SCRANTON

BEING AN ILLUSTRATED AND
DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET OF THE

CITY OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.

Presenting Views of its Public Buildings, Churches, School Buildings, Banks, Charitable Institutions, Manufacturing and Mining Plants, Mercantile Establishment, Private Residences, Parks and Pleasure Resorts; Also Brief Articles on its History, its present Mining, Manufacturing, Transportation and Financial Interests, and its Educational, Religious and Charitable Activities, setting forth its Many Advantages as a City wherein to Live, to Work and to Succeed, and


DEDICATED TO THAT GREAT PUBLIC WHICH
IS FOREVER IN QUEST OF IMPROVED BUSINESS CONDITIONS AND
BETTER HOME SURROUNDINGS, BY

THE SCRANTON BOARD OF TRADE

Which Organization has directed its Secretary and
Publication Committee to Compile and Publish This Book in the
Year of Our Lord
ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWELVE



Map Showing Rail Roads & Collieries of Lackawanna Valley
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Thumbnail Index Pages 1 to 42 | Pages 43 to 84 | Pages 85 to End. 
Page Index | P = Picture(s)
  1. Title Page
  2. Distance from Scranton Map
  3. Acknowledgment
  4. Scranton Board of Trade
  5. Scranton Summary
  6. Some Public Buildings P
  7. Genesis of Scranton
  8. It is Never Dark in Scranton P
  9. Genesis of Scranton
  10. Scranton Has Excellent Hotels P
  11. Genesis of Scranton
  12. Types of Office Buildings P
  13. The City Government
  14. The City Government
  15. The City Government
  16. For the Student and the Naturalist P
  17. City Government; Car Shops of D., L. & W
  18. Anthracite Coal Breaker P
  19. Mines and Mining
  20. Mines and Mining
  21. Mines and Mining; Fire and Police Alarms P
  22. A Bit of Park Scenery P
  23. Finance in the Anthracite Metropolis
  24. Scranton Has Twenty... P
  25. Banks and Trust Companies P
  26. Passenger and Freight Depots P
  27. Transportation
  28. Transportation
  29. Transportation
  30. Local Summer Resorts P
  31. Transportation
  32. Transportation
  33. Transportation; Great Locomotive Shops P
  34. Some Manufacturing Plants P
  35. Manufacturing
  36. Manufacturing
  37. Factory Sites; D., L. & W. Machine Shop P
  38. Power
  39. Educational Interests in Scranton
  40. Educational P
  41. Educational P
  42. Educational Interests
  43. Educational Interests
  44. For the Sick and Injured P
  45. Hospitals
  46. Scranton Cares for its Unfortunate P
  47. Homes and Asylums
  48. Homes and Asylums
  49. The Church
  50. Churches P
  51. Churches P
  52. The Church
  53. Christian Associations
  54. Association Homes P
  55. Christian Associations
  56. Interior Board of Trade Assembly Room P
  57. Convention City; Points of Interest
  58. Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. P. Armory P
  59. Points of Interest
  60. Scranton Club; Country Club P
  61. More Club Houses P
  1. Residences P
  2. Residences P
  3. Apartment and Mercantile Houses P
  4. Scranton Public Library
  5. The Thirteenth Regiment
  6. Metropolitan District of Scranton
  7. Views from Above P
  8. Scranton Railway Company
  9. Kramer Bros.; Lyceum Theatre
  10. Scranton Electric Co.
  11. Clarke Bros.; Scranton Savings Bank
  12. Third National Bank; Pierce & Scott
  13. Kolb's Bakery
  14. First National Bank
  15. Scranton Life Insurance
  16. J. D. Williams & Bro.
  17. C. S. Woolworth
  18. Williams & McAnulty; Scranton Supply
  19. Geo. V. Millar
  20. Samter Bros. Co.
  21. A Mighty Laundry
  22. A Mighty Laundry
  23. Dime Bank; Brooks & Company
  24. Price & Howarth; Lackawanna Laundry
  25. Union National Bank
  26. Van Dyke Pianos; Bittenbender Co.
  27. County Savings Bank; Anthracite Trust Co.
  28. The Tribune-Republican
  29. Charles B. Scott Co.
  30. Scranton Lace Curtain Company
  31. Poli's Theatre; Bell Telephone of Penna.
  32. Magargee Brothers
  33. Hotel Casey
  34. Merchants & Mechanics Bank; Clark & Snover
  35. William F. Vaughan Real Estate
  36. Hotel Jermyn
  37. McClave-Brooks Co.; Jonas Long's Sons
  38. Klots Throwing Company
  39. Scranton Gas and Water Co.
  40. Hyde Park Gas Company
  41. People's National Bank; Globe Warehouse
  42. Spencer Heater; Frank L. Crane Furs
  43. The Scranton Times
  44. Scranton & Binghamton Railroad
  45. Mears Building
  46. Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Co.
  47. E. Robinson's Sons Brewery
  48. International Salt Co.
  49. Lackawanna Trust & Safe Deposit
  50. Standard Brewing Co.
  51. Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley R. R. Co.
  52. Town Hall
  53. G. W. Fritz Co.; John T. Porter Co.
  54. Scheur's Mother's Bread; Blau Banking
  55. Ralph E. Weeks Company P
  56. Scranton Real Estate; Robert E. Prendergast
  57. Title Guaranty and Surety Company
  58. General Index
  59. General Index; Index to Advertisers
  60. Part One of Map of Rail Roads & Collieries
  61. & 123 Parts 2 & 3 of Map
Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Trade of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1895 - well illustrated
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