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

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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)
• Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750: Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1902), by Albert Cook Myers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• 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)

• Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750: Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1902), by Albert Cook Myers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Pennsylvania History (partial serial archives)
• The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (partial serial archives)
• Western Pennsylvania History (partial serial archives)
• Pittsburgh History (full serial archives)
• The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (full serial archives)
• Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, ed. by William Henry Egle (partial serial archives)

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

• Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society (partial serial archives)

• Western Pennsylvania History (partial serial archives)
• Pittsburgh History (full serial archives)
• The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (full serial archives)

• A Check-List of American and English Periodicals (Boston: Boston Book Co, 1908), by Frederick W. Faxon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The American Eclectic (full serial archives)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Magazine Circulation: An Outline of Methods and Meanings (New York: The McCall Co., c1936), by Phillips Wyman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writer's Market (partial serial archives)

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (revised 1891 edition and 5 supplementary volumes; reprinted 1958), by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher, Franklin Osborne Poole, and Mary Poole
  • A-J, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • K-Z, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1st supplement, 1882-1887: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 2nd supplement, 1887-1892: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 3rd supplement, 1892-1896: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 4th supplement, 1897-1902: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 5th supplement, 1902-1907: multiple formats at archive.org
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)
• International Index to Periodicals (partial serial archives)
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (partial serial archives)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (partial serial archives)

• Insights: The UKSG Journal (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

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