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Pennsylvaniana

This collection contains materials published in Pennsylvania dealing with Pennsylvania history, biography of notable Pennsylvanians, Pennsylvania organizations and geography; and personal paper sub-collections including correspondence and ephemera of Pennsylvanians involved in the development of shorthand, in the American Civil War, and in Philadelphia's Main Line history. This collection also includes health statistics related to Pennsylvanians. Digitization Status: Ongoing.

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Bregy

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Health Statistics

Philadelphia Health Statistics for the years 1976, 1979-1991, 1993-2002.

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Historical Society of Mongomery County

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Humbert

This is the personal paper collection of Augustus Humbert which includes correspondence and orders related to the hunt for the assassin of President Lincoln - John Wilkes Booth - and the failed assassin of Secretary of State Seward - Lewis Payne; Confederate States of America currency; and his Pennsylvania Officer's State Militia certificate. Collection Digitally Donated by Marie Humbert. Digitization Status: Project Completed.

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Lloyd

This is the collection of the Lloyd family papers and donations to Villanova including correspondence, deeds, receipts, newspaper clippings. Of particular value are the papers of Thomas Lloyd know as the "Father of United States Shorthand," and the donated photographs of Eamon de Valera, first President of the Republic of Ireland. Items from the Shea family and Rudolph family, both linked to the Lloyd family, are also included. The Shea family owned land that Villanova would come to occupy in the Main Line Philadelphia area, later known as Villanova. Note: the Villanova Digital Library American Catholic Historical Society Lloyd Family Collection has additional research materials available on Thomas Lloyd and his family. Digitization Status: Project Completed.

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Radnor Township

Here are materials relating to Radnor Township, the Radnor Memorial Library, and the Radnor Friends Meeting.

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Stokes

This collection contains the personal paper collection of William A. Stokes and other donations of the Stokes family to Villanova. Status: Project Completed.

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Shelley

The Shelley Collection contains items related to theater, opera, Pennsylvania, specifically the Philadelphia area, and miscellaneous family artifacts.

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Philadelphia and its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania

by Lippincott, firm, publishers, Philadelphia. (1872-73. J.B. Lippincott & Co.)
Published 1875

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In memoriam, Francis Anthony Drexel.

Published 1885

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Atlas of Philadelphia and environs : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys based upon plans deposited in the Department of Surveys surveyed [and] published under...

by Hopkins, Griffith Morgan.
Published 1877

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Hibernia fire engine company no. 1. have caused this volume to be issued in remembrance of their visit to the cities of New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Charlestown and Newark, in Novem...

by Philadelphia -- Hibernia Fire Company.
Published 1859

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Baldwin locomotive works : illustrated catalogue of locomotives

by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation.
Published 1871

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A Brief History of the 69th Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers

by McDermott, Anthony W.
Published 1889

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The Wissahickon

by T.A. Daly
Published 1922

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Portrait gallery of pugilists of America and their contemporaries

by Edwards, William, b. 1844.
Published 1894

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Pennsylvania's Verse

by Miller, William Otto, editor.
Published 1902

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Official pictorial and descriptive souvenir book of the historical pageant, October seventh to twelfth, 1912.

by Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936.
Published 1912

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Report of the Select Committee relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery :

by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
Published 1864

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Rose Bud Album

by Bacon, Agnes T.
Published 1858

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Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Riots, 1844 (5); Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Police (2); Baldwin Locomotive Works (1); Baldwin locomotives -- Catalog (1); Baldwin locomotives -- Catalogs (1); more ...

Binny & Ronaldson (1)

Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography (1)

Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Portraits (1)

Bright, Michael, Gen (1)

Bright, Michael, Gen. -- Trials, litigation, etc (1)

Brighton Boys (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction (1)

Bryn Mawr (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction (1)

Bryn Mawr College -- Fiction (1)

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (1)

College stories, American (1)

College students' writings, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia (1)

College verse, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia (1)

Drexel, Francis Anthony, 1824-1885 (1)

Engine companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History (1)

Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History (1)

Fort Duquesne (Pa.) (1)

French literature -- To 1500 -- Translations into English (1)

German-American imprints -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1890 (1)

Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863 (1)

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 (1)

Hering, Constantin, 1800-1800 -- Humor (1)

Hibernia Fire Engine Company, No. 1 (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History (1)

Homeopathic physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography (1)

Author: Bacon, Agnes T. (1); Baldwin Locomotive Works (1); Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (1); Bright, Michael, Gen (1); Bucholzer, H. (1); more ...

Catholic Layman (1)

Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (1)

Driscoll, James R. (1)

Edwards, William, b. 1844 (1)

Frescoln, Wilson Lysle, 1912- |e ed (1)

Hopkins, Griffith Morgan (1)

Ingersoll, Charles (1)

King, Moses, 1853-1909 (1)

Lippincott, firm, publishers, Philadelphia. (1872-73. J.B. Lippincott & Co.) (1)

Lloyd, Thomas; the arguments of counsel and charge of the judge, revised by each respectively (1)

MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Foundry (1)

Magee, J. L. (1)

McDermott, Anthony W. (1)

Miller, William Otto, editor (1)

Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936 (1)

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery (1)

Philadelphia -- Hibernia Fire Company (1)

Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894 (1)

Tyson, Job R. (Job Roberts), 1803-1858 (1)