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Pennsylvania Highlands Community College – Johnstown Art League
Institutions: Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
Time Periods: 1878-1900 Industrial Revolution, 1901-1928 Progressive Era, 1929-1945 Great Depression and World War II, 1946-1991 Cold War, 1992-Present New Millennium
The Johnstown Art League was founded on February 22, 1884, in the Cambria Iron Company library at the corner of Washington and Walnut Streets in Johnstown. Started at a time when formal education for women was not common, members of the Art League studied a variety of topics in the liberal arts. The Johnstown Art League is the longest continually operating women’s study group in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.