PA Photos and Documents

Founded by Civil War Veteran Luther A. Smith in 1878, the Meyersdale Commercial was published weekly each Friday morning. This collection, containing issues of the Commercial from 1881 through 1912, is housed as part of the Meyersdale Public Library’s microfilm collection and was digitized by library staff and volunteers. Scattered issues of this same newspaper, dated between March 1913 and September 1929, can also be found freely available inside the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive. The Commercial collection available inside that historical online repository was saved from being forever lost by former Meyersdale librarian and local historian Marguerite Cockley, with the hard copies of the newspaper she lovingly preserved being filmed and digitized as part of a 2018 library grant project.