Digital Collections

PHMC HARC Grant helps DHS expand access to collections!

Dallastown Area Historical Society (DHS) partnered with Dallastown Borough to secure a Historical and Archival Records Care (HARC) grant through the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) in order to better conserve our collection and provide wider access to items from the collection. This grant has allowed Dallastown Historical to begin digitizing its collection of historic documents, photos, and a wide variety of other paper-based items, including posters, advertisements, maps, materials from Dallastown’s 1966 Centennial and much more.  

This HARC grant has enabled Dallastown Historical to acquire much needed equipment and software to enable our scanning efforts and allow digital access to visitors at our museum, located at 118 E. Main St.  It has also allowed us to obtain crucial archival materials to better preserve the paper-based items in our collection. Many of these historical items are decades old, one-of-a-kind documents, which if allowed to deteriorate further, would no longer be available to current and former residents and generations to come. The grant has also allowed the Borough to initiate efforts to digitize many of its historic documents.

Digital access to these items from the DHS museum computer is available during our First Sunday of the Month Open Houses from 1 to 4 pm. Future plans are to make these digitized items available on our dallastownhistorical.org website as volunteer staffing permits. If you would like to become part of our digitization effort and work with our trained volunteers to scan more of our collection, email dallastownhistorical@gmail.com or use the website contact us form. 

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