PA Photos and Documents

The Charles McCollester Collection contains both physical times and textual items spanning from 1877 to 2018 with an emphasis on the 1980’s into the 2000’s. The collection’s subjects vary from …

The Mark Fallon Collection is a labor related collection held by the Battle of Homestead Foundation Archives. The collection focuses primarily on the Mon Valley area with specific interest in …

The Mike Stout collection spans from 1937 to 2020. The collection contains a variety of materials from political marching banners, to local union newspapers, to clothing, to paper material, to …

Complementing the original Iron & Steel Collection, the Iron & Steel Photographic Collection features individual images of places and personalities intrinsic to Pittsburgh’s development as the world’s leading producer of …

Pittsburgh’s heritage is strongly rooted in iron, steel, mining and related industries. The Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Heritage Collection is a digital compilation of books, journals, photographs, trade catalogs, and …

The Builder is an architectural publication that was published in Pittsburgh from 1901 to 1919. Its subtitle is: “Devoted to Architecture”. The Builder is a highly unique resource that provides …

Approximately 150 handwritten letters and notes by Colonel Samuel Miles related to his business activities in Pennsylvania. Dates range from February 1802 to November 1805. Colonel Samuel Miles (soldier, business …

The six letterpress books of West Chester resident A. D. Sharples document his many business and philanthropic interests, and a number of letters also include news of the Sharples, Paschall, …

This collection consists of 19th and 20th century photographs of buildings, places, events, and industries relevant to the Jersey Shore, PA area. Of particular significance are photos of the Pennsylvania …

This collection consists of Lancaster City and County residential and commercial directories, 1843-1900. These directories provide valuable information regarding the population of Lancaster City and County, as well as the …

Welcome to the Lancasterhistory.org’s Lancaster County City Directories 1901 – 1914 Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection consists of Lancaster City and County …

Welcome to the Lancasterhistory.org’s Lancaster County City Directories 1901 – 1914 Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection is the third and final piece …

With the Pennsylvania Maple Festival Board of Directors’ permission, the Meyersdale Public Library digitized nearly 400 35mm slides documenting the Pennsylvania Maple Festival from the late 1950s through the 1980s …

The Meyersdale Public Library photograph collections contain approximately 2,000 photographs. From the total collection, about 320 will be selected for digitization based on the selection criteria. The photographs that will …

Gideon D. Miller (1862-1941), a Mennonite minister, shifted from his family’s woodworking traditions to metal. He started with his patented steam traction engines shipped across the US and Mexico for …

William Wagner, a cooper of Salisbury, Somerset County, worked on farms in the 1870s and then bought a farm near West Salisbury (Elk Lick Township) in 1882. With experience in …

Founded in 1900 by Pennsylvania State Representative Samuel Austin Kendall – who would go on to serve seven terms as a Republican in the United States Congress, from his election …

Welcome to the Montgomery County Community College’s Betzwood Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. In the first decades of the motion picture industry Montgomery County …

This collection contains a selection of various directories from 1872-1899 (not exhaustive), covering the Mahoning, Shenango, and Beaver valleys, as well as Lawrence County and the City of New Castle.

This collection contains City of New Castle directories covering all years, 1900-1910.

This collection contains City of New Castle directories covering all years, 1911-1918 (not exhaustive).

This collection contains City of New Castle directories covering all years, 1921-1928.

Photographs and postcards depicting various organizations, such as the town band and women’s clubs, and employee groups, like the Buttorff and Kline carpet factory workers.

The Harmonists, a Christian Communal society, founded Old Economy Village in 1824. They were known for their piety, as well as for their economic successes in textile manufacturing, including silk …

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.

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

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

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy holds an extensive and unique collection of medicinal products and prescriptions from across the Philadelphia region beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Visible on each bottle …

From Lace Makers to Coal Miners contains photos, books, church records, and brochures of what life was like in the Lackawanna Valley from 1866-1920.  The photos show prominent men of …

Funded by a grant from the Willary Foundation, this collection contains letters, books, paintings, photographs, and other artifacts from the era when the Lackawanna Valley emerged from its agrarian beginnings …

This handwritten historic collection contains over 2,800 pages of entries documenting the operations necessary to produce iron and iron products. It holds seven Isaac Meason Union Furnace Ledgers covering the …

This souvenir program is the official program booklet that was prepared for the Old Home Week celebration in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Old Home Week took place from August 26-31, 1912 in …

This collection consists of glass lantern slides and syllabuses for the course “The Materials of Engineering Construction.” It was the first in a series of four courses in Civil Engineering, …

This collection consists of glass lantern slides and syllabuses for the course “Civil Engineering Structures,” taught at the Wagner Free Institute of Science between 1893 and 1950. It was the …