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Re: (erielack) Interior of Scranton DL&W station....1963

The Steamtown Archives have four folders of information (each about an inch and a half thick) on the passenger station (from the 1930s to the early 60s).  While there are no photographs, I do have floor plans and memos dealing with who had what office where.  Architectural drawings are included.  I am having the correspondence transcribed right now and hope to have them posted in the near future. I was surprised to see that they once housed the USO there during WWII, and the Post Office had a contract with them in the late 1940s to handle overflow Christmas mailing.  They also installed IBM computers there in the 1950s. I have also been told I have a set of the early construction drawings in a recently acquired collection, however I have not run across them yet (too much to do, though I happily sign up volunteer help).  Again, we have some neat archives at Steamtown. ; If any of you are ever in Scranton (I work Monday thry Friday usually), drop me a line and I'd be happy to show them off.
Patrick ;McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it ;can explain us and make a future possible.-Alan Bloom 

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From: Kcoastal_@_aol.com
Date: 02/23/2008 10:58PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Interior of Scranton DL&W station....1963


Did you ever think that years later the building would be a  hotel? When the 
building was still a railroad facility, who or what  department would have 
occupied the southwestern-most corner office (yard /  bridge 60 side in case my 
compass is off ) on the very top floor? The  reason I ask is I spent part of my 
honeymoon there in 1990.  


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