Digital Projects
Pennsylvania Folk Belief Collection Database
This site contains material collected by folklorist Mac E. Barrick (1933-1991) during the 1960s to the 1980s in central Pennsylvania. A native of Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Barrick taught not far from his childhood home at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Familiar with the people of central Pennsylvania, he documented various forms of folklife such as architecture, crafts, and music. As a result of the location for his fieldwork, much of the material is from tradition-bearers of German and Scots-Irish background.
The McCormick Family Papers
A Social History and Cultural Studies Project of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies
The McCormicks were a prominent family in South Central Pennsylvania who greatly influenced history and commerce in that area of the country. This site is dedicated to making personal papers, pictures and other documents of that family available to historians, students and the general public for the first time.
The Afrolumens Project
The Afrolumens Project exists to promote the collection, study and interpretation of data relating to African American slavery and freedom in central Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to the idea that all Pennsylvania residents share a common history regardless of race, belief or gender. The focus of this website is on the historical period that begins with European colonization and African slavery in Pennsylvania, and ends with the American Civil War. In addition to being a repository and interpreter of historical data, the Afrolumens Project seeks to facilitate communication among scholars, educators and researchers by making the collection accessible on this website without cost, to everyone interested.
The John Yetter Collection: Photographs of Steelton, Pennsylvania
Approximately 250 photos ranging from portraits to candid/action shots, publicity photos and other miscellaneous visuals that capture the flavor of school team, little league/midget and professional sports from the 1900s to the late Twentieth Century.