PA Photos and Documents

This collection focuses on the heritage of African Americans in the Johnstown region.

Started in 1923, the Johnstown Branch of the American Association of University Women has been supporting women’s issues and improving the lives of women and girls in the Johnstown region. …

This collection contains photographs from Johnstown, Pittsburgh, and other vacation locations visited by the Bailey Family in the latter part of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This collection contains photographs, military records, and items connected to the Beaverdale Public Library.

Items contained in the collection of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Johnstown, Pa. Also contained are items from Rodef Sholom, the town’s first synagogue.

This collection houses the various types of business licenses (taverns, eating houses, etc.) issued by the Cambria County Government in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the Johnstown neighborhood of Cambria City are located five historical, ethnic churches. In 2009, the Altoona/Johnstown Diocese closed four of the churches and renamed the fifth church. Each of …

As part of the 150th commemoration of the Civil War, the Pennsylvania Highlands Community College has digitized a diary and personal letters associated with Cambria County soldiers who fought in …

This collection houses items relating to the educational institutions of the Cambria county area. This includes k-12, higher education, and technical schools.

This collection includes scans of immigration declarations registered in Cambria County from 1835-1991. Information includes name, place of departure, country of origin, and age.

This collection features items collected from the public that focus on the immigrant and ethnic heritage of Cambria County.

The Conemaugh School of Nursing opened in 1892 as a response to the need created by the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. It became fully accredited in 1918 and has …

In 1900, there were 34 sanatoriums in the United States. By 1925 there were 536. The Cresson Sanatorium was one of the earlier sanatoriums and provides a record of life …

This collection contains all items connected to the history of Dale Borough.

This collection contains items relating to the iron, coal, and steel industry in Johnstown.

This collection features the logbooks and other records of the Johnstown Area Fire Departments.

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 …

This collection contains photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, letters, and personal memorabilia connected to the Klahre family.

This collection contains photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, connected to boroughs and townships in Northern Cambria County and Northern Cambria Public Library.

This collection houses a series of historic pictures of Suppes Ford, one of the oldest businesses in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 

On May 31, 1889, the breaking of the South Fork Dam caused the single greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States: the Great Johnstown Flood. It is …

The town of Wilmore was founded around 1800 by Godfrey Wilmore a former slave from Maryland and his former indentured wife Mary. The Wilmore’s operated a sawmill and were close …