Digital Media Collections
LBHS @History Celebration Weekend
Each year LBHS participates in Beaver County’s History Celebration Weekend exploring a new theme with specially created activities, exhibits, and displays throughout the museum’s many historical buildings. Here is a special online companion exhibit to the on-site programing at the museums.
LBHS Podcast
The LBHS Podcast features stories, news, and conversations about the Little Beaver Historical Society and local history of northern Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
LBHS Library Online
The LBHS Library Online is a collection of digital and internet-based documents, manuscripts, and other texts and media related to local history.
Museum Tour Stops
The Little Beaver Historical Society has several museums, collections, exhibits, and physical artifacts representing local history of the Darlington area, northern Beaver County, as well as the region that includes western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia. Here we present select “tour stops” that can be further explored by visiting LBHS in person.
Beaver County History Online
This site was first put on line May 23, 1998. This site was originally created by teachers and students at Beaver Area School District for other teachers and students in the County. This is the primary site for archival information and photographs on Beaver County Pennsylvania. Note to users: this site is no longer supported and contains much information that is outdated. Please use discretionary caution when viewing and researching.
LBHS Cultural History
The LBHS Cultural History Collection is a special online feature broadly focused on the cultural history of Northern Beaver County and surrounding regions, including music, art, literature, folklore and legends, oral history, religious thought, social events, and customs.
LBHS Image Collection
The LBHS Image Collection contains local history images and photo documentation of artifacts, events, and activities of the museum.
LBHS on Social Media
Facebook: LBHS Forge and Foundry
This LBHS Facebook page is dedicated to the Hamilton Forge and Foundry, and it contains images, videos, and discussions about forge working.
Facebook: LBHS Page
This LBHS Facebook page is dedicated to topics related to the museum as well as local history throughout Beaver County.
Video & Audio
This is a publicly and privately sourced audio/visual archive of voices and stories related to the Little Beaver Historical Society. Disclaimer: This collection is intended for educational and historical purposes. This collection of audio-visual content contains digital media items and playlists already made publicly available (but not necessarily in the public domain) by their creators via internet platforms such as YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Media presented here link directly back to these platforms and original content. Content creators retain all legal responsibility for copyright control over their media, including location, manner of access, aesthetic quality, and editorial point of view. LBHS assumes no legal or financial responsibility for this publicly available content, it makes no claim of ownership, and it respects the right of content creators to remove or modify their media at any time from their publicly accessible platforms.





Other digital collections of interest:
- American MemoryResources from the collections of the Library of Congress that document the American experience.
- National ArchivesUnited States National Archives and Records Administration. Provides access to some digital collections, the Archives’ catalog, and online exhibits.
- State Digital Resources: Memory Projects,Online Encyclopedias,Historical& Cultural Materials CollectionsList provided by the Library of Congress of digital collections and resources by state.
- World Digital LibraryThe World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.Source: New Mexico State University