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Oral History: Photographing New Yorkers and what led him to his more abstract work

Oral History: After the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company closed down its underground mines in 1954, two small companies leased mines and breakers and attempted to continue mining in the Panther Valley. They could not survive and in 1960 the Lanscoal Company began…

Oral History: At about the same time George Harvan was photographing the Amish, he also attended a great many auctions in Southern and South Eastern Pennsylvania. His photographs of those farm auctions follow.

Oral History: Harvan relates his initial and subsequent work with the Amish community in Pennsylvania

Oral History: Harvan describes his experiences in Japan

Image: Anxious family members at mine disaster, New Boston, Pennsylvania, 1951

Image: Photograph of George Harvan in 1995

Image: Railroad worker in Jim Thorpe Prizewinning photo in the "We the People" series, Parade Magazine, 1976

Image: Fireboss, John Haughton, checking for gas at face of coal, 6th level, No. 8 colliery

Image: Andrew Julo firing shot, No. 8 mine, Coaldale, 1950

Image: George Harvan in 1970

Image: Photograph of John F. Kennedy

Image: Man hauling trash and old paper through Tokyo streets, 1946

Image: George Harvan in 1946

Image: Dickson City, burning coal bank, mid-1950s

Image: Empty coal cars in front of No. 8 breaker, Coaldale, 1955

Image: Amish women and children

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Image: Normal Square, Pennsylvania