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[Photos] "On my days off, I had an old Rolleicord, and I started to photograph the people on the streets, the homeless people, and the old people, the…

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LC&N) began mining and transporting coal from the Panther Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1820s. By…

"When I started the Amish, I was the same way. Every chance, I'd go down -- vacation time, weekends. I would find newspapers with Amish auctions, or…

After the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company closed down its underground mines in 1954, two small companies leased mines and breakers and attempted to…

George Harvan began a project in the late 1950s in which he would walk along the banks of the Lehigh River and photograph rocks along the river's…

"As soon I was through with my business in New York, I just put the film in the camera and started photographing people on the streets of New York…

"I wouldn't say fortunate -- but I was able to, in my time, I was able to cover three of them, to photograph three of them. I guess the first was up…

After the mines closed in the Panther Valley and George Harvan could no longer get free-lance work from the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, he…

"I think we should mention about the Molly Maguires, the pictures I took for Paramount. When Paramount came into this area to do a movie, they…

Peterson's Photographic Magazine (April 1974) published an interesting group of photographs that display George Harvan's versatility. Here's the…