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Altoona Library Digitization Project
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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
Altoona Chamber Of Commerce
1913-1914
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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Executive Director Deborah A. Weakland (middle) and Karen Smith (Altoona Library Board Vice President) were delighted to accept a check for $1,000 from Tim Sissler (President of Reliance Bank). The donation from Reliance Bank's Foundation will be used to purchase library materials. Reliance Bank's generous support is greatly appreciated especially this fiscal year when funds are so tight. The Library is very fortunate to have consistent community support from organizations like Reliance Bank.
Photo Left to Right: Tim Sissler, Deborah A. Weakland, Karen Smith
One Book Blair County is joining the celebration by making it easy for you to read a poem a day. We will have changing displays of poems in the Altoona Area Public Library and have provided you with links to several websites that also provide poems for your reading pleasure. (See www.altoonalibrary.org/onebook)
In addition we have many local poets who wrote poems on the theme of HOPE and submitted them to a contest sponsored by One Book Blair County.