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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: September 20, 2022
Caption: The Harmonist Wool Block Marker
Additional Description: Left Side Photos
View of the northeast side of the large, four-story, brick woolen mill, as it looked in the 1890s.

Harmonists hired workers take a break from picking hops in 1891. This 3:00 Vesper lunch consisted of dry bread and cider served in tin cups. From left to right, the women were Amalia Yockel, Lizzie Flack, Mary Kimmich, Caroline Kroll, Emma and Sophie Flack, Lydia Wagner, and Marie Yetter. In the background were Bertha Liebermann and Lizzie Kuemmerle.

A portion of the Historic American Buildings Survey of 1967 shows the wool block of the Harmony Society in relation to the Rapp houses and church, As Economy would have looked around 1840.
Submitted: September 21, 2022, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p679643
File Size: 2.817 Megabytes

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