Carnegie Community Archive

The Carnegie Community Archive is a growing collection of digitized materials that relate to the history of the Borough of Carnegie.

The Archive is currently accessible by appointment in the Library building. In the near future, it will also be freely accessible online via the Pennsylvania Photos and Documents collection of POWER Library, Pennsylvania’s Electronic Library.

To request an appointment, please call the Library at 412-276-3456, or email Library Director Walker Evans at evansw2@CarnegieCarnegie.org.

Carnegie Community Archive contents

  • The Mansfield Item, 1875-1908
  • The Carnegie Union, 1888-1941
  • The Carnegie Signal-Item, 1908-1996
  • The Gateway Press (Carnegie and West Area), 1992-1994
  • Carnegie High School yearbooks: 1915-1967

Note: more items are being added to this collection regularly. If you would like to help with this project, please fill out our Volunteer Application!


Thank you very much to the following Carnegieans who sponsored the digitization of one or more reels of microfilm for this project:

  • Janet Sharp, in memory of Ken Sharp: the Signal-Item, 1951, 1952, and 1972
  • Mary Jeffries: the Signal-Item, 1917
  • Farah Khan: the Carnegie Union, July 1897-1900
  • Bob Podurgiel, in honor of his mother who loved to read the local paper: the Signal-Item, 1953-1954

Additional thanks to the volunteers who have helped digitize our yearbook collection:

  • E’Lija Gibbs
  • Megan Grabowski
  • Alan James
  • Mikha Johnson
  • Gabrielle Leonard
  • Clare Mankowski
  • Maureen McIntyre
  • Supreme Mebane
  • Alexa Miller
  • Father Bob Popichak