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Description: Up for sale is a spectacular, museum-quality 1920 historical archive bundle from Centre County, Pennsylvania. This original multi-document file acts as a complete operational paper trail tracking structural repairs performed on the historic, vanished Scotia School House.
The set includes a master summary sheet, a handwritten laborer voucher, and a typed Pennsylvania System Freight Bill showing exactly how materials were rail-shipped into the legendary Scotia mining ghost town district to remodel the schoolroom.
📜 ITEM SPECIFICS & CONTENT:
• Date Range: August 31, 1920 through September 2, 1920
• Location Focus: Scotia, PA / Benore, PA / Tyrone, PA
• Key Historic Location Noted: Explicitly names the "Scotia School House".
• Payer / District Official: P. E. Hicks (Patton Township School Board)
• Included Documents & Historical Narrative Breakdown:
1. Master Summary Account Sheet: Drawn up at Benore, PA on Sept 2, 1920, audit-linking every voucher in this packet. It cross-references the plastering labor ($6.00), helper labor ($3.00), the Bellefonte Hardware lock voucher ($2.20), the plaster mix ($1.50), rail freight ($0.52), and the H.B. Lykens store supplies ($2.25) for a grand project total of $15.47.
2. Plasterer Helper Time Slip: Hand-written voucher tracking "Helping Plaster 6 hours @ 50¢ = $3.00" at Scotia School House. Boldly signed on August 31, 1920: "Recd Payment... Howard F. Hicks."
3. Pennsylvania System Freight Bill: Official typed PRR railroad document carrying the iconic Keystone logo. Tracks "1 Cloth Sk Plaster" weighing 100 lbs shipped from Tyrone Fuel Supply Co. in Tyrone, PA, straight to the Scotia, PA tracks. Stamped and signed at the bottom by terminal freight agent P. E. Hicks.
🔎 CONDITION:
Authentic antique condition with expected light age-toning and original horizontal filing folds. The papers retain crisp corners, uniform margins, and clean edges throughout the stack. The typed railroad letterhead text is sharp, and the various cursive graphite penmanship entries remain dark, distinct, and 100% legible. Please examine the listing photos closely for exact physical condition details.
Perfect for Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) enthusiasts, Centre County historians, Scotia iron mining ghost town researchers, Blair County/Tyrone industrial collectors, or ephemera archives tracking 1920s trades, labor economics, and rural schoolhouse architecture.
📦 COMBINED SHIPPING FOR LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTORS:
We currently have a large collection of RARE Patton Township School District ephemera listed, featuring historic paper trails from Waddle, Scotia, and other historically significant locations in Centre County! If you buy more than one historical document from us on the same day, we will happily combine your shipping to save you money.
HOW IT WORKS: Go ahead and complete your purchases today. Once your items are packed together flat, we will automatically refund all extra shipping charges back to your account after the first one. Buy more and save on shipping!
