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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 collection, as of 2000, contained one hundred and sixty-five million pages of documents, seventeen thousand reels of microfilm, and one million special collection items, including photographs, maps and blueprints, motion picture rolls, and audio and video tapes [3] covering the period 1664 to the present. It nearly filled the ...
Patrick Gordon (c. 1644 [1] – August 17, 1736 [2] [3]) was Deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties on the Delaware from 22 June 1726 to 4 August 1736. [4] He was deputy to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, the heirs of William Penn, rather than to a governor. Since the proprietors were usually in England, he was ...
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is a not-for-profit historical library, archive, and museum located in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Its mission is to "protect, preserve and interpret books, manuscripts and artifacts of the Schwenkfelders and the people of southeastern Pennsylvania in general and the Perkiomen Valley in particular." [1]
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 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.
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 ...
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.