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• Report of the committee on education, appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the nineteenth of the fourth month to the twenty-fourth of the same, inclusive, 1830. (T.A. Conrad, 1830), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Education Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

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• History of Westtown boarding school 1799-1899. (Press of Sherman & Co., 1899), by Watson W. Dewees, Sarah B. Dewees, and Westtown Boarding School (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price. (Printed for Eli K. Price and Philip M. Price., 1852), by Eli K. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Friends' Meeting-house, Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia; a centennial celebration, sixth month fourth, 1904 (The John C. Winston Company, 1904), by Friends' Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the religious Society of Friends : called by some the Free Quakers, in the city of Philadelphia (Printed for the society], 1894), by Charles Wetherill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial homes of Philadelphia and its neighborhood (J.B. Lippincott, 1912), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Horace Mather Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Friends' Meeting-House Fourth and Arch streets, Philadelphia : a centennial celebration. (John C. Winston, 1904), by Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the case of trespass & assault and battery : where-in John Evans was plaintiff, and Ellis Yarnall, Richard Humphreys, Jonathan Willis, Thomas Savary, Isaac Parrish, Caleb Carmalt, Benjamin Kite, John James, David Bacon, Abraham Leddon, John Elliot, Hannah Clark, Robert Haydock, and Susanna his wife, and Caleb Pearce and Jane his wife, were defendants ; including an interesting and important discussion respecting the discipline of the Religious society of Friends ; and containing the valuable speeches of the counsel, revised from the short-hand notes of T. Lloyd ; tried at a court of nisi prius for the city and county of Philadelphia, before the Hon. H.H. Brackenridge, one of the associate judges of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, and a special jury ; in which case , Messrs. Condy, Levy, Ingersol, and Tilghman, were of counsel for the plaintiff, and Hallowell, Rawle, and Lewis, were of counsel for the defendants (Printed for P. Byrne, 1810), by John Evans, Joseph R. Hopkins, T. Lloyd, and Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Molly Pryce : a Quaker idyll (The Biddle Press, 1914), by John Russell Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case of Edmund Shotwell, Joseph Lukins, Charles Middleton, and two others. (J. Harding, printer, 1828), by Edmund Shotwell, M. T. C. Gould, Charles Middleton, Joseph Lukins, and Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Yearly Meeting of women Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the tenth of the fifth month, to the fourteenth of the same, inclusive, 1847, to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings composing it. (T.E. Chapman, 1847), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Mary S. Lippincott, and Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends. Women's meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia Quakerism and its perpetuity. ([n.p., 1903), by William Charles Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• The "orthodox" body in Philadelphia. (1896), by John W. Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the people called Quakers in Germantown, Philadelphia (Enterprise Publishing Company, 1923), by Horace Mather Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts from the journal of Elizabeth Drinker : from 1759-1807, A.D. (J.B. Lippincott, 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, Henry D. Biddle, and BookLab (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts From the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, From 1759-1807, A.D. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, ed. by Henry D. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, to the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in London. Also, an Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New York, addressed to their subordinate meeting. (T.I. White, 1831), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Society of Friends (Hicksite). New York Yearly Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)

• A retrospect of early Quakerism : being extracts from the records of Philadelphia yearly meetings composing it ; To which is prefixed an account of their first establishment (T.E. Zell, 1860), by Ezra Michener (page images at HathiTrust)

• Account of Papoonahoal (Printed and sold by S. Clark, in Bread-street, 1761), by George Dawson Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reports ... of special divisions of the Dept. of Instruction. (Philadelphia, in the 19th century), by Philadelphia School District. Department of Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancasterian schools in Philadelphia ... ([pref]., 1907), by Charles Calvert Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of special correspondence presented (The Educational club of Philadelphia, 1893), by Educational club of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adjustment of a school to individual and community needs (Philadelphia, Pa., 1920), by Philip Albert Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand book, the Board of Public Education, School District of Philadelphia. 1912. (Walther Printing House, 1912), by Pa. Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planning for postwar education. An expression of thinking by a representative group of our teachers and principals about conditions that are likely to be found in the postwar years, and also some of the steps that should be taken to meet these conditions. (School district of Philadelphia, 1944), by Pa. Committee on Postwar Education School District of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Special committee on reduction of studies in the public schools of the First school district of Pennsylvania. (Crissy & Markley, printers, 1861), by Philadelphia school district. Board of public education. Special committee on reduction of studies and William H. Flitcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical data of the Jewish religious schools of Philadelphia for 1906-1907 (Philadelphia, 1907), by Pa.) Gratz College (Philadelphia and Julius H. Greenstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adjustment of school to individual and community needs (Philadelphia, Pa., 1920), by Philip Albert Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A generation of progress in our public schools, 1881-1912; an intimate history of the Public education association of Philadelphia since its origin as a volunteer organization of citizens interested in the welfare of our public schools... (Philadelphia, 1914), by Public Education and Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Public Schools to the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Economy, read at its meeting on November 10, 1817. (Printed for the Society by S. Merritt, 1817), by Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Economy. Committee on Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• The course of study in civics, grades one to six, for the public schools of Philadelphia. (Central press company, 1917), by Philadelphia school district. Board of public education (page images at HathiTrust)
• The course of study in civics, grades one to six : for the Public Schools of Philadelphia (Central Press Co., 1917), by Philadelphia Public Schools. Board of Public Education and John Palmer Garber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on the proposed plan for establishing a college in Philadelphia, in which English literature, the sciences, and the liberal arts shall be taught: and for admission into which no prerequisite of having learned the Latin or Greek shall be necessary. With a reply to Mr. Sanderson's remarks. (H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1826), by Mathew Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Philadelphia, 1818), by Pa.). Controllers of the Public Schools First School District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pa. Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix no. 39 ([Philadelphia] : [The Board], 1906., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report ([Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], in the 20th century), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Public Education. Division of Educational Research and Results (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idea of the English school, sketch'd out for the consideration of the trustees of the Philadelphia Academy. ([Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin, 1751]), by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Prospectus of a plan of instruction for the young of both sexes, including a course of liberal education for each. : Dedicated to the parents of those children whose tuition the author has superintended during his residence in Philadelphia. / By John Hobson. ; [Two lines of quotation] (Philadelphia: : Printed for the author. From the press of D. Hogan., 1799), by John Hobson (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Special report to the honourable the minister of education, on the Ontario educational exhibit and educational features of the international exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876 (s.n.], 1877), by J. George Hodgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Controllers of the public schools, relative to the expenditures for school purposes (King & Baird, printers, 1845), by Philadelphia school district. Board of public education (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report (Board of Conrol., 1819), by Pa.). Controllers of the Public Schools First School District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the superintendent of public schools (Burk & McFetridge, Printers, 1883), by Pa Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia, Pa School District of Philadelphia, Pa.) Board of Education First School District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, and Pa.) First School District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Board of public education, First school district of Pennsylvania comprising the city of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], 1819-19., 1818), by Philadelphia School district. Board of Public Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The origin and proceedings of the Philadelphia Association of Friends for the Instruction of Poor Children : their constitution, by-laws, etc., together with the annual report of the Board of Managers for 1860. (Pile & M'Elroy, 1860), by Philadelphia Association of Friends for the Instruction of Poor Children (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statistical report. (Philadelphia., in the 20th century), by Philadelphia School District. Dept. of Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistics of the colored people of Philadelphia. (T. E. Chapman, 1856), by Benjamin C. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• An investigation to determine the efficinecy with which the compulsory attendance law is enforced in Philadelphia ... (Philadelphia, Pa., 1913), by Edward Clinton Bixler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the Bureau of compulsory education of the city of Philadelphia, showing how its organization and administration bear upon the problems of compulsory education in the city of New York (Public education association of the city of New York, 1913), by Public Education Association of the City of New York and Howard W. Nudd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compulsory education. ([Philadelphia?], 1898), by Public Education Association of Philadelphia, Civic Club Philadelphia. Department of Education, and Civic Club Philadelphia. Dept. of Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• Physical training for special classes of the elementary schools. ([Printed by the pupils of the Philadelphia trades school], 1916), by Elizabeth O'Neill and Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of public education (page images at HathiTrust)

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