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• Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- Maps. from old catalog
• Allegheny County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Description and travel
• Chester County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Cumberland County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Easton (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Gettysburg (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Lackawanna River Valley (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Lancaster County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Ligonier (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Luzerne County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Monroe County (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Valley Forge (Pa.) -- Description and travel
• Wyoming Valley (Pa.) -- Description and travel

• Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 1981-
• Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980

• 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: J. Whiston & 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)
• Old roads out of Philadelphia, by John T. Faris ... With 117 illustrations and a map. (Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company, 1917), by John Thomson Faris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bishop J. C. F. Cammerhoff's narrative of a journey to Shamokin, Penna. in the winter of 1748. (Philadelphia, 1905), by J Cammerhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sylvan scenes along the line of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad ... ([Philadelphia] Passenger department, Philadelphia and Reading railroad, 1889), by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lincoln highway in Pennsylvania; old Philadelphia-Pittsburgh pike, (Washington, D.C., New York city, American automobile association; Washington, D.C., National highways association, c1920), by Robert Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centennial exhibition and the Pan-handle ([Chicago?] Rand, McNally & co., [1876?]), by Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and St. Louis railway company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West-brook drives / by Henrietta Payne-Westbrook, M.D. ; illustrated by Marianna Sloan. (New York : P. Eckler, 1902), by Henrietta Payne Westbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome. (Buffalo, 1854), by Philip Tome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suburban homes on the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad within a radius of thirty miles around Philadelphia, with useful information for summer-home seekers. ([Philadelphia, Printed by Allen, Lane & Scott], 1894), by Pennsylvania railroad company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seen from the train on the picturesque Lehigh valley railroad. ([Boston, J. A. Lovell, 1895]), by Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A week in the Blue Mountains : the record of a happy outing / by Henry W. Shoemaker ; ill. from photographs by Mrs. H.W. Shoemaker. (Altoona, Pa. : The Altoona Tribune Press, 1914), by Henry Wharton Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey to Ohio in 1810 : as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight / edited, with an introduction, by Max Farrand. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1912), by Margaret Van Horn Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey to Ohio in 1810 as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight; edited with an introduction by Max Farrand. (New Haven, Yale university press, 1914), by Margaret Van Horn Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehigh valley railroad summer tours to mountain, lake and ocean resorts, (New York, [1901]), by Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Hudson to the Ohio. (Philadelphia Kensington press, 1902), by William Bender Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narrative of a journey from Tulpehocken, in Pennsylvania, to Onondago, the headquarters of the Six nations of Indians, made in 1737 by Conrad Weiser; [tr. from the German by Hiester H. Muhlenberg] (Philadelphia, J. Pennington, 1853), by Conrad Weiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century after: picturesque glimpses of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott and J.W. Lauderbach, 1875), by Earl Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Hoosier holiday / by Theodore Dreiser ; with illustrations by Franklin Booth. (New York : John Lane, 1916), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Royall's Pennsylvania, (Washington, The author, 1829), by Anne Newport Royall (page images at HathiTrust)
• State-book of Pennsylvania, containing an account of the geography, history, government, resources, and noted citizens of the state; (Philadelphia, U. Hunt & son, 1847), by Thomas Henry Burrowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania. : Or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture / populary described, by Eli Bowen ... (Philadelphia : W.P. Hazard, 1852), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described / by Eli Bowen. (Philadelphia : W. Bromwell, 1853), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described, by Eli Bowen ... (Philadelphia, Willis P. Hazard, 1852), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1), by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2), by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight, by Margaret Van Horn Dwight, ed. by Max Farrand (Gutenberg ebook)
• A further account of the province of Pennsylvania and its improvements for the satisfaction of those that are adventurers, and enclined to be so. ([London? : s.n., 1685]), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Information and direction to such persons as are inclined to America, more especially those related to the province of Pensilvania ([London? : s.n.], Reprinted in the year, 1686), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from William Penn, poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives, or, aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... to which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia ... (London : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, 1683), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... as also an account of the city of Philadelphia ... with a portraiture or plat-form thereof ... ([London] : Printed by appointment of the said committee, by Andrew Sowle ..., 1683), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some account of the Province of Pennsilvania in America lately granted under the great seal of England to William Penn &c. : together with priviledges and powers necessary to the well-governing thereof : made publick for the information of such as are, or may be disposed to transport themselves, or servants into those parts. (London : Printed, and sold by Benjamin Clark, 1681), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania, and of the West-New-Jersey in America ... with a map of both countries / by Gabriel Thomas ... (London : Printed for and sold by A. Baldwin ..., 1698), by Gabriel Thomas and Gabriel. Historical description of the province ... of West-New Jersey Thomas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Good order established in Pennsilvania & New-Jersey in America, being a true account of the country; with its produce and commodities there made. And the great improvements that may be made by means of publick store-houses for hemp, flax and linnen-cloth; also, the advantages of a publick-school, the profits of a publick-bank, and the probability of its arising, if those directions here laid down are followed. With the advantages of publick granaries. : Likewise, several other things needful to be understood by those that are or do intend to be concerned in planting in the said countries. : All which is laid down very plain, in this small treatise; it being easie to be understood by any ordinary capacity. To which the reader is referred for his further satisfaction. / By Thomas Budd. ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by William Bradford], in the year 1685), by Thomas Budd (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Observations on a variety of subjects, literary, moral and religious; in a series of original letters, / written by a gentleman of foreign extraction, who resided some time in Philadelphia. ; Revised by a friend, to whose hands the manuscript was committed for publication. (Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Jacob Duché and James Hamilton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An excursion into Bethlehem & Nazareth, in Pennsylvania, in the year 1799; with a succinct history of the Society of United Brethren, commonly called Moravians. / By John C. Ogden, presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Charles Cist, no. 104 North Second-Street, near the corner of Race-Street. M,DCCC. (Copy-right secured.), [1800]), by John Cosens Ogden (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Missisippi [sic], &c. The climate, soil and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the annexed map. / Published by Thomas Hutchins, captain in the 60th Regiment of Foot. ; With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper. ; And an appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's journal up the Illinois River, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c. (Boston: : Printed and sold by John Norman, in Marshall's Lane near the Boston Stone., MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]), by Thomas Hutchins, John Norman, and Patrick. Mr. Patrick Kennedy's journal of an expedition .. Kennedy, illust. by Thomas Hutchins (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Fifty miles around New York; a book of maps and descriptions of the best roads, streets, and routes for cyclists and horsemen. ([New York] New York state division of the League of American wheelman, c1896), by League of American Wheelmen. New York State Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allegheny county's hundred years / by George H. Thurston. (Pittsburgh : A. A. Anderson & Son, book and job printers, 1888), by George H. Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)

• Along the Western Brandywine (second edition; West Chester, PA: F. S. Hickman, printer, 1912), by Wilmer W. MacElree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Along the western Brandywine ... [by] Wilmer W. MacElree. ([West Chester, Pa., F. S. Hickman, printer], 1909), by Wilmer W. MacElree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Down the Eastern and up the Black Brandywine ... [by] Wilmer W. Mac Elree. ([West Chester, Pa., F. S. Hickman, printer], 1906), by Wilmer W. Mac Elree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Along the western Brandywine... [by] Wilmer W. MacElree. ([West Chester, Pa., F. S. Hickman, printer], 1912), by Wilmer W. MacElree (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bridges of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. ([Carlisle? Pa., 1905]), by J. D. Hemminger (page images at HathiTrust)

• At the forks of the Delaware, 1794-1811 : (Haverford, Pa., The Pennsylvania history press, 1920), by Rayner Wickersham Kelsey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gettysburg; a survey, (Clinton, N.Y., R. Bruce; Washington, D.C., New York, American automobile association, c1920), by Robert Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Lackawanna Valley (Scranton, Pa., Printed by the Tribune publishing company, 1903), by H. Hollister (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical points of interest along the Strasburg trolley road ... (Lancaster, Pa., Reprinted from The New era, 1902), by Walter Meyer Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seeing Lancaster county from a trolley window. (Lancaster, Pa., Conestoga traction company, [c1910]), by Howard Wiegner Kriebel (page images at HathiTrust)

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