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Altoona Area Public Library - Blair County Oral Histories

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This collection contains oral histories of the Blair County region of Pennsylvania. The interviews pertain to events that happened in Blair County or stories of Blair County residents.

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Altoona (Pa.) (1)
Amusement Parks (1)
Appleby, Debra (1)
Ivyside Park (1)
Penn State University Altoona Campus (1)

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Altoona (Pa.) (2)

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Oral Histories (2)

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1998-02-19 (1)
2017-09-17 (1)

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English (1)
eng (1)

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Altoona Area Public Library (2)

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Book Walk Oral History Project - Debra Appleby

Appleby, Debra, Altoona (Pa.)

Oral history of the book walk that transferred books from Roosevelt Junior High School to the new Altoona Public Library.

Ivyside Park Oral History - E. Raymond Smith Jr.

Amusement Parks, Penn State University Altoona Campus, Ivyside Park

Oral history interview of E. Raymond Smith Jr., son of E. Raymond Smtih, owner, and operator of Ivyside Park, an amusement park that occupied the current location of the Penn State Altoona campus.

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