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Nice image of the old high school, giving a great idea of how much it dominated Main Street. View is from the Slatington News building on Main Street.

This building later became the Lincoln Elementary School. This was part of a small booklet of photos, Souvenir of Slatington Penna. and Vicinity, sold by Jones Bros & Miller. These photos also appeared as regular, individual postcards.

Although school buildings existed in the borough before construction of this large high school in 1897, the size and scale of this building clearly shows the wealth of the town in the 1890s. When a new high school building was erected just down the…