Track House, 1931; old Forestry Building; new Forestry Building; Rec Hall (2); Penn State College Hospital drawing on postcard, ca. 1922; infirmary building; West Halls, 1925; East Halls, 1960

Penn State – Buildings – Agriculture
1987-1914
14 images: Ag Experiment Building, built 1887 ; Ag Building, Creamery, and Calorimeter, 1908; interior of Creamery, 1908; Ag Building and Creamery, 1912; Horticulture Building, 1914, n.d.; postcard of Ag Engineering Building, n.d.; Agriculture Building (2); color postcard of Agriculture Building, n.d.; college farm buildings, n.d. (3); livestock pavilion, n.d. 

Penn State – Buildings – Armory
3 images: Armory with students in front, n.d. (3)

Penn State – Buildings – Engineering
1890 – ?
19 images: Old Engineering 1890, n.d. (5); fire at Old Engineering, 1918 (8); Engineering F built 1908; Engineering units on W. College Ave., ca. 1920s; Main Engineering Building (now EE West), built 1929 (3); postcard of Electrical Engineering (West), n.d. 

Penn State – Buildings – Grange
4 images: Grange Dorm, n.d.; co-ed studying in Grange Dorm room (2); lounge of dorm, n.d.

Penn State - Buildings – Laboratories
1908 – ?
5 images: Pond Lab postcard; students using telescopes on Osmond Lab; Physics and Chemistry Lab; Walker Lab fire, 1908; students in lecture hall of Chem Annex, built 1910

Penn State – Buildings – Liberal Arts buildings
4 images: “The Mall”, n.d.; Liberal Arts Building, n.d.; former Education Building, n.d.; Sparks Building, n.d.

Penn State – Buildings – Library
? – 1957
2 images: Old Library; Pattee Library, 1957

Penn State – Buildings – Nittany Lion Inn
2 images: Nittany Lion Inn, n.d. (2)

Penn State – Buildings – Old Botany
3 images: Old Botany with greenhouse, 1890 (2); Old Botany complex with Old Main, 1890

Penn State – Buildings – Old Main
1860s-1930s
39 images: first Main Building, 1859-1863; Old Main with three Buckhout children in front, 1884; Old Main from Buckhout House, ca. 1885; views of Old Main from town, summer 1884, n.d. (2); blue tinted view with cannon, n.d.; with gardens, n.d.; original building, n.d. (2); with carriage, n.d.; with Armory, n.d.; as seen from President’s House, n.d. (3); with haystacks, very early (2); first auditorium/chapel, 1888; Old Main 1863-1894 (2); Main Building 1886; view from University Inn, 1893; Old Main 1903; 1910, 1918; Old Main 1912-1929 (5); end view, n.d.; Old Main 1918; Old Main Museum; students in Old Main?; Old Main since 1930 (2); postcards, 1907, 1921, n.d. (3) 

Penn State – Buildings – Schwab Auditorium
1902-1965
6 images: Schwab under construction, 1902; statue in lobby; Toner Dunlap and Tom Houser in front of auditorium, 1910; postcards of Schwab, 1965, n.d. (2) 

Penn State – Buildings – University Inn/Club
4 images: University Inn, n.d.; two women in front of University Inn, n.d.; University Inn fire, 1903; postcard of University Club

Penn State – Buildings – Woman’s Building
1890-1940
4 images: Woman’s Building, built 1890, n.d. (3), 1940 (1) 

Penn State – Campus
8 images: Old Main, obelisk, and Armory (3); panoramic view of campus, 1909; Old Main, Chemistry Building, and cottages (2); College Golf Course postcard; postcard of “Campus View”

Penn State – Entrance and Mall
1897-1930
12 images: Entrance Gates, 1897, 1912 (2), 1913, ca. 1920, 1930 (2); negative of entrance to campus, 1908 (2); main mall with elms; Old Willow; postcard of “Shaded Campus Walk”; postcard of “Main Entrance in Winter”

Penn State – Events
1903-1939
9 images: ROTC review in front of Amory, 1908 or 1909 (2); Garibaldi snow sculpture, 1903 (2); students pulling wagon; “Molasses and Feather Party”, 1910 (3); commencement 1939, with Ethel Noll Koch

Penn State – Events – Athletic
1908-1960
17 images: Football game at Old Beaver Field, 1908 (5); post-game celebrations (Penn State 45, Bucknell 3), 13 November 1910; bonfire and celebrations after Harvard game (Harvard 13, State 13), 1914 (6); team send-off 1914 or 1915; team send-off for Harvard game, 1915; scrum in front of Old Main; first game at Beaver Field, 1960 (2) 

Penn State – Events – Parades
1909-1929
9 images: President Sparks inauguration and parade, 1909 (3 images); Trooping the colors, ca. WWI; World War I parade, 1918 (4); Band 1929

Penn State – Gardens/Grounds
1865-1928
7 images: laying out gardens, ca. 1865; Old Botany garden, 1885; gardens and grounds with Old Botany garden, 1900; Hort Woods fence along Park Ave.; Ghost Walk, before 1928 (2); postcard of Alan Seeger Memorial Park in Harris Township

Penn State – People
1905-1955
6 images: group of students, 1905; Blue Band, 1908-1909; Penn State College grounds and buildings employees, 1910, n.d.; Penn State Co-eds, 1911; class of 1930 reunion, 1955? 

Penn State – People – Athletics
1900-1957
15 images: football players, 1900; “Mother” Dunn, 1909; Lee Talbot, after breaking hammer record, 1910; baseball team, n.d.; football team, 1900, 1911, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1947, n.d. (3); Cotton Bowl team reunion, 1957

Pennsylvania Furnace
1 image: Hand-drawn map of Campbell Family Farm in Pennsylvania Furnace, birthplace of Hubert Campbell Koch (2 copies)

Pine Grove Mills
1897 – ?
2 images: crowd at Bellefonte Central RR station in Pine Grove Mills, 1897; postcard of road going up Pine Grove Mountain

Pleasant Gap
1890s-1935
4 images: Pleasant Gap Silver Cornet Band, 1890s; Pleasant Gap school class photos, 1931-32, 1933-34, 1934-35

Scotia
1883-1954
12 images: ore washer, 1883, 1884; dinkey engine 1885; steam shovel, 1903; Scotia PRR station 1903-4, n.d.; incline plane, 1909; Main Street, 1910; operations, n.d. (2, one negative only); unveiling of historical marker, July 1954 (2) 

State College – Buildings
9 images: home, ca. 1880s; construction of building downtown, n.d.; houses on Fraser St.? (4); building Centre Hills Country Club swimming pool, n.d.; Koch Funeral Home, Burrowes St.; Krumrine Farm, n.d. (negative only)

State College – Buildings – Allen St.
1904-1945
5 images: Shueys Jewelry, 104 S. Allen St., 1904; collapsed building on east side of S. Allen St., n.d.; Metzger Building fire, S. Allen St., June 1945 (3) 

State College – Buildings – Beaver Ave.
1916-1958
3 images: building the Berkshire House on W. Beaver, 1916; 100 block of W. Beaver Ave., 1958 (2) 

State College – Buildings – Co-Op Corner
1912-1926
8 images: Hotel State College, before 1900 (4), 1912; n.d. (negative only); crowd at Co-Op Corner, 1913; Graham Building, 1926; horse-drawn wagon in front of Graham’s, n.d. (negative only) 

State College – Buildings – College Avenue
1866-1941
10 images: Sophie Hunter house W. College (1st post office), 1866; Albert Hoy house, SW corner College and Frazier, 1889 (2); Presbyterian Church, E. College, 1894?; Foster House (negative), n.d.; St. Paul’s Methodist Church, E. College, n.d.; Stuart home, 100 block E. College, 1903; First National Bank, 122 W. College, 1910; Florsheim Shoe store, 1934; back of building, 1941

State College – Buildings – Schools
1921 – ?
2 images: Frazier Street school; State College High School, 1921

State College – Memorial Field
1925-1938
4 images: panorama of Memorial Field, 1938; “The Hollow”, 1925 (negative only); Penn State and State College from the Foster Farm (Sink hole) (2); 

State College – People
1901-1970s
18 images: State College High School football team, 1901, 1902, 1905 (neg. only);  Alpha Fire Company crew with four men in blackface, n.d.; crowd on strike downtown, 1910; State College High School baseball team, 1914; postal carriers, 1916; eighth grade class (with Hubert Koch), 1920 (3); class photo (high school?), 1920s; State High wrestlers, 1938 (neg. only); State College band, n.d. (neg. only); seven children sitting on a porch, n.d.; seven men holding a snake, n.d.; negative of State College Kiwanis Club, n.d.; Hubie Koch and Ross Lehman, n.d.; open house at Alpha Fire Company, 1970s

State College – Railroad
1918-1928
6 images: Bellefonte Central station with engineering units, 1918; station, 1922, 1928; station with Old Engineering, State College, and Mt. Nittany in background, n.d. (2); Bellefonte Central RR train sitting at station, n.d. 

State College – Streetscapes
1902-1939
19 images: negative of W. Beaver Ave., looking east, 1902; negative of Allen St., 1902; State College with gardens in foreground, n.d.; State College with spruce tree in center, n.d.; Park Ave. and College Heights, 1907; rear of west side, S. Allen St., 1909 (3); color postcard of W. College Ave. at Allen St., 1910; Hoy Transfer, Calder Alley, 1915; corner of Allen St. and Beaver Ave., 1930; Burrowes St., 1939; McAllister St., 1939; W. Beaver Ave. at Frazier St., 1939;  looking east on Beaver Ave. at Buckhout house; street and sidewalk; Allen St. 1896 and 1925 (negatives only); Allen St., 1920s (negative only) 

Transportation
1903-1922
6 images: “Harvey’s Hack”, Lemont to State College horse-drawn ‘bus’, 1903-1910; “Parker and the ‘Boat’”, Bellefonte Central RR, 1905; Engineering students’ experimental train, 1908; car accident, 1910; Billy Hoy with Hoy Transfer’s first motor truck, 1919; man with hearse, probably State College, 1922

Views from Old Main
1884-1928
39 images: looking south to College Ave., 1884 (2); south to Pugh and Allen Sts., 1889; State College with Mt. Nittany,1892, 1894; west campus with Engineering Bldg., 1893; south to Allen and Beaver, 1894; E. College between Pugh and Garner, 1894; looking southwest, with train tracks in center, 1908; view of MacKenzie residence from Ag Hill, with Mt. Nittany in background, 14 January 1908; “Mountains South of State College”; view with Mt. Nittany in background (negative); “Nittany Mountain” postcard; views down Pugh St. (5); looking east toward Centre Furnace; view of State College; Pugh St. to left; E. College Ave. with Methodist Church (3); color postcard, “Panoramic View of Campus”; W. Campus with Armory (2); campus and Mt. Nittany from Ag. Hill; farm properties, 1915 (2); looking west; looking northeast to campus buildings, 1900; looking past Engineering to Frazier St. School, 1900; looking southwest to W. College and Atherton, 1900 (3); looking west to golf course, 1928; looking east on campus (3, negatives only) 

Views from State College
1880s-1895
27 images: Pugh St., 1894; corner of Beaver and Allen, 1894; panoramic of Penn State and State College, 1894; view of campus and town from Beaver and Garner, 1894; view of campus and town, 1894 (3); view of campus and town from Nittany Ave. area, 1895; “Southeast End of Town”, 1925 (negative only); Allen St. looking from Beaver toward campus, n.d. (2); down Pugh St. to Old Main, n.d.; intersection of College and Pugh, n.d.; Old Main from Buckhout house; Pugh St. looking from Beaver to College (2); looking northeast from Pugh and Beaver (2); State College from Beaver (2); Old Main/State College from Pugh St. (2); State College and Penn State, showing armory, Old Main, and first schoolhouse; panoramic “Birds Eye View of State College”