The collection of information on North East subjects is filed in the large wooden filing cabinet drawers and is filed by subject for easy locating:
There is a subject index for this collection: • Buildings • Businesses
• Churches
• Community Assets
• Deeds & Contracts
• Disasters/Accidents
• Events
• Farming
• Fire Department
• Military
• Miscellaneous History
• Organizations
• People
• Schools
• Streets & Roads
Information helpful for those doing family history includes:
• Extracts from North East newspapers of:
births, marriages, and deaths, 1868-1928
• Cemetery readings for all North East cemeteries
• Some North East family genealogies
• Several collections of obituaries
• AI Loop’s “100 years of North East” which contains many family histories in addition to much early history of North East
• The Civil War Veterans collection including the Roll book of the local G.A.R. organization and the Roll book of the Son of Veterans
Our map collection includes:
• Erie County atlases for 1865 and 1876
• Sanborn maps of North East Borough for:
1887, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1905, 1912, 1928, and 1945
• The 1896 birds eye view of North East Borough
• A plat map from 1924 showing land owners in North East Township
• A Rural Mail Route map of North East Township for 1940 showing where people lived
One of the most popular items for people visiting the museum is the old North East High School yearbooks for which we have most years.
Another popular item is the assortment of scrapbooks containing information on just about anything having to do with North East.
(These are not indexed or any particular order)
In addition there are other collections that may be of interest such as: • the Grape Label Collection
• the Advertising Items Collection
• the Political Advertising Items Collection
•
the Welch’s Collection
• the Philip Hirtzel Collection
• the North East Postcard Collection
• the Bard Collection
• the Bard Jewelry Collection
• the Hall Jewelry Collection
• the North East Newspaper Collection
• the Copper Cable Collection
1983-1992 (newsletter of Electric Materials)
• the North East Woman’s Club Collection
• the North East Community Fair Collection
• the Wednesday Musicale Collection
• the Out of Town Newspaper Collection
• the Women’s Christian Temperance Union collection
• the North East Cemetery Collection
• the Saint Mary’s Seminary Collection
• the Mottier-McQuitty-Wilson collection.
To view our special collections photo gallery, click here.
