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Mission Statement

The mission of the Bedford County Historical Society is to document, preserve, protect and promote the history and heritage of Bedford County, Pennsylvania


© 2010 Pioneer Library, Bedford County Historical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.

Pioneer Library
Bedford County Historical Society, Inc.

6441 Lincoln Highway, Bedford, PA 15522
Phone: (814) 623-2011
Email: bedfordhistory@embarqmail.com


PHOTOS

The links below are to the many pictures from the Historical Society's Old Photo Album Collection. It includes a large variety of pictures and documentation and has been completely indexed. Some of these pictures date to before 1900. For your convenience we have included the maiden names of married women and the townships where the people lived when the photo captions provided this information.

The Pioneer Library Staff will be happy to scan, make copies and deliver them to you for a fee of $5.00 for the first scanned document. All orders will be scanned at 600 dpi and emailed. All snail mail orders will be high resolution copies, not photographs. For information concerning multiple copies of the same document, or multiple scanned documents, please contact the library staff.

 

Click on a link below to view the index of pictures.

Index A - F

Index G - M

Index N - Z

 

 
Examples of Photos

This is a picture of the Bedford County Courthouse and Monument that was originally taken in the 50s. This is how it appeared when published in the Bedford Gazette, on May 18, 1993.

Bedford County Courthouse and Monument

 

This is a picture of the John Feaster family of Fishertown.

John Feaster Family

 

This is a picture of the Quaker Church at Fishertown.

Quaker Church at Fishertown

 

This is a picture of the McLaughlin Handle Factory, taken around 1900.

The Mclaughlin Handle Factory