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Gettysburg, 1970s

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"Another project that I worked on for a long time was the Civil War battlefields, like Gettysburg and Antietam and Charlottesville. I had a Volkswagen…

Centralia, 1980s

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An underground mine fire, started in 1962 from burning trash in the town dump, continues to burn to this day. Hot spots in the ground, dangers of…

Mannequin, mid-1980s

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"One weekend, I was walking up near the east end of Lansford, up near the railroad station, between Lansford and Nesquehoning, near the old stripping…

Anthracite Breakers, 1990s

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"Joe [Elliott] and I did . . . in 1992, we did the Huber Breaker for the Park Service. Joe did the interiors and I did the exteriors of the Huber…

Carbon County Jail, 1995

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George Harvan's interest in the Molly Maguires began when his sister Rose began working on a novel based on the story of the secret Irish American…

Circular Prints, Eckley Miners Village, 1995

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"George Eastman came out with his first camera, the no. 1 Kodak; it was loaded in the factory. After you exposed the roll, you sent it back to…

When the Mines Closed-Portraits, 1995-1996

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In the summer of 1993, historian Thomas Dublin began an oral history project in the Panther Valley, interviewing men and women who lived through the…

Polaroids, 1996

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"A friend of mine gave me an SX-70, the friend was Henry Jones, from Bethlehem. One day, he gave me this SX-70 camera, it's a Polaroid camera that…

Pinhole Photographs, 1998-1999

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"I was up at the G.A.R. Cemetery, up at Summit Hill and there were some flags that had blown off the grave and they were just laying on the grass, and…

Oral History: an Interview with George Harvan in 5 parts

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Documentary photography does not exist in a vacuum. George Harvan's portfolio emerged photograph by photograph, one project after another. The…