Index of Cumberland County Birth, Wedding, Divorce & Obituary Newspaper Records - 2003
This index runs from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Book Review: The Shippensburg Historical Society--A Fifty Year Retrospective, 1945-1995
The Shippensburg Historical Society-A Fifty Year Retrospective, 1945-1995. Various authors. Published by the Society: The News-Chronicle Company, Shippensburg, Pa., 1996.
In spite of the title, only about a third of this book's pages deal expressly with the historical society and its collections. The rest, however, is good town history: a chapter regarding a Civil War-era correspondence; a selection of programs and papers presented to the society (principally business histories); Shippensburg area church histories; and some other relevant articles of an original and informative nature, including an abbreviated time line for the town from 1945 through 1995 and a series of amusing couplets called "Shippensburg Businesses in Rhyme" written in 1934.
The sections dealing with the history of the society contain a useful record of the origin of the group, its holdings, and its home in the Dr. Alexander Stewart house. Major collections are described, with illustrative photographs; and a chapter is devoted to the unique WPA collection of more than 400 items. Of particular interest to the researcher are samples of holdings in both library and archives, along with a list of services offered to the public by the society.
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