Manuscript Group Collections - Libraries

Manuscript Group (MG) collections represent materials donated by people, businesses, and organizations often associated with Indiana County and Pennsylvania. The collections include correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, scrapbooks, and speeches. Many MG collections are papers donated by people affiliated with the university including alumni, employees, presidents, and trustees.

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MG #	Collection Finding Aid	Inclusive Dates	Research Interests
MG 1	Effie L. Shields Collection	1918-1921	World War I, France, Canteen Hostess, Correspondence, Photographs, Newspaper Clippings, Postcards, and Memorabilia.
MG 2	D. D. Patterson Memorial Collection	1881-1966	History of Education in Indiana County, Photographs, Catalogs, Reference Manuals, and Diplomas.
MG 3	G. Henry Richert Collection		Marketing and Distributive Education, Collection of Books, Reports, Pamphlets, and Files.
MG 4	Elsie and Harry "Bud" Young Collection	1930s-2007	Elsie Young: Indiana County Civic Organizations, Republican Party, and Order of the Eastern Star. Harry Young: World War II, Safety Science - Highway Rescue System and 1973 Safety Demonstration at IUP, Paul Warhola painting (brother of Andy Warhol), and the Pennsylvania Freemasonry.
MG 5	George Swetnam Collection	1944-1967	Journalist, Rare Books on History and Folklore of Pennsylvania, Primary Materials for Pittsburgh and Industrial Development, Diaries, Correspondence, and Memorabilia.
MG 6	Albert Pechan Collection	1961-1969	Pennsylvania State Senator, Board of Trustees, and the creation of IUP.
MG 7	Fausold Family Collection	1888-1948	Samuel Fausold (President of Indiana State Teachers College), Correspondence, Diaries, Ledgers, Scrapbooks, Family Photographs, Memorabilia, Biographies and Genealogies.
MG 8	Ralph E. Heiges Collection	1936-1969	Social Studies Professor, Head of Department, Dean of Instruction, Acting Indiana State Teachers College President, Correspondence, Speeches, Presentations, and Publications.
MG 9	George L. Sanderson Collection	1871-1906	Great-Grandson of Indian Scout Robert Covenhoven and letter books of George L. Sanderson.
MG 10	Joseph Michael Uhler Papers	1928-1964	Education, Master's Thesis, Programs, Publications, Newspaper Clippings, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Speeches.
MG 11	Albert J. Wahl Papers	1933-1953	History Professor, Publications, Holmes Biography, Articles, Speeches and Reviews.
MG 12	Martha Oatman McSparrin Collection	1884-1924	School Teacher, Photographs, Certificates, and Autograph Book.
MG 13	Ethyl V. Oxley Collection	1920-1970	Home Economics Teacher, Newsletters, Photographs, Interview, and Richards House.
MG 14	Manuscript Miscellany	1826-1958	Correspondence, Books, Authors, Politicians, Individuals, and Institutions.
MG 15	Clarence Stephenson Collection	1634-1980	Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Genealogical Histories, Marion Center School District, Maps, and Newspapers.
MG 16	Lois Lenski Collection	1931-1972	Children Books (Author / Illustrator), Articles, Postcards, Biographies, Awards, Photographs, Correspondence, Books, and Illustrations.
MG 17	Elbert Hubbard Papers	1897-1946	American Celebrity, Author, Religion, Publications, Philistine (Monthly Magazine), Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (Monthly Periodical), and Social Movements.
MG 18	Congressman John P. Saylor	1945-1978	U.S. House of Representatives, Conservation, Environment, Memorabilia, U.S. Presidents (Roosevelt, JFK, LBJ, Nixon), Military, Coal Mining, Images, and Scrapbooks.
MG 19	Matthew J. Walsh Papers	1854-1984	Education, Dean of Instruction, Acting President, University History, Photographs, and Publications.
MG 20	American Association of University Women	1936-1993	Societies, Women, Scrapbooks, Newspaper Clippings, and Reports.
MG 21	Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society	1945-1965	Societies, Education Fraternity, Scrapbooks, Bulletins, Constitutions and By-Laws, Handbooks, Conventions, Meeting Minutes, and State Publication The Keystonian.
MG 22	Willis Pratt Papers	1927-1966	Indiana State Teachers College President, Diplomas, Plaques, Awards, and Biography.
MG 23	John R. and Betty Sahli Collection	1873-1967	History Professor, Commercial Catalogs, Publications, Sheet Music, and the Underground Railroad.
MG 24	Jane Leonard Collection	1870-1966	Indiana Normal School, English Teacher, Photographs, Eulogy, Memorabilia, and Publications.
MG 25	Papers of Robert Wilson and Dwight Sollberger	1816-1842	English Loyalist, King George, Correspondence and Land Holdings Records.
MG 26	UFO Club of IUP	1957-1971	Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO), Sighting Reports, Newsletters, Publications, and IUP.
MG 27	J. David Truby Collection	1960-2000s	Journalism Professor, Politics, Military, CIA, JFK Assassination, Central America, and Publications.
MG 28	Civil and Criminal Dockets	1909-1955	Office of the Magistrate and Justice of the Peace in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 29	Robert F. Boerstler Collection	1940s	Scrapbooks and Pewter Figurines.
MG 30	Local History Project: A Collection of Oral Histories	1950-1999	Oral History Interviews of IUP Professors, Staff, Administration, Alumni, and Local Residents.
MG 31	Air Ship Patents	1844-1903	Patents, Air Balloons, Flying Machines, Aerial Navigation Equipment, and Inventions.
MG 32	Carrie Belle Parks Norton Collection	1928-1966	English Teacher, Alumni Bulletins, Articles, Pennsylvania Curriculum Studies Bulletin, Educational Journals, and Photographs.
MG 33	Miscellaneous Ledgers	1821-1948	Regional Tax, Business and Personal Ledgers, Day Books, and Minute Books.
MG 34	Workingmen's Education and Social Club of St. Michael's	1926-1973	Societies (UMWA Local 3648 St. Michael), Club Minutes, and Publications.
MG 35	J. Neal Griffith Collection	Mid-20th C.	Autographs, Slides, Programs, and Photographs.
MG 36	Indiana Color Slide Society	1975-1986	Societies, Photography, Newspaper Clippings, Meeting Minutes, and Competition Entries.
MG 37	American Association of University Professors	1963-1974	Education, Societies, Letters, Bulletins, Meeting Minutes, and Reports about IUP.
MG 38	Manuscript Miscellany	1899-1954	World War I, World War II, Authors, and Correspondence.
MG 39	Committee to save John Sutton Hall	1975-1983	Historic Landmark, Historic Preservation, Societies, Scrapbook, and Photographs.
MG 40	John Brophy Collection	1930-1960s	CIO, AFL-CIO, Coal Mining, Unions, Eulogy, Photographs, JFK, and Newspaper Clippings.
MG 41	Agnes Sligh Turnbull Collection	1927-1987	English Teacher, Author, Correspondence, Books, and Drafts of Novels.
MG 42	Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers' Association	1919-1954	Coal Mining, Reports, and Meeting Minutes.
MG 43	Leonard Abrams Collection	1958-1989	Indiana Borough, Borough Council, Meeting Minutes, and Correspondence.
MG 44	Records of the Indiana County Central Labor Council	1975-1985	AFL-CIO, Labor, Brochures, Correspondence, Reports, and Photographs.
MG 45	Rosae Naugle Jaquish Collection	1865-1962	Education, Correspondence, Autograph Albums, and Tintype Photographs.
MG 46	Records of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 459	1950-1987	Union, Labor, Meeting Minutes, and Souvenirs.
MG 47	Patton Clay Manufacturing Company	1898-1902	Labor, Commemorative Book, Administrative Papers, and Invoices.
MG 48	Indiana County Land Title Abstracts and Deeds	1784-1885	Land Titles from Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 49	Sylvester Garrett Collection	1949-1986	Insurance, Labor Arbitration, Law, Business and Personal Papers.
MG 50	Microfilm Masters	1834-1979	Indiana County, Pennsylvania Newspapers. Public Use Copies in IUP Serials Department.
MG 51	Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Records	1920-1978	Coal Mining, Commission, Annual Reports, Budgets, Board of Directors, Ledgers, Real Estate, and Vitro Minerals Corporation Files.
MG 52	United Mine Workers of America District 2	1945-1965	Coal Mining, Union, Agreements, Negotiations, Work Stoppages, and Black Lung Disease.
MG 53	John Ghizzoni Papers	1899-1964	Coal Mining, Union, and Labor Leaders.
MG 54	Monday Musical Club	1938-1990	Music, Societies, Scrapbooks, and Photographs.
MG 55	Publications of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)	1920-1972	Coal Mining, Labor, Union, Publications, and Reports.
MG 56	Publications Miscellany	1857-1985	War World I, World War II, Popular Magazines, and Publications.
MG 57	Alternative and Radical Publications	1970s	Politics, Religion, Sociology, Non-Mainstream, Education, and Periodicals.
MG 58	John R. Sahli Papers	1957-1974	Education, Pennsylvania History, Maps, and Bibliographies.
MG 59	Roy E. Furman Papers	1955-1959	Politics, Lt. Governor, and Campaign Speeches.
MG 60	Indiana Art Association	1944-1991	Societies, Art, Yearbooks, Newsletters, Meeting Minutes, and Indiana, Pennsylvania.
MG 61	Gabriel Alexander Collection	1974-1988	Labor, Steel, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, and Corporations.
MG 62	United Steel Workers of America Local Union 1397	1950-1990	Labor, Steel, Mill History, and Union.
MG 63	Elizabeth Bain Papers	1959-1989	Societies, Women, Articles, Television, and Radio Media Relations.
MG 64	Civil War Soldier Collection	1860s	Civil War, Military, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Diaries, Correspondence, Memoirs, Service Records, Photographs, and Personal Items.
MG 65	Bernice Gera Collection	1951-1980	Baseball, Women, Newspapers, and Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 66	United Mine Workers Of America (UMWA) District 5	1896-1984	Coal Mining, Union, Treasurer’s Records, and Administrative Files.
MG 67	United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) District 3	1896-1984	Coal Mining and unionism in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
MG 68	Pittsburgh Chapter of the Coal Mining Institute of America	1974-1988	Societies, Coal Mining, Administrative Files, and Correspondence.
MG 69	Department Store Catalogs	1989-1996	Commercial and Department Store Catalogs.
MG 70	Commemorative Newspapers	1800-1992	Newspapers, Johnstown Floods, Local Events, National Events, and IUP Events.
MG 71	Coal Company Payroll Ledgers	1916-1920	Coal Mining, Payroll Records, Central and Western Pennsylvania.
MG 72	Governor John S. Fisher Collection	1917-1936	Trustee, Politics, Education, Cioal Mining, and Pennsylvania Governor (1926-1930).
MG 73	University Club of IUP	1975-1978	Societies, Minutes, Financial Records, Bylaws, and IUP.
MG 74	America's Industrial Heritage Project (HABS/HAER)	1980-2000s	Pennsylvania, Photographs, Maps, History, Industry, and Geology.
MG 75	Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission Records	1980-2000s	Societies, Historic Districts, National Parks, Southwest Pennsylvania, Meeting Minutes, and Correspondence.
MG 76	Folklife Division Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission	1990s	Labor, Education, Folk Life, Industry, and Ethnicities.
MG 77	United States Bureau of Mines	1919-1983	Coal Mining, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Reports, and Publications.
MG 78	Donald J. Ballas Collection	1962-1990	IUP Professor, Native Americans, Research, Correspondence, and Articles.
MG 79	United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Local 617 Barnesboro, Pennsylvania	1928-1956	Coal Mining, Minutes, Weighman’s Check sheets, Barnesboro and Tucker, Pennsylvania.
MG 80	Records of Kappa Delta Pi, Education Honor Society	1928-1990	Societies, Education, Correspondence, Records, and Meeting Minutes.
MG 81	Barnes and Tucker Coal Company	1896-1970	Coal Mining, Reports, Photographs, and Payroll Ledgers.
MG 82	Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union	1914-1990	Union, Labor, Publications, Newspapers, and Proceedings.
MG 83	Penn Run and Russell Coal Company Employment Records	1934-1937	Coal Mining and Employment Records.
MG 84	Letters of Marion Spencer	1912-1918	Professor, Photographs, Correspondence, Pre-War College Student, World War I, World Events, Religion, Politics, Fashion, and Literature.
MG 85	Shakespeare Club	1879-1992	Yearbooks, Meeting Minutes, Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Indiana, Pennsylvania.
MG 86	Andrew Surma Collection	1969-1976	Coal Mining, Black Lung Legislation, Meeting Minutes, and Politics.
MG 87	Indiana College Club Collection	1918-1980	Societies, Education, Meeting Minutes, and Records.
MG 88	Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Records	1953-1995	Societies, Education, Curriculum, Social Studies, Administrative Records, and Minutes.
MG 89	Leis Anderson Collection	1900s	Children's Literature, Genealogy, and Folk Dance.
MG 90	Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Indiana County, Pennsylvania	1965-1993	Employee, Volunteer, Financial Records, and Community Action Program Guide.
MG 91	Joan Schrock Phillipi Papers	1978-1990	Coal Mining, Women, Convention Materials, and Certificates.
MG 92	Mike Stout Political History Files	1940-1970s	Vietnam War, Communism, and Publications.
MG 93	J.K. Stoner Collection	1936-1996	Alumni, Business Professor, World War II, Kiwanis Club, Pennsylvania Freemasonry, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Indiana Gazette Column “Ham with Wry.”
MG 94	Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection	1900-1981	Coal Mining, Negatives, Photographs, and Recordings.
MG 95	Ruth Marcus Jewish History Project	1930-1990	Societies (Hadassah), Women, Jewish History, Publications, Newspapers, Scrapbooks, and Genealogy.
MG 96	John R. Pancella Collection	1949-1953	Indiana Sesquicentennial Celebration and Homecoming.
MG 97	Dale Landon Collection	1883-1972	History Professor, IUP History, Memorabilia, and Scrapbooks.
MG 98	Florence Constantino Collection	1943-1999	Strip Mining, Business Records, Tax, and Real Estate.
MG 99	William H. Sylvis Collection	1828-1988	Societies, Iron Molders, Labor Union, AFL-CIO, and Publications.
MG 100	Myron Joseph Collection	1964-1996	Industrial Relations, Arbitration Decisions, and Labor Economics.
MG 101	Daniel Shively Collection	1808-2008	Professor, IUP Libraries, 1808 Land Deed signed by U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Famiy History, Photographs, 1904-1906 Travel Diaries (Philippines).
MG 102	John Merryman Collection	1968-1995	Societies, Education Professor, Articles, and Teaching Materials.
MG 103	Bernard J. Ganley Collection	1948-2004	World War II, Alumni, Indiana State Teachers College Sports (Basketball, Football, Golf), Societies, Coach, Vice President and Interim President of IUP, and Memorabilia.
MG 104	Welfare Rights Organization	1972-1975	Welfare, Housing, Health Care, Reports, and Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 105
MG 106	Edward Chaszar Collection	1899-1954	Political Science, Education, Human Rights, Ethic Minorities, and Publications.
MG 107	George B. Johnson Collection	1966-1995	Societies (Pennsylvania Canal Society), Research, Publications, and Saltsburg, Pennsylvania History.
MG 108	The Anthracite Board of Conciliation	1902-1962	Coal Mining, Strikes, Grievances, and Meeting Minutes.
MG 109	United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) District 25	1870-1990s	Union, Labor, Coal Mining, Publications, Wage Rates, Photographs, Convention, and Reports.
MG 110	Raymona Hull Collection	1948-1997	Author, English Professor, English/American Literature, Articles, Scrapbook, and Newspaper Clippings.
MG 111	L. Blaine Grube Collection	1898-1984	Railroad (Reynolds Fall Creak RR), Financial Records, and Coal Mining.
MG 112	Wilmore Real Estate	1890-1960s	Coal Mining, Real Estate, and Tax Records.
MG 113	Rosaly DeMaios Roffman Collection	1950-2000s	Book Reviews, Collaborations, Myth Center, Photographs, Poetry, Professional Activities, Publications, Research, Teaching Materials, and M.C. Richards and George Orwell material.
MG 114	Ruby Maxwell Collection	1899-1954	Education, Indiana Normal School Catalogs, Memorabilia, and Lessons Plans.
MG 115	John F. Kadlubowski Collection	1932-1999	History Professor, Union (APSCUF), Articles, and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA).
MG 116	Irwin Marcus Collection	1890s-2006	History Professor, Courses, Coal Mining, Labor History, Lectures, and Publications.
MG 117	Jack Finklea Collection	1970-1990s	Medical Books, Occupational Safety, and Environmental Health Concerns.
MG 118	Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association	1950-1990s	Societies, Foreign Languages, Publications, and Education.
MG 119	Society for Pennsylvania Archeology	1920-2000s	Societies, Archeology, Native Americans, Publications, and Correspondence.
MG 120	Robert Alico Collection	1975-1999	Natural Sciences, Professor, Research, Infectious Diseases, and Bacteria.
MG 121	Thomas Goodrich Collection	1950-1965	Foreign Travels and Correspondence.
MG 122	William Lafranchi Collection	1953-1986	IUP Libraries, Societies (Big Brother/Big Sister), Correspondence, and Photographs.
MG 123	Charles McCollester Broadside Collection	1960-1970	Social Movements, Radicalism, Posters, and Newsletters.
MG 124	Sommerville-Hajdu Collection	1931-1933	High School Yearbooks and Photographs from Ebensburg and Cambria, Pennsylvania.
MG 125	United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) District 4	1940-1990s	Coal Mining, Administrative Files, Legal Documents, Grievances, Black Lung, Union, Labor, Financial Records, and Publications.
MG 126	Eli Rock Collection	1940-1999	Labor, World War II, Legal, Collective Bargaining, and Arbitration Decisions.
MG 127	Mildred Beik Collection	1880-2000s	Religion, Census, Coal Mining, Strikes, Immigration, Societies (National Slavonic Society), Politics, Union, and Oral Histories.
MG 128	Beulah Johns Collection	1897-1997	World War II, Pacific, Nursing, Military Memorabilia, Genealogy, Diary, and Scrapbook.
MG 129	Elinor Gordon Blair Collection	1880-2000s	Indiana Normal School, Photographs, European Travel, Publications, Legal, and Societies.
MG 130	Logan R. Moorhead Collection	1500-2000s	Moorhead, Lintner, Logan, and Patton Family History, Civil War, U.S. Presidents, Politics, Maps, European Postcard Collection, and History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 131	Larry Kroah Collection	1862-2004	U.S. Presidents (Abraham Lincoln), Poetry, Drawings, Publications, Rare Books, Photographs, and IUP Libraries.
MG 132	Pittsburgh & Shawmut Railroad Company Collection	1920-1990s	Railroad, Coal Mining, Employment, Real Estate, Tax, Labor, Reports, and Injuries.
MG 133	Milton Bancroft Collection	1886-1975	Artist, Autographs, Legal Papers, Photographs, Correspondence, 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, World War I, and Societies (Winnisook Club).
MG 134	Louise Bem Collection	1950-1980s	IUP University Status in 1965, Research, and Oral History Interviews.
MG 135	Newman Center Collection	1968-1997	Campus Religious Life, Roman Catholic Societies (St. Jerome Guild), and Photographs.
MG 136	Earl Hunt's Abraham Lincoln Collection	1860-2000s	U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Memorabilia, and Civil War memorabilia collected by Dr. Earl Hunt.
MG 137	Maher Shawer Collection	1950-2000s	Mathematics Professor, Rosetta Stone, Middle East, and World Map.
MG 138	McKeage Lumber Collection	1900-1940s	Lumber Indusry, Employment, and Financial Records.
MG 139	Chris Reese & Denise Weber Coal Miners Collection	1900s-2000s	Coal Mining, Eliza Furnace, memorabilia, oral history interviews, and photographs of company towns in Pennsylvania including Clanghorn, Dilltown, Vintondale, and Wehrum.
MG 140	Eastern Orthodox Foundation	1966-2006	Religion, Societies, Celebrations, Photographs, Articles, and Homeless Shelter.
MG 141	Oscar W. Nestor Collection	1907-1979	Coal Mining, Company Store, Western Pennsylvania, Minutes, and Interviews.
MG 142	Larry Kruckman Mascot Research	1980-1990s	IUP Mascot, Articles, and Native Americans.
MG 143	Ronald Juliette Collection of Indiana Photographers	1900s-2000	Journalism Professor, IUP History, Publications, Interviews, Manuscripts, and Photographs of IUP and Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
MG 144	Patricia Hilliard Robertson	1985-2004	Alumni, Astronaut, Mission Specialist, Tributes, News and Media Releases.
MG 145	John Hetherington Papers	1686-1906	Plays published and performed in London, England.
MG 146	John W. Larner, Jr., Collection	1950-1990s	History Professor, Teaching Materials, Correspondence, and Publications.
MG 147	New Century Club Papers	1901-2000s	Club was organized in Indiana, Pa., in 1901. Collection contains bylaws and meeting minutes.
MG 148	W.H. Hughes Coal Company	1900s-2000s	Coal Mining, artifacts, company records, ledgers, maps, and photographs.
MG 149	Oral History Interview Project of the Women at IUP	1978-2009	Collection documents the history of the IUP Women's Advisory Council, Women's Studies Program, and the IUP President's Commission on the Status of Women. Oral history interviews with men and women who attended school and worked at IUP through the years.
MG 150	International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)	1950s-1990s	ILGWU was founded in 1900. Collection includes union memorabilia, newsletters, and newspapers.
MG 151	Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Chapter C	1926-2000s	PEO Chapter C was founded in Indiana in 1926. Collection includes meeting minutes, photographs, and scrapbooks about diversity initiatives from the 1960s to the 1990s.
MG 152	World Religions Class Assignment about September 11, 2001	2001	Religious Studies Professor James Gibson asked his Fall 2001 World Religions Class to write about September 11th.
MG 153	Wilbur Coffman Photograph Collection	1920-1979	Pittsburgh newspaper photographer, and studio photographer in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
MG 154	Louisa Lintner Coleman Family Papers	1888-1984	Family history and journals from a family in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
MG 155	Charles Klausing Collection	1964-1970	Scrapbooks from IUP Football Coach Klausing.