English: This two-story, public elementary school was an improvement of the one-story, public school building that was erected by the residents of Lavelle, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania on Main Street during the late 1800s. Taken during the mid-1900s as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS PA-5441), this photo captures the small-town atmosphere of the village, and shows the view of Main Street, looking west. The former home of John Hartranft Snyder, one of the 1908 co-founders of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, is shown at right in its location across the street from the school. The home was occupied by Snyder's widow, Minnie, until the late 1940s, and had been the site of a dry goods store operated by the couple from the building's ground level (note the ground level door, which was used as the store's entrance). Public domain photo provided by the U.S. Library of Congress.