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• The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography (partial serial archives)
• Emigrants From the Palatinate to the American Colonies in the 18th Century (special study #1; Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953), by Friedrich Krebs and Milton Rubincam (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork in the Year of our Lord, 1809; Together With a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland (Philadelphia: West Park Pub. Co., 1915), by Margaret Boyle Harvey, contrib. by Dora Harvey Develin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Captivity of John McCullough, ESQ: Written by Himself (handwritten volume; 1833), by John McCullough (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, ed. by William Henry Egle (partial serial archives)

• 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co., 1909), ed. by James A. McKee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co., 1909), ed. by James A. McKee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Richmond, IN, and New York: Gersham Pub. Co., 1894), ed. by Winfield Scott Garner, contrib. by Samuel T. Wiley (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 104 MB)
• A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its People (3 volumes in 1; New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by John W. Jordan (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com)

• Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Earlier Settlers (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co., 1903), contrib. by John Franklin Meginness
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Containing Genealogical Records of Representative Families, Including Many of the Early Settlers and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens (2 volumes; New York and Chicago: T. S. Benham Co. and Lewis Pub. Co., 1904), ed. by Ellwood Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Brown, Runk and Co., 1891), ed. by Herbert C. Bell (text files at usgwarchives.net)

• The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (Philadelphia: S. Robinson, c1851), ed. by John Cassin, contrib. by William A. Stephens, Richard Vaux, and Isaac W. Moore, illust. by H. L. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• West Philadelphia Illustrated: Early History of West Philadelphia and Its Environs, Its People, and Its Historical Points (Philadelphia: Avil Print. Co., 1903), by M. Laffitte Vieira (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882), ed. by George Dallas Albert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1913), by Fanny Jackson Coppin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Sketch of Henry Franklin and Family (Philadelphia: Collins Printing House, 1887), by Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Benjamin Chew, 1722-1810, Head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System Under Colony and Commonwealth (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Burton Alva Konkle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justus Falckner, Mystic and Scholar, Devout Pietist in Germany, Hermit on the Wissahickon, Missionary on the Hudson: A Bi-Centennial Memorial of the First Regular Ordination of an Orthodox Pastor in America (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1903), by Julius Friedrich Sachse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, by Alexander Berkman
  • HTML at Pitzer
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Memoir of Elizabeth Newport (Philadelphia: J. Comly, 1874), by Ann A. Townsend, contrib. by Elizabeth Newport (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1898), by William Henry Egle (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Archaeological Studies of the Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania (Safe Harbor report #2; Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1936), by Donald A. Cadzow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroglyphs (Rock Carvings) in the Susquehanna River near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania (Safe Harbor report #1; Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1934), by Donald A. Cadzow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Message from the Governor of Maryland, Transmitting the Reports of the Joint Commissioners, and of Lt. Col. Graham, U. S. Engineers, in Relation to the Intersection of the Boundary Lines of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, by Commission on Boundary Lines (page images at MOA)

• An Historical Account of the Old State House of Pennsylvania, Now Known as the Hall of Independence (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1876), by Frank M. Etting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (New York: Eaton and Mains, 1904), by A. F. Chaffee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Hoosier Holiday (first issue, with a WW1 reference that later issues changed; New York and London: J. Lane Co., 1916), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by Franklin Booth (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pioneer Life: or, Thirty Years a Hunter (Buffalo: Published for the author, 1854), by Philip Tome (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
  • PDF at ohiomemory.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, With the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808 (Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, state printer, 1892), ed. by William Henry Egle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 (3 volumes; Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, ed. by William John Hinke
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust

• "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other Essays (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1872), by Phebe Earle Gibbons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (2007), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
• Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1870), by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
• The Millionaire: A Novel, by Frank Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Coast of Bohemia (biographical edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The White Rocks: or, The Robbers' Den: A Tragedy of the Mountains (Philadelphia: Keystone Pub. Co., 1890), by A. F. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The White Rocks: or, The Robbers' Den: A Tragedy of the Mountains (Morgantown: Morgantown Printing and Binding Co., 1915), by A. F. Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tillie, a Mennonite Maid: A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, by Helen Reimensnyder Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Van der Slice and Allied Families (Los Angeles: Printed by the Neuner Corp., c1931), by Howard Vanderslice and Howard N. Monnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byberry Waltons: An Account of Four English Brothers, Nathaniel and Thomas and Daniel and William Walton, Who Settled About 1683 in Byberry Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; With Accounts of More Than 4000 Waltons and Many More by Other Surnames Descended From These Four Brothers (Philadelphia: Stephenson Bros., 1958), by Norman Walton Swayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pennsylvania LeFevres (Strasburg, PA: LeFevre Cemetery and Historical Association, 1952), by George Newton LeFevre and Franklin D. LeFevre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Goodman Family History: Huntingdon and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania (1951), by Goodman Reunion Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, With the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808 (Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, state printer, 1892), ed. by William Henry Egle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Folks: Story of the Forefathers of Oliver Francis Mershon, M.D. As Told by Himself, in the Words of Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (Rahway, NJ: Privately printed by Quinn and Boden Co., 1946), by Oliver Francis Mershon and Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (page images at HathiTrust)

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