The Society cares for a rich variety of collections documenting Huntingdon County’s history. Highlights include:
Textile Collection
HCHS maintains a large textile collection ranging from the late 1700s to the mid-1900s, including women’s, children’s and men’s clothing and accessories.
Photograph Collection
The HCHS photograph collection consists of thousands of historic photographs from all regions of Huntingdon County, covering a wide variety of topics and items of interest.
Robert Cree Collection
Robert Cree, a consummate historian, donated his unique research including the Huntingdon County Murder Compendiums (Vol. 1–6) and Huntingdon County Inventors & Patents, along with family files for our research library.
Linnaria Wheland Collection
Linnaria “Polly” Wheland, a well-versed genealogist, donated all of her research materials — family files, family books, county histories, cemetery records, and copies of bible pages from local families.
Albert Rung Collection
The Albert Rung Collection consists of the manuscripts of a prolific historian whose interest was Huntingdon County history, spanning a wide variety of topics including first-person accounts.
Postcard Collection
HCHS maintains a collection of postcards of historic photographs from all regions of Huntingdon County, depicting various people, places, and things.