The Penn State Harrisburg Library's Archives and Special Collections consists of two major collections, the Alice Marshall Women's History Collection and the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies Collection.
For information regarding the library's Archives and Special Collections, please contact Martha Sachs, curator of the Alice Marshall Women's History Collection (717-948-6280, mss206@psu.edu), or Heidi N. Abbey, archivist and humanities reference librarian and coordinator of Archives and Special Collections (717-948-6056, hna2@psu.edu).
Archives and Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Penn State Harrisburg Library on the Penn State Harrisburg campus in Middletown, Pa. For driving directions to campus, see the Directions to the Library Web page.
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., or by appointment. Contact Martha Sachs (717-948-6280, mss206@psu.edu).
The Alice Marshall Women's History Collection, considered the most comprehensive, privately compiled collection of women's history materials in the United States, was acquired by Penn State in 1991.
The Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies Collection, which was transferred to the library in 2005, provides resources for the study of Pennsylvania's cultural heritage.
