This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Letters to Santa Claus Offer Whimsical Demands from Hershey Residents
A collage of handwritten pleas from Hershey townspeople to Santa includes requests for missing summer money, musicians for a crackerjack band, another stove, a dog editor, a pool champion chance, a Fire Chief, a better hot house, and a good baseball team as the community imagines next year. Entreaties cover pets, stores, milk, a Pole voyage, blueprint sketches, and humorous futures from names like Amos Fordney, Herbert Schultze, Joe Hills, Walter Ashenfelter, Curly Maugans, Evangelist Dunlap, J R Snavely, Ezra Hershey, Fat Snavely, and more.