The PA Digital Cultural Heritage Collaborative is a consortium of cultural institutions interested in digitizing Lancaster county newspaper and manuscript collections. The consortium holds regularly scheduled meetings at member institutions and welcomes all educational and cultural heritage institutions from the region that are interested in digitizing and preserving their historic collections.

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  • Handwritten letter from 1824
    Letter from William Reynolds to his father, John Reynolds, March 13, 1824. From the Reynolds Family Papers Collection at Franklin & Marshall College.
  • Handwritten page from George McIlvain 1835 Diary
    George McIlvain Diary, 1835. From the Muench Family Papers Collection at Franklin & Marshall College.
  • Deed for first 10 acres of land purchased by Franklin and Marshall College
    Deed for first 10 acres of land purchased by Franklin & Marshall College
  • Black and white image of men in suits and straw hats.
    Class of ’27 looking pretty for the movie-man. From the Franklin & Marshall Archives Film Collection.
  • Black and white photo of older white woman with glasses, looking off camera.
    Anthropologist Margaret Mead gave a speech in 1972 at Elizabethtown College.
  • Cemetery in the foreground, church in the background, seperated by trees.
    The Church of the Brethren (Dunkers) in Lebanon County, 1916 by J. G. Francis from the Brethren Book digital collection at Elizabethtown College.
  • Front page of The Snapper, 1993-09-15
    The Snapper, 1993-09-15, the student newspaper at Millersville University.
  • Title Page of Lancaster Farming, Volume 1
    Lancaster Farming, Volume 1, 1869 from the collections of the Lancaster Historical Society.
  • Portrait of Dr. Aaron C. Porter, an African American man, seated, wearing an argyle sweater.
    Dr. Aaron Porter’s oral history interview is included in the Oral History Collection at Millersville University.
  • Handwritten Sallie E. Bolton letter, April 1857
    Sallie E. Bolton letter, April 1857 from the Sallie Bolton Letters, 1855-1863 digital collection at Millersville University.
  • Handwritten Letitia Frantz letter, September 23, 1883
    Letitia Frantz letter, September 23, 1883 from the Frantz Family Letters, 1883 digital collection at Millersville University.
  • Color postcard depicting an illustration of State Normal School, Millersville, PA, 1907
    General View, State Normal School, Millersville, Pa., 1907. From the Millersville University Postcard Collection at Millersville University.
  • Color illustration depicting Lancaster Normal School, 1857.
    Lancaster County Normal School, 1857. From the Millersville University Photograph Collection.
  • Group of people standing in front of a church, sepia image.
    200th Anniversary of Amwell German Baptist Church – Sergeantsville, NJ September 17 – 1733-1933. From the Church of the Brethren Photograph Collection at Elizabethtown College.
  • Illuminated manuscript, Folio 13 Recto
    South Netherlands Book of Hours. Manuscript on vellum, in the Dutch translation ascribed to Gerardus Groot (Gerd de Groot). From South Netherland Book of Hours at Franklin and Marshall College.
  • Cover of Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Adopted at the Formation of said Society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th Day of December, 1833
    A formal statement of the beliefs and goals of the American Anti-Slavery Society at the time of their founding. From the Slavery & Abolition in the United States digital collection at Millersville University.
  • Book of Good Manners, for Girls and Boys, page 1
    A chapbook of maxims and instructive stories for children from the Millersville University Rare Books digital collection.
  • Front page of the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, January 1, 1880
    Founded in 1864, the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer had become by the 1880s the leading daily in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From Penn State University at Chronicling America.
  • Front page of College Days, June 1, 1879
    College Days is part of the Franklin and Marshall College Student Newspapers digital collection.
  • Front page of The People's Advocate, June 18, 1846
    The People’s Advocate is a historic Pennsylvania newspaper available online in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive.
  • Illustration of female housemaid washing clothes in a wooden tub.
    From The Alice Marshall Collection at Penn State Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State University Libraries.