Embedded Files
Books
Hundreds of books with checkout dates/names of students from 1950s-60s
First edition Here’s to Thornburg by Alice Christner
The Story of Crafton by Betsy Martin
Wee Bobby Cruickshank by Diana Smith (Cruickshank was Chartiers Country Club golf pro)
Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century by Albert Tannler (features Thornburg)
History Binders 1900 – Current
Newspaper advertisements, plan of lots, and history of the Thornburg Land Company
Profiles of lower Thornburg historic houses 1900 - 1910 (year built, architect, residents)
Architects of historic houses and school (McClarren, Dowler, Butz, Willoughby, Keirn)
Profiles of Thornburg houses 1910s - 40s (year built, residents)
Photographs and some public records for all houses
Maps and aerial photographs from 1851 - 2020s
School class photographs 1910 - 1970
1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950 census reports showing residents in those years
Community Club directories, meeting minutes, photographs, and clippings starting in 1930
Village Players cast photographs and playbills starting in 1938
Talk of the Town newsletters starting in 1969
Local newspapers and magazines that featured Thornburg articles
Marriage, graduation, and social announcements, obituaries, letters from residents
Some mayoral and borough records
Displays
Posters, road signs, and other artifacts from community activities and the former school
Plaques and tributes to residents who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq
Thornburg Village Players plaques in the Auditorium
Google Sites
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