PA Photos and Documents

This collection of the Oracle, the Abington High School yearbook, covers the years 1918-1921 and 1923-2013.

This collection contains photographs from the 1880s to the beginning of the 20th century of Central Pennsylvania College students, faculty, facilities, and grounds.

Albright Collegiate Institute was established in Myerstown,PA, 1895, and was re-chartered as Albright College, 1898, and remained in Myerstown until 1928 when it then moved to Reading, PA, merging with …

Schuylkill Seminary was established in Reading PA in 1881, moved to Fredericksburg in 1886, then returned to Reading in 1902. It was renamed Schuylkill College in 1923, and merged with …

This collection contains commencement documents, photos, booklets, and other materials pertaining to the history of the Altoona Area School District.

This collection contains photos documenting the history of Central Pennsylvania and the surrounding region.

The Wissahickon Valley Public Library: Ambler Gazette Collection is a joint effort with the Fort Washington Historical Society to preserve the society’s collection of the Ambler Gazette. This collection is …

Welcome to the B. Reed Henderson High School Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. Henderson High School, located in the Borough of West Chester, dates …

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 …

Winona Garbrick was one of the most prolific teachers in Bedford High School history. Her legacy includes National Bestselling Author Dean Koontz, who wrote a personalized letter about Ms. Garbrick …

The Bellwood Bulletin weekly newspaper provides a unique glimpse into the cultural, economic, political, religious and social activities of Bellwood and the surrounding areas from 1889-1946. The format of newspaper …

A collection of selected newspaper clippings concerning B.F. Jones Memorial Library and the surrounding area.

This is a small collection of photographs of Benjamin Franklin Jones Memorial library and the surrounding area.

This collection consists of the Boyertown School News dated from January 1921-March 1927. The Boyertown School News was written by students and reported the news at the Boyertown High School …

This varied collection of publications with liturgical music used in Eastern Christian traditions outside of the prostopinije / plain chant collection of the Byzantine Ruthenian practice. Publications are used by …

Prostopinije (Slav. prostopinije, “simple chant”) is the traditional liturgical chant of the Rusyn peoples of the Carpathian Mountains, and of their descendants who emigrated to other parts of the world. …

Materials include papers and documents related to the discussion and foundation of the local school district, its curriculum, faculty members, school board activities, goals and achievements. Early class photos are …

Regionally significant history of the Borough of Edgewood, Pennsylvania. This collection includes bound book, personal recollections and a multitude of photographs.

This collection includes yearbooks from Bishop McCort High School (1966-1998), Central Catholic High School (1926-1960), Ferndale Area High School (1929-1998), Greater Johnstown High School (1901-2003) and Westmont-Upper Yoder High School …

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was originally formed as a town in 1800. The city has experienced three major floods throughout its history and later became the site of the Cambria Iron Company. …

This collection contains postcards from the early 20th century of Johnstown, Pennsylvania area landmarks.

The Homestead Newspaper Collection consists of scanned microfilm of various newspapers from the Steel Valley between 1881 and 1979. Titles included are: The Local News, The Homestead Times, The Mirror, …

Newspaper printed about news in Homestead, Munhall, Whitaker, Mifflin Township, Six Mile Ferry, Hays Township, and Brown’s Station. The Homestead Daily Messenger was the daily newspaper to follow the Local …

American Marketplace chronicles the development of the industrial expansion of the United States following the Civil War, and the parallel emergence of the consumer products reflecting the prosperity that came …

Pittsburgh’s heritage is strongly rooted in iron, steel, mining and related industries. This section of the Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Heritage Collection is a compilation of almost two dozen 19th …

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 …

This collection contains primary resources about Carnegie’s bequests along with supporting explanatory text, that teachers will be able to use a part of their curriculum.

Photographs of Centre County, Pennsylvania school class pictures showing the class as a group. The classes include high school, junior high and grade school students with their teachers, and even …

History of the Miles-Potter-Humes House in Bellefonte, PA from 1815 to the present and of its owners through photographs, other images, and documents.

This collection was created by Alexander W. Scott (1926-1999) a Cheltenham principal and resident for many years. The 771 images (originally slides) show the people, homes, and neighborhoods of the …

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, …

The digitized papers of Charles J. Pennock consist of a small number of letters, most by or addressed to Charles J. Pennock; two bird log books; a manuscript copy of …

This digitized selection from the Jean Kane Foulke papers measures 1.4 linear feet and dates from 1850 to 1955, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1900 to 1920. …

This digitized volume contains the meeting minutes of the Liberty Cornet Band dating from 1920-1932 and 1937, and includes the names of appointed officers and members of the band. The …

The Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights Collection measures 0.3 linear feet and dates from 1852 to 1933, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1893 to 1917. Found within …

This collection contains photographs of Northern Chester County in the first decades of the 1900’s.

This collection contains images of photographs, letters, and other memorabilia and resources contributed by the community documenting the impact of World War I on Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

The Conshohocken Recorder, April 1, 1882 – September 9, 1954.

The Meadville Local History Collection is a condensed sketch of the early history of Meadville, Pennsylvania which covers the city’s natural resources and a portrayal of leading industries educational, financial, …

Archival photographs documenting the priesthood of the Most Reverend Joseph McShea, Bishop of Allentown.

The Blough missionary letters and diaries from China are an invaluable resource to those researching Church of the Brethren history, along with those scholars studying the Western missionary endeavor in …

The Church of the Brethren Photograph Collection consists of more than 500 mostly black and white photographs of meeting houses and churches in eastern Pennsylvania, historic sites, gravestones, portraits and …

Welcome to the Elizabethtown College: Historic Images Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection consists of ca. 3000 mostly black and white photographs documenting …

Elizabethtown College was founded by members of the Church of the Brethren, one of the original “peace churches” to spread from Europe to the United States. This peace pamphlet collection …

This collection contains maps of Erie County, PA. which have been scanned from the collection at the Erie County Public Library’s Heritage Room. We have selected maps that are not …

These booklets are the annual and biannual reports for the Erie Public Library. They date back to 1899 when the library opened to the public. Some include reports for the …

This collection of Erie City / Erie County yearbooks spans 1920-2010 and contains digitized copies from Academy, Northwest PA Collegiate Academy, East High School, and Strong Vincent High School.

This collection includes early photographs showing student life, faculty, buildings, and grounds of Friends’ Central School, a co-ed Quaker School founded by three Quaker meetings in 1845. The school has …

The Agentur Records Collection consists of 72 volumes of handwritten ledgers, indexes, logs, reports, and letter books spanning the years 1847 to 1947, recording the efforts of the German Society …

This collection contains items from the German Society of Pennsylvania’s archival holdings related to Philadelphia-based German-American singing societies of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Items include: souvenir programs, recordings, …

Since its founding in 1764, the German Society provided charitable assistance to German-speaking immigrants in the community. The Women’s Auxiliary of the German Society of Pennsylvania was founded in 1900 …

The Pamphlet Box Collection/ Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf consists of nine annual reports, from 1883, and one for each year from 1917-1924 inclusive. It also includes five copies of …

This collection consists of historic photographs of Norristown, Pa., from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection contains historic documents about the James V. Brown Library of Williamsport, PA, including Annual Reports and minutes from Board of Trustee meetings.

Over two thousand (2,000) local historical photographs, drawings and images of old Lycoming County, PA. can be found here. Images are shown in a small version for browsing or as …

Welcome to the Keystone College 1868- Present Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection contains materials pertaining to the history of Keystone College from …

Welcome to the Keystone College 1868- Present Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection contains documents and photos of the Hall of Fame pitcher …

Welcome to the Keystone College Local History Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. This collection a large number of photos and documents from and about …

These are booklets from the late 1800’s early 1900’s of programs/meetings of The Daughters of the American Revolution.

Photographs of Knoxville, Pennsylvania, including adjacent Deerfield Township.

This is a collection of documents, photographs, and monographs relating to the history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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 …

This collection contains issues from 1877 to 1936 of the Lititz Record and from 1937-2001 of its successor, the Lititz Record Express.

The New Holland Clarion was published weekly in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1873-1984. The newspaper provided the local news, world and regional news, information on social events and …

The New Holland Clarion was published weekly in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1873-1984. The newspaper provided the local news, world and regional news, information on social events and …

Microfilm collection of early Ambridge, PA, newspapers beginning in 1904.

Yearbook collection from what became the Ligonier Valley School District: 5 ” Ligo” yearbooks from Ligonier High School, 1925-1929; 27 ” Mountaineer” yearbooks from Ligonier High School, Dec 1929, 1930, …

Welcome to the Loch Haven University of PA 1877 – 2008 Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents.

Our Historical Documents Collection features a monograph of the college’s history from its beginnings to 1955 and manuscripts of importance to the colleges almost two-hundred year history.

The Lycoming College Campus – Past and Present collection is an exhibit of photographs depicting the buildings and grounds of the campus from its earliest days as the Williamsport Academy …

Williamsport Women: Voices, Images, Actions Source material related to the history of women in Lycoming County from Lycoming College, the Lycoming County Historical Society, and the J.V. Brown Library.  Documents selected …

This digitized collection of eighteen student publication spans the life of the College from its inception as the Dickinson Seminary, through its years as a junior college, to its present …

This collection contains material originating from and telling about Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Junior College and Preparatory School. Although spanning almost two decades, from 1928 through 1947, the collection is modest …

The Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Collection traces the first eighty years of the school’s extensive history. Documented here is the early struggle of the founding of the school, with more prosperous …

Founded in 1761 by Frederick Stump, Fredericksburg (formerly Stumpstown) is situated in northern Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Formerly a predominantly rural, farming community with a substantial German heritage, the town has …

This collection consists of High School yearbooks for Berwick High School, in Berwick, PA, from 1927 to present.

Millgrove School District operated out of a schoolhouse in Bushkill Township, Pennsylvania from about 1860 to 1956. The house was torn down in 1967. It was part of a collection …

The N.H.S. Chronicle was a literary and news magazine published by the students of Nazareth High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania beginning in 1914 and ending at an undermined date before …

An independent family newspaper devoted to literature, local and general intelligence. Published 1891-1975.

Welcome to the Mengle Memorial Library’s Punxsutawney Spirit Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. The Punxsutawney Spirit represents a significant regional newspaper in central western …

This collection includes photographs and correspondence pertaining to Captain Will Judy, a famous son of Garrett, Summit Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Born in 1891 and raised in this small coal …

In June of 2022 a patron of the Meyersdale Public Library lent to its Pennsylvania Room a copy of a 1939 Garrett High School yearbook and granted the library permission …

The Meyersdale High School published its first yearbook, titled “The Comet” and numbering some 25 pages, in 1910. The school’s next yearbook publication came in 1926, when students produced “The …

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, …

These scenes are among the oldest images of Meyersdale and its residents known to exist. Captured in the southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, town during the early 20th century, they reflect …

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 …

The first edition of the “Red and Black” Meyersdale High School student paper in booklet form was introduced in November 1922. The paper was published for several years. This collection …

Incorporated in 1871, the Borough of Casselman is today a remnant of its former self. Named in 1864 for its location along the banks of the Casselman River in Upper …

Incorporated in 1857, the Borough of Rockwood was significantly boosted by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line running through the town – most specifically its passenger service. When that passenger …

These 18 photographs are part of a larger Meyersdale Public Library – Photograph Collection. The photographs selected for display as part of that larger PA Photos and Documents collection are …

The Johnston Bender Family Collection combines photographs, letters, scrapbooks, and business records of two families–the Rev. Elias S. and Anna (Odell) Johnston family of Altoona and Salisbury and the Fred …

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 …

“The Hershey Press (alternatively published as ”Hershey’s Weekly” or “Hershey’s The Progressive Weekly”) was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township …

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 …

Cascade Park is a former amusement park which now serves as a recreational nature park; it is located 2 ½ miles from downtown New Castle in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. This …

Publications of historical significance about New Castle and the surrounding Lawrence County area.

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.

This collection contains yearbooks from New Castle High School, located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, from 1913-2012. Ne-Ca-Hi was published from 1913-1961, and Pergodian has been published from 1962-present.

This collection includes a series of black and white photographs of buildings and streets throughout New Cumberland, advertisements from businesses circa 1900, and several issues of Town Topics, a newsletter …

A collection of photographs and postcards of churches in New Cumberland, PA., featuring historic buildings in black and white. The collection also includes a couple of church service programs and …

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.

“NC Hi” was a magazine published several times a year by the students of New Cumberland High School, beginning in the fall of 1927. Each edition generally contained a feature …

Photographs of the New Cumberland Public Library and library functions, as well as some flyers and documents from library programs, primarily from 1975 on.

Photographs of various occasions celebrated by New Cumberland, including the 1906 Old Home Week and Geary Celebration, World War I Homecoming, and the dedication of the John Geary White state …

This collection includes photographs of school buildings, students, and teachers; scanned programs from school performances or athletics; and miscellany related to student activities.

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 contains the archive of the “Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent” newspaper from 1913 through 1958. This newspaper is historically significant to the region, state and nation in many ways since …

This collection includes photographs from the Pennsylvania Geological Survey Historical Photographs Collection.

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.

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 …

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

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, 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 …

This ongoing collection consists of finding aids created for the archival holdings of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1827- ). Included are guides to historical materials such as the PHS minute …

James Lawrence Dillon (1859-1942) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants James and Annie Eleanor Dillon. His mother died when he was 4, and his father when he was …

Jay Veeder Hare (1878 -1953) was born in Schodack, New York. He attended the Peirce School in Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University Law School. He began his long career …

The Joseph Ascenzi Collection consists of 64 color and black-and-white glass lantern slides, most were produced by the J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Williams, Brown & Earle Inc. …

The Garden Club of Philadelphia was established in 1904 by Mrs. J. Willis Martin and Miss Ernestine Goodman to promote an interest in gardens, their design, and management. The garden …

The noted scholar, horticulturist, and landscape architect John Caspar Wister (1887-1982) focused on eastern Pennsylvanian climate and ecology through his work as first director of both the Tyler Arboretum (Media, …

This collection is comprised of photographic images documenting designed landscapes both private and public in and around Philadelphia. Digitized materials include early-twentieth century views of private, public, and corporate gardens …

This collection contains items related to Pennsylvania School for the Deaf’s main campus located in the Mount Airy section of Northwest Philadelphia from 1892-1984. This campus was a spacious, 33 …

A selection of historic photographs, documents, and ephemera from the archival collections at Peters Township Public Library. These primary source materials document changes within Peters Township from the late 1800s …

Folklore of the Schuylkill Canal, by John B. Bowman and other items relating to local history. The Bowman title is a collection of memories recorded by the author about Schuylkill …

This collection contains photographs of people and places in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

The Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated in 1815 for the purpose of making the Schuylkill River navigable. In the State Archives of Pennsylvania Manuscript Group 110 there are copies of …

Although Reading Area Community College’s Wes Fisher Piano Sheet Music Collection includes sheet music from the late 1800s to the 1970s, this digital collection only includes items that should be …

This collection contains postcards that show images from around Berks County. The list of categories includes advertisements, attractions, exhibits, bridges, dams, buildings, businesses, clubs, organizations, hospitals, bodies of water, scenes, …

Ridley Park High School operated from 1917 until 1966. When the Ridley School District was created, RPHS was no longer needed and demolished. This collection includes yearbooks from 1928 until …

The Ridley Park High School Ye Ridlyan Collection includes senior class magazines published from 1920 to 1942, when wartime paper shortages ended production. These issues document student life and local …

Saint Francis University Student Newspapers from 1927-2006

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy holds a special place in the history of North America, having been founded in 1821 as the first college of pharmacy in the region. Over …

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 …

Lackawanna County has many different towns, townships, cities, and boroughs.  This collection gives histories of how those places developed.  Most of the books in this collection are centennial projects.

The Century Club of Scranton is a women’s club that was founded in 1911 by prominent women of Scranton.  During the long history, which continues today, the club hosts a …

This collection contains police photographs taken at the time of police booking for the Scranton Police Department from 1903-1909. Contains information about their arrest and the arresting officer(s).

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 …

Contains over 100 photographs, scrapbooks, newsletters, and other items from the century-long history of this storied health care provider.

A collection of Sewickley, Pennsylvania and Quaker Valley region historic images and documents from the history collections of the Sewickley Public Library.

The collection is the digitized microfilm archive of the Sewickley Herald from 1902-2012. The Sewickley Herald is a local, weekly newspaper that is significant in documenting the history of the …

The Wissahickon began as a monthly magazine produced by the students of Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia. Its first run from 1903 to 1933 served primarily as a school literary …

The Summerville, Pennsylvania Story Project is a collection of documents, photos, and other memorabilia intended to present the human side of Summerville. The collection material dates from the occupancy by …

This collection includes some of Swarthmore’s earliest newspapers, including the Swarthmore News followed by its still current paper, The Swarthmorean.

In 1888, Miss Florence Baldwin founded “Miss Baldwin’s School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College” in her mother’s house at the corner of Montgomery and Morris Avenues. Thirteen girls …

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 …

Welcome to the Unionville High School Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District began as the Unionville Consolidated School K-12 in …

Annie Evaline Sanford was born on February 4, 1873 in Springfield, Illinois and graduated from Carthage College in 1894. Annie Sanford completed five missionary terms in India from 1895-1902, 1904-1911, …

Books and serial publications published by the various Lutheran Deaconess Communities in the United States, focused on those with Motherhouses in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The “In Her Own Right” project …

Books and manuscripts published or created by the various Lutheran Women’s Missionary Societies of the General Synod, General Council, and United Synod of the South. Included here are both published …

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, …

An archive of over 300 digital images from the library’s Historic Warren Photograph Collection.

Welcome to the West Pittston Library’s Pittston Gazette Collection, a part of the POWER Library: PA Photos and Documents. The Pittston Gazette Collection includes the first 58 years of publication from 1850 …

The Samuel and Rosa Kern Letters collection spans a time frame from 1879 – 1887. These letters cover a broad range of topics spanning sports, social activities, illness, education, weather …

Whitehall Township Public Library is making available the yearbooks of the Whitehall Coplay School District.  When completed, the yearbooks will range from 1922 (vol. 4) – 2014 (vol. 95). (The …

A collection of papers and biographical materials from Williamson College of the Trades founder Isaiah Van Sant Williamson. Some photographs and genealogical research as well as correspondence, legal, and financial …

This collection includes early to mid century photographs and documents detailing the creation of the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, now Williamson College of the Trades. The school was …