Meyersdale Public Library - Photographs

About This Collection

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 be selected for online display are significant because they provide a broad overview of life immediately before, during, and after the Progressive Era in the Allegheny Mountains region (mostly Somerset Co., PA & northern Maryland). The photographs capture families & individuals both in portraits and in natural settings, military men, coal mines, mills, railroads, transportation, education, and African American families. Our photographs have been used in Somerset Magazine and in the book "Allegheny Passage Companion, Guide to History & Heritage Along the Trail" by Bill Metzger. Accessibility to the collection will be enhanced because the images will be searchable online. Currently the photographs are accessioned on paper but are not included in our library catalog. Digitization would allow users easy & free access to historical photographs that would otherwise essentially be hidden in a closet.

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Woman sitting on log near Kreitzburg's
Woman waiting to take a sleigh ride
Woman with high collared checkered dress
Woman with large feathery hat
Women sitting calmly at J.M. Olinger's residence
Women standing in front of H. Staub's residence
Young boy and five ladies in front of a fence
Young boy and wagon
Young boy in knickerbockers
Young child sitting on fancy throw
Young girl and baby
Young girl climbing a tree
Young girl holding her head
Young girl in garden
Young girl playing guitar
Young girl with bows on dress poses for her portrait
Young girl with large bow poses next to a chair
Young girl with small smile
Young girl with white bow
Young girls in white dresses