To see the persistent URL for the object, click the Cite This button and locate the web address located in either the APA or Chicago citation. (Note: The persistent URL found in the citation may differ from the address listed in your browser’s address bar; the URL found in the citation should always be the one used for citations or in foot/end notes, as browsers occasionally add additional characters into displayed addresses.)
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When viewing an individual item, beneath the item itself and located to the right of the title is a Cite This button. Cite This generates three citation options: for MLA, APA, and Chicago style. (Note: these citations are automatically generated and may be incomplete; please double-check any automatically generated citations before using them.)
Often, contributing institutions only digitize and make available a very small portion of their collection. If an item in PA Photos and Documents looks promising, and after searching it looks like no other similar items are present, it is possible that the contributing institution has additional materials available that have not yet not been digitized or that they are holding in their collections. In this instance, it can be worthwhile contacting a contributing institution to see if they have any additional materials available. You can locate the owning/contributing institution for an item by checking the Details found below an object and looking in the Contributing Institution field. In some cases, contact information may also be included as part of an item’s record; otherwise a quick internet search should provide the necessary contact information.
These collections are digitized photos and documents that are made available online by participating institutions throughout the State of Pennsylvania.
Access to PA Photos and Documents is available for free, without the need for a library card or other form of authentication, and is available at:
https://powerlibrary.org/collections/
For collections of the PA State Archives, please visit:
https://powerlibrary.org/psa/
POWER Library offers 24/7 Chat with a librarian. Ask a question, and you’ll either have an answer or be pointed in the right direction.
PA Photos and Documents enables Pennsylvanians to search and browse the content digitized by libraries and other organizations across Pennsylvania. Digitizing aging and rare historical materials is important to preserving our collective history and traditions and to making them broadly available for research and study.
There are over 250 collections available.
A wide variety of materials are available across the collections. There’s lots of Pennsylvania history including soldier’s diaries from the civil war. There are yearbooks, newspapers, and much, much more. The collections can be browsed by subject or by the name of the institution contributing the collection.
Local institutions decide if they are going to contribute collections to PA Photos and Documents. The POWER Library does not determine which collections are included in PA Photos and Documents.
