While preparing for our next exhibit, Downtown: Then and Now, I came across this picture in our photograph collection. Harry Samuel Nash and Store Clerk, Haberdashery Store, HSMC Photographs Collection According to the back of the photograph, it depicts Harry Samuel Nash and a store clerk in front of Nash’s Haberdashery Store in Ambler. The photograph… Read More »Ambler Opera and Theater
As part of my job, I often receive emails asking if the historical society has a certain resource or asking for a small amount of research. Most of these requests have to do with family genealogy or the history of our fine county. Last week, I received an unusual request. An independent researcher was looking… Read More »H. M. S. Pinafore
One of the most striking pictures in our current exhibit, Pairings, is this photograph showing the Grand Opera House in Norristown.