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• Old colonial architectural details in and around Philadelphia. 50 plates of scaled and measured drawings. (W. Helburn, 1890), by W. Davenport Goforth and William J. McAuley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial architecture of Philadelphia (Little, Brown, and Company, 1920), by Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs : with maps and illustrations ... (Rand McNally, 1919), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia's architecture (The Society, 1915), by William F. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand McNally guide to Philadelphia and environs : with maps and illustrations. (Rand McNally, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. (Thos. Hunter, publisher, 716 Filbert Street, 1876), by Thomas Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The illustrated history of th Centennial Exhibition held in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence with a full description of the great buildings and all the objects of interest exhibited in them, embracing also a concise history of the origin and success of the exhibition, and biographies of the leading members of the Centennial Commission; to which is added a complete description of the city of Philadelphia (J.B. Magurn, 1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs. (Rand, McNally & Co., 1898), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs : with maps and illustrations. (Rand McNally, 1916), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia and its park. (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victorian Roxborough : an architectural history (J.C. Manton, Historical Research, 1983), by John C. Manton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Philadelphia colonial details (The Architectvral pvblishing co., 1914), by Joseph Patterson Sims and Charles Willing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, by Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Penn's great town; 250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), by George B. Tatum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building : a monthly magazine devoted to the building industry. (Builders' Exchange and Employers' Association, 1921), by Joseph Jackson and Philadelphia Builders' Exchange and Employers' Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• An American country house, the property of Arthur E. Newbold, Jr., esq., Laverock, Pa.; Mellor, Meigs & Howe, architects (The Architectural Book Pub. Co., Inc., 1925), by Arthur Ingersoll Meigs, Arthur Emlen Newbold, and Meigs & Howe Mellor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Park houses, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. (Published by the Associate Committee of Women of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956), by Philadelphia Museum of Art. Associate Committee of Women (page images at HathiTrust)

• Architecture through a camera : photographic reproductions of designs executed by Hazlehurst & Huckel, Architects. (The Architects, 1894), by Architects Hazlehurst & Huckel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian Roxborough : an architectural history (J.C. Manton, Historical Research, 1983), by John C. Manton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws and ordinances relating to the Bureau. (Dunlap Printing Co., 1911), by Philadelphia (Pa.) and Philadelphia. Bureau of Building Inspection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws and ordinances relating to the bureau (Dunlap Printing Co., 1907), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Bureau of Building Inspection (page images at HathiTrust)

• The historic mansions and buildings of Philadelphia : with some notice of their owners and occupants (W. H. Barr, 1895), by Thompson Westcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Independence square neighborhood : historical notes on Independence and Washington squares, lower Chestnut street, and the insurance district along Walnut street, in Philadelphia, together with some account of the buildings, events, and personages of State house row, illustrated with photographs, sketches, and old prints. (The Penn mutual life insurance company, 1926), by Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and Carroll Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penn's great town; 250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), by George B. Tatum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Philadelphia; its people, life and progress (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1917), by Horace Mather Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historic landmarks of Philadelphia. (The Leeds press, 1899), by Esther M. Thurber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directory of the principal office buildings in Philadelphia. (Waldeck Publishing Co., 1896), by Waldeck Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys around old Philadelphia (Peter Reilly Co., 1925), by George Barton and Frank H. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, with incidents of the neighborhood. Read at the meeting of the [Numismatic and Antiquarian] Society ... November 19, 1917. ([Place of publication not identified], 1917), by Charles J. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carpenters' Hall : the meeting place of the First Continental Congress, full sketch of its history from 1724, with views and sketches of Carpenters' Hall, Clarke's Hall, Benezet's House, and Chestnut Street Bridge, Duche's House, &c., &c. (King & Baird, Printers, 1865), by Casper Souder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ye Olde Mint: Being a brief description of the first U.S. Mint, established by Congress in the year 1792, at Seventh Street and Sugar Alley (now Filbert Street) Philadelphia, by Frank H. Stewart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chain of Colonial Houses (Gutenberg ebook)

• Society Hill : a modern community that lives with history (Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 1969), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Redevelopment Authority (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stabilization and repair of a historic terra cotta cornice (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, 1991), by Jeffrey S. Levine and United States. National Park Service. Preservation Assistance Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philadelphia and its environs. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1876), by J.B. Lippincott & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preserving historic corridors in open office plans (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1985), by Christina Henry and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repair and retrofitting industrial steel windows (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1989), by Robert M. Powers and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water soak cleaning of limestone : the Widener Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, 1992), by Robert M. Powers and United States. National Park Service. Preservation Assistance Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environmental impact statement : Independence National Historical Park, Pennsylvania (The Park, 1995), by Independence National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Architectural Heritage of Early Western Pennsylvania: A Record of Building Before 1860 (originally published in 1936 as The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania; this edition Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966), by Charles Morse Stotz (page images at Pitt)
• Colonial Architecture, for Those About to Build: Being the Best Examples, Domestic, Municipal and Institutional, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, With Observations Upon the Local Building Art of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Herbert C. Wise and H. Ferdinand Beidleman
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• Early architecture of Pennsylvania. ([New York, 1920), by Alfred Lawrence Kocher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, Pa. : John C. Winston Co., 1924., 1924), by Anna Margaretta Archambault (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hundred Pennsylvania buildings. (Bald Eagle Press, 1954), by Harold Edward Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia : 50 plates (Bates and Guild, 1902), by Joseph Everett Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania, ed. by Anna Margaretta Archambault (Gutenberg ebook)

• Two historic Pennsylvania canal towns : Alexandria and Saltsburg (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1989), by Sara Amy Leach, America's Industrial Heritage Project, and Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad city : four historic neighborhoods in Altoona, Pennsylvania (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1990), by Kim E. Wallace and Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (page images at HathiTrust)

• August tour 1957, 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th: Bethlehem and environs. ([Bethlehem, Pa., 1957), by Society of Architectural Historians and Annie S. Kemerer Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Clubhouse, Brown Cottage, Moorhead Cottage, Clubhouse Annex : South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club, St. Michael, Pennsylvania (U.S. National Park Service, 1993), by 1889 South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club Historical Preservation Society, United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Roberts & Todd Wallace, and Architects Landmarks Design Associates (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Character of a steel mill city : four historic neighborhoods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1989), by Natalie Gillespie, Kim E. Wallace, America's Industrial Heritage Project, and Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (page images at HathiTrust)

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