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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historic research facility headquartered on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. It is a repository for millions of historic items ranging across rare books, scholarly monographs, family chronicles, maps, press reports and varied ephemera, reaching back almost 300 years, and accessible on the ...
The State Archives also collects private papers relevant to Pennsylvania history. History. 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).
Pennsylvania Abolition Society Historical Marker at S. Front near Walnut Sts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and held four meetings. [1] Seventeen of the 24 men who attended ...
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 following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum. [1] [2] Eight of the ten most populous ...
The Henry Janssen Library is acknowledged to be one of the best and most thoroughly indexed collections of county data in Pennsylvania. Library opening hours are Wednesday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM and Saturday, 8AM to 4PM. Access to the library is free for members of the Historical Society of Berks County.
Pa. Mag. Hist. Biogr. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of Pennsylvania. It has been published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania since 1877. [1] It is regarded as a prestigious historical journal in the US. [2]
Type. Nonprofit. Location. 2100 Byberry Road, Suite 111, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Website. genpa .org. The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ( GSP) is a non-profit educational institution headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1892, [1] it is one of the oldest genealogical societies in the United States.