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8th Avenue Looking West
Eighth Avenue, looking West from Tenth Street
Contributor: Bob Hartman
8th Avenue at 11th Street
Eighth Avenue at Eleventh Street
11th Avenue
Eleventh Avenue, General View
Contributor: Maureen Stell
11th Avenue from 14th Street
Eleventh Avenue, looking East from Fourteenth Street
11th Avenue from 16th Street
Eleventh Ave., looking East from Sixteenth Street
11th Avenue by Night
Eleventh Avenue, Looking West by Night
11th Avenue c1900
Eleventh Avenue, c1900-1905

Great White Way

 Eleventh Ave., 1924, Altoona's "White Way," showing Richard Dix in Sinners in Heaven at the Olympic Theater

12th Avenue from 13th Street
Twelfth Ave., looking East from Thirteenth Street

12th Street from 11th Avenue

Twelfth Street from Eleventh Ave., showing bridge and machine shop by night

 

12th Street from Bridge

Twelfth Street, looking north from bridge.

 

14th Avenue from 12th Street
14th Avenue, West from 12th Street
  Broad Avenue from 26th Street
Broad Ave., looking East from 26th Street
 
Altoona Aerial View
Altoona Aerial View
Altoona Cricket Club
Altoona Cricket Club
Altoona High School
New Altoona High School
Altoona High School
Altoona, Pa., High School
Altoona High School, 1908
Altoona High School Fire,
December 18, 1908
Contributor: Marlene Riffle Stone
Altoona High School
Altoona High School
Contributor: Marlene Riffle Stone
Altoona High School & Annex
Altoona High School Brownstone, showing the
1929 Annex on the left
Contributor: Marlene Riffle Stone
Altoona Hospital
Altoona Hospital and Nurses' Home
Cloudcroft
"Cloudcroft"
J. T. Baltzell Bungalo
Driving Park
Driving Park

Fairview Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

1st Methodist Church

First Methodist Church

 

Fourth Ward School
Fourth Ward School
Contributor: Marlene Riffle Stone

Gables Store
The Big Store,
Wm. F. Gable & Co.

Gables Store

William F. Gable, on left.
Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), sitting at front
Another photo of Gable here

 

Greetings from Altoona
Greetings from Altoona, Pennsylvania

Imperial Dept. Store

Ruins of Imperial Department Store (Old Opera House), June 15, 1907

 

Logan House
Logan House & P.R.R. Train Shed & Station
Contributor: Maureen Stell
Logan House
Logan House
Mishler Theatre
Mishler Theatre
Contributor: Maureen Stell
Penn Alto Lobby
Penn Alto Hotel Lobby
Penn Alto Hotel
Penn Alto Hotel Mayfair Room
Playground
Children's Playground
Post Office
Post Office
President Taft
President Taft's Auto
Loyal War Governor's Conference
Contributor: Maureen Stell
Roosevelt Jr. High School
Roosevelt Junior High School
Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Church and School

 

Temple Beth Israel
Temple Beth Israel

Veterans Hospital

US Veterans Hospital

 

Veterans Day Parade
Veterans' or Memorial Day Parade, Altoona
Contributor: Norma Sturm
11th Street
11th Street looking North
12th Street
12th Avenue looking West from Altoona Trust Building
Contributor: Maureen Stell
Altamont Hotel
Altamont Hotel,
11th St. and 11th Ave.
City Hall
City Hall

1st Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church

 

Penn Alto
Hotel Penn Alto
Lincoln School
Lincoln School
Contributor: Marlene Riffle Stone
Mishler Theatre
Mishler Theatre,
225 12th Avenue
Rothert Building
Rothert Building
St. John Church
St. John's Church
  University Club
University Club
 

 

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