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Osterhout Free Library – Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent
Subjects: Local Newspapers
Institutions: Osterhout Free Library
Time Periods: 1901-1928 Progressive Era, 1929-1945 Great Depression and World War II, 1946-1991 Cold War
This collection contains the archive of the “Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent” newspaper from 1913 through 1958. This newspaper is historically significant to the region, state and nation in many ways since this area became the center of the anthracite industry and contains a vast amount of information on the coal mining industry, including mining accidents.