PA Photos and Documents

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

This collection consists of black and white photographs taken circa 1930 of various tree species found in the Delaware Valley and Maryland that were assembled by the Academy of Natural …

These lantern slides were produced by Rev. Fred W. Solver around 1930 to be used for a lecture about individuals and places associated with the Evangelical Church.

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 …

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

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 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 …

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 …

Braddock-area yearbooks, including the Braddonian ( Braddock HS 1948-71), The Highlander (Scott HS 1948-71, non-consecutive years), the Falconian (General Braddock HS 1972-80), the Retrospect (St. Thomas HS 1942-84) and the …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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

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.

Lancaster Public Library has teamed up with Hempfield School District, McCaskey High School, and Lancaster Catholic High School to digitize yearbooks from all three institutions. Digitized content covers yearbooks from 1988 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Lycoming College and its predecessor, Dickinson Seminary, has served the central region of Pennsylvania since 1812. The school carries an historic connection to the Methodist Church and was associated with …

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 …

These are a collection of Hi-Lite newspapers published from the Manheim Township High School dating back to the 1930s.

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.

Newspaper clippings chronicling the lives of area Servicemen and women during World War II and the Korean Conflict.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

This first collection will encompass the yearbooks that the Milanof-Schock Public Library currently has from the East Donegal Township High School. It includes 8 yearbooks between the years 1942 and …

“Hotel Hershey Highlights” was a weekly newsletter distributed from May 5, 1934 through April 28, 1951. “Highlights” covers a time period during which no local newspapers were published, shedding light …

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 …

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 contains yearbooks from Shenango Area High School, located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, from 1930-1994. Some years are missing.

This collection contains yearbooks from Union Township High School, located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, from 1944-1980. Some years are missing.

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 New Cumberland during the Flood of 1936 which occurred March 18-20, 1936 when warmer weather caused the winter’s heavy accumulation of snow and ice to melt. Situated along …

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 is black and white photographs of the Williamsport Technical Institute, which originally operated as the vocational technical division of the Williamsport School District (1914 – 1941) before becoming …

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.

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 …

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 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, 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. 

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 …

This collection is comprised of images created sometime between 1928 and 1950 by Philadelphia photographer, Ida W. Pritchett. A 1914 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Pritchett received her doctorate from …

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. …

This collection consists of documentation related to the Philadelphia Flower Show from 1829 to the present including tickets, advertisements, posters and high-quality photographs to exhibits and promotional events. Some of …

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 documents activities and projects undertaken by or in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society from its inception in 1827 to the 21st Century (apart from Philadelphia Flower Show …

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 …

This collection contains yearbooks from Peters Township High School, located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and includes The Planet (1944), Crest (1945), and Ember (1946-2018).

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

Saint Francis University Student yearbooks from 1942-2016.

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 is a collection of cookbooks mostly dating from the 1960’s and 1970’s.  They are all from Northeastern PA and contain many ethnic and cultural recipes.

A collection of very early photographs of the library from 1893. There are also documents of the history of one of our buildings, the Silkman House.

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

Collection of 116 photos taken by photographer Harry Baroff. This collection contains photos from Lackawanna County of draft registrations, military departures, and parades relating to World War II.

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

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.

This collection is comprised of photographs of the blazers, uniforms, and commencement gowns of the girls and women of The Baldwin School, dating from the 1800s through the present day. …

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 …

The Kiskiminetas Springs School was founded in 1888 by Andrew Wilson who believed its location by the Kiskiminetas River to be an ideal environment for educating young men to continue …

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 …

Partnering with Upper Moreland Historical Association, UMFPL records oral histories pertaining to living in Willow Grove, Upper Moreland Township, and the surrounding area.

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 papers examining historical flood control and new proposals under construction during the 1930’s and 40’s.

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

This collection contains the grave registrations forms of veterans of the Civil War buried in Lehigh County, PA. Upon burial these forms were filed with the local Veterans Affairs. Most …

This collection contains historical photographs of the Lehigh Valley.

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 …

This collection contains scrapbooks created by Wilkes University staff, faculty, administrators, and students.

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 …

Wilson College World War II Collection documents the experience of Wilson alumnae through correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from the time. The Collection primarily features the correspondence between Eunice “Bobby”€ Carpen …