As part of Harrisburg’s 150th anniversary of being incorporated as a city in 1860, a system of colorful banners are installed on street light poles in downtown Harrisburg which feature important landmarks in the city both past and present. These banners are in place during the summer of 2009 and will be reinstalled during the summer of 2010 when the SusqueCentennial activities will culminate.

Some of the banners are colorful expressions of the SusqueCentennial spirit while most display a noted Harrisburg landmark and the date in which the landmark was either built or emerged on the Harrisburg cityscape, although in many instances the landmarks have been either altered or expanded over time or no longer exist.

The landmarks are captured through black and white photography, lithographs and color postcards of the period. Most of the images were retrieved from the collections of the Harrisburg City Archives with others provided by the Dauphin County Historical Society, the Historic Harrisburg Association and the Pennsylvania State Archives.