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• Report of the survey of a section of the River Delaware : from one mile below Chester, to Richmond, above Philadelphia. Taken by order of the Councils (1820), by David M'Clure (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A digest of the ordinances of the corporation of the city of Philadelphia, and of the acts of Assembly relating thereto (Printed by J. Crissy, No. 4 Minor Street, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people versus the politicians (T.H. Speakman, 1878), by Thomas H. Speakman and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The summary report of the Philadelphia Charter Commission. (The Commission, 1938), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Charter Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The people versus the politicians (T.H. Speakman, 1878), by Thomas H. Speakman (page images at HathiTrust)

• A topical index of statutes & ordinances affecting Philadelphia's government (The Bureau, 1937), by Murray H. Shusterman and Pa.) Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The municipal law of Philadelphia. A digest of the charters, acts of Assembly, ordinances, and judicial decisions relating thereto, from 1701 to 1887. (J.M.P. Wallace, 1887), by Charles Barnsley McMichael, Charles B. McMichael, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia (Pa.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new charter for the city of Philadelphia : better known as the "Bullitt Bill," approved June 1st, 1885. (Schall & Brother, 1885), by Philadelphia (Pa.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Highways and byways : a problem in upkeep : summary of operations for year 1915 (The Bureau, 1916), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Bureau of Highways and Street Cleaning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of committees on water supply, warming and ventilation, fitting up and furnishing rooms ... a brief explanation of the system adopted for numbering the rooms (s.n.], 1889), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Dept. of Public Safety. (The Dept., in the 19th century), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Public Safety (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical sketches of the formation and founders of the Philadelphia hose company, being the first hose company instituted in the city of Philadelphia, December 15, 1803: taken from addresses delivered before the Company. Together with the proceedings of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Company's organization, December 15, 1853. To which is appended a list of the members ... (Prepared by order of the Company, 1854), by Philadelphia Hose Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia Housing Association, 1912), by Philadelphia Housing Association and Philadelphia Housing Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philadelphia Neighborhood youth Resources Center : an exemplary project. (NILE & CJ :, 1975), by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old roads out of Philadelphia (J.B. Lippincott, 1917), by John T. Faris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Law triumphant! ... (Meroduk Pub. Co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city government of Philadelphia. (N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887), by Edward P. Allinson and Boies Penrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia libraries, a survey of facilities, needs and opportunities; a report to the Carnegie corporation of New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1942), by Bibliographical Planning Committee of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Calendar of Joel R. Poinsett papers in the Henry D. Gilpin collection (Gilpin Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1941), by Pennsylvania Historical Survey, Bernard S. Levin, Grace E. Heilman, Henry D. Gilpin, Joel Roberts Poinsett, United States. Work Projects Administration. Division of Community Service Programs, and Gilpin Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old churches and meeting houses in and around Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa. ; London, : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926., 1926), by John T. Faris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The demand for housing in racially mixed areas : a study of the nature of neighborhood change (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1960., 1960), by Chester Rapkin and William G. Grigsby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wholesale prices in Philadelphia, 1852-1896 : series of relative monthly prices (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954), by Anne Bezanson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Philadelphia seminary biographical record, 1864-1923 (Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. : [Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia], 1923., 1923), by Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Luther D. Reed, and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Alumni Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1914., 1914), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Visitors' guide to the centennial exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876. (©1875, 1875), by Pa.) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report ([Philadelphia, Pa.] : Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association, in the 19th century), by Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wages of candy makers in Philadelphia in 1919. (Govt. Print. Off., 1919), by United States Women's Bureau, Mildred Larcom Gordon, Ethel Best, and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employment in Philadelphia (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1932., 1932), by Amey Brown Eaton Watson, United States Government Printing Office, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Central Board of Directors to the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity. ([publisher not identified], in the 1880s), by Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Water supply problem of Philadelphia : an analysis of the needs of the water service with reference to the proposed substitute sources of water supply and with a historical review of the water works development (The Bureau, 1922), by Pa.) Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second anniversary of the Merchants Fund, : January 24, 1856, with the report of the board of managers, and the address of Wm. Bacon Stevens, D.D., rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia. (C. Sherman & Son, printers, 1856), by Pa.) Merchants' Fund (Philadelphia, William Bacon Stevens, Pennsylvania, and C. Sherman & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philadelphia police, past and present (Philadelphia, Pa., 1887), by Howard O. Sprogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The port of Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden and Gloucester City, N.J (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia. 1765-1798. (Press of W. F. Fell & Co., 1893), by Jacob Hiltzheimer and Jacob Cox Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Cape May (Rand, McNally & Co., 1912), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks to the Bar of Philadelphia on the occasion of the deaths of Charles Chauncey and John Sergeant (C. Sherman, Printer, 1853), by Horace Binney and Philadelphia Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe aus Philadelphia (F. Vieweg und sohn, 1877), by F. Reuleaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders ... (E.S. Stuart, 1891), by John F. Watson and Willis P. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses delivered March 13, 1902, and papers prepared or republished to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Law association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1802-1902. (Made at the sign of the ivy leaf, 1906), by Philadelphia Bar Association (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)
• The marketing of milk in Philadelphia : a preliminary report ([s.n.], 1924), by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Odonata - dragonflies of the vicinity of Philadelphia, with an introduction to the study of this group of insects. (1893), by Philip Powell Calvert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of suburban rapid transit station location, fare and parking availability on users' station choice behavior : analysis of the Philadelphia-Lindenwold high-speed line : final report (Regional Science Dept., University of Pennsylvania, 1974), by David E. Boyce, Gene Desfor, and University of Pennsylvania. Regional Science Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public hearing for the purpose of providing information to be used by the Department of Labor in devising definite standards and goals of minority manpower utilization pursuant to the revised Philadelphia plan. (Atlas Reporting Service, 1969), by United States Department of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special report no. 1-A-7 (Philadelphia, 1931), by Wharton School. Industrial Research Department and Gladys L. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the citizens of Philadelphia, at the House of Refuge, on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, 1828. By John Sergeant, president of the institution. (Jesper Harding, printer., 1828), by John Sergeant and Jesper Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study on the development of a non-standard work day or week for women (Available from National Technical Information Service, 1974), by Ruth Prywes and United States. Department of Labor. Manpower Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report to the stockholders <1911-1934> (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, 1911), by Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Germantown (H.F. McCann, 1908), by David Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial families of Philadelphia. (Lewis Pub. Co., 1911), by John W. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution, by-laws and rules of order, of Covenant Lodge, no. 114, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Pennsylivania, instituted June 28th, 1845. (Wm. A. Church, printer, 1878), by no. 114 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Covenant Lodge (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)
• Addresses delivered March 13, 1902 and papers prepared or republished to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Law Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1802-1902 (The Association], 1954), by Philadelphia Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In memory of Harold Mann : born July 2d, 1856, died July 31st, 1889. (Dunlap & Clarke., 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon delivered in the synagogue Rodef Shalom ... on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1868 (Published by the Congregation, 1868), by Marcus Jastrow and Pa.) Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual announcement and catalogue of students of the Female Medical College of pennsylvania 1852 (Jas. B. Rodgers, 1850), by Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Public Buildings on Penn Square, in the City of Philadelphia. ([Press of H. B. Ashmead], 1880), by Philadelphia (Pa.) Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings and Benjamin Harris Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breakfast to the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States in the American Academy of Music, September 15, 1887, by the Bar of Philadelphia. (Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888), by Philadelphia (Pa.) Bar (page images at HathiTrust)
• In commemoration of the private and professional virtues of William Francis Judson : late a memberof the Philadelphia bar. (Printed for private distribution, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arthur Mervyn : or, Memoirs of the year 1793. (Lovell, Gestefeld, 1890), by Charles Brockden Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The members of the Philadelphia Bar : a complete catalogue, from July, 1776 to July, 1855 (Printed at the Decorative Printing House, 22 South Third Street, 1855), by R. F. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the trial of Friends, in the city of Philadelphia, June, 1828, before the Honourable Edward King ... : or, The case of Edmund Shotwell, Joseph Lukins, Charles Middleton, and two others, who had been, by the mayor of the city, committed to prison, whence they were brought up by habeas corpus, June 16th, 1828 (J. Harding, printer, 1828), by Edmund Shotwell, M. T. C. Gould, Charles Middleton, Joseph Lukins, and Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (1st Judicial District) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friends' Asylum, 1813-1913 : with some illustrations of the buildings and grounds. ([The Ayslum, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The German drama in English on the Philadelphia stage from 1794 to 1830 (Americana Germanica press, 1918), by Charles Frederic Brede (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia. ([Philadelphia, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Charles Lea ([n. p., 1911), by Isaac Lea and Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the celebrated collection of United States and foreign coins of the late Matthew Adams Stickney ... (H. Chapman, 1907), by Henry Chapman, Matthew Adams Stickney, and Davis & Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of Columbia Lodge, no. 91, F. & A.M. (Philadelphia, 1916), by no. 91 Freemasons. Philadelphia. Columbia Lodge and Julius Friedrich Sachse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of choice engravings and etchings and original drawings by Sir Edward Burne-Jones belonging to a well-known gentleman of Philadelphia : including artist's proof etchings by Axel H. Haig ... a large collection of engravings printed in colors ... fine proofs of Wheatley's beautiful "Cries of London" ... : to be sold Wednesday afternoon, December 3d, 1902 and continuing Thursday afternoon, Dec. 4, and Friday afternoon, Dec. 5 ... (Stan. V. Henkels, 1902), by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm), Harold Peirce, and Davis & Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions to the medical examiners of the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia. (Office: No. 111 South Fourth Street., 1868), by Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia and Samuel Richards Shipley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exhibition of paintings by a group of Philadelphia artists, pastels by John McLure Hamilton, paintings of the Far West by William R. Leigh : the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, October, nineteen hundred and sixteen. (The Gallery, 1916), by University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral letters of Archbishop Carroll, to the congregation of Trinity Church, in Philadelphia, 1797, and of Archbishop Marechal, to the congregation of Norfolk, Virginia, 1819. (Printed by Joseph Robinson, circulating library ..., 1820), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.). Archbishop (1808-1815 : Carroll) and Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.). Archbishop (1817-1828 : Maréchal) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philad'a freie Presse (F.W. Thomas, 1860), by German Society of Pennsylvania Historical Newspaper Collection (University of Pennsylvania) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siege of Paris ([Centennial Exhibition], 1876), by Pa.) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix no. 39 ([Philadelphia] : [The Board], 1906., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia democrat (J.S. Hoffman & Edward Morwitz, 1854), by German Society of Pennsylvania Historical Newspaper Collection (University of Pennsylvania) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An ordinance to amend chapters 14-100 through 14-1400, and chapter 14-1600, of the Philadelphia code, pertaining to zoning and planning ... ([Philadelphia], 1958), by Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Procedure and time required to authorize loans of the city of Philadelphia (Bureau of Municipal Research, 1929), by Pa.) Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia and Robert J. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration, [1978], 1978), by United States. Federal Insurance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art gallery, annexes, and outdoor works of art : Department IV.--Art. (Published for the Centennial Catalogue Company by John R. Nagle and Company, 1876), by Pa.) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia and United States Centennial Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules and regulations Westminster Cemetery. (Philadelphia [Pa.] : Westminster Cemetery, 1907., 1907), by Pa.) Westminster Cemetery (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial of Herman W. Mudgett alias H.H. Holmes for the murder of Benjamin F. Pitezel : in the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in and for the City and County of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, October 28, 29, 30, 31, and November 1 and 2 1895. (Bisel, 1897), by Herman W. Mudgett and Pennsylvania. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Philadelphia County) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social condition of the industrial classes of Philadelphia : read at a meeting of the association, November 8th, 1883 (Philadelphia Social Science Association, 1883), by Lorin Blodget (page images at HathiTrust)
• [G.C. Watson materials] (G.C. Watson, 1895), by G.C. Watson (Firm), George C. Watson, and Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why the Gas Works should remain under municipal control : an appeal to the Select and Common Council of Philadelphia, in behalf of the people : a warning in time. ([Philadelphia?], 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The redemption of the lower Schuylkill : the river as it was, the river as it is, the river as it should be (Philadelphia, Pa. : City Parks Association, 1924., 1924), by John Frederick Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia Museum bulletin. (Philadelphia Museum of Art., 1903), by Pennsylvania Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia : the birthplace of the nation, the pivot of history, the city of homes. (Sheldon Co., 1904), by Henry Graham Ashmead and Pa.) Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evening courses and classes announcement (Philadelphia : the Institute, [dates of publication not identified], between 1000 and 1999), by Pa.) Franklin Institute (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750 : being a list of certificates of removal received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Baltimore : Southern Book Company, 1957., 1957), by Albert Cook Myers and Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• USA, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and George Washington country. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, United States Travel Service, 1980), by United States Travel Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania arts and sciences. June, 1935 : a guide to Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, Pa. : Pennsylvania Society for Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 1935), by Pennsylvania Society for Promotion of Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Crimes Survey Committee. (G.H. Buchanan Co., 1926), by Law Association of Philadelphia. Crimes Survey Committee, James Collins Jones, and Theodore F. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special report on the city plan 1902 (Columbia University Libraries, 1902), by City Parks Association of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of rare books of six centuries. (The Rosenbach company, 1935), by Rosenbach Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Publication of the City History Society of Philadelphia (City History Society of Philadelphia, 1908), by City History Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• One million people in small houses (National Housing Association, 1917), by Helen L. Parrish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa. (United States Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1956), by Edward M. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the Honorable J. Hampton Moore, mayor of the city of Philadelphia, on extensions and improvements of the present water works system immediately necessary, together with a plan for future development designed to meet the needs of Philadelphia for the next fifty years ... (s.n.], 1920), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Consulting Engineers on Present and Future Water Supply and John Walter Ledoux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building code, Laws, ordinances, rules and regulations governing building construction in the city of Philadelphia. Complete to Jan. 1, 1930 (Dunlap, 1930), by Pennsylvania, William Lindsay Malcolm, W. T. Simmons, and Philadelphia (Pa.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report. (The Bureau, in the 19th century), by Philadelphia. Bureau of Water and Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Men's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia : a fifty-year chronicle (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, 1928), by William Robert Langfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

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