This is a collection of various historical and genealogical reference works on Pennsylvania. These references cover 1000's of individuals, and are an excellent way to start or continue research focused on PA. This collection includes all of the individual collections covering Cambria County, PA (Please see individual collection listings for detailed descriptions of titles.)

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CA01 - Cambria County PA - Everything Collection (All Collections on Cambria County)

CA02 - County, Regional, Miscellaneous History and Maps Collection

County History & Biography Collection
The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, Perry, Somerset, Cambria, and Indiana Counties (I. Daniel Rupp, 1848, 711 pages)
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania (The Union Publishing Company, 1896, 563 pages)
History of Cambria County Pennsylvania With Genealogical Memoirs. Illustrated Vol. 1-3 (Henry Wilson Storey, 1907, 1959 pages)
Cambria County Pioneers (James M. Swank, 1910, 136 pages)
History of Cambria County Pennsylvania Vol. 1 & 2 (John E. Gable, 1926, 1242 pages)

Town, Township & Regional Histories
The Valley of the Conemaugh (Thomas J. Chapman, 1865, 201 pages)
Souvenir of Johnstown (L. H. Nelson Company, 1906, 32 pages)
Johnstown Illustrated (Ill. Postal Card Co., ~1910, 14 pages)
Stonycreek Township History Book 1876-1976 (Commissioners of Stonycreek Township, 1976, 44 pages)

Church, Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous Histories
Industrial and Commercial Resources of [Western] Pennsylvania (Historical Publishing Company, 1887, 144 pages)
Gallitzin World War II Memorial (Home-Coming Committee, 1946, 199 pages)
Political Directory of Who's Who? In Cambria County and City of Johnstown 1935 (Anonymous, 1935, 20 pages)
Young American Patriots - The Youth of Pennsylvania in World War II (National Publishing Company, 1946, 674 pages)

Maps Atlases & Images
1850's Map of Cambria Co., Penna (R. Pearsall Smith, Color)
1867 Map of Cambria Co. Pennsylvania (D. G. Beers & A. Pomeroy, Color)
1890 Illustrated Historical Combination Atlas of Cambria County Pennsylvania (J. Caldwell, B/W)

Birds-eye Town Views
South Fork, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (1900, by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
Gallitzin, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (1901, by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)

CA03 - Directory Collection (1876-1955)
1876-7 Wiggins & McKillop's General Directory of Cambria, Indiana & Westmoreland Counties (Wiggins & McKillop, 1876, 331 pages)
Webb's Johnstown Directory 1884 (W. S. Webb & Company, 1884, 200 pages)
C. B. Clark's Johnstown Directory and Citizens' Register. May, 1889 (Charles B. Clark, 1889, 355 pages)
List of Subscribers - The Central District Printing Telegraph Co., July 1894 (The Central District and Printing Telegraph Company, 1894, 186 pages)
Official Directory of the Central District & Printing Telegraph Co. May 1898 (Central District & Printing Telegraph Co., 1898, 410 pages)
Mowrey's Tri-State Directory - 1907 (Mowrey Directory Co., 1907, 544 pages)
Telephone Directory April 1914 - Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and Westmoreland Counties (Central District Telephone Company, 1914, 138 pages)
Telephone Directory - Fall 1927 - Somerset Division (Johnstown Telephone Company, 1927, 178 pages)
Somerset and Nearby Communities Telephone Directory - October 1941 (Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation, 1941, 152 pages)
Johnstown and Nearby Communities Telephone Directory - October 1942 (Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation, 1942, 148 pages)
Altoona and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - September 1946 (Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1946, 332 pages)
Johnstown and Nearby Communities Telephone Directory - November 1947 (Pennsylvania Telephone Company, 1947, 216 pages)
Somerset and Nearby Communities Telephone Directory - May 1947 (Pennsylvania Telephone Company, 1947, 214 pages)
Polk's Johnstown City Directory 1951 (R. L. Polk & Co., 1951, 920 pages
Ebensburg and Nearby Communities Telephone Directory - February 1955 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1955, 166 pages)