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Defence of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliot, of the United States navy (Published by Mifflin & Parry, 1840), by Jesse D. Elliott, George Mifflin Dallas, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), and United States. Navy. Court-martial (Eliott : 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Police magistrates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Report of the attorney general on the investigation of the magisterial system. ([Harrisburg, 1965), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Justice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Criminal procedure -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Powers and duties of magistrates in criminal cases (Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1926), by Charles Edwin Fox, John Henry Maurer, and Philadelphia (Pa.). Magistrates' Court (page images at HathiTrust)
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)

Filed under: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Mentoring and community-based solutions to delinquency and youth violence in Philadelphia : joint hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, February 19, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Health and Human Services United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Justice and the poor (n.p.], 1919), by Charles L. Brown and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

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)
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)
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)
April, 1865 (Rosenbach Co., 1940), by Rosenbach Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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)
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)
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)
Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. (Thos. Hunter, publisher, 716 Filbert Street, 1876), by Thomas Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
In memory of Harold Mann : born July 2d, 1856, died July 31st, 1889. (Dunlap & Clarke., 1890) (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)
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; US access only)
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 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)
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)

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