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Altoona Library Digitization Project

We are currently working on improving this section, check back in the future for an easier to use digital collection!

The Altoona Area Public Library has begun a new project using digitization to preserve the history of the area. In recent years, we have seen an increasingly urgent need to find a way to capture the information about our past from books that are crumbling with age.

Many of the books in our Pennsylvania Room collection are in very brittle condition and deteriorate more each time they are handled. Our staff has recently begun scanning the pages of these books into the computer and putting the information in a format that can be accessed and read on the Internet.

In this format, the information can easily be read and studied without causing further harm to the original publications. We hope this will preserve our local history well into the future for anyone who may be interested.

The following books are available now:

Altoona Chamber of Commerce.
Altoona, the Keystone City of the Keystone State.
Chamber of Commerce: Altoona, PA, 1924.


Clark, Charles B, Esq. A History of Blair County Pennsylvania
Charles B. Clark, Esq.: Altoona, PA., 1896.


Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine
A Letter to a Protestant Friend
Thomas Foley: Ebensburg, PA., 1820.


Replogle, Emma A. M.
Indian Eve and Her Descendants


J. L. Rupert, Book and Job Printer: Huntingdon, PA., 1911.
Knox, Homer C.
A History of Methodism in Altoona
Altoona, PA., 1909.


Altoona Mirror
Altoona Mirror Souvenir Booklet.
Altoona Mirror Printing Company: Altoona, PA., 1912.


Shoemaker, Henry W.
Stephen Franks and the history of fox hunting in Blair County
Altoona, Pa. : Altoona Mirror, 1937.


Author Unknown
Story of Altoona
Clarence E. Weaver; Eddy Press Corp. 1911


Shoemaker, Henry W.
The tree language of the Pennsylvania German Gypsies
Reading, Pa. : Reading Eagle Press, 1925


Shoemaker, Henry Wharton
A week in the Blue Mountains
Altoona, Pa. : The Altoona Tribune Press, 1914


Chatman, John H.
The Bald Eagle
Altoona, PA. : The Altoona Tribune Press, 1919


Shoemaker, Henry, W.
Stories of Pennsylvania Animals
Altoona Tribune, 1913


Shoemaker, Henry, W.
A Forgotten People
Bellefonte, PA, 1922


Shoemaker, Henry, W.
Present status of wildlife


Shoemaker, Henry, W.
Elizabethan Days
Reading, PA, 1912



Coming soon:


Clark, Charles B., Esq.  Illustrated Altoona: A Complete Pen-picture of the city of Altoona Pennsylvania at the Close of the Year 1895.   Board of Trade: Altoona, PA, 1896.


Weaver, Clarence E.  Story of Altoona, the Mountain City: Railroad, Industrial and Commercial Center Population 65,000.
Clarence E. Weaver: Altoona, PA, 1911.

 

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