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The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature .
The State Archives was created in 1903 as the Division of Public Records in the State Library. In 1945, it was combined with the State Museum and the Pennsylvania Historical Commission to form the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission (PHMC).
The Pennsylvania Historical Commission, the predecessor to the PHMC, launched the program. The markers were redesigned in 1945–46 to make them easier to read from a passing car. Large cast aluminum markers were mounted on poles along a street or road, close to where a landmark was located, a person lived or worked, or an event occurred.
Samuel Penniman Bates (January 29, 1827 – July 14, 1902) was an American educator, author, and historian. He is known for his reference works on the American Civil War, including his multi-volume History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861–1865 which remains a frequently-used, preliminary research resource due to its narrative descriptions of unit activities and rosters of the regiments ...
The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 120. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. ISBN 978-0-8182-0345-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-01; Bodgen, Sharon, ed. (2013). The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 121. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. ISBN 978-0-8182-0357-2. Archived from the original ...
The Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is the Canadian archival descriptive standard.It provides a set of rules based on traditional archival principles, whose purpose is to provide a consistent and commonly shared descriptive foundation for describing archival materials within a given fonds. [1]
For about fifty years he and the Shawnees lived together with European colonists in Pennsylvania until the mid-1740s when many Shawnees and other Native Americans migrated to the Ohio River Valley. In 1743, Kakowatcheky moved to Logstown , on the Ohio River, where he may have continued to live until 1755 or later, that being the last year in ...
Pennsylvania Session Laws is an 18 volume collection of laws Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1809. [1] The first volume was published electronically in 2001; volumes 2 to 18 printed in the years spanning 1896 to 1915.