- WPA Architectural Models: Recreations of Historical and Significant Places
- The WPA Architectural Models Exhibit is an adventurous tour of artistic recreations of historical and architecturally significant places from the United States and around the world. This collection of 36 hand-made models is just a fragment of what th... View Exhibit Page
- Thank you Mr. Bates for showing us our town.: Thirty years of Mansfield's history and views preserved in photos. January 6th, Bert's birthdate, is Bert Bates Day in Mansfield.
- Photographer, W. A. Bates, "Bert,"recorded over thirty years of our town's events and history from ca 1905 until 1938. If anything was happening, he was there and took a picture. He had both studio portraits and many hundreds of postcards showing his... View Exhibit Page
- Sullivan Township Album of Smith, Comfort Family: Album of Polly Comfort "Smith"
- These photos ae from the album of Polly Comfort "Smith" which descended to her daughter Cora Smith "Tice," grandson Lee D. Tice, and great granddaugher Joyce M. Tice It includes photo of her parent's families: Comfort, Smith, Etc. It is in the coll... View Exhibit Page
- The History Center Menu Collection: Remembering Our Favorite Restaurants
- These menus are from local establishments includiing Mansfield, Troy, Wellsboro, Elmira. This collection was inspired by the work of Frank Buttles, who was born in Mansfield in 1845 and graduated from the Mansfield State Normal School in 1866. She fo... View Exhibit Page
- Mansfield State Normal School Class of 1894: Help us identify these people. Where did they go?
- These photos are in a collection at The History Center on Main Street. They are graduates of the MSNS Class of 1894. The photographer for most of them is Abram McFarlin who had a studio in Mansfield from 1888 tot1895. The school did not have a yearb... View Exhibit Page
- Sense and Nonsense
Autograph Books in the History Center collection: Remembering friends and family - This is a display of the autograph books in our collection with examples of verse from each. From the serious to the absurd, it was all intended as good advice.... View Exhibit Page
- Happy Easter: Easter Cards from the Early Twentieth Century
- To celebrate the season, we are showing some of the antique Easter cards in our collectiion. MOst of these date to the first and second decade of the twentieth century. They are colorful and entertaining and sometimes a little odd.
To suppor... View Exhibit Page - Mansfield, Pennsylvania Has a Lot To Celebrate in 2016: Celebrations, Anniversaries and Commemorations
- 2016 has been and continues to be a year of noteworthy anniversaries in and near Mansfield PA. From the five year anniversary of the founding of The History Center on Main Street to the 200th anniversary of the founding of Sullivan Township, this exh... View Exhibit Page
- Mansfield Sister Cities: We're Not The Only One
- Starting in the Eisenhower administration, organizations of same-name places were established to exchange information and learn about each other. Many have fallen by the wayside, but the Mansfield Sister Cities group has continued to the present led... View Exhibit Page
- The Campus Junior High School 1920 to 1959 ; History Center Album 1212.002: Mansfield's laboratory school on the campus of Mansfield State Teacher's College
- August 2010
What goes up must come down. The forces of time and gravity will have their way in spite of us. So it is that on the Mansfield University campus another old landmark has reached the end of its days.
Back in 1920, the idea of a jun... View Exhibit Page
- Mansfield Advertiser Print Jobs: Mementos from Local Businesses in the 1880s
- For the last several years of his very long life our beloved local historian, Chester P. Bailey (1912-2015), donated his life's collection of photos and historical items to The History Center. As he sorted through his accumulation of file drawers and... View Exhibit Page
- The Dairy Industry in the Mansfield Area: Businesses and organizations associated with the dairy industry.
- Agriculture has always been the prominent industry in the Tioga County PA area.... View Exhibit Page
- Mysteries at the Museum of Us: Mementos of the Past. It pays to advertise.
- Every item has a backstory. In the case of museum artifacts in our collection, these tell a story about what was available in Mansfield and when. It tells us about the product itself and the people who sold it. Then, as now, merchants might distribut... View Exhibit Page
- The Blue and Gold Room: Mansfield High School Treasures from the Past
- It all started with Ann Garrison's 1950s era cheerleading outfit, and it grew from there. When high school reunion classes come in for a museum tour, they see what we have and think of some item they can add to the story, and they bring it in. This i... View Exhibit Page