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Reading Railroad Museum

Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center

The Schwenkfelder Library is located in Pennsburg, Pa., about 40 miles north of Philadelphia, and houses some 30,000 rare books and manuscripts, the majority of which are directly related to the history of the Schwenkfelders in Europe and America. Supplementary collections treat the local history of south-eastern Pennsylvania, and the Library Board has, as well, direct responsibility for a large museum collection of artifacts, primarily related to Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania-German, and Schwenkfelder culture.

Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center

This is the Home of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania and which includes a research Library & Archives as well as a Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting regional history in ways that engage, entertain, and inspire a large and diverse audience while offering connections to the past, understanding in the present, and guidance for the future.

Smith's Master Index to Maritime Museum Websites - Pennsylvania (Wayback Machine)

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

State Library of Pennsylvania

Swarthmore.

Swarthmore College Libraries

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

The Free Library of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia

The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

United Methodist Church - Annual Conference Commissions on Archives and History

List of annual conference archive contacts for the state. For local Methodist church records, your best resource is the annual conference archives. The boundaries of the annual conference do not necessarily coincide with state boundaries, and some states may have several conferences within their borders.

University of Pennsylvania - Penn Libraries

University of Pittsburgh - ULS Digital Collections

The ULS has digitized over 115,000 unique objects (resulting in over two million digital pages and images!) from several special collecting units, including the Archives & Special Collections and Center for American Music as well as several Pitt Faculty members and regional partner institutions.